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segment the big picture listen up we want to know your to send us your comments by visiting the tom harkin facebook page twitter at tom underscore apartment or in the champ room on the message board through the blog at tom hartman dot com you can also leave a message on the rant fine it's good to buy three six three zero six agree disagree sound bob it's all welcome to remember that your comments may be used on the year. when former egyptian president hosni mubarak wanted to clear a part of your square of demonstrators who had been camped out for weeks there he went after them he did this but late last night when york city mayor michael bloomberg said to break up the occupy wall street and hamlet sure after one am he made sure that he didn't make that same mistake but no dark he ordered a complete media blackout of his raid his police military style frankly police operation and as a crowd or whatever the police intended to do to the patriots camped out there for nearly two months billionaire bloomberg did not want the press to see so today we can assume that there were any camels or whips

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appreciate your calls for a financial transaction tax are growing louder and louder today senator tom harkin and congressman peter de fazio announced plans to introduce a new financial transaction tax even the archbishop of canterbury the head of the church of england called for such a tax and given the proposed tax is only three one hundred six of one percent it will have virtually no impact on most traders except for those high frequency robots on wall street that are churning stocks over thousands of times a second millions of times a second serve publicans who oppose this new financial transaction tax are just only looking out for the human one percent they're also only looking out for the banks to robots as well. it's time for a daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's the day's question who is responsible for the violence at the occupy oakland protests the police or the mayor choices are they the police the i was just following orders excuse doesn't work for this type of violence or be the mare that mare shouldn't have tried to stop occupy oakland from having the right t

meddling in our elections and senators who signed on to this amendment tom you all michael bennett tom harkin durbin chuck schumer sheldon whitehouse and jeff merkley all saw what happened. in last year's elections as a result of citizens united they saw how the amount of secret outside spending skyrocketed from just sixty sixty eight million dollars in the two thousand and six midterms to over three hundred four million in the two thousand and ten midterms that's a four hundred percent increase in corporate cash influencing elections and buying politicians just ten months after the citizens united decision and as you'd expect when corporations get to hand pick their members of congress republicans win big but with occupy wall street at their back now these senators are saying enough is enough and this constitutional amendment will give power back to congress and to the states to set their own election laws so that they can keep corporations and extreme wealth in check in the political process that means they can start by passing laws like this all wisconsin law it was on the books through mo

. >> not only are we going to new hampshire, tom harkin, we're going to south carolina and oklahoma and arizona and north dakota and new mexico. we're going to california and texas and new york and we're going to south dakota and oregon and washington and michigan. and then we're going to washington, d.c., to take back the white house. yeah! >> yeah! again, that is an imperfect analogy to what happened to rick perry in new hampshire. because in the case of the dean scream, the scream thing was one second. one second or less. it seemed to mostly have been the product of a weirdly placed microphone and a very loud crowd, but it was a moment that was then sort of inappropriately deacon textualized in a way to make howard dean seem crazy in some larger way or make him seem funny, to make him an object of ridicule in the campaign. in the case of rick perry, this was not one out of context second. this was 25 minutes. i mean, take your pick. of any of these moments. any one of these moments is a dean scream. and there were 25 straight minutes of it. and what is truly interesting about this tr

democrats tom harkin of iowa and representative peter defazio of oregon have introduced a bill that would the financial transaction tax in this country. worldwide the idea of doing this globally in all financial markets is getting vocal support from the archbishop of canterbury today, from the pope, who put out an official catholic church statement on this last week. also conservative german chancellor the conservative french president nicolas sarkozy. president obama talked with merkel and sarkozy. author ron suskin reports that president obama at least used to personally support this idea of there being a financial transaction tax. members of his economic team, specifically lawrence summers apparently pushed against it and we didn't get it. now lawrence summers is gone from the administration but today the u.s. officially does not support a global financial transaction tax even though france and germany do. not to mention the pope. we often hear a critique of the occupy wall street movement that it's not specific enough, that nobody knows what the demands are. here's one. here's a very

. >> tomorrow orrin hatch -- tomorrow on washington journal tom harkin. ylan mui, steven emerson, and stacy palmer on whether or not the recession is having an effect on how much people are giving this giving season. plus, your phone calls. >> in the name of the greatest people who have never walked this earth, i draw the line in the dust and tossed the golan before the feet of tournai -- of tyranny now and forever. >> for most of his what -- for most of his life, george wallace

he had -- he was trailing in the early polls behind the late paul tsongas, jerry brown, tom harkin, bob kerrey. and there's bill clinton. and you almost -- it was almost laughable. he worked and he worked and gutted and talked to the new hampshire people. even though he didn't win the primary, the perception was, he was the comeback kid because he came in a strong second. so great history. what comes to your mind when you look back on some of the primaries? >> you have to remember george herbert walker bush came in here and was the ambassador to the united nations, republican national committeeman but he was not a nationally recognized figure when he started in new hampshire. and governor hugh gregg used to put him in the front of his old station wagon and they would barn storm the state. they did it the new hampshire way, person to person, town to town and grabbed as many hands and had as many conversations as possible. >> were you there when he got up on the tractor at the farm? >> i was there at the farm. used to drive the station wagon as a senior -- >> campaign pop? >> i was follow

