harkin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: i want to thank the senator from utah for his concluding remarks regarding the amendment that will, i assume will be offered, it's clear to be offered by the senator from illinois. i just want to, again, thank senator hatch for his great leadership on the issue of making sure that the american people can have access to healthy, life-supporting vitamins, minerals, supplements, without having it to go through untold processes and reviews and approvals by f.d.a. and all that kind of regulation. senator hatch was the leader on the dshea bill when we passed it in 1994. i was happy to work in tandem with him on that. and it has proven through the years to be of great success for the american people. the american people all over this country take vitamins and supplements, they're healthier, they want to take charge of their own health and they're living healthier because of this. i just -- i say to my friend from utah, i he

harkin: mr. president, how much time is remaining on the two amendments offered by the senator from maryland? the presiding officer: six minutes for the majority on 2125. 15 minutes in opposition. for amendment numbered 2141, 11 minutes in favor and 15 in opposition. mr. harkin: well, mr. president, i will speak on the time on this amendment. first of all, the amendment 2125 will help ensure that health care providers, patients and payers better understand the benefits and risks associated with drugs, especially with respect to those drugs by underrepresented sub populations. i believe this is an important and noncontroversial amendment. i hope that we can support this amendment. on the other one, the 2141, which is the small business report, i think it's important that f.d.a. give small businesses a helping hand. i understand that each f.d.a. center has a small business office and that each of f.d.a.'s five regional offices has a small business representative, that this report that f.d.a. would

thomas harkins works as a baggage secuuity manager at the philadelphia internationall airporr.here thousands of people---including lots of kids pass through every day. until 2002, harkins was a catholic priest working at but the ddocese removed him from minnstry because it foundd he sexually abused wo young girls. and now there's a lawsuit in which a third woman claims she was also abused by harkins wwen she was a child. "they should know who they're hiring. as the public, we are screened to our underwear geeting on a plane, and yet thee hire a an like that." 3 a t-s-a official says harkins is mainly dealing with luggage.... not passengers.thh &pt-s-a says all its employees go through a criminal backgroond check.but in these cases.... criminal charges were never filed. massachusetts represeetativv barney frann is no strrnger to headlines...now the politician's making news aaain, ..... after a comment say lacked ccmmon sense.eople - speaking yesterday at u-mmss dartmouth's commencement ceremony... congressman frank made a bizarre reference to the trayvon artin case..... when hh

harkin: mr. be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: i ask consent that the time on quorum calls be evenly divided on the mccain amendment. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. harkin: mr. president, i just again say that we are rapidly coming to a close here, again the sooner that we can get to voting on this, the sooner that we will close out the business for the day, and probably for the week. so i again would point out that we have senator bingaman's amendment number 2111 yet to be called up, senator portman has two amendments, 2146 and 2145, and those basically are the only ones left to be brought up. so i would urge them to come and others who have indicated that they wanted to come and speak on the amendments that are pending, and those would be the mccain amendment, the sanders amendment, the hurricane amendment --, the murk the murkowski amendment, the durbin amendment and the paul amendment are still pending. people have indicated the

this is thomas harkins. 2002, he was a catholic priest, working at churches across south jersey. but the diocese of camden removed him from ministry because it found he sexually abused two young girls. and now, in this lawsuit, a third woman is claiming she also is one of harkins' victims. >> what do you have to say about this lawsuit? >> i have nothing to say. >> reporter: the lawsuit filed in federal court against the camden diocese says quite a bit, accusing harkins of sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl in 1980 and 81. the lawsuit claims the abuse occurred 10 to 15 times while harkins was a priest, with one assault even occurring in his bedroom in the rectory. we asked if the traveling public should be worried. >> no, they shouldn't be? >> the public should not worry, given your past? >> i have nothing to say. >> they should know who they're hiring. as public, we are screened through our underwear, getting on a plane. yet they hire a man like that? >> reporter: karen polesir, with the survivors network

