Word: harkins
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...With Vilsack as agriculture secretary, Iowans will arguably have more influence over U.S. farm policy than ever before - the Senate Agriculture Committee chairman is Tom Harkin, of Iowa...
Leach, a five-term Republican Congressman from Iowa voted out in 2006, was introduced to the group assembled at Denver's Pepsi Center by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA). Leach made waves earlier this month by joining a group of three Republicans in endorsing Barack Obama for President...
...Still, Hodgkin's cancer is very different from a brain tumor, which has more potential to affect cognitive abilities and decision-making processes. If Kennedy were to eventually consider a leave of absence, Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland would likely become acting HELP Committee chairman (Chris Dodd and Tom Harkin are more senior but both have their own committees to run: banking and agriculture, respectively). Anyone who knows Kennedy knows that he lives for his work, his family, his dogs and his boat. And Kennedy recently signed a record publishing deal for his memoirs. For now the Massachusetts senator plans...
...course, if a candidate can actually speak the language, then there's no problem. Senator Chris Dodd is a fluent Spanish speaker from his years in the Peace Corps, and Senator Tom Harkin - who has a deaf brother - was able to address the Democratic National Convention in sign language. But it's a high bar, and more often than not, candidates can't clear...
...Democrats declined to campaign against Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, who handily won his state but later became one of the first candidates to drop...