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...sure sign that after months of holding their fire, many of the 535 representatives of the American people disagreed not only with the President but with their own leadership on that question. Barely half an hour after the Senate's opening session was gaveled to order, Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin upset the plans of majority leader George Mitchell to delay a floor fight over U.S. policy. When Mitchell proposed to the chamber that no resolutions on the gulf should be submitted before Jan. 23 unless the leadership approved, Harkin leaped to his feet. War is "being talked about in coffee...
There are some members of Congress who see the danger of Bush's exclusive approach to the Middle East crisis. Thirty-seven House Democrats and one Democratic Senator, Iowa's Tom Harkin, have filed a suit against Bush that would require him to seek Congressional authorization before starting any military action in the Gulf. In these few crucial weeks before the U.N. resolution's January 15 target date for military action, all members of Congress should assert their voices on Mideast policy and demand that Bush acknowledge Congress' war powers...
Marc McKay '94, who attended to be part of a "strong showing" of the Harvard Democrats Club, said he was keeping his eye on Tom Harkin of Iowa, who was reelected to the U.S. Senate. "I'll probably be working for him this summer," said McKay. "I'm glad...
...falling during a campaign; at the Iowa City campus of the University of Iowa, politicians' stocks are actually rising and falling. Four faculty members -- three economists and a political scientist -- have opened a computer-driven stock market in which the only two issues available are Democratic Senator Tom Harkin and his Republican challenger Tom Tauke. (Because the university draws students from neighboring Illinois, shares in Paul Simon and his G.O.P. opponent Lynn Martin will soon be available.) Investors can buy a bundled issue, a minimum of one share each in Harkin and Tauke, for $2. Or they can go into...
Administration: Susan Lynd, David Richardson, Clementina Allured, Hope Almash, Melissa August, Sharon Boger, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Ann V. King, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Breena Clarke, Douglas Dale, Brian Doyle, Eileen Harkin, Suzanne W. Marcou, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, John F. McDonald, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Joanne Waugh, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Mary Wormley...