senator harkin is in the building with us. and around the white house today. this morning, he will be popping out of the white house to go to a nearby small business. hasn't yet been identified where he will meet with some small business owners and talk about what congress ought to be doing to help small businesses. then he will be back at the whitehouse for a working luncheon with congressional leadership. john boehner and mitch mcconnell, nancy pelosi and harry reid having lunch with the president and the vice president to talk again about the congressional agenda and what things they might be able to accomplish even in this election year. this after be, he will meet with secretary of state hillary clinton and present the medal of honor post humously to specialist less lucky sabo, jr. members of his family will accept the award in his memory. jay carney will be giving his daily press briefing at 1 o'clock today. i will be there representing awe of you. senator john -- congressman john sarbanes from maryland on campaign finan

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harkin: how many? the presiding officer: eight. mr. harkin: mr.this time and reserve the balance of my time. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: mr. president, i thank you. i can understand the senator from iowa's concern about the reduction of the prevention fund which he put in the bill, and i know he has a -- a long-standing interest in that subject, but let's -- let's be clear about this. it's not just republicans who think that fund isn't the best use of taxpayers' money. it's almost all the democrats on that side of the aisle because in february, the middle-class tax relief and job creation act was passed in this -- was voted on in this senate, and every democrat except six voted to take $5 billion out of the fund that we're talking about to pay for that other priority, and it's not only the democrats on that side of the aisle, it's the president of the united states and the white house. president obama in his february 13 budget proposal propose

harkin: mr.president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: mr. president, parliamentary inquiry. we are now on the stop the student loan interest rate hike act of 2012. is that not correct? the presiding officer: we are on the motion to proceed t to tt measure. mr. harkin: i yield myself such time as i might consume then. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: i can't emphasize the importance of the legislation before us, the stop the student loan interest rate hike act of 2012, which the majority leader just spoke about. on july 1, unless congress intervenes, the interest rate on federal student loan debt is set to double from 3.4% to 6 30eu%. -- to 6.%. more than million students including than estimated 255,000 students enrolled at iowa colleges and universities would be required to pay an average $1,000 more per year of school. the bill before us is straightforward, it is fully paid for, it chemica keeps the t rate at 3.4% and the cost is offset by closing

tsa officials say harkins deals with luggage not passengers. they say all employees do go under criminal background checks before they are hired but because thisth cases are so old-- these cases are so sold criminal charges were not filed. >>> you know drive through at banks? a woman drove her suv through the bank into the bank. anna marie says she has no clue how the truck ended up inside the bank of america. the truck jumped the median and crossed several lanes of traffic before slamming into the building a person who normally worked in the office was out sick. no one was hurt in the accident. >>> we are hearing from the sister of the man accused of killing etan patz. >> what the suspect's sister says she heard rumors of for years. the latest coming up. >>> a man close to the pope is under fire for leak documents allegedly. who he is and where he is this morning when good morning maryland continues. >>> good morning maryland. i am -- memorial means having a cookout with your family and friends and just chilling out and having fun and have fun

conrad: i see senator harkin is here. senator harkin could do about four minutes. would that work? because we've got -- how much time have we got left, i'd ask. the presiding officer: 13 minutes and 20 seconds. mr. conrad: 13. and on the other side? the presiding officer: 24 minutes and 46 seconds. mr. conrad: this might be a useful time to get another consent. if we could get senator harkin agreed for four minimums. senator johnson, how much time were you seeking? mr. johnson: probably no more than 10 minutes. mr. conrad: senator sessions, does that work pour you? mr. sessions: yes. mr. conrad: so four minutes to senator harkin, ten minutes to senator johnson? the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: i ask unanimous consent that laura sands with granted floor privileges for the duration of today's proposal. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: i want to discuss these budgets proposals in one context, just one context. first of all we have to dismiss the so-called sessions budget that is supposedly the obama budget. it's not even serious. beyond that w

