| Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, a longtime disability advocate, has made HCBS a priority, a Harkin aide told The Daily Beast. |
| Jacobs' insistence on rigorous scientific methodology caused friction with Senator Harkin. |
| In 1998, NIH director and Nobel laureate Harold Varmus came into conflict with Senator Harkin by pushing to have more NIH control of alternative medicine research. |
| Harkin had become convinced his allergies were cured by taking bee pollen pills, and was urged to make the spending by two of his influential constituents. |
| But when Harkin and his colleagues try to solve the problem, they run into a wall of opposition from the for-profit industry. |
| Harkin has 135 previous convictions, two of them for making hoax bomb calls two weeks before the offence on October 5, 2013, while under a suspended sentence. |
