Tom Harkin

I thank the Chair. Mr. President, after listening to the previous three speakers, it is hard to know where to begin to correct the record with all the misstatements. Maybe I will kind of work backward. My good friend, the Senator from…

Am I correct the time for debate under this bill will expire at 4 p.m.? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. At 4:30.

I don't know that I can make it any more clear than the New York Times editorial, and there is not the time to mention all of the ways this fund is already making Americans healthier. But I want to mention several representative…

I can't emphasize strongly enough the importance and the urgency of the legislation before us--the Stop the Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act of 2012--which the majority leader spoke about. On July 1, unless Congress intervenes, the…

I will, obviously, yield to my good friend, Senator Enzi, for his closing remarks, but I again just want to point out that this ruling by the NLRB is imminently reasonable. They went through rulemaking, as I have said before, one of the…

There are just a couple of things I wish to bring up in response to some of the statements that have been made on the floor. First of all, I wish to make it very clear that the NLRB has scrupulously followed all legal and procedural…

I thank the Chair. Mr. President, this Congressional Review Act challenge is the latest chapter in an unprecedented Republican assault on unions. The amount of time this Congress has wasted scrutinizing and bullying the National Labor…

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet in executive session on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 10 a.m. in SD 106 to mark-up S. ____, the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation…

I just had a very wonderful phone call from a young Matt Rutherford, a 31-year-old man. I have spoken about him on the floor on a couple of occasions. He just made it safely home on his boat, the St. Brendan. He just crossed the finish…

The premise underlying this criticism is that this inability to issue more standards has somehow meant employees are less safe.

I thank Senators Hagan, Isakson, Murkowski, and Burr for their support.

Instead, we should be talking about expanding VPP to smaller employers and making it even more effective.

I agree with the Chairman that we can and must do better.

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet in open session on Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 10 a.m., in SD 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building to conduct a hearing entitled Time Takes Its Toll…

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet in open session on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 10 a.m., in SD 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building to conduct a hearing entitled Effective Strategies…

I come to the floor today to speak about a truly remarkable American--a truly remarkable visionary, a dreamer, an adventurer, a doer, and, most important, a young man who has devoted himself to the service to others far and above the…

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will please come to order.

We will focus on how the Prescription Drug User Fee Agreement, or as it is known, PDUFA, how it will improve FDA's review of the most novel drug products.

$50 million for the IMLS Office of Museum Services

I hope we produce a bill this year that we can get to the floor again.

Chairman Kohl has announced that he'll leave the Senate soon, I suppose maybe to focus on basketball full-time.

In the light of the large amount of press attention recently given to a product called lean finely textured beef (LFTB), I would like to clarify for the record some aspects of the situation.

Unfortunately, museums are struggling significantly in these difficult economic times.

The demand for museum services is greater than ever.

Museums are economic engines--spending more than $20 billion in their communities, employing 400,000 Americans, and spurring local tourism.