Tom Harkin

I am proud to support the confirmation of Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the next Associate Justice of the United States. Solicitor General Kagan is eminently qualified to serve on our Nation's highest Court. As a student, she excelled…

They can garnish your paycheck when you get a job later on.

A student who has debt can't walk away from that debt.

We have privatized the profits and socialized the risk.

This explosive growth at a time where we have huge deficits, and we're trying to get our budgets in order, causes us real concern.

Education is too important for the future of this country. Education is too important for our students.

We have to ask the question, Are the students--and the U.S.

The question is: What is driving the explosive growth in this industry?

In every State, certain activities are taking place, although not the same thing. Different States do different things. Senator Brown mentioned that in Iowa we are collecting stories from all of our 99 counties from people with…

First, let me thank the Senator from Ohio for his kind words. But more than that, more meaningfully, to thank him for all his help and support on so many broad issues that deal with working people in America and, especially now at this…

I am always grateful to him for his leadership, working from the White House with us. One other person who was with us every step of the way and continues to provide so much leadership in the area of disability rights is then- Attorney…

It was not a small role; the Senator from Utah played a gigantic role in making sure we got this done. Working to get the ADA Amendments Act passed 3 years ago--we worked on that for something like 4 years to get it done. We were down at…

I think it is very important that we look at it in that light.

It is nearly ten times more what the biofuels companies have received.

We just cannot keep going like this when we know that there is this opportunity out there for our country.

People keep talking about these clean energy jobs, and to me this is the way we can get there very quickly.

The only thing that is really standing between us and keeping this $300 billion in the American economy is the resolve to fix the problem.

Energy independence is just an absolutely critical issue for America at this time.

They are very positive in regards to rural development programs, but they are very concerned if not very frustrated over burdensome and over-reaching government regulations.

It is critical that we effectively utilize every tool at our disposal to create jobs, put our economy back on track, and reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.

That is just ridiculous.

Imagine, just imagine, if we had invested $27.5 billion in renewable and clean energy development in rural America every month, what we could do.

Recently proposed government actions threaten, in my view, the viability of these off-farm opportunities.

Arkansans now know firsthand that rural America is often the first to feel the impact of economic downturns and is often, unfortunately, the last to reap the rewards of the economic recoveries.

This $300 billion a year, if the American people just understood, it is $1,000 per man, woman, and child in America every year.