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...Recently, however, an emboldened tide of Democratic partisans, including former President Bill Clinton, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, and Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, have once more called for the doctrine’s resurrection. President Obama and the Senate, on the other hand, have wisely come out against re-imposing this “balance” to the airwaves...
...stimulus fight showed the limits of his seemingly enormous electoral mandate. Many Democrats, for instance, felt the White House tried too hard to win the favor of Republicans, who in the end didn't lend their support. "I am not happy with it," said Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa. "You are not looking at a happy camper. I mean, they took a lot of stuff out of education. They took it out of health, school construction, and they put it more into tax issues...
...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...