harkin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: mr. president, the spending package that we're considering this week i think is a little bit unusual, to say the least. five of the 12 appropriations subcommittees get detailed, full-length spending bills. defense, military construction, agriculture, homeland security and commerce and justice. the other seven appropriations bills are basically on auto pilot, continuing resolutions. so with a few exceptions, whatever the government spent last year on programs in the subcommittees is what the government will spend this year. i know for a fact that this is not what the chairwoman of the appropriations committee wanted. she fought hard for an omnibus that would have included all 12 spending bills. i am very respectful of that. she fought hard for it, but this is where we stand right now. i am speaking today because the programs under the jurisdiction of the senate labor, health and human services and education appropriat

harkin: i see the senate is not in a quorum call. i have six unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during today's -- the presiding officer: national is in a quorum call. ohmr. harkin: oh, the lights are broken, mr. president. i am sear. i ask that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispense w officer without objection. mr. harkin: i have six unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate the apule of the majority and minority leaders. i ask that these requests be agreed to and printed in the record. officer if without objection, so ordered. mr. harkin: i ask consent that i be allowed to speak for up to five minutes. stir if without objection, so ordered. mr. harkin: the first amendment up for vote today will be on amendment that i laid down yesterday on the labor-h.h.s. part of this so-called continuing resolution. as pointed out yesterday that the amount of money that i'm dealing with in my amendment is exactly what's in the c.r. there's no additional money that's in ther

that's why i'm so glad this week, george miller and senator harkin introduced an increase in the minimum wage. when we increased it in 2007 in our first 100 hours, first time it was increased in 11 years. it's time for it to be increased again. they propose raising a fair minimum wage to $10.10, index future wages to inflation and put more money in the pockets of working families and it's important to note that more than 64% of minimum wage earners are women. this has a big impact on the financial security of our women.

we need somebody who can come as close to tom harkin as we can to step in there? >> i don't want to same i am cloning myself. there is a young congressman by the name of bruce braley who is a great progressive. >> heard good things about him? >> he is a good guy, out there putting everything together. he hasn't formally announced. there is a lot of excitement about him. keep your eye on him. >> we will have to get him in and give him some help, too. >> yeah. a good progressive. >> let's say hello to dawn call from chicago. hey, dawn. good morning. >> good morning. >> i wanted to ask the senator what is it that i can help to do to get manufacturing back in the u.s.? >> what can i do? what can i tell my friends to do? >> got your bill in there, senator. >> go on my website, harkin.senate.gov. you can look up the bill. it's a simple straight forward bill. we need a manufacturing strategy in this country. we don't have one. if we can get something like this legislation through, then we can start to lay down sort of comparative how are we comparing to other countries?

as director of faith outreach for the democratic national committee, reverend derrick harkins has been working to change that perception. >> people of faith make up a significant and important and valuable part of who we are as democrats and that's across the spectrum of faith traditions. >> green says the growing number of religiously unaffiliated voters cou complicatthose efforts. >> how do they for instance get the black protestant churches to mobilize voters and to be very enthusiastic about their platform and their candidate without turning off unaffiliated voters, and how do they appeal to those people and get them involved and excited about the candidate without alienating some of the religious communities that support the democratic party? it's a really interesting problem. >> harkins asserts that the democratic tent is wide enough to accommodate all. >> in having respect for that broad spectrum of faith traditions, we also certainly have respect for people who may not practice. the president often says himself that we need to honor and respect those who certainly practice fait

harkin says it would give 30 million americans a raise.kers earn at or below minimum wage. 49% are adult women. a quarter of them are teenagers. 59% have a high school diploma or less. 7% have a bachelor's degree or higher. progressives say it lifts families out of poverty. the problem is you can't find studies to support any position. so much conflicting research on this. don peoples is the ceo of peoples corporation and member of president obama's national financial committee. i'll start with don. you're a businessman. you say raising minimum wage won't hurt job creation. is it a risk worth taking in this economy? >> absolutely it is. we have to have americans who are willing to work and work hard to be paid a living wage and happier more secure worker is a better worker and less turnover is better for business as well and they'll spend more money in the economy. >> how do you know small business will turn around and raise prices. >> i have run a small business. the better we pay people in reason, the more productive they are. i have run

