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Tom Harkin is a former U.S. Senator from Iowa who served from 1985 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Harkin was known for his advocacy on disability rights and health care reform. He played a significant role in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act and was a strong proponent of mental health services and education initiatives. Throughout his tenure, Harkin focused on issues affecting working families and rural communities in Iowa.
Nothing in health reform legislation would cut existing benefits or restrict the ability of private insurance carriers from covering spiritual care. Further, spiritual care will continue to be recognized as a medical expense eligible for a…
It seems to me if there is one legitimate area where we can borrow from the future, it is in education.
Given this and similar situations across the country, we need to help avoid I believe what you termed earlier, Senator Harkin, the cliff.
I support this bill and ask all to support for the teachers, the principals, the counselors, school nurses, and other essential public school employees that are losing their jobs.
When it comes to resources, it is a time of both great promise and great peril.
I look forward to working with you to see how we can shoehorn this in some way.
We must remember that education begins at birth and that preparation for education begins before birth.
The status quo is not acceptable, and it is not acceptable during economic downturns to say that we are just going to take a lot of this out of the hide of education.
This landmark legislation eliminated wasteful corporate subsidies in the Federal student loan program and strengthened the Pell Grant program.
You only get one chance at that, and if we fail our kids, that means we fail our future.
The State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF) in particular has been one of the great success stories of the ARRA.
I am encouraged by your, I think, statement of support for a jobs, an education jobs bill.
As Chairman Harkin has pointed out, there are 2,000 high schools where graduation is not the norm when it needs to be a necessity.
The President's budget recommendation for fiscal year 2011 eliminates all of the current $26.7 million of this funding.
Mr. President, we are in the midst of a historic week in this Nation's Capital. Health care reform is no longer a bill; it is the law of the land. It has been signed. Just as the history books remember 1935 as the year FDR signed Social…
I can't tell you how many I talked to last summer that--you know, were thrilled with what they were doing.
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