Honorable Tom Harkin
United States Senator, Iowa, Democrat
Senator Harkin was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984. He was a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1974 to 1984. He chairs the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) and also sits on the following committees: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Appropriations, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The following is from the January 6, 2014, Senate floor debate on S.1845, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act. We have the opportunity today to take care of some very important unfinished…
