tagged w/ Tom Harkin
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In a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Sen. Richard Durbin said he hopes to partner with Sen. Tom Harkin to regulate for-profit universities that use taxpayer dollars and federal loans.In a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Sen. Richard... more
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In the politics of health care Senator Tom Harkin is promising the public option will pass. Despite defeat in the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Harkin, Democrat from Iowa, is promising a public option will pass and be part of a health care reform bill on the president's desk by Christmas.
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Is Harkin right? Will the public option pass?In the politics of health care Senator Tom Harkin is promising the public option will... more
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The politics of climate change are difficult in the Senate, it's often said, because it's a regional issue: coal state senators are afraid their economies will be driven under if the price of dirty energy rises too quickly.
Climate change is, in fact, a regional issue, but not in the short-term way that the coal senators think, according to new analysis from The Nature Conservancy. The environmental group finds that rural Midwestern states will face the greatest consequences of climate change. The three that will face the steepest rise in temperature -- Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa -- are farm states whose soil will be significantly less productive as temperatures rise more than 10 degrees Fahrenheit there by 2100.
The rise by by 2050 -- only 41 years from now -- is also projected to be substantial. (Click here for an interactive map of the analysis.)
The two Republican senators from Kansas, which will be most ravaged by climate change, are unlikely to support legislation addressing it.The politics of climate change are difficult in the Senate, it's often said,... more
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