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7 Jan 2011, 1:43 pm by WIMS
Harkin said, "This reform effort is about one thing: ensuring the Senate can operate more fairly, effectively and democratically to meet the challenges of our time. [read post]
1 Jun 2022, 9:37 pm by Bill Marler
Billy Harkins, EI S III committed to conduct another onsite full inspection at both facilities the afternoon of June 9th. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 6:36 am by Joe Kristan
  Tax Analysts reports ($link) that Tom Harkin is “open to considering alternative ways to pay for a student loan interest bill other than taxing subchapter S corporations. [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 2:59 am
Tom Harkin (D-IA) recently told reporters he believes he has over 90 votes for the bill. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 7:57 am by Epstein Becker & Green
Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. recently introduced the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act, a bill intended to lessen the burden on age discrimination plaintiffs under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”). [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 10:21 pm by LindaMBeale
  Sanders, Harkin and Whitehouse have proposed that the estate tax should have a $3.5 million exemption and a graduated rate, with those at the top paying a rate of 65% (a base rate of 55% and a surtax of 10% on the amount above $500 million or above $1 billion for a couple). [read post]
1 Sep 2012, 10:56 am
" As Anthony Harkins observes in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, one of the hillbilly’s signature moves is to peak, popularity-wise, just when Americans sense that things in general are headed south.... [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 12:45 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Location: CDC's Tom Harkin Global Communications Center, 1600 Clifton Road at CDC Parkway, Atlanta, GA  30333 CDC: Morgantown, WV Dates: June 20-24, 2011      Monday -- Thursday, 8:00AM-4:00PM      Friday, 8:00AM-1:00PM Cost: Free. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 8:51 am
For additional information contact [www.gallerywatch.com] Subscriptioin needed for online access: 07/16/2008 Legislative Text of the NIH Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act (PDF 25 KB)Text of the Bill Expected to be Introduced by Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education Chairman Tom Harkin and Ranking Member Arlen Specter07/16/2008 Legislative Text of the Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act (S. 3268)Text of the Bill as… [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 5:53 pm
The President was also a cosponsor of Senator Tom Harkin's (D-IA) Fair Pay Act, and President Obama will continue to promote paycheck equity and close the wage gap between men and women. [read post]
30 Nov 2008, 6:35 pm
The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, an official press release from Senator Tom Harkin (who also has an offer to sit on the task force), and many other sources (found with a simple Google News search) confirm that Kennedy picked Clinton.Also, his refusal to form the subcommittee to deal with the health care legislation could result, as the Associated Press reports, from his own desire to monopolize the issue (at least in the Senate), rather than from a political grudge with Clinton. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 6:45 am
Layton reports that business groups sent a letter to Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee (HELP) Chairman Tom Harkin (IA) and Ranking Member Mike Enzi (WY) informing the senators that the groups oppose Diane Feinstein's (CA) amendment that would ban BPA from containers.Layton quotes Scott Faber, vice president for federal affairs for the Grocery Manufacturers Association, as stating, "'We will not support food safety legislation that bans or phases out BPA… [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 9:08 am
" Senator Tom Harkin, D-IA, has challenged the legality for planned cuts in the commissions paid to agents who sell these insurance policies, according to the Green Fields Blog of the Des Moines Register. [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 1:59 am
Tom Harkin (D-IA), a key lawmaker backing the bill, said earlier this month that the House has agreed to take up, and pass, the Senate version of the bill, which would send the measure to the president's desk, but it remains to be seen whether that will come to fruition.Yesterday, the New York Times featured an Op-Ed by authors, and sustainable food movement heroes, Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, in favor of the bill, which they call "the best opportunity in a generation… [read post]
7 Apr 2007, 3:02 am
In 2001, 2 members of Congress negotiated the Harkin-Engel Protocol, by which industry agreed to end labor abuses and to establish a process for certifying that chocolate was not produced at the hands of children forced to work. [read post]
21 Nov 2007, 4:32 am
  The Bill was introduced over the summer by Senator Tom Harkin who, in his internet saavy skills, posted this video to YouTube describing the bill. [read post]
16 May 2013, 1:48 pm by Ronald Meisburg
   This was followed by colloquy between Committee Chairman, Senator Harkin and Ranking Member, Senator Alexander, concerning the nature of the Senate and its traditions, processes and procedures. [read post]