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DESCRIPTION:United States Senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015 and Author\, 
 Americans with Disabilities Act\nCo-sponsored with Office of Disability Se
 rvices\n[[{'type':'media'\,'view_mode':'default'\,'fid':'36904'\,'attribut
 es':{'alt':'Tom Harkin headshot'\,'caption':''\,'class':'media-image'\,'id
 ':'3'\,'style':'float: right\;'\,'typeof':'foaf:Image'}}]]Tom Harkin was e
 lected to Congress from Iowa’s Fifth District in 1974. After serving 10 ye
 ars in the U.S. House of Representatives\, he challenged an incumbent sena
 tor and won. Iowans returned him to the Senate in 1990\, 1996 and 2002. In
  2008\, Harkin made history by becoming the first Iowa Democrat to win a f
 ifth term in the Senate. He retired in January 2015.\nSenator Ted Kennedy 
 tasked a young Senator Harkin with crafting legislation to protect the civ
 il rights of millions of Americans with physical and mental disabilities. 
 Harkin knew firsthand about the challenges facing people with disabilities
 . His late brother\, Frank\, had been deaf from an early age. What emerged
  from that process would later become Harkin’s signature legislative achie
 vement—The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).\nThe ADA legislation cha
 nged the landscape of America by requiring buildings and transportation to
  be wheelchair accessible\, and to provide workplace accommodations for pe
 ople with disabilities. Harkin and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced t
 he 2008 ADA Amendments bill to ensure continuing protections.\nHarkin has 
 also worked to advance collaborative research in paralysis and improve qua
 lity of life for those living with paralysis\, including creating a Clinic
 al Trials Network to measure the effectiveness of rehabilitation therapies
 . His Christopher and Dana Reeve Act\, named after the actor and his wife\
 , became law in March 2009.\nAs chairman of the Senate panel that funds me
 dical research\, Harkin led the effort between 1998 and 2003 (in tandem wi
 th Sen. Arlen Specter) to double funding for research into cardiovascular 
 disease\, cancer\, Alzheimer’s\, and other diseases. As a member of the Se
 nate Health\, Education\, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee\, he crafted
  the prevention and wellness title of the health reform bill\, The Patient
  Protection and Affordable Care Act. Harkin became chairman of the Senate 
 Health\, Education\, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee in September 2009
 \, following Kennedy’s death.\nHarkin was born in Cumming\, Iowa (pop. 150
 )\, on November 19\, 1939\, the son of an Iowa coal miner father and a Slo
 venian immigrant mother. He still lives in the house in Cumming where he w
 as born. In 1968\, He married Ruth Raduenz. The Harkins have two daughters
 \, Amy and Jenny\, and three grandchildren.
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LOCATION:Nutter Center Arena
SUMMARY:Honors Dialogue Event: Presidential Lecture Series - Tom Harkin\, f
 ormer U.S. Senator
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 al-lecture-series-tom-harkin-former-us-senator
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