harkin: i ask further proceedings under quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: i ask jimmy frimgin and jenny boyer be granted floor privileges. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: we are now on the motion to proceed to the food and drug administration savings and innovation act of 2012, for the drug user fees and the medical device user fees. a couple of new provisions are in this bill and that is dealing with the generic drug user fees, and the biosimilar drug user fees also. so this bill is extremely important. we have been working in our committee for over a year on it, working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle as both senator enzi, my ranking member, and i pointed out yesterday, this has been a true bipartisan effort. we did not divide up in terms of party, democrat or republican, we divided up in terms of interest areas. and we had working groups within our committee so that senators who had a particular interest in one area or another were on that -- on that working group. we

harkin: i ask that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with.the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: i ask is that william mcconi had be granted floor privileges for the duration of the f.d.a. act. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: after many months of bipartisan senate negotiation, the senate will move to a motion to proceed-on-on consideration of the food and drug administration innovation act of 2012. i hope that it will receive an overwhelming vote ^+soe that we can move ahead with it and dispense with the bill on the floor this week. this bill is the product of excellent bipartisan collaboration on the "help" committee which i chair. all senators on the committee have been involved, going back almost a year we set up working groups, different senators had different interests in different parts of the bill. they and their staffs were invited on both sides -- republican and democrat -- to be involved in those working groups, to put this bill together. and so we have, i believe -- and the bill passed overwhelm

reid: we have harkin and murray but they're not here. mr. alexander: i was going to defer to senator harkin and senator murray. mr. reid: they obviously are not prompt, like you and me. mr. alexander: [laughter] well, we have good habits. mr. reid: it's the senator's choice as to whether he wants to wait for them. please go ahead. mr. alexander: all right. thank you. i thank the majority leader. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: mr. president, i will. we are -- and i thank the majority leader for bringing this bill up. he and the republican leader have put on the floor a piece of legislation that affects nearly every american family. now, this won't have the fire works that some things we do has because we have a lot of agreement about it which is one reason it's on the floor. it's gone through the committees. senator harkin and senator enzi have worked carefully with all the republicans, all the democrats on the committees and many other people on a complex piece of legislation for a year to put on the floor

harkin: mr. president? i ask further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: mr. president -- mr. president, i ask consent that my statement that i'm about to give appear as if in morning business but not connected to the motion at hand. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: mr. president, last week our nation lost one of its most determined and courageous advocates for the rights of people with disabilities: katie beck ket. i'm proud to say katie was a native iowan, born in 1978 and contracted viral encephalitis. she had a seizure and went into coma for ten days. this illness caused damage to her brain which left her paralyzed and unable to breathe on her own. katie was placed on a ventilator, was fed using a tube. initially coming out of the coma she could not move at all. slowly much of the paralysis receded but she was not able to breathe on her own until she was two years of age. during that time she lived on

harkin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. hark i harkin: i ask that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: i ask unanimous consent that sarah watt and erica calenberg be granted privileges of the floor through s. 2343, the stop student loan interest rate hike act. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: mr. president, yesterday republican senators voted to block the bill to prevent the doubling of the federal student loan interest rate on july the 1st. and as long as they continue their filibuster, there is no clear way forward to prevent, to prevent that devastating rate hike less than two months from now. if that happens, more than 7.4 million american students will be required to pay an average of a thousand dollars more per year of school. now, this is especially important to my state of iowa, important to all states. nearly 72% of iowa's college graduates have student loan

or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes a big picture. welcome back to spotlight i'm now going to love and just to remind that my guest on the show today is going to be and up for that well we're talking about belarus about russia's relationship with bella rose let's take a look at what they were like during the last fifteen years here is this report now from spotlights you know there's him either. russia sought good relations with belarus almost immediately after the collapse of the soviet union in one thousand nine to one by the me one nine hundred ninety s. plans for integration included a single currency single citizenship and a common defense policy the first in the series of agreements create in the union between the two countries was signed in one thousand nine hundred six since that time russia's relations with belarus have grown closer than with any other former soviet republic the economic cooperation between the two countries has been considerable when belarus was hit hard by the credit crunch in two tho

