Word: harkins
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...Obama: A very impressive result. Remember, this poll was taken in October. The Barack tsunami was barely a ripple back then. He'd impressed a big crowd at the Tom Harkin Steak Fry in Indianola, but that was only one crowd. Wonder what his number would...
...lagging behind Clinton, John Kerry and John Edwards. While much of the state's Democratic establishment is backing Vilsack, many elected officials and key activists in the state are considering or have already signed on with other candidates. It's a sharp contrast to 1992, when Iowa Senator Tom Harkin ran for president, and the other contenders essentially conceded the state to him. Edwards has been in Iowa so much he's essentially the second presidential candidate who lives in the state. On the day Vilsack announced, Edwards was in Des Moines to sign copies of his new book. Senators...
That's why there are plenty who argue that the blame--and the answer--must lie squarely with fat people themselves. When Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat, attacked junk food in schools two years ago, then Democratic Senator Zell Miller, whose home state of Georgia is the location of Coca-Cola headquarters, scoffed, "Our kids are not obese because of what they are eating in our lunchrooms at school. They are obese, frankly, because they sit around on their duffs watching MTV and playing video games, and to do something about that requires the role of the parents...
...hand of a nanny state at work, George W. Bush's Administration has focused its anti-obesity efforts primarily on public education. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson wore a pedometer to tout his department's Small Step initiative. But pressure for bigger strides is building. Says Harkin: "This is not just a personal problem. It's a public-health problem." He wants the Agriculture Department to regulate all food--not just meals--being served in schools. The rules now are set at the state and local levels, with widely varying standards, although the torrent of state legislation...
...filibuster invokes, its uses have often been much darker. It was, for instance, one of the major means by which white segregationists blocked civil rights legislation in the 1960s. Republicans note that Democrats had a different view of delaying tactics when they were running the Senate. Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa has lately been one of the most outspoken defenders of the minority's right to filibuster, but in early 1995, he argued, "There is no reform more important to this country and to this body than slaying the dinosaur called the filibuster...