i look forward to working with senator harkin. he has been a leader on these issues for so many years. we want to start by preventing the doubling of student loans by july 1. that's step one. but it ca cannot be the last st. with that, i would yield the floor. fryer yielding the floor -- prior to yielding the floor, i have six unanimous consent requests 230r committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. i ask that these requests be agreed to and printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reed: thank you, mr. president. mr. cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican whip. mr. cornyn: i come to the floor on the 1,413th day since the senate has passed a budget and on a day where amazingly the president of the united states is reported to have said, we don't have an immediate crisis in terms of our debt. well, we do have a debt crisis that threatens both future generations, because somebody is going to have to pay that d

that's why i'm so glad this week, george miller and senator harkin introduced an increase in the minimum wage. when we increased it in 2007 in our first 100 hours, first time it was increased in 11 years. it's time for it to be increased again. they propose raising a fair minimum wage to $10.10, index future wages to inflation and put more money in the pockets of working families and it's important to note that more than 64% of minimum wage earners are women. this has a big impact on the financial security of our women. now, this week, the house passed a continuing resolution. for some reason, it's hard to tell from the debate on the floor, they decided to put into law the sequester. the sequester exists. we have to deal with it or do away with it. we do not have to reinforce it in the legislation. those who understand on the republican side its damaging impacts on our national security and our economic security said it means nothing to have it in the bill. it means nothing to have it in the bill. then why is it in the bill? is it to get votes? is it to harden the position on the republi

at the same time democratic senator tom harkin reintroduced legislation that would set a national minimum day standard. joining me now is sarah jane glen. >> thanks for having me on. >> we invited you because you co-wrote this op ed. and you pointed out that just in new york city more than a million workers don't have paid sick leave. now a lot of employers among other things we'll tell you it's a perk they just can't afford. make your argument. >> i would argue that it's not a case that businesses can't afford to offer paid sick leave. in fact, businesses can't afford not to offer paid sick leave. one of the industries where workers are least likely to have access is food service. it's bad for business to have servers and cooks and busboys coming into work sick. nobody want does have someone sneezing in their salad. they ineffect their co-workers. they infect patrons. this is really bad for business and it costs businesses a lot of money. if a worker gets sick they have to take time off. they have no job protection. they get fired. it costs a lot more to replace someone than it does to o

we showed tom harkin, long-time senator elected in 1984 retiring. democrats look like they're coalescing behind democratic member of congress. republicans are all waiting for steve king. tea party conservative represents western iowa. if he runs, what does it do to the race? >> chris, most important contest for us to watch in all of 2014, regardless of steve king runs or not. if he does decide to run, he will clear the field. he will be the republican nominee. we have seen the other republicans who might be, including kim reynolds. >> who said she will only run in evidence to your point that nobody can beat king on the primary. >> just like the presidential contest for democrats, like how everyone is waiting on hillary clinton. if he runs, he has a chance to win, but given that, you know, he's had some troubles in the past, iowa the state that president obama won. so not going to be easy for republicans, but, again, king did win a very competitive house race in 2012, as well. >> one other race where there is tea party versus establishment. georgia s

senator harkin's amendment would increase the amount of money going to n.i.h. by about $140 million. once again, it doesn't change the overall totals. it just adjusts the priorities from fy 2012 -- from fy 2013 to fy 2014. so i would urge my colleagues to support that amendment so that an agency like n.i.h. can get the help they need without it at all affecting the overall spending of this nation. i really do look forward to us working together, democrats and republicans, in the national interest, compromise, bipartisan. that's what we need to do. that's exactly what senator mikulski and shelby have done in bringing forward this legislation. it deserves our support. i was listening to senator murray. i know that we'll be voting on a budget next week for fy 2014. what we need to do is work together, democrats and republicans, let these bills go into conference and let's work together and bring out a budget that represents the best for our nation to move forward. the thing i hear the most from the people of maryland is that they want us to make decisions, they ne

senator tim jones, ray rockefeller, frank lautenberg, tom harkin and carl levin. the first priority is these guys can't retire. well, today carl levin announced that he is going to retire. and of course we have learned that tom harkin is going to retire too and of course frank lautenberg is going to retire too and of course jay rockefeller is going to retire too. as for tim johnson, who knows? not saying yet. the top priority was to keep those five guys. four of the five are gone. and the last one, who knows? so from this last election, where the democrats did great, we are heading toward our next one in which the field is really tilted against the democrats, maybe even more so than it was before. and the republicans did terrible in the last election. they are in chaos in congress. that is making for a bewildering governing environment right now for the president's second term. but in the middle of all that today we learned that the autopsy, the republican party commission to figure out why they did so badly and what is wrong with them as a party, that autopsy is

