Honorable Tom Harkin
United States Senator, Iowa, Democrat
Senator Harkin was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1974 to 1984. He is a member of the following committees: Appropriations; Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, where he is the Ranking Minority Member; Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The following is from the March 10, 2003, Senate floor debate on S. 3, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003.The amendment I have offered basically expresses the sense of the Senate in support of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. With all of the…
