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The jobless rate was a staggering 19 percent in 1938. Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, President Roosevelt signed it, and employment went up.
6/24/2013
Your testimony included the hypothetical case of a single mother working at minimum wage in Des Moines who would purport...
6/24/2013
Yes, but the economy went down the toilet. Don't you think that had a bigger effect than the minimum wage?
6/24/2013
Let's assure a better future for Kizzie Simmons' daughter, who wants a college education; for Pattie Federico, who deser...
6/24/2013
I cannot, in good conscience, make that assertion generally about these programs.
6/11/2013
Seventeen percent goes to instruction, even though that is supposed to be their mission.
6/11/2013
American taxpayers cannot afford and should not be asked to subsidize massive marketing and recruiting machines.
6/11/2013
Remember three numbers about for-profit schools: 12, 25, and 47.
6/11/2013
I'll follow up with--because, as you know, we're trying to get our WIA bill through...
6/5/2013
I hope this sequester ends on September 30.
6/5/2013
We've got to do a better job of reaching out to the people with disabilities who maybe were working before, got laid off...
6/5/2013
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Tom  Harkin
out of office

usa, Iowa

2,994 Quotes

Born11/19/1939 (age 85)

PartyDemocratic

  • United States Senator

    1/3/1985 - 1/3/2015
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