The Tribune

WASHINGTON, DC – Bahamas Ambassador to the United States Dr Eugene Newry and Deputy Chief of Mission Chet Neymour paid a courtesy call on Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Labour, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, at his office in the Hart Senate Office Building.

During the more than half-hour meeting, Ambassador Newry and Senator Harkin discussed matters of mutual interest to the Bahamas and the United States.

Senator Harkin, who owns a home in Abaco, noted that he and his wife first visited the Bahamas in 1969.

“Later we bought a piece of property and built a home,” Senator Harkin said. “We love the Bahamas.”

The senator, who is serving his fifth term, was born in Cumming, Iowa, and graduated from Iowa State University and the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law.

He served in the United States Navy as an active-duty jet pilot from 1962 to 1967, and after serving as a congressional aide for several years he made two runs for the US House of Representatives, losing in 1972 but winning in 1974. He went on to serve five terms in the House.

Senator Harkin won a race for US Senate in 1984 by a wide margin, and was an early frontrunner for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1992, but dropped out in support of the eventual winner, Bill Clinton.