Tom Harkin

I have often said is not good enough for us at the time of a military engagement to pray for veterans.

It is also our obligation to make sure that we are worthy of their valor.

I think this is one of the areas where we're way behind. Paid sick leave, I think, maternity leave, Senator Casey's bill on the pregnancy act are just things I think that make our society more caring, more inclusive, and more considerate…

It seems to me that we need to have some societal type agreements that put some floors underneath this.

I think we have a responsibility as a Federal Government to respond to a national, I think, crisis that we have in families, especially with women and single mothers and single parents in this country.

We can't afford it? We're the richest nation in the world. We're the richest nation in the history of the world.

The fact is we have better and more accurate studies that have been done in the last few years.

I want to correct this, though. CBO did not do their own study.

The Fair Pay Act, introduced by Chairman Harkin and Representative Holmes Norton, would address the devaluation of women's work.

We should raise the Federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour.

Raising the minimum wage, as proposed by Sen. Harkin, would give 15.4 million women a raise.

The Healthy Families Act... would ensure workers have access to paid sick days and would no longer have to worry about taking a financial hit if they or their children fall ill.

The Healthy Families Act, introduced by Senator Harkin, would allow workers to earn paid sick days.

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 would increase yearly earnings to $19,777.

I joined with 10 of my colleagues to release an investigative report revealing that manufacturers are devoting massive resources to the marketing of e-cigarettes and their marketing strategies are expressly designed to appeal to kids.

I've authored legislation that would eliminate this problem by equalizing tax rates across tobacco products.

Tobacco use remains the No. 1 preventable cause of death in the United States.

I authored provisions in the Affordable Care Act that ensure every American has access to tobacco cessation services without co-pays or deductibles.

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will to meet on May 15, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Progress and Challenges: The…

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet in executive session on Wednesday, May 14, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building to mark-up S. __, The Strong Start…

One of my top priorities as a Senator has been to expand access to mental health care for everyone who needs it, particularly children.

We support Sylvia Mathews Burwell as the next leader of HHS and look forward to partnering with her in delivering on the promise that the healthcare law holds for all Americans, and especially for people who are uninsured or who have…

Will you fight to make sure that we continue to strongly fund community health centers throughout America?

We said it would lose jobs, it would cause jobs to be lost; it has.

If you like your plan, you can keep it, as the President did.