harkin: mr.: mr. president, i ask that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. harkin: mr. president, here we are, an empty senate chamber, while families across the country are wondering whether or not they're going to have to come up with more money to pay higher interest rates on their student loans beginning on july 1. it's going to happen unless we take action. we've tried to take action, but, quite frankly, my friends on the other side of the aisle, the republicans, won't even let us go to the bill. we had our vote here almost three hours ago. we recessed for our different party conferences as we do every tuesday. and so here we sit without being able to even proceed to the bill because the republicans have voted against closing down debate and moving to the bill and offering amendments and having an up-or-down vote. this is a pattern that's all too familiar, as we know, over the last few years, more and more fil

. >>> jack reid and senator brown and harkin are holding a news conference on student loans.with republicans about how to offset the 6 billion dollars that it would cost to keep interest rates on student loans down. republicans say they won't vote for the bill unless democrats allow a vote on a gop alternative. >>> a oregon father is facing a chiert of charges. >> what did he with his 10-year- old son that could land him behind bars for a while. >> the orioles are doing all they can to build the fan base and it is like magic. we have highlights from last night's game. >> and temperatures are mild right now. i will tell you how warm it will get by the afternoon. the details coming. >> reporter: everything is you will to speed on 895 at o'donnell street. i will show you what the other main lines look like in my abc time safer traffic report. you are watching good morning maryland. >> reporter: good morning. topping america's money a big boost in borrowing. americans used credit cards more often in march and took out more education loans as well. the increase of consumer debt wa

thomas harkins works as a baggage security manager. tsa officials say he deals largely with luggage not the passengers. they say all of their employees do go through criminal background checks before e hire but because of the case in this circumstance, they are so old criminal charges were not filed. >>> boughtmore -- bolt nor county police are -- baltimore county police are investigating a possible home invasion robbery attempt. officers rolled on the block of aldworth road. a man was found with a gunshot wound and woman stabbed. both were rushed to the hospital. police tell us they were boyfriend and girlfriend and the man is in critical condition. the detectives learned two men forced themselves into the rear of the home and that's where a fight followed. >>> authorities are searching for three men who walked away from a west baltimore halfway house. we are told they were serving for drug distribution antwan phraser joseph ryes and emanual rich left the house after midnight saturday setting the alarm off. >>> lady gaga is saying she

senators harkin and enzi have done something in the way we always used to do things. they moved a bill out of committee to the senate floor. truly a bipartisan bill. so important to our country. the fadz bill. food and drug administration. and senator enzi has always been very, very foikdz on -- focused on when we bring something to the floor it must have a committee mark on it and this bill does. mr. president, the reason i moved to the bill the way i have is to line this up for filing cloture on thursday. i hope we don't have to file cloture on this. to proceed to it. why don't we get on the bill. we could get on the bill, start on it monday, we could start offering amendments and get this thing moving along. i've talked to senator enzi, talked to senator harkin, we had really good luck on the highway bill, we had good luck also on the postal bill, relevant amendments. this is a very important piece of legislation. i hope we can move to this without having to file cloture. if i have to file cloture i'll have to file cloture, but i sure hope not. i really admire the

