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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | yesterday
Washington, DC - Sen. Tom Harkin wants the Bush administration to explain why the Agriprocessors slaughter plant in Postville was allowed to operate when it couldn’t pay for the livestock it was buying. Harkin, the Iowa Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, says it was clear by the middle of October that Agriprocessors [...]
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Western Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin has introduced legislation aimed at establishing stronger standards of openness, transparency and integrity in the trading of swaps and other over-the-counter financial derivatives that have helped bring the nation to the brink of the worst recession in decades.
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La Vida Locavore - Front Page (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
Tonight I discovered the fun of Thomas.gov , the Library of Congress website. Want to know what our friends in Washington are up to? Thomas will tell you. In my case, I was searching for something that I couldn't find, but I ended up stumbling upon a bunch of really great bills that Tom Harkin has proposed this year. They are: S.771 : A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to improve...
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Iowa Independent (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Sen. Tom Harkin predicted that Sen. Hillary Clinton would be nominated by President-elect Barack Obama to the post of Secretary of State. “I’m going to make this statement right now. I believe that Senator Clinton will be the next secretary of state,” Harkin said on a conference call with reporters.
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Delta Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin has introduced legislation aimed at establishing stronger standards of openness, transparency and integrity in the trading of swaps and other over-the-counter financial derivatives that have helped bring the nation to the brink of the worst recession in decades.
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Southwest Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin has introduced legislation aimed at establishing stronger standards of openness, transparency and integrity in the trading of swaps and other over-the-counter financial derivatives that have helped bring the nation to the brink of the worst recession in decades.
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Tom Harkin plans to introduce a bill that would force all over-the-counter derivatives, including credit-default swaps, onto regulated futures exchanges.
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Iowa Independent (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, has tapped Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin to be a part of a task force to develop a Senate Democratic proposal to expand health insurance coverage, according to the Los Angeles Times. Harkin was asked to lead the group’s efforts on prevention and public health. Sens. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., [...]
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Midas Oracle .ORG (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Excellent. ---------- Midas Oracle .ORG = Site Map + Archives + Best + Charts + Exchanges + Software + Links + People + Write A Post Or A Page + How To Publish Similar blog posts: Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox said he strongly supports merging his agency with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. JOE BIDEN ON [...]
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Credit default swaps, heralded by Phil Gramm as a necessary and innovative new way in which risk can be passed off onto unwary suckers (paraphrase), were invented by JP Morgan in 1997 and signed into law with the Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000. Before that they were illegal. After [...]
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Iowa Independent (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, while predicting national Democrats would pick up seven seats in the U.S. Senate, was in a forgiving mood toward Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
I don’t really understand how someone could write such a sugar-coated article about Tom Harkin. As I read this article I could almost hear strains of heavenly music playing in the back ground and thought that somehow a halo would appear over each time the name “Harkin” was mentioned. Below [...]
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Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Incumbent Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin won a fifth term in the U.S. Senate Tuesday, cruising to an easy victory over Republican Christopher Reed.Harkin, 68, said in prepared remarks it's time to find ways to work together, not tear each other apart.The Des Moines Register reported Reed's campaign never gained traction, resulting in what was expected to be Harkin's largest margin...
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Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Harkin retains his Iowa senate seat. (CNN) — CNN projects that four-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin will defeat Republican Christopher Reed in the Senate race in Iowa. CNN projections are based on exit poll data from key areas.
