Tom Harkin

I say no one wants to do that.

I would like to thank Senator Harkin for the opportunity to testify today at this hearing on the middle class in the Quad Cities.

The middle class has been eroded for years.

It will enable workers to improve their skills and advance to higher-wage jobs, and improve quality through better wages and benefits.

People ought to have the right to join a union or not join a union.

We need to focus on job creation.

I've reintroduced my bipartisan SECTORS Act, which will revamp our workforce development system.

We need to start building things in America again.

We greatly appreciate your willingness to bring this important topic before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

We are seriously concerned about the toll drug shortages are having on our patients.

Request for this information was made on December 15, 2011 by the following Members of Congress: Senator John Rockefeller, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Senator Tom Harkin, the Chairman of…

I strongly support his nomination to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation.

If you want to have the benefit of a Federal program to prevent child abuse, you have to pass a law that makes sure that every adult is a mandated reporter.

Doesn't the MF Global disaster illustrate the unavoidable conclusion that we must have strong, transparent regulations for the protections of customers and the public?

Welcome to the world of deregulation, folks. That is what you get.

Yes, we have regulations in place. They can invest in all these things. I am asking you, Should they be able to invest in all that stuff?

I have been involved in this since they first came and wanted to get rid of the Glass-Steagall Act, which I was one of seven members to vote against.

Would transparency help?

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet in open session on Thursday, December 15, 2011, at 10 a.m. in SD-430 to conduct a hearing entitled ``Prescription Drug Shortages: Examining a Public…

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet in executive session on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, at 10 a.m. in SD-430 to mark up the following: S. 1855, the Pandemic and All-Hazards…

I have come to the floor on numerous occasions this year to discuss the distressed state of America's middle class. In fact, in our committee, we have had a series of hearings looking at the state of the middle class and what is happening…

There are four officially unemployed workers for every single job opening.

We're told by statistics that the portion of unemployed workers who have been out of work for at least 6 months hit 40 percent in December 2009 and has remained above 40 percent ever since.

This is the highest rate of long-term unemployment that we have ever had since 1948.

The crisis of long-term unemployment has become too big to ignore.