Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said Thursday that he had the 60 Senate votes necessary in July to clear the card-check bill through the Senate. But when he called ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) ...

When I pulled up to the Harkin home in Cumming to interview Ruth Harkin, a wave of nostalgia washed over me. It’s where U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin grew up, and it reminded me of the home of my long-gone ...

Reporting from Des Moines, Iowa — There were 500 of the truest-believing Iowa Democrats outside the ballroom doors waiting to get in, but Tom Harkin had one more story to tell, even as an aide tugged ...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tom Harkin’s two-year investigation of for-profit higher education has ended, and was capped with a four-tome final report that many -- at least critics of the industry -- see as ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Retiring U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin has so far refused pleas from top national Democrats to spread some of his nearly $2.4 million campaign bankroll to the candidate hoping to succeed him ...

At the end of an extended interview in his Senate office, Tom Harkin realized he had neglected to show off a prized possession — his father’s Works Progress Administration card. It’s the role of ...

Reporting from Washington — Accepting the invitation to headline Tom Harkin’s steak fry fundraiser, Hillary Clinton made perhaps her most conspicuous move yet toward another presidential bid. But Iowa ...

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, recently spent three days in Cuba -- the longtime socialist adversary of the United States -- to learn more about the island nation’s health care system. For years, some ...

It wasn’t until she went to an ayahuasca ceremony five years ago that Haley Harkin felt brave enough to share her songs publicly. Before that, fear superseded the folk singer-songwriter’s passion for ...

Sen. Tom Harkin, the Iowa Democrat who championed education equality and the rights of people with disabilities during his nearly four decades in Congress, gave his farewell speech on the floor of the ...