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Jul 23, 2020 · Former U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin can still recall the day his older brother Frank Harkin was taken away from their family home in Cumming. Frank Harkin lost his hearing at the age of 5, Tom...
Former Senator Tom Harkin, a fixture in Iowa Democratic politics for over four decades, discouraged Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. from entering the presidential race, suggesting that...
Senator Tom Harkin (retired) In 1974, Tom Harkin was elected to Congress from Iowa’s Fifth Congressional District. His energetic, person-to-person campaign carried the day against an incumbent in a long-standing Republican district. In 1984, after serving 10 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Senator Harkin challenged an incumbent ...
Thomas Richard Harkin (born November 19, 1939) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was the U.S. representative for Iowa's 5th congressional district from 1975 to 1985.
Jul 26, 2021 · President Joe Biden on Monday recalled a hallmark moment in the career of former U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. At a White House ceremony marking the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which Harkin authored and sponsored, Biden described the moment just before the Senate passed the bipartisan bill.
Tom Harkin is an American politician. He served as a United States Senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015. Over the course of his Senate tenure, and during the years of the Obama presidency, he served as Chair of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, ...
Sep 12, 2023 · Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, The Harkin Institute is headquartered at the Tom and Ruth Harkin Center on the Drake University campus in Des Moines. The two-story building was completed in ...
