In what was generally a bad year for Republicans due to the Watergate scandal, Harkin defeated Scherle by only 3, 500 votes.

Harkin has also been a vocal critic of what he describes as the biased nature of the Medicaid program:

When the incumbent six-term Republican in what was then the 2nd District, Tom Tauke made an unsuccessful run against Senator Tom Harkin during the 1990 election, Nussle ran as the Republican candidate for Tauke's House seat.

In Harkin ’ s earlier years as Parks Commissioner, he expressed on many occasions that parks allowed for the fostering of what he coins the “ play spirit ”, which is the rejuvenation of the human spirit from the daily stresses of life through outdoor recreation.

When Harkin accepted the job, he admitted that he knew little about parks in general or what was expected of him in his role as commissioner.

Parks Branch papers show that what is attributed to Harkin was actually first drafted by others, especially his assistant, F. H. H.

Ambitious reporter Amy Harkin ( Nancy McKeon ) is stuck reporting on the heat wave while trying to find proof behind the scenes that Lexer and Midwest are responsible for the lack of sufficient power.

In the film Horrible Bosses the song is featured as Bobby Pellitt's ringtone, which leads Harkin to find and kill him.

At the onset of his Parks Branch career, Harkin and his staff had sought to find out how much revenue was generated by tourism in both American states and European countries.

Harkin won caucuses in Idaho and Minnesota while Jerry Brown won Colorado.

While running for his Senate seat in 1984, and again while running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992, Harkin has faced criticism for claiming that he had flown combat missions over North Vietnam.

In order to address these issues Harkin proposed the ADA Amendments Act, which in his words " will restore the proper balance and application of the ADA by clarifying and broadening the definition of disability, while increasing eligibility for ADA protections.

Former Committee Chairman Robert Byrd ( D-WV, far right ) shakes hands with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates while Sen. Patrick Leahy ( D-VT, center right ) and Sen. Tom Harkin ( D-IA ) look on.

After Amy's cameraman is injured while rescuing her sister-in-law, Harkin stays behind with him and their neighbor.

" Brendan Harkin and Pieter Sweval were asked to leave the band after Attention Shoppers !, reportedly since they wanted to continue in that record's musical direction, while the others favored a return to the harder sound of the first two releases.

Prominent liberals in the Democratic Party like senators Tom Harkin, Ted Kennedy, Claiborne Pell, and Carol Moseley Braun voted in favor of the legislation while many conservative-to-moderate Democrats such as senators John Breaux, Robert Byrd, Fritz Hollings, and Sam Nunn and representatives such as John Murtha and Gene Taylor voted against it.

When Harkin was appointed National Parks Branch Commissioner in 1911, he had to juggle the twin policy of advocating conservatism while encouraging tourism to the parks, which brought forth controversy to Harkin ’ s role as commissioner.

Harkin was satisfied with his new work force because he was able to pay them twenty-five cents a day, while the daily wage in an isolated camp was two dollars.

Harkin gives Benson a ride to the mall to pick up his family, then they go to rescue her pregnant sister-in-law from an elevator.

U. S. Senator Tom Harkin said at Veneman ’ s confirmation hearing, " I was encouraged by the nomination of Ann Veneman to serve as Secretary of Agriculture.

While living in Manorhamilton, Harkin became active in the voluntary and community sector and developed the view that people living in disadvantaged areas such as Connacht had to rely on their own initiative and energy to progress development of their region.

The impetus for many of the provisions came from earlier bills, for instance the condemnation of discrimination was originally proposed by Senator Tom Harkin ( D-IA ) in an amendment to the Combatting Terrorism Act of 2001, though in a different form.

* Tom Harkin, U. S. Senator from Iowa

A House-Senate conference committee deleted the Harkin Amendment, which therefore is absent from the final legislation.

Thomas Richard " Tom " Harkin ( born November 19, 1939 ) is the current junior United States Senator from Iowa serving since 1985, and a member of the Democratic Party.

Born in Cumming, Iowa, Harkin graduated from Iowa State University and The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law.

Harkin was stationed at Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Japan, where he ferried aircraft to and from the airbase that had been damaged in the Vietnam War and in operational and training accidents.

In 1972, the same year that he graduated from law school, Harkin returned to Iowa and immediately ran against an incumbent Republican Congressman, William J. Scherle.

, Harkin received a 100 percent rating from NARAL, the pro-choice advocacy organization.

In July 2006, Harkin made a speech from the Senate floor in response to George W. Bush's veto of the embryonic stem cell research federal funding bill.

Harkin won the Iowa caucus and those in Idaho and Minnesota ( with help from Senator Paul Wellstone ), but he ran poorly in New Hampshire and other primaries and ultimately lost the Democratic Party nomination to Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas.

Harkin criticized the " unbendable rules of randomized clinical trials " and, citing his use of bee pollen to treat his allergies, stated: " It is not necessary for the scientific community to understand the process before the American public can benefit from these therapies.

" Finally, in 1994, Harkin appeared on television with cancer patients who blamed Jacobs for blocking their access to antineoplastons, leading Jacobs to resign from the OAM in frustration with the political climate.

* Tom Harkin, U. S. senator from Iowa

" Later in response to Press's assertion that "... they are just shutting down progressive talk from one city after another ," Senator Harkin responded, " Exactly, and that's why we need the fairthat's why we need the Fairness Doctrine back.

Harkin retired from her Dáil seat at the 2007 general election to concentrate on her European seat.

Judge Frederick Harkin ( McGill ) decides to give Nick a lesson in civic duty and Fitch, despite having originally eliminated him from the list of potential jurors, tells Cable that the judge has sandbagged them, and that he must select Nick as a juror.

Guitarist Brendan Harkin joined Looking Glass in early 1974, and Lurie left soon afterward to pursue a solo career, replaced by Michael Lee Smith, a singer from Georgia.

Responding to the increased use of automobiles, Harkin redefined the Branch ’ s goals from servicing a foreign and local “ recreationist ” to the broader “ Canadian .”

Harkin convinced politicians that creating parks would gain the support of constituents through increased enjoyment from park ’ s amenities.

Harkin held no ties to the railroad industry or those businesses that benefited from their protection.

Harkin also adapted many of his policies from the American National Park Service, because of the familiarity of geographic location and goal at improving the development of the parks through tourism.

Harkin stated his own views and discussed how wildlife preserves prohibiting Indigenous peoples from hunting was crucial for conservation.