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8:39 AM, May 4, 2013 • By MICHAEL WARREN

Republican congressman Steve King of Iowa will not run for the Senate seat held by retiring Democrat Tom Harkin next year. The Hill reports:

“A Senate race takes me out of urgent battles in Congress that can't wait until 2015. Many thanks to all,” he tweeted.

King becomes the third prominent Republican in the past two weeks to opt against a run.

On Thursday, Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey (R) tweeted that he would not seek the Republican nomination for the seat now held by retiring Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).

Northey said he hoped Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) would jump into the race.

Iowa Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) announced last week that she would not seek the seat.

5:29 PM, Mar 4, 2013 • By MICHAEL WARREN

Democratic representative Bruce Braley is running for the Iowa Senate seat being vacated by fellow Democrat Tom Harkin, but he might want to learn how the upper body functions first. In an interview on a local news station, Braley was asked about why the Senate has not passed a budget in nearly four years.

"How is that possible? One word," Braley replied. "The filibuster."

10:55 AM, Feb 14, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

Democratic senator Tom Harkin insisted this morning that America does not have a spending problem and that we're not broke:

1:38 PM, Feb 7, 2013 • By MICHAEL WARREN

Iowa congressman Bruce Braley told supporters in an email that he was "ready to go" and is forming a committee to run for the U.S. Senate. Braley, a Democrat from Waterloo, is hoping to succeed retiring Democrat Tom Harkin and is the first major candidate to announce his intention to run for the seat since Harkin said in January he would not seek reelection.

10:40 AM, Jan 26, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

The AP reports:

. . . against the Obama administration.

1:30 PM, Oct 27, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN

Last week, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate forged an unlikely alliance when they agreed in committee on a rewrite of the federal education authorization law. Both liberal Democrat Tom Harkin and conservative Republican Mike Enzi crafted the bill, which promises to limit the federal mandates put forth originally in No Child Left Behind.

But Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who has been pushing hard for Congress to pass education reauthorization, isn't fully pleased with the result.

7:00 PM, Jul 21, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Bloomberg: "Obama Aide, Boehner Say No Debt-Limit Deal as Deadline Looms"

CNN: "U.S. loses $1.3 billion in exiting Chrysler"

Don Surber: "Ezra Klein accidentally gets it right"

11:19 AM, Feb 26, 2010 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

One of the great things about the health summit was getting to witness certain members' rhetorical skills and getting to hear how they think about things. One of the most revealing comments was made by Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), who lamented that people whose medical bills are higher have to pay more, as this constitutes "segregating people on the basis of health." He added, "It's time to stop that kind of segregation in our country."

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. . . against the Obama administration.

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