Senator Tom Harkin on Immigration, Health Care

By Ben Kieffer,

Published August 12, 2014 at 11:38 AM CDT

Senator Tom Harkin poses with President Barack Obama after the Affordable Care Act passed Congress.

Tom Harkin has served in Congress for nearly 40 years. During this River to River interview, Harkin talks with host Ben Kieffer about immigration, health care and the Americans with Disabilities Act, one of Harkin's landmark pieces of legislation 24 years later.

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Ben Kieffer

Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River

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Lindsey Moon

Lindsey Moon served as IPR's Senior Digital Producer - Music and the Executive Producer of IPR Studio One's All Access program. Moon started as a talk show producer with Iowa Public Radio in May of 2014. She came to IPR by way of Illinois Public Media, an NPR/PBS dual licensee in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and Wisconsin Public Radio, where she worked as a producer and a general assignment reporter.

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Senator Tom Harkin on Immigration, Health Care

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