. >> senator harkin? >> aye by proxy. >> senator conrad? >> aye. >> senator bachus? >> aye. >> senator nelson? >> aye. >> senator brown? >> aye. >> senator casey? >> aye by proxy. >> senator clobichar? >> aye. >> senator bennett? >> aye. >> senator gillibrand? >> no. >> chairwoman stabenow? >> aye. >> the total tally of senators present is 12 ayes, four nos. >> a majority of the committee being present and having voted in the affirmative, the committee print is ordered and reported to the senate as mae amended. without objection let me say the committee counsel is authorized to make technical and conforming changes consistent with the actions of the committee, and i want to thank everyone again for -- >> madam chair, point of order -- >> yes? >> i think there were five nos. >> yeah. one was by -- >> will the clerk repeat the final tall? >> sure. the total tally -- >> four present. one by proxy. >> i'm sorry, thank you, madam chair. >> let me say in conclusion again, this is a very historic day to have not only the major reforms we have but over $23 billion in deficit

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. that's. during the construction of the motherland. and its upper parts were connected by an elevator fortunately it broke down this meant. would have to walk up and down two hundred steps to inspect its money. only the personnel looking after the monument. a year after the unveiling of the statue the issue of who is going to maintain this huge construction arose for the first time in the soviet union a team of mountain climbers was employed to look after the monument. it's a good one. on the trail. the red ropes descents. to safety risking their lives. check the condition of the motherland calls monument which deteriorated following the collapse of the soviet union nowadays specialists keep an eye on the joints regularly so that the limbs remain firm periodic especially coating is applied to the statue but the solution does not come cheap mountain climbers examine small mocks covering the statue in most cases they're just making a record there are more than

. >>> democratic senators reid brown and harkin are holding a news conference on student loans.are at odds with republicans how to off sit the $6 billion to keep interest rates on student loans down. >> linda evans of dynasty and linda gray of dallas are now participating in a news conference today for meals for moms. it's a campaign of meals on wheels association of america delivering food to home bounmothers. >>> primary day in wisconsin and they will decide who should be the republican candidate for president and they will decide the future of the controversial walker scott walker. >>> the department of motor vehicles granted a license for google to test the self-driving vehicle on public roadways. the plates will be red with a back grouped and infinity symbol so keep your eye on that in nevada. >>> time for one more check of the forecast with lynette. >> all right. thank you. we are looking at wet weather off toward the west there. some thunderstorms pushing into west virginia as of now moving through the ohio valley. but we are seeing breaks in the cloud cover many we haven

support for the protecting older workers against discrimination act, a bill authored by senators harkin and grassley that is aimed at restoring the rights of older workers to pursue claims of age discrimination. one common theme we've heard is that older workers want to keep working not only because they need the money but because they want to remain relevant and productive members of society. we need to encourage this. left unchecked, long-term unemployment among older workers is a problem that will continue to grow as our workforce grades. in only four years from now the bureau of labor and statistics projects nearly one in four workers will be over the age of 55. we hope this hearing raises awareness about this growing problem and provides some solutions to consider. we'll now go to witness introductions. our first panelist today is sheila whitelaw, a philadelphia woman who has been out of work for more than two years. she has served as executive director for three nonprofitses, worked as a nanny and office manager and spent over a decade in the retail industry. next we'll be hearing

harkin: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table with with no intervening n or debate and any statements related to the bill be placed in the record at the appropriate place as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: mr. president, i want to speak about s. 418 that we just passed. i want to thank all my colleagues for allowing this to go through on a unanimous consent basis. this is a bill to award a congressional gold medal to the world war ii members of the civil air patrol. i introduced this legislation last year and it currently has 85 cosponsors. this legislation will offer long overdue recognition to a small group of people who answered the call to duty at our nation's time of maximum danger. 70 years ago during the height of world war ii, civil air patrol members in small aircraft beganning searching for german u-boats off the atlantic coast. this was a time of jait grate per

