Tom Harkin

Is the Department of Labor more likely to investigate particular worksites or particular industries?

Do you have any idea how many investigators we are talking about? We still don't know.

Are these 135 site visits then, are they sort of unannounced visits where inspectors show up and say, 'I am with the Wage and Hour Division?'

Would these site visits, would they be the ones made if there is indication of any problems or something like that?

Are there ever any worksite visits at all?

14(c) applications have to be renewed every 2 years.

I would like to know, just if there is any data on how many are ever denied.

But the renewals you say are sometimes denied?

Are 14(c) applications ever denied?

For 5,000-some employers?

Really, there are three people?

The employer has to be the moving party? I mean, if they are going to hire someone with a disability, they have to request or file a 14(c) application?

Let me just go through some steps here just so I understand it better.

For too long, we have been complacent about the potential for abuse and exploitation of people with disabilities as well as other vulnerable populations in the workplace.

I believe that we must do everything we can to protect the most vulnerable among us.

I think this is even more urgent than it has been.

I think that is flat-out wrong.

Is that a law or what, regulations?

I was one of the honorary co-chairs of the National Breastfeeding Coalition.

And one word I would add is how we leverage, leveraging money.

I just wonder if--I am proud of what you have done. ... if we want to replicate what you are doing around the country, I wonder if we need to have some more financial incentives or bonuses.

Well, listen, thank you all very much. This has been a great panel and I thank you for your leadership in this area, all of you, in this whole area.

I hope this administration, I hope the Obama administration and I hope others will start talking about a national effort to provide support for new mothers in the workplace.

I had offered an amendment that would have had a wellness policy developed by the Institute on Medicine that would have applied to all schools all over America.

Have you seen over your experience that schools are shifting more and more of these indirect costs to the School Lunch Program?