Iowa Senate Democrats are attempting to work around Gov. Kim Reynolds to secure $29 million in federal funding to feed underprivileged kids over the summer. On Thursday, Senate Dems introduced SF 2039. This legislation would require the Iowa Department of Health and...
Iowa Senate GOP Passes Bill To Let Teenagers Work Unsupervised In Daycares
Iowa Senate Republicans passed an amended child-care bill on Monday that included language to address daycare worker shortages by putting teenagers to work. House File 2198 allows 16- and 17-year-old employees and substitutes at child care centers to watch school-aged...
Iowa GOP Senators Spew Vaccine Misinformation, Conspiracy Theories During COVID Discussion
In a meeting where conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine rhetoric were shared heavily by elected officials, the Iowa Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill banning COVID-19 vaccine requirements for enrollment at child care centers, K-12 schools, community colleges,...
Why The Just-Passed Bipartisan Postal Service Bill Is A Big Deal
Long overdue improvements to the US Postal Service (USPS) passed the US Senate on Tuesday, bringing the promise of stability and reform to a service that has struggled financially for years. Though the bipartisan vote didn't receive much local news coverage, the...
Iowa Senate Passes Bill to Allow Unpaid Volunteer Substitute Teachers
There's a new potential solution for Iowa's shortage of substitute teachers: unpaid volunteers. The Iowa Senate passed a bill Monday to allow school districts to accept volunteer substitute teachers to help with the shortage of paid teachers and substitutes in the...
Chuck Grassley Open to Joining Trump’s new Social Media Platform
Chuck Grassley was honest when asked if he would join former President Donald Trump’s new social media platform, Truth Social. “I hope they’ll have me,” Grassley said. “I don’t know if they will or not.” Iowa’s senior US Senator was asked the question during an...
Senate Bill Would Increase