Sen. Tom Harkin

Viewing Tom Harkin's recent press releases and news feeds.

• Mar. 02 Harkin: Barnstead Workers Will Qualify for Trade Adjustment Assistance

• Twelve Western Iowa Counties Designated As Presidential Disaster Areas

• Mar. 01 Harkin Announces Over $370,000 to Improve Recreation Areas in Iowa

• Feb. 26 Harkin Fights Objection to Extending Unemployment Benefits

• Feb. 25 Common Sense On: New National Contest to Have President Obama Speak at Your High School Graduation

• Feb. 19 HARKIN ANNOUNCES MORE THAN $250,000 FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT AT IOWA RC D

• Feb. 18 HARKIN APPLAUDS BIPARTISAN NATIONAL COMMISSION ON FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND REFORM

Viewing Tom Harkin's recent legislative activity.

• Jan. 25 Cosponsored SRES397: A resolution relative to the death of Charles McCurdy ("Mac") Mathias, Jr., former United States Senator for the State of Maryland.

• Jan. 20 Cosponsored SRES392: A resolution expressing the Sense of the Senate on the humanitarian catastrophe caused by the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

• Jan. 19 Cosponsored S2886: A bill to prohibit certain affiliations (between commercial banking and investment banking companies), and for other purposes.

• Cosponsored S2931: A bill to accelerate the income tax benefits for charitable cash contributions for the relief of victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

• Cosponsored S2936: A bill to accelerate the income tax benefits for charitable cash contributions for the relief of victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

• Dec. 22 Sponsored S2927: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on certain securities transactions to fund job creation and deficit reduction, and for other purposes.

• Dec. 16 Cosponsored S2904: A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to require emergency contraception to be available at all military health care treatment facilities.

• Dec. 14 Cosponsored S2882: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules relating to the treatment of individuals as independent contractors or employees, and for other purposes.

• Dec. 13 Cosponsored SRES374: A resolution recognizing the cooperative efforts of hunters, sportsmen's associations, meat processors, hunger relief organizations, and State wildlife, health, and food safety agencies to establish programs that provide game meat to feed the hun…

• Dec. 03 Cosponsored SRES370: A resolution relative to the death of Paula F. Hawkins, former United States Senator for the State of Florida.

• Cosponsored S2730: A bill to extend and enhance the COBRA subsidy program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

• Nov. 17 Cosponsored SRES354: A resolution commending Robert C. Byrd, Senator from West Virginia.

• Cosponsored S1789: A bill to restore fairness to Federal cocaine sentencing.

• Nov. 16 Cosponsored S1147: A bill to prevent tobacco smuggling, to ensure the collection of all tobacco taxes, and for other purposes.

• Cosponsored S2781: A bill to change references in Federal law to mental retardation to references to an intellectual disability, and to change references to a mentally retarded individual to references to an individual with an intellectual disability.

• Cosponsored S2790: A bill to allow Americans to receive paid sick time so that they can address their own health needs, and the health needs of their families, related to a contagious illness.

• Nov. 05 Cosponsored SRES344: A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the tragic shooting at Fort Hood, Texas on November 5, 2009.

• Cosponsored S1619: A bill to establish the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities, to establish the Interagency Council on Sustainable Communities, to establish a comprehensive planning grant program, to establish a sustainability challenge grant program, an…

• Nov. 03 Cosponsored S2729: A bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from uncapped domestic sources, and for other purposes.

• Oct. 28 Sponsored S2149: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on orthotoluidine.