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harkin: well, mr. president, i know if i can make it any more clearer than the "new york times" editorial but i want to mention several representative investments that are happening, again, right now. i mentioned those right here. the $226 million on diabetes and heart disease, $93 million for anti-tobacco education, $190 million for childhood immunization programs. i might just go back to that first one, the heart disease, because heart disease disproportionately affects women. most people don't know that. i think most people would say the number-one cause of death in women today might be breast cancer. not so. the number-one cause of death for women in this country is heart disease. some 42 million women are currently living with some form of heart disease in america. and the world health organization estimates that a staggering 80% of heart disease, diabetes and stroke could be prevented just from changes in smoking, nutrition and physical activity alone. 80%. that's what this prevention fund is doi

the motion to proceed be agreed to, harkin-enzi substitute be agreed to, the bill as amed by the harkin-en disee substitute be considered original text for purposes of further amendment and the majority leader at that time be recognized. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, based on this, we'll have a vote that will start in five minutes. that will be the only vote of the day. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. reid: i yield back all time and ask that the votes start now. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. there is a sufficient second. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or to change their vote? seeing none, the yeas are 61, the nays are 34. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is made and laid upon the table. the president will be immediately notified of the senate's a

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or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin it was a big. imax geyser welcome back to the kaiser report in studio jerald still on tape you're all welcome to the kaiser report great big him max ok joe by the way this is the latest trends journal here it's dynamite as always every single edition has got a fantastic forecast again fantastic comments on what's happening in the world today and people are coming around to your way of thinking a lot of these issues that are gobbling up our civil space and our banking system let me ask you first about m.f. global i see john kors ita still not behind bars but he's bundling for obama raising funds your thoughts what a surprise it's the it's the syndicate that's all it is and nobody from the sin the kids' heads or have a role have you seen a head roll from since the crash of two thousand and eight all the banking crimes that have been committed why should corps on be any different did you see anybody from the merrill lynch mob go under. the goldman sachs gang oh no the five hundred fifty

you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes a big which. we stop stories on our t.v. letting your moving back and russia's presidential saddle with all eyes now on his plans and policies all the latest wave of discontent with him retaking the top job . radical islamists a day carried out a deadly bombing in the syrian capital in response to the actions of government troops confirming fears that terror groups are fighting on the rebel side. as many as hundreds of thousands of protesters marching against austerity in spain as fresh political turmoil grips risa get ready to unravel a severely weakened euro zone. russian rescue teams join the search for answers in indonesia at the site of a super super jet crash that killed all forty five aboard. seven pm in moscow i matras are bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news a new president but a familiar face vladimir putin again sworn into office this week the culmination of russia's tumultuous election period but opposition activism at a historic high the focus is now on how putin will deal with the hu

hear sees 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. early results of egypt's presidential election suggest the country's next leader will be either an islamist or a top official from the mubarak era the run off though between the muslim brotherhood mohamed morsi and former prime minister ahmed shafik will take place next month but cairo based activists in delhi is iata says many egyptians are already disillusioned with the ballot. there is a general sense of disappointment in the whole country people did not expect that especially knows that eve if you unities did not expect that egyptians will vote for no to evolution the two candidates that have been chosen for the runoff means that all of them belongs to is that evolution so there is a general sense of disappointment of course among the young people which imprisons a majority of the population but now everyone is asking to vote for much if he was involved in beating people in tahrir square the audience that evolution and he was a prime minister is that mu

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harkin: madam president? officer the senator frothe prese senator from. mr. harkin:. mr. harkin: i ask that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: here we're again today. are wree actually goin we actuae legislation that will keep the interest rates at 3.4% on subsidized student loans or are we going to let it go to 6.8% -- double -- on july 1? we have legislation, we've brought it to the floor, yet my republican colleagues voted yesterday not to even proceed on it. not to even proceed on it. i think the people of america think, this shouldn't happen; we should be able to work these things out, and we should move -- move -- legislation, not obstruct it. everyone now grease agrees that we should keep -- everyone now agrees that we should keep it at 3.4%. the republicans said they want to keep it at 3.4%. we say we do. the republicans initially were opposed to this, but they've gotten on board. that's fine. i've been here on the floor listening to my colleagues talk about this since monday. everyone

