{"id":5631,"date":"2014-12-23T10:17:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T16:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5631"},"modified":"2014-12-19T23:20:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T05:20:41","slug":"tom-harkin-notes-of-assorted-significance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/tom-harkin-notes-of-assorted-significance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Harkin notes of assorted significance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let the record show:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tom Harkin, the most senior junior senator of the 113th Congress,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&amp;session=2&amp;vote=00366\">cast his last vote<\/a>\u00a0Dec. 16 to confirm a judge for the Western District of Missouri. He voted aye.<\/li>\n<li>Harkin&#8217;s last non-confirmation vote was on retroactive extension of assorted tax breaks, <a href=\"http:\/\/kiwaradio.com\/local-news\/us-senate-passes-retroactive-extension-of-tax-credits-important-to-northwest-iowa\/\">including a wind energy tax credit<\/a>. He voted aye.<\/li>\n<li>According to reader J Dreger: &#8220;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Assuming neither Chuck Grassley or Tom Harkin die before Harkin finishes his term in the Senate, Harkin will become the longest-serving Senator (on 1\/1\/15) without ever becoming his state&#8217;s senior Senator (currently, that record belongs to J. William Fulbright (D-Arkansas), 1945-74, resigned at the end of 1974, three days before his term concluded, to allow his successor (Gov. Dale Bumpers) to be seated. Fulbright lost to Bumpers in the Primary.)&#8221; <\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">The 114th Congress convenes Jan. 6.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Harkin was the last active politician with a cameo as himself in the 1993 political comedy &#8220;Dave&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let the record show: Tom Harkin, the most senior junior senator of the 113th Congress,\u00a0cast his last vote\u00a0Dec. 16 to confirm a judge for the Western District of Missouri. He voted aye. Harkin&#8217;s last non-confirmation vote was on retroactive extension &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/tom-harkin-notes-of-assorted-significance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5633,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions\/5633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}