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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While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.
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I know when you're the front-runner, you're going to take hits ... but there comes a point where I believe Democratic candidates ought to restrain themselves a little bit.
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Students who are given a stipend specifically for housing are still gaming the system, ... I would consider this to be a major failure in the oversight of the program.
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These votes are going to be counted in Florida. If they're not counted now, they are going to be counted next year under Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, ... If the truth comes out next year that in fact Al Gore did win Florida ... what is that going to do for the esteem and the respect of the Supreme Court of the United States?
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I like and respect each one of them, but for me one candidate rose to the top as our best shot to beat George W. Bush and to give Americans the opportunity to take our country back, ... That person is Governor Howard Dean.
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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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I'm afraid that if we don't have some peacekeeping forces here that the intimidation and the level of violence might increase to the point where the election could be in jeopardy. And we cannot let that happen,
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It's woefully inadequate, in terms of taking a look at the promising therapies that people are taking today,
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It's hard to believe the objective is better service when on its face, this plan to shutter nearly a fourth of Iowa's county offices will lead to more driving, greater inconvenience and less service,
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Their budget slashes renewable energy research and development by more than one third.
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What's happening is you have a few right wing ideologues in the House aiming at Castro and hitting our farmers.
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feeling of embarrassment and being ashamed our government was not responding more forcefully.
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We don't require our astronomers to explore the heavens with 19th century telescopes, and we don't require our geologists to study the Earth with a tape measure. If we are serious about realizing the promise of stem cell research, our biomedical researchers need access to the best stem cell lines available.
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What this pandemic could do to us as a people is even more threatening than what a few terrorists could do, even a few terrorists with a nuclear device.