WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 03: Small business owner Mike Draper from Des Moines, IA, speaks at a news conference on health insurance reform and its impact on small businesses on November 3, 2009 in Washington, DC. Draper was joined by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) (3rd L), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, Rep. Debbie Halvorson (D-IL) (2nd L), Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) (R), and nearly one hundred small business owners from around the country. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 03: Small business owner Mike Draper from Des Moines, IA, speaks at a news conference on health insurance reform and its impact on small businesses on November 3, 2009 in Washington, DC. Draper was joined by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) (3rd L), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, Rep. Debbie Halvorson (D-IL) (2nd L), Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) (R), and nearly one hundred small business owners from around the country.

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  3. WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 08: (L-R) U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) talk to each other prior to the weekly policy committee luncheon December 8, 2009 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Key members for the Senate version of the Health Care Reform Bill are still going through a back-and-forth negotiation on how the bill will take shape.
  4. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., walk into the Senate Democratic caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. The Senate is meeting in a rare Sunday session to debate health care overhaul.
  5. US Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner listens to US Senator Mary Landrieu(D-LA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, as other panel members deliver remarks while attending the Small Business Financing Forum November 18, 2009, at the US Treasury headquarters in Washington DC. The forum seeks to ensure small businesses a critical role in job growth and economic recovery.
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  7. WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 02: (L-R) Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT), participate in a news conference on Capitol Hill on December 2, 2009 in Washington, DC. The news conference was held to announce an amendment to protect and improve guaranteed Medicare benefits for seniors.
  8. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 30: (AFP-OUT) Jeanne White-Ginder, Ryan White's mother, holds the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 after President Barack Obama signed it, flanked by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) (L) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on October 30, 2009 in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, DC. The act is the largest federally funded program for people living with HIV/AIDS in the US and was named in honor of Ryan White, a teenager who contracted AIDS in 1984 and became a well-known advocate for AIDS research and awareness, until his death on April 8, 1990.
  9. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 06: U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (C) (D-IA) speaks as Rep. George Miller (D-CA) (L), and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) listen during a news conference on Capitol Hill October 6, 2009 in Washington, DC. Legislation was introduced by Harkin, Leahy and Miller to protect older workers from discrimination.
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  11. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 06: U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) (L) speaks as Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill October 6, 2009 in Washington, DC. Legislation was introduced by Harkin, Leahy and Rep. George Miller (D-CA) to protect older workers from discrimination.
  12. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 06: U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA) (L) speaks as Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) (2nd L) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) (R) listen during a news conference on Capitol Hill October 6, 2009 in Washington, DC. Legislation was introduced by Harkin, Leahy and Miller to protect older workers from discrimination.
  13. US President Barack Obama speaks during an event celebrating the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC, on October 14, 2009. Dedicated to improving civic education and educating about the role and importance of the US Senate and named after the late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, the Institute will be located on the campus of the University of Massachusetts.
  14. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) puts his arm around Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as they speak about their meeting between Congressional leadership and President Barack Obama on Afghanistan and Pakistan at the White House in Washington, October 6, 2009.
  15. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 01: Ranking member U.S. Senate Finance Committee member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill October 1, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee continued to vote on amendments to healthcare reform legislation.
  16. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 01: Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) speaks during a hearing before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill October 1, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee continued to vote on amendments to healthcare reform legislation.

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