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Harkin and U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., were the only two senators to recently vote against the appointment of Petraeus as commanding officer for Central Command, which oversees both Iraq and Afghanistan.

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin says federal aid for flood-ravaged portions of the Midwest could be between $3 billion and $4 billion — and that’s just an early estimate.

Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, travels Thursday to Iowa with President Bush aboard Air Force One to help show the nation’s chief executive damage firsthand and make the case [...]

Vets for Freedom, a political action committee, says it is disheartened by the comments first reported by Iowa Independent Friday from U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. In challenging U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the likely Republican presidential nominee, Harkin said he thought McCain’s views were shaped by “always having been in the military” and that [...]

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Friday said the foundation of Republican John McCain’s presidential candidacy, a well-chronicled biography and admiral-branched military family tree, is, in actuality, a danger for the nation, and not the seemingly unassailable asset it has widely been viewed to be.

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has weighed in on the debate swirling around the economic and moral aspects of using commodities such as corn for fuel when food prices are skyrocketing and millions of people are starving or “food insecure.”

Editorial writer Art Cullen of the Storm Lake Times, a well-regarded progressive in northwest Iowa, led a spirited dialogue with U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin during the Iowa Democrat's most recent conference call with print and radio media.
Cullen, the editor and co-owner of the newspaper and a journalist whom Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Gartner calls one [...]

To follow our coverage of Sunday’s Harkin Steak Fry as it unfolded, click here.

INDIANOLA – Hillary pulled out the best line of the day.

Obama’s team orchestrated some powerhouse optics.

Edwards did that lawyer-leaping-from-the-John-Grisham-novel-to-face-the-forces-of capitalism’s-excesses-for-those-Americans-bogged-in-the-backwater thing,

The candidates had their moments, some big ones at that.

But the win at U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin’s Steak Fry, the trophy on [...]

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin this morning said he expects cellulosic ethanol plants to develop south of Interstate 80 in Iowa in much the same way corn-fed ethanol facilities dot the Hawkeye State's countryside north of the federal highway.
In a conference call with Iowa Independent and other media, Harkin said he believes the science is “five [...]