Tom Harkin

There are cross-purposes there, and that does not make much sense to me.

Our farmers, ranchers, and foresters are ready for the challenge.

Some suggest that FDA should create a separate division of rare and neglected diseases within the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research to bring the proper expertise to bear on the analysis of drug applications intended to treat such…

I see people like Sherrod Brown and Al Franken here, as relatively new members of this committee--even though I'll be leaving in January, I'm very encouraged that the same kind of effort that's been made in the past 20 or 30 years, working…

I authored that bill along with--Lamar Alexander, of Tennessee, who was my partner on that, as well--as we did in the premature birth legislation, as well.

Thanks to the funding from our good friend from Wisconsin, Senator Herb Kohl, who chairs the Agricultural Appropriations Subcommittee.

As a result, along, again, with Senator Mike DeWine, my partner in that legislation, we authored the Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act, which became law in 2007.

We meet today to discuss a profoundly important issue: the lack of effective treatments for rare and neglected diseases.

As chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, the pensions community approached me about a possible unintended consequence of the derivatives title of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act…

Yes, that is correct. We certainly understand that many special entities have internal managers that may meet the independent representative requirement. For example, many public electric and gas systems have employees whose job is to…

I want to thank my friend and our majority whip, Senator Durbin, for laying out, I think in very stark and honest and open terms, what we are facing in this country today. I wish to pick up on that and to carry it a little further in…

I thank the Senator, who has been a champion of working people and families for all the many years I have known him, and that is many years now. I thank him for telling us about what the CBO said in the deficit commission. I pointed out a…

We strongly encourage you to pass this bill out of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, with the strongest protections possible for the survivors of 9/11.

The continued availability of medical care from health professionals who have developed expertise in treating 9/11-related illness is critical.

We should now do our duty to these rescue and recovery workers and community residents whose health has been damaged by the World Trade Center exposures.

We see probably at least three major areas where health effects are persistent; first, in the psychological stress reactions that Senator Harkin has referred to already--we see persistent post-traumatic stress disorder.

It is therefore imperative that our Federal Government provide specialized care for everyone whose health was harmed as a result of the WTC disaster, responders and survivors alike.

I am writing to state my division's strong support for S. 1334, the 'James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2009,' that would provide medical monitoring, treatment and compensation for responders and survivors whose health has…

I come to the floor today to speak about the Federal Government's unnecessary and unacceptable delay in deciding to approve the use and sale of E15 gasoline at all the gasoline stations in this country. Last Friday, we were told by the…

Postsecondary education is a gateway to the middle class for millions of Americans.

The Federal investment in higher education is a solid investment in our future.

I think continents like Africa are continents in play.

Let's not just walk by them. Yes, we have people that are sick, but let's not just walk by them.

I'm absolutely convinced we can do it without jeopardizing our quality standards that we have.

I don't believe it would. Quite the contrary. And we have been working hard to demonstrate that this is not only humane treatment and ensuring compliance with the ADA, but it's in your enlightened economic self-interest.