DemocratSenate · Iowa
Harkin, Tom
1975 first electedLeft office 201540 years servedBorn 1939M
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Based on bills Harkin, Tom sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
Health
Sponsored 5 · Cosponsored 14- A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to deny payment for nursing home care under the medicaid program (for specified periods) to persons who dispose of assets without fair compensation in order to qualify for such payment or for other medicaid benefits. ↗
- Adding Ebola to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act ↗
International Affairs
Sponsored 2 · Cosponsored 12- A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should take certain actions with respect to East Timor. ↗
- A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the failure of the Government of Chile to extradite Manuel Contreras, Armando Fernandez, and Pedro Espinoza to the United States, and to urge the President to take certain actions with respect to Chile. ↗
Agriculture and Food
Sponsored 2 · Cosponsored 4- A bill to amend the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 and the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to extend and increase certain agricultural loan programs, and for other purposes. ↗
- A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture, during any crop year in which he is carrying out a loan program for dried corn or grain sorghums under the Agricultural Act of 1949, to carry out a comparable loan program for high moisture corn or grain sorghums, and for other purposes. ↗
Congress
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 5Social Welfare
Cosponsored 6- A bill to amend the Social Security Act to improve the survey and certification process, rate-setting and fiscal audit methods, and general regulation of nursing homes and intermediate care facilities under the medicaid program, and to provide for medical, psychological, and social assessment of long-term care patients under both the medicare and medicaid programs. ↗
- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to taxing Social Security benefits. ↗
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Sponsored 2 · Cosponsored 3Taxation
Sponsored 2 · Cosponsored 3Energy
Cosponsored 4- A bill to establish a coordinated, integrated, expedited, and simplified process for decision making in regard to significant non-nuclear energy projects, and for other purposes. ↗
- A bill to establish a coordinated, integrated, expedited, and simplified process for decision making in regard to significant non-nuclear energy projects, and for other purposes. ↗
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