i know senator harkin has a bill that would raise it to $9.80. think we should change the structure of wages so the floor is substantially higher than it has been. here is an idea that runs against the grain of what people in washington have been saying. we have an older working population many of whom would like to retire. i would like to see us sweeten the deal on social security so people can leave the labor force gracefully and comfortably, and open up jobs for younger people. i'm talking about people who have worked for 30 years, who wear back braces on the job. there are many such people who would like to -- to transition to something else. and we have the capacity to do that. that's a kind of step which would not change the way businesses operate, but would enable let's say older people to leave the labor force and younger people who would like to form families -- >> there was a story today about that very thing that the income -- excuse me -- the job level -- the unemployment level of people who are say 55 and up is perfectly fine. the pr

i applaud the work of my colleague, senator harkin and senator enzi to bring this legislation to the floor. these two fine senators have different political philosophies on things generally but they work well in this committee, and i'm very proud of each of them. i consider them both friends and bringing this bill to the floor in the manner they did is indicative of the work that needs to be tkorpbd -- done around here more often. i hope to see the strong bipartisan effort that these two senators began continues as the senate begins to consider this consideration. the tpao*d tpao d safety and in -- the food and drug administration saefgt -- safety act has fees to ensure products are used quickly and thoroughly before they are improved. this legislation does more than maintain the status quo. it enacts crucial reforms that will prevent drug shortages and bring the lifesaving medicines to market more quickly. it will save high-tech jobs in the medical field, make new treatments available to patients quickly and preserve america's role as a global leader in the biomedical innovation. th

harkin: i ask that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: i i have high hopes that the senate will proceed to the food and drug administration safety and innovation act of 2012. i'm pleased to report to my colleagues that the health, education and pensions committee has produced and excellent bill, the product of nearly a full year of bipartisan collaboration and good faith negotiation. the bill reauthorization critically important f.d.a. user fee agreements and modernizes f.d.a.'s medical product authority to boost american innovation and ensure that patients have access to the therapies they need. mr. president, in this era of often extreme partisanship and legislative gridlock, this bill is truly a refreshing exception and that's why i'm hopeful and and confident there will be no objection on the floor to moving to this bill next week. frankly all of us on the health, education, and pensions committee are proud not only of the bill but the remarkable bipartisan process that produced it

thomas harkins lost his job in 2002, working in south jersey, when the diocese found he abused two youngthe tsa says all of its employees go through a criminal background check. but since the cases are so old, charms were not filed. >>> police say a woman was abtucketted, then set -- abducted, then set on fire, then shot. it happened when she and her boyfriend pulled into the garage of their home. the woman says her boyfriend didn't do anything to stop the attack. now police say he may not have wanted the child. they have him in custody. the woman is in serious condition. she and her child are expected to survive. >>> this memorial day, we remember the men and women who serve in the military. and manuel gallegus reports for wjz, many veterans, returning from war, have injuries that aren't visible. hearing loss. and it can affect the rest of their lives. >> reporter: army veteran, rebecca nava, sometimes has trouble hearing her daughter. >> i have to be able to listen to her. >> reporter: nava was often exposed to loud noises during her tour in iraq. >> from the weapons going off. you kno

i think there are a lot of great senators who want reform, you'd daly, harkin, many more than that.t the end of the day, they have not been able to move things forward even though several of them do want the change. i think a lawsuit, external force is what is needed in this situation, even if that's just to prod them to do the right thing, i don't think removing this lawsuit is going to do the trick. we need to have the lawsuit move forward and see this litigated in court, if necessary. if they fix it, they can make everything move. >> the key difference between senate and house is proportionality. montana doesn't get as much as california does. but does for senators. 7 of 13 states representing 27% of the population could muster the majority of the senate to command action. today, using filibuster, 21% of the states muster 11% of the population can muster the votes to stop in the senate. i am a californian and are most disadvantaged by the current rules. doesn't that seem unfair, doesn't it seem like we've gone too far disadvantaging the large states? >> i think it's gone too far.