Tom Harkin

Tobacco use remains the No. 1 preventable cause of death in the United States.

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet in executive session on Wednesday, May 14, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building to mark-up S. __, The Strong Start…

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will to meet on May 15, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Progress and Challenges: The…

We support Sylvia Mathews Burwell as the next leader of HHS and look forward to partnering with her in delivering on the promise that the healthcare law holds for all Americans, and especially for people who are uninsured or who have…

You are right. Washington is not wise enough to make these decisions to rewrite 20 percent of the economy.

We said Medicare beneficiaries would be hurt; they have.

One of my top priorities as a Senator has been to expand access to mental health care for everyone who needs it, particularly children.

If you like your plan, you can keep it, as the President did.

We said it would lose jobs, it would cause jobs to be lost; it has.

We said the only bipartisan thing about the bill will be its opposition; Gallup says that level today is 54 percent.

Will you fight to make sure that we continue to strongly fund community health centers throughout America?

I would say, as far as I can tell, he is speeding up.

I have known Secretary Vilsack now for probably, oh, gosh, almost 30 years when he first became mayor of Mount Pleasant.

There won't be any more shifting of money from prevention and wellness programs into base programs that CMS already has.

this is getting to be a persistent problem with this administration regarding, Article 1 of the Constitution and the Congress, the representatives of the people as an inconvenience.

I have expressed support for fixing this issue by continuing mandatory funding, an approach supported in the President's budget.

That is not appropriate.

the Founders didn't want a king.

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will to meet on May 8, 2014, at 10 a.m. in room SD-106 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Hearing on the nomination of the…

I would just say publicly, my good friend from Kansas, that Ms. Burwell is testifying tomorrow before my other committee.

I thank you for all you have done for conservation and the conservation programs in America.

I am a little disappointed that was not in the budget.

Do you have something in your budget request that zeroes in on this?

I appreciate that. I will follow-up with you further on the continuation of your effort to help other countries set up their own CDCs.

I am pleased with the budget's proposed $270 million increase for Head Start and the $57 million increase for the Child Care and Development Block Grant.