Senator Tom Harkin

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Senator Planning Early Education Bill To Help Economy

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Education News, Early Education, Education, No Child Left Behind, Tom Harkin, Al Franken, James Heckman, 112th Congress, Early Childhood Education, Head Start, Pre-Kindergarten, Education Reform, Pre-K, Senator Tom Harkin, Education News

When Sen. Tom Harkin asked a panel of education experts at a Thursday Senate committee hearing how they would improve the country's public schools, he...

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Attention Occupy Wall Street: Enact a Financial Speculation Tax

Anand Reddi | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Pete Stark, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Rep. Peter Defazio, Financial Speculation Tax, Peter DeFazio, Tom Harkin, Occupy Wall Street, Senator Tom Harkin, Business News
Anand Reddi

Last week, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Representative Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) renewed efforts to enact a financial speculation tax. The Occupy movements across the United States should demand this initiative.

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Paul Needham

A Food Shortage In Farm-Rich Iowa

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Needham | Posted 12.07.2011

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DES MOINES, Iowa -- Sometime next week, Carey Miller and her staff at the Food Bank of Iowa will receive a shipment of 6,000 turkeys to store in the f...

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Both Sides Now: Boehner's Food Fight, Murdoch's Schadenfreude Pie, Warren's Just Desserts

HuffPost Radio | Posted 09.23.2011

Read More: Senator Richard Shelby, Scott Brown, Representative Barney Frank, Elizabeth Warren, Tea Party, President Obama, Flourescent Bulbs, Debt Ceiling, Jon Stewart, Npr, Juan Williams, Fox, Representative Dennis Kucinich, Senator Tom Harkin, Bill Murray, Gang of Six, Politics News
HuffPost Radio

2010-06-28-bothsides_pull.jpg Matalin and Reagan debate whether a) the GOP risks political suicide by refusing the Pay-Your-Bills Ceiling increase and b) should we care if Bachmann gets headaches or just gives them? Also, is Warren winning? Murdoch?

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Prioritizing Early Childhood Education: We Can't Afford to Wait

Susan Ochshorn | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Committee on Economic Development, Governor Bev Perdue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Achievement Gap, Investment in Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Education, Senator Tom Harkin, North Carolina Smart Start, Education News
Susan Ochshorn

Only a tiny fraction of the many billions spent on public education is invested at the early end of the spectrum. We are missing a prime opportunity, one that we cannot afford to waste.

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When Will Employers Stop Treating Women Like Second Class Citizens?

Debbie Hines | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Salary, Sex Discrimination, Equal Pay, Paycheck Fairness Act, Woman's Wages, Rosa DeLauro, Senator Barbara Mikulski, Equal Pay Day, Fair Pay Act of 2011, Senator Tom Harkin, Wage Discrimination, Wal-Mart v. Dukes, Business News
Debbie Hines

With women making up roughly 46% of the US working population, it's a wonder why women earn less. We have come a long way, but still have got a long way to go to equal a man's paycheck.

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Chris Kirkham

Is The Military Ensuring Quality Education For Soldiers?

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Department of Defense has doled out increasing amounts of federal money in recent years to allow active-duty military personnel to pursue college ...

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Filibuster: Make Them Talk

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Filibuster, Senator Tom Harkin, Senate, Politics News
Dave Johnson

Making filibustering senators talk all night gives the public an opportunity to rally, one way or the other. It also, frankly, puts on a show, which will engage the public, restoring interest in government. This is good and we should do it.

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Senate Rules Must Be Reformed in January

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator Harry Reid, Filibuster, President Obama, Senate Rules, Senator Tom Harkin, Senator Mitch McConnell, Tax Deal, Politics News
Robert Creamer

Next year the Republicans will have ironclad control of the House. It would be outrageous if Democrats allowed a minority of Republican Senators to use the current rules to limit what the Democratic majority can do in the Senate.

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The Halting of Stem Cell Research Is the Culmination of a Decade-Long Legal Effort

Eli Y. Adashi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eli Y. Adashi

The issuance of a temporary injunction barring the NIH from funding human embryonic stem cell research should hardly have come as a surprise. Many of the same plaintiffs and much of the same legal team filed a similar lawsuit a decade earlier.

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Education news: Recess round-up has drama, politics and finance all in one

Susan Sawyers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teacher Governance, Education, Teachers, Edujobs, G.I. Bill, For-Profits, Iowa, Inacol, The Hechinger Report, Senator Tom Harkin, Smarter Ideas, For-Profit Colleges, Politics News
Susan Sawyers

A round-up of this week's education stories brought to you by The Hechinger Report. The word from Washington centered on the passage of an emerge...

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University of Phoenix: Always Be Closing

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Apollo Group, For-Profits, For-Proft Colleges, University of Phoenix, Gao, Federal Student Aid, Higher Education, Student Loans, Senator Tom Harkin, George Kutz, Government Accountability Office, Arne Duncan, Education Department, Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet, USC Professor William Tierney, Sacramento Bee, For-Profit Colleges, College News
Joseph A. Palermo

The only "student learning outcomes" these for-profit corporations posing as colleges recognize are those that fill their own pockets with tax dollars that are supposed to be going to deserving students who just want an education.

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Health Reform 2.0: Help With the Work We Have to Do Next!

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

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Mark Hyman, MD

Those of us who believe in preventive health care, integrated health care, functional medicine, and complementary and alternative medicine have special reasons to celebrate the health care reform bill.

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Senator Reid: Stop Folding Your Hand

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aaron Zelinsky

Senate Democrats are fighting for their electoral lives against the filibuster, and Harry Reid is folding the few cards left in his hand.

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Fixing the Filibuster

Sen. Tom Harkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Tom Harkin

In the 1950s, an average of one bill was filibustered in each two-year Congress. In the last Congress, 139 bills were filibustered. The GOP's abuse of it is unprecedented, routine, and increasingly reckless.

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It Takes Guts to Support Health Reform

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Option, Senator Jay Rockefeller, Senate Health Care Bill, Senator Russ Feingold, Stupak Amendment, Howard Dean, Joe Lieberman, Senator Nelson, Senator Mark Warner, Rep. Anthony Weiner, Health Reform, Senator Tom Harkin, Senator Schumer, Politics News
Linda Bergthold

What is in the Senate bill that is worth passing? A lot. And what passes this year or early next year is only the beginning of the reform process.

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Health-Care Reform: What I Saw Today on Capitol Hill

Nancy Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nancy Keenan

We were united in our praise of Sen. Dodd and other members of the Senate for making history by passing the first health-reform bill out of a congressional committee.

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Hey Mr. President, Food Can Be Your Down Payment on Health Care Reform, Remember?

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soft Drinks, Michael Pollan, Michelle Obama, Comprehensive Healthcare Reform, Food Inc., Food, Child Nutrition Act, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Health Care, Senator Tom Harkin, Barack Obama, Agricultural Subsidies, Green News
Jerusha Klemperer

Obama has been all over the place this past week putting forth his health care plan and I haven't heard one word about how food could save this country tons of money, while saving lives.

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Obama Supporters Engage In 50 State Post-Election Advocacy

Ruby Reid | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator Evan Bayh, Jose Torres, Senator Mark Begich, Senator Tom Harkin, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Senator Bob Menendez, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Tom Harkin, Obama Fundraising, Morderate Dems Working Group, Dscc, Senator John Tester, Organizing for America, Politics News
Ruby Reid

Post-election legislative advocacy and activism by volunteers organized during an election campaign is unprecedented, especially on a national scale.

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