Tom Harkin
Tom Harkin
Thomas Richard "Tom" Harkinis an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1985...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 November 1939
CityCumming, IA
CountryUnited States of America
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Would anyone advocate that we take the fences off the playground for elementary schools and just let kids run around in the streets? ... By the same token, why would we allow schools to sort of poison our kids with junk food?
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This is exactly the wrong time to be lowering the wages of workers
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It's the midnight hour. We have to get moving on it now, not next year, not after some study group in the White House bangs this thing around for another three months.
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This is the last thing we need right now, partisan bickering and sniping,
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I have some real grievances on this issue, ... We have pushed for years to get a natural gas pipeline built from Alaska to the lower 48 states. If this administration had four to five years ago begun saying 'we are going to get that pipeline built', we would be a third of the way done. There are huge natural gas reserves up there. However the natural gas industry in Texas and the Gulf Coast don't want that thing built. We have plenty of natural gas up north - we should have pushed to get it down here.
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Having a plan on paper does nothing to protect us, ... Next month is too late. The United States is woefully unprepared for this, and we must get started immediately.
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It's about 1,100 or 1,200 pages, ... And we got it dated November the 20th. No one's read this bill. Nobody knows what's in it.
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Human cloning will take place, and it will take place in my lifetime. And I don't fear it at all -- I welcome it. I think it's right and proper that we continue this kind of inquiry.
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I've seen how medals awarded in combat can help tell a child the story of a lost parent or grandparent. These medals can say that these men and women gave their lives in service to their neighbors and to their nation -- and that this nation is a grateful one, ... Today, we say on behalf of every American, thank you.
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The holes in these protective suits show the holes in the Pentagon's procurement process.
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If you like the government shutdown, then you'll like this impeachment trial, because it will go on for a long time.
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All the trashing is coming from the right wing of the Republican Party. I really think it's despicable what they're doing.
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has to disagree, just based on the standard of military value.
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Our escalating dependence on foreign and non-renewable sources of energy is heading us down a slippery slope.