also appearing, iowa senator tom harkin and i'm congressman leonard boswell.e dinner is live from des moines tomorrow night at 8:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> condoleezza rice, george mcgovern, randall kennedy and jim blair headlined this weekend as booktv brings you the 20th annual miami book fair international. and when the melting pot has been thrown out, you're preaching multiculturalism, what holds us together? >> mr. the guinness book is suicide of a superpower. from new york city, the 67th annual national book award. find a complete schedule online at booktv.org. >> today, the house national resource can be held here looking at the arctic national wildlife refuge and the potential for oil production in the area. you can see the hearing in its entirety starting at 8 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. in the meantime, here is a portion. >> [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the meeting will come to order. the chair notes the presence of a quorum, which under rule three is two members. the committee meets again today to resume its september

and he was trailing in the early polls behind the late paul tsongas, kerry brown, tom harkin, bob kerrey there is bill clinton. it was almost laughable. he worked anywhere and he just talked to the new hampshire people and even though he didn't win the primary, the perception was he was the comeback kid because he came at a strong second period but comes to mind when you look back on primaries? >> you have to remember george herbert walker bush came in here and was the ambassador to the united nations, republican national committee man, but he was not nationally recognized when he started in new hampshire. and hugh craig is to put them in the station wagon and they would just run the state committed at the new hampshire person-to-person town to town and grabbed as many hanssen had as many conversations as possible. >> or you there when he got up on the tractor? >> i despair. i used to guide the station wagon as a senior at king state college. >> the campaign pop. >> avaricious following -- never knew what i've involved in handing out literature. >> bill, does a picture of former presiden

to accomplish everything in front of us and continue forward momentum, we have to give tom harkin democraticwho will stay focused on politics and not on a radical agenda that pushes us backwards. although senator harkin was unable to join us tonight, we have a special video message from him about what is at stake in 2012 and how the democrats will win. >> good evening. i welcome mayor rahm emanuel to iowa and send my warm regards. we are all celebrating the big victory of lives. she is a terrific candidate and will be a fine senator. make no mistake. this was a team victory. my hands off to sue and the state party, to the staff and labor programs, to all who pulled together for this win, and especially for our senate majority leader. was big news here in washington and across the country. a rank right up there with the victory for labor rights in ohio and women's rights in mississippi. the successes of the common denominator. in each case, progressives decided to stand up and fight back. we were focused, organized and relentless, and we won. there is a powerful lesson here for 2012. we know

and he was trailing in the early polls behind the late paul tsongas, kerry brown, tom harkin, bob kerrey and there is bill clinton. it was almost laughable. he worked anywhere and he just talked to the new hampshire people and even though he didn't win the primary, the perception was he was the comeback kid because he came at a strong second period but comes to mind when you look back on primaries? >> you have to remember george herbert walker bush came in here and was the ambassador to the united nations, republican national committee man, but he was not nationally recognized when he started in new hampshire. and hugh craig is to put them in the station wagon and they would just run the state committed at the new hampshire person-to-person town to town and grabbed as many hanssen had as many conversations as possible. >> or you there when he got up on the tractor? >> i despair. i used to guide the station wagon as a senior at king state college. >> the campaign pop. >> avaricious following -- never knew what i've involved in handing out literature. >> bill, does a picture of former pres

senator tom harkin of iowa chairs this to a and a half hour hearing. >> today's roundtable will focus on moving beyond nclb, no child left behind, the iteration of the elementary secondary education act and towards teauthorization of the law in lf the 21st century. the last two years this committee has held ten hearings on the full range of issues of covering the law.entury. we also held numerous stickle he meetings and participate in thee lengthy negotiations to bring id with my republican colleagues which resulted in a bill voted out of the committee a littleith over two weeks ago. i believe the committee's bill takes several important stepsi e forward. by one, resetting the national goal from students obtaining im proficiency to ensuring that students graduate from high na school prepared for college andi a courier. secondly, by closing the comparable the people and injuring schools get their fair share of federal resources. 3com incentivizing states and districts to develop rigorous fl teacher and principal evaluation support systems. with a goal of continuous and structural impro

harkin: mr. president, i've come to the floor this evening to congratulate the president of the international association of machinists union, tom buffenbarger, and boeing's c.e.o., jim mcnearney, on their agreement today to extend their current contract for four years. mr. president, this is a good deal. it reflects a strong and commendable commitment by boeing to continue having their top-quality products made by top-quality workers. it provides real job security and fair treatment for the company's valued employees. it will also resolve the current labor dispute between the company and the union that is pending before the national labor relations board. this settlement is a step forward for a great company, boeing, a step forward for a great union, the machinists union, and a step forward for our great nation. again, i commend the c.e.o. of boeing, mr. jim mcnearney, the president of the machinists union, tom buffenbarger, for working out this agreement. mr. president, this agreement is also a compelling demonstration of the fact that the nlrb, the national labor relations board, process works -- works -- for all concerned. w