Tom Harkin

This case just shocks the conscience. Just shocks the conscience.

We maintained important investments in employment and training programs, worker protections, and the fight against the worst forms of child labor.

After a long and difficult recession, our economy is slowly recovering, but too many workers are unemployed or underemployed.

Congress and the administration must work together to reduce our budget deficits and restore fiscal discipline.

I understand there is a House joint resolution at the desk, and I ask for its first reading. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bennet). The clerk will read the joint resolution by title for the first time. The legislative clerk read as follows: A…

Biofuels are a remarkable success. They displace close to 10 percent of our gasoline demand.

Secretary Darcy, across the country, a number of cities are facing decertification of their levees as a result of higher estimated water flows, one of those cities being the capital city of Iowa, Des Moines.

We really need COE to move forward with these complicated studies in Des Moines.

I urge you to grant it. That is the correct position on an equity and environmental justice basis.

I was disappointed with the level of support in the fiscal year 2012 budget proposal from the White House.

If we do not get something done within the next about 18 months, we are facing some real economic problems in the city of Des Moines.

Each year of delay is a significant loss in economic development and jobs, higher flood insurance costs and again also possible flood damage.

I think that there is a need to increase funding available the Inland Waterways Trust Fund.

I commend COE for its rapid movement of the Chief's report on Cedar Rapids.

The loss from a 100-year flood is very likely to be well more than $1 billion.

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Hospital emergency departments are a major component of the Nation's health care safety net as they are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Biofuels is and will continue to be our most important strategy to reduce dependence on imported oil

We need to create some space for cellulosic fuels.

We have made substantial progress in reducing oil imports. We can easily do more. I want to reemphasize, easily do more.

We've taken real steps to reduce our dependency on oil, and we have made substantial progress

To honor the 71 miners whose lives were lost last year, we must rededicate ourselves to building a safer future.

I do not share the view that Congress is absolved of its responsibility to legislate as a result of action by the agency.

Almost a year ago, this committee met in the wake of the worst mining accident our history has seen in decades.

We expected him to use every tool in his arsenal to make sure a disaster like Upper Big Branch never happens again.