Tom Harkin

You take that message back and when I see my 99 colleagues on the Senate floor this afternoon; we're voting at 5:30 p.m., I'll tell them there was one unanimous view today, more funding.

Your activity as an advocate, and as a leading light in supporting biomedical research, is what has sustained the current funding climate that makes our work actually happen.

The combined effort of three major associations and the United States military began in 2006 in an initiative to examine the nature of extremity injuries sustained during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

We thank you for providing $66 million in your fiscal year 2009 Conference Bill.

We have been very fortunate to have had many outstanding leaders speak to the conference audiences in the past about their perspectives on injuries being sustained by our armed forces.

I believe that that's a responsibility of the government, of the individuals, of the communities and we can't even make it happen.

The problem is we can address this on a clinical basis, but if we don't address it outside the clinic, it doesn't do much good.

Again, it comes as no surprise for anyone here that I have a great deal of admiration for Mr. Burd and what he's done at Safeway because I think the only way we're ever going to bend this cost curve is keeping people healthier in the first…

I think that will happen in the next couple months.

I don't know if this is a good way to do things.

I can tell you to right now that we're on this public option plan, that we're leaving it blank, because we want to have a discussion on it.

The President is committed to a safer, healthier, and more prosperous America and we feel this budget will help achieve those goals

I know that you feel very strongly that prevention in public health must be at the heart of any serious reform of the healthcare system.

I fully concur with Senator Specter's views on this.

I also believe that any reform of the healthcare system must address the injustice of people with severe disabilities.

I believe the most challenging job, I think, in the Cabinet, but also I think the best job in the Cabinet.

The $442 million is, I think, inadequate.

I hope you will be looking at this.

As we look ahead for healthcare reform, people wonder how we are going to pay for all this.

Nowhere else in the world is so much money spent with such poor results.

I think that in real dollars we are about at where we were in 2005, if I'm not mistaken.

I have always known that he is deeply committed to farm families, rural economic development, and strong Federal nutrition programs.

However, since the Farm bill was passed, credit markets have tightened significantly.

I enthusiastically welcome the President's request for $1 billion annually in new funding for Federal child nutrition programs.

I was pleased to see that the President's budget builds strongly on investments made USDA energy programs in the 2008 farm bill.