Mitch McConnell's Republican-led Senate began another two-week recess today, once again leaving Capitol Hill without debating gun safety legislation. The House and Senate will be back in session Oct. 15. But with an election year looming and an impeachment inquiry...
Pete Brownell, a former president of the National Rifle Association and an Iowa native, was implicated today in a damning 18-month investigation by Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee into how the gun rights group was used by Russia to influence the 2016...
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst bucked several of her Republican colleagues Wednesday in voting against a bill aimed at stopping the president from declaring a national emergency to fund the construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Republican-led Senate voted...
Iowa Rep. Cindy Axne joined more than 170 of her colleagues today in support of an impeachment inquiry into Republican president Donald Trump. "For the sake of our national security and our democracy, these serious allegations require independent Congressional...
Two of Iowa's U.S. House Democrats laid out their concerns Monday about the possibility President Donald Trump threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine if its leaders didn't investigate former vice president and presidential candidate Joe Biden. "This is not where we...
Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer today joined other prominent Iowa Democrats in endorsing Theresa Greenfield for the U.S. Senate. Greenfield, president of a family-owned real estate company in Des Moines, is one of four Democratic candidates running to unseat...
Polk County Democrats' largest Steak Fry in history featured 17 of the 18 serious presidential candidates vying for votes in 2020. More than 12,000 tickets were sold for the Saturday event at Water Works Park in Des Moines. In keeping with its name, it was a rainy...
Democrats' latest entrant in the race to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst today rolled out his first list of Iowa endorsements. Michael Franken, a retired Navy admiral from Northwest Iowa, spent the bulk of his military career traveling the world and anchored...
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst has taken heat in recent weeks for her comments on Social Security reform, suggesting lawmakers need to hash out a fix to the retirement system in private in order to avoid public scrutiny for changing the popular program. Her latest remarks...
With the newly announced support of six former state legislators, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar brings her Iowa endorsement list total to 24 ahead of this weekend's Steak Fry. It follows one of her best polling showings in Iowa from this morning, where she was at...
