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Harkin’s decades long drive for disability rights honored
Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin receives a lifetime achievement award from the American Association of People with Disabilities, praised as the disability champion of champions. The piece traces his 40-year career, from ADA passage in 1990 with Bob Dole to his Senate leadership on HELP, agriculture, and health programs, and notes his modest Senate offices and family background.
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Harkin
American Association of People With Disabilities
Promised Land
Lisa Ekman
AAPD
U.S. House
U.S. Senate
Iowa
Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
Appropriations
Help Committee
Kansas
Bob Dole
Dole
Senate
Kate Cyrus
Mittee
Tom Harkin
Alexander
Vermont
Bernie Sanders
Massachusetts
Elizabeth Warren
Kentucky
Rand Paul
Hillary Clinton
HELP
Tom
U.S
Neal Smith
South Vietnam
Con Son Island
Life Magazine
United States
North Vietnam
Madison County
FDR
Franklin D. Roosevelt
WPA
National Mall
Washington Monument
Lincoln Memorial
Capitol
Jane