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hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations to rule the day . what about the way the from moscow the killing of a black teenager by the new york police has caused public outrage and evoked a week long protests in brooklyn the activists chanted slogans accusing the n.y.p.d. of racism and cruelty the clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement officials resulted in dozens of arrests. as the story. that was. sixteen year old kimani gray was killed by police shot four times in the front and three in the back the n.y.p.d. claimed the teen had pointed a gun at them however this remains i'm certain that there was a weapon that no one saw or not his friends his family didn't know he had a weapon and there were a lot of witnesses outside who were able to see it that this individual to have a weapon on him as these candles burned in memory of yet another kill

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listening and want to do even more to help the american people earlier today democratic senator tom harkin of iowa and democratic congressman george miller of california introduced legislation that would increase the federal minimum wage to ten dollars an hour and fix it so that it automatically keeps pace with the cost of living the measure would also raise the minimum wage for tipped workers like restaurant servers right now millions of americans are struggling. survive living paycheck to paycheck meanwhile corporate profits and c.e.o. pay are higher than they've ever been before so isn't it time to go along with senator harkin and congress miller and raise the minimum wage to ten dollars an hour for the benefit of all americans that's why next guest thinks joining me now from our miami studio is neil aspirate pro-business advocate and hope host of the truth for america radio show and you know welcome back hey tom thanks for having me back great to see you what's wrong with raising the minimum wage is it isn't it just a reasonable thing to say that in the richest country on earth we shou

hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are ruled today. this is welcomed by the syrian national coalition has decisively rejected the resignation of its president earlier al-khateeb announced he was stepping down just months after he was elected to scarcity sales and. in his statement was outed said that he was stepping down because some matters have to quote him reached red lines now he hasn't explained exactly what prompted his resignation but he did say that he was designing to be able to work with freedom that cannot be available from official institutions keep in mind that her to it was someone that both russia and the united states look to as a person that they could negotiate with on the future of syria back in february hearted met with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov following his claim that the syrian opposition was ready to negotiate

and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images you're world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are all today. group name the islamic state of iraq says it was behind a series of attacks in baghdad on choose day that killed sixty five people are mostly shiite areas of the city it was sadly the deadliest violence to hit iraq this year it came on the tenth anniversary of the u.s. led invasion of the country the grim legacy of the iraq invasion could be seen in the city of fallujah most were it to cause also bore the brunt of that massive assault back in two thousand and four the ammunition used there is believed to have contained depleted uranium and white phosphorus and the effects are still being felt a little but this doctor because of a busby author of a number of studies in the matter how big is the problem there dr personally. the problem logically that the rates of illness the terms of cancer conge

or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. people don't touch the european union is they don't understand how it's governed they don't know who the people who are running it but they know that they were chosen by the people and so. when they see the results less than perfect they say who do we blame and they don't know who to blame because they don't know who these people are. when i started out as a young environmental activist i had no idea that i should end up as a watchdog in the brussels machinery. but i was stunned to discover how fragile the political decision making process is and to realize how easily it can be manipulated. there's a dark force behind this machinery and.

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on the way out senator harkin said to president bush, mr. president, i don't want to turn this into a business meeting but one of your staff members is slowing down the americans for disabilities bill. that conversation, senator harkin says, changed things at the white house and helped that bill to pass. or tip o'neill going into the democratic caucus in the 1980's and being criticized by fellow caucus members, why are you spending so much time with ronald reagan? why are you fixing social security? he said, "because i like it. because i like it." technology has changed a lot. but human nature hasn't. and relationships are essential in the senate, in the white house, and politics, in church, in business, and all of our presidents have known that you need to show respect to the people with whom you work if you're going to solve difficult problems. that's why i'm disappointed by our talented president's unwillingness to work with congress. there is no reaching out. it was 18 months before he had his first meeting with the republican leader one

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harkin: mr. president, i want to speak about the amendment number 202 by senator cruz, which we'll be voting on shortly. again, the senator from texas has informed us that the amendment would repeal the affordable care act. well, that's already -- that approach has already been rejected by the electorate, i just referenced the last election. also we've had more than 35 separate votes in the congress about that, and we've always upheld the affordable care act. but i just want to focus senators' attention on something that's in the cruz amendment that they may not know. because when we passed the health care and education reconciliation act for 2010, not only did it have the health care portion of it but it also had a portion in there on education. that's what we did, is we stopped that old system of subsidiesing banks for -- subsidizing banks for student loans and changed it into a direct loan program. that's about a $61 billion transfer from the banks getting free government subsidies to basicall

we had harkin waiting they're offer an amendment. we had cruz here waiting to offer amendments. they can't. we're going to -- we're through for the night. so we've wasted basically two days when we could have been considering amendments to this bill, and it's a shame. we have a limited number of senate days. in our lives, we have a limited number of days in our lives. the time of the senate is too precious to spend it this way. so we're going to -- i'm filing cloture on this bill. we'll have a vote on proceeding to it on thursday. how about that? isn't that great? proceeding to it. and we will have -- we'll be on the bill thursday. then we can start offering amendments on thursday. so i have a cloture motion at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: cloture motion. we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the motion to proceed to calendar number 21, h.r. 933, a bill making appropriations for the department of defense, the dep

we know you're running for senate to replace a retiring tom harkin. >> right. >> do you agree with senatory's plan? >> i think senator murray has put forth a document that uses a balanced approach which is very similar to the people who came to my deficit reduction town hall meetings and i wanted. they sat down and voted on new revenues and targeted spending cuts using the same scores that we use here in washington and every one of those four deficit town halls found trillions of dollars of deficit reduction using a balanced approach. i think senator murray is using a balanced approach and i think it's a starting point for both sides to get to a budget that we can finally pass. >> i want to switch gears and talk to you about something that we've been working on. it's military sexual assault. a top combat pilot was sentenced to a year in prison and you've introduced legislation to stop this from happening. realistically, what chance bdoe it have? >> we had an enormous amount of support, bipartisan, house and senate. we were just at the pentagon two weeks ago getting a briefing on the incred

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. >> senator tom harkin said his democrat colleagues to the president behind closed doors to be carefulbout a grand bargain that blacks away as social security and medicare. officials herensist that democrats on the hill are ready to make the tough choices on entitlements. u: thank you. ed henry, fox news chief white house correspondent. another sign of potential progress in the senate this time spped in its tracks. the effort, the bipartisan $9,804,000,000,000 spending bill to get the government through this fiscal year negotiated by appropriations chairman, senator barbara mikulski and ranking member senator richard shelby is noweing blocked and blocked by two republican senators, senators john mccain and tom colbert. those senators insist they have not had time to read the 500 pages. here to discuss what lies ahead in this -- what is shaping of to be above the budget. fred barnes. first year of assessment is to two republican senators blocking will look like a piece of legislation that was wl on his way to making it through. >> it will make it through. they have until march 27 to is

steve king may be looking to replace tom harkin. he's compared immigrants to dogs.ss as a strategist, does it start to look redundant and like piling on? >> i don't think it can ever look redundant. again, these are words they have said, so they have to own them and be responsible for them. i think you're right, it does bleed out of where these local races are, because you're forcing republicans again, to get off whatever message they're trying to say and defend or condone these comments, but i would just say it's not they're saying these radical things. when you look at the polls, the american people don't agree with the republican party when it comes to handling the pared and raising taxes on the wealthiest americans. even if they do manage to shift off some of thinks controversial statements, they still have an uphill battle to climb. >> always a great conversation with you both. thanks so much. >> thank you. >>> in one of the most watched murder trials in years, jurors will spend a second day questions jodi arias. the case has all the shocking and salacious maki

yesterday tom harkin and representative rosa delauro that would set a baseline for paid sick days ford it allow employees to earn up to seven days per year to take care of their own or their families' health. interestingly, there is evidence that bill may help businesses. coming to work sick costs the economy $180 billion each year in lost productivity. >>> and it's gross. >> in the guest spot, thanks so much for being with us. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> so some of the research that i've seen from cornell university actually shows that moms are penalized more than dads when they do take sick days to take care of their kids or they have to take off work to be able to take care of their kids, their family, a loved one. does having a standard baseline get it that problem and hopefully equalize the employer response to taking sick days? >> well, it helps women in several days. women are less likely to have it. more likely to need it since they do most of the care giving. but they also need men to share that care giving and more men will do so if they don't get punished for it at work.

