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20 May 2013, 3:47 am
” “It is deeply disappointing to see what has happened to the Board in recent years, including the relentless political attacks endured by the dedicated public servants at the Board,” said Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), HELP Committee Chairman. [read post]
17 May 2013, 5:31 pm
Note that Warren's bill does not address private loans.And there is a stop-gap measure in the Senate, jointly sponsored by Senators Jack Reed, Tom Harkin and Harry Reid, S. 953. [read post]
16 May 2013, 4:18 am
.), the Ranking Member of the HELP Committee, along with 13 other Republican senators, sent a letter on Tuesday, May 14, to Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) requesting that he call a hearing on the embattled agency’s funding request. [read post]
2 May 2013, 1:23 pm
Dear Senator Harkin and Senator Baucus: Recently you both have made comments with unfavorable views on how dollars from PPACA are being spent. [read post]
29 Apr 2013, 7:00 am
Committee Chairman Tom Harkin of Iowa was concerned that Republicans would use a threatened separate hearing as a forum to attack Perez in his absence. [read post]
29 Apr 2013, 5:00 am
. -- Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) Last week, Senator Merkley together with Senators Mark Kirk (R-IL), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), reintroduced the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). [read post]
26 Apr 2013, 7:00 am
Committee Chairman Tom Harkin of Iowa was concerned that Republicans would use a threatened separate hearing as a forum to attack Perez in his absence. [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 9:47 pm
Tom Harkin (D-IA), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Mark Kirk (R-IL), most of whom serve on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, said in a letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg that they support FDA’s recent efforts to encourage veterinary pharmaceutical drug companies to drop growth-promotion claims form their antimicrobial labels and to rein in injudicious uses. [read post]
12 Apr 2013, 3:50 am
In a statement yesterday, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the HELP committee, stated: “I am pleased that President Obama has put forth a bipartisan slate of nominees to fill positions on the National Labor Relations Board. [read post]
4 Apr 2013, 1:45 pm
Tom Harkin (a great friend to animal welfare), we do know that Rep. [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 2:44 pm
Under the Harkin-DeFazio legislation, the financial transaction tax would be only national in scope. [read post]
29 Mar 2013, 4:53 am
.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Brian Schatz (Hawaii), Tom Harkin (Iowa) and Al Franken (Minn.) praised the bipartisan effort but cautioned that the senators should maintain visas reserved specifically for foreign brothers, sisters and married children of U.S. citizens. [read post]
13 Mar 2013, 6:26 pm
Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Senator Tom Harkin has introduced an amendment to HR 933 that would mitigate the effects of the sequester in special education. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 9:05 am
Tom Harkin of Iowa and Rep. [read post]
28 Feb 2013, 3:47 am
Clinton, President Obama, Representative Nancy Pelosi, and Senator Tom Harkin all recently introduced or advocated for legislative measures aimed at, among other things (i) mandating paid family and medical leave; (ii) dropping thresholds so that the FMLA applies to smaller employers; (iii) making job protected leave available to part-time employees; and (iv) redefining what qualifies for protected leave to include, for example, recovery from routine illness like the flu. [read post]
20 Feb 2013, 4:02 am
The other Senators who signed the letter are: Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chris Coons (D-DE), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Tom Udall (D-NM), Al Franken (D-MN), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Carl Levin (D-MI), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Amy… [read post]
19 Feb 2013, 3:32 am
Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, voiced his firm support for the nominees and said that he hopes the president will nominate two Republican members. [read post]
12 Feb 2013, 4:00 am
Coming soon, so says Senator Tom Harkin here. [read post]
11 Feb 2013, 6:46 am
Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). [read post]
8 Feb 2013, 6:13 pm
Praising the recent approval of a financial transaction tax for eleven E.U. countries by the Council of Economic and Finance Ministers, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) plans to reintroduce in the 113th Congress legislation to impose a financial transaction tax in the U.S. [read post]