you have a lot of senators for tom harkin something to the committee. once that happens, we will look at it. cooks we are going to try to. -- >> we are going to try to. that would make it harder for me. i will give you one quick statement about the data that was supposed to be quieter. -- the dinner that was supposed to be quiet. it is not supposed to be news. if ronald reagan had dinner with clinton, it would not be news. the fact that there is a lot of interest in a dinner with the president and a handful of republican senators is a pretty good statement about where we are as a nation. i am not blaming anybody. it takes both parties to get into $16 trillion in debt. the president called senator mccaskill and myself a couple weeks ago. -- senator mccain and myself a couple of weeks ago. everybody wants to be dr. phil about what he is doing. i am assuming the president wants to talk seriously about the issues of the day. if he just wants to have dinner to discuss the issues of the day, that is fine with me. how do you say no to the president of the unit

tom latham of iowa has decided not to run for the seat of tom harkin, potentially clearing the way forlow congressman steve king who is far right. king is the guy who suggested president obama's parents may have telegramed his birth announcement from kenya. but progressives shouldn't celebrate yet. while king could not win statewide in a presidential election, he may have a shot in the midterm election where fewer people vote, mostly republicans show up. so stay tuned. could be tricky. be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." the one big lesson in the republican -- the one they took away from the 2012 spanking was that it's time to broaden its base you'd think, but if they want to appeal to more people, then why would the conservative political action conference, cpac, not invite new jersey governor chris christie to speak at their annual meeting coming up? governor christie may be one of the few republicans who can nab votes from democrats and independents. a democrat state that hasn't gone republican in a presidential year since 1988. well, the head of american conservative uni

this morning, the liberal "huffington post" has a banner headline quoting senator tom harkin. quote, he said he hopes we reach some grand bargain. but what is in that grand bargain? murray defended democrats against charges they're not willing to tackle entitlements, including the eligibility ages for social security and medicare. >> my dad had multiple sclerosis. he and my mom literally crawled to the age of 65 to make sure they had the health care they need. i think that is, in the short run, maybe a punchy phrase, that the republicans like to put out, but it is not a way to strengthen medicare in the long run. >> the bottom line, is murray putting out a budget which can get not 51 votes, but 51 democratic votes? think about that fact. on the other side of capitol hill on tuesday, house budget chairman paul ryan released a budget that he believes can get 218 republican votes, and that's it. >> the election didn't go our way. believe me, i know what that feels like. that means we surrender our principles? that means we stop believing in what we believe in? we need to put out

. >> well, when you talk about the names, rockefeller, harkin, lautenberg, there's an age factor, but you are talking about some major democratic names. thank you both very much. chris and greg. >>> a manhattan courtroom today holds osama bin laden's son-in-law abu graith pleaded not guilty. a number of republican lawmakers say the decision to try him on u.s. soil is a mistake. here's the aforementioned mike rogers. >> i think a trial on american soil could be a difficult thing for any al qaeda member that they might be considering bringing back from overseas. we have a facility. it is with the best trained guard force that not only has to protect people from the inside getting out, but from the outside getting in. which a lot of american prisons are not quite used to. and they're very well equipped to handle special needs prisoners, high threat prisoners the way that some senior al qaeda member might be, and we have a way to provide trial and counsel and all of those things. now, it's at gitmo. it's guantanamo bay. really if you think about it, that makes the most logical sense, and

frank lautenberg of new jersey, west virginia's jay rockefeller, iowa's tom harkin, michigan's carl levinetty much heavyweights there. republican side, mike johanns and georgia's saxby chambliss is also stepping down. we'll be right back. >>> the "times" wrote a number of really bad stories. inadequately sourced, unskeptical stories about saddam's weapons capabilities. the stories were rewarded with lavish front page display. "times" also wrote a lot of very good stories. more skeptical stories. those tended to be on page a-13. >> that's our story tonight. welcome back to "hardball." that's the "new york times" great bill keller. the editorial decisions wound up carrying great weight, of course, in getting the american public to support the war. in friday's "washington post," for example, it's pointed out there was some skeptical coverage but it was often buried inside the paper. like this article which ran on page a-13. the day before we invaded iraq. it was headlined. bush clings to dubious allegations about iraq. page a-13. 13 pages into the newspaper. and in the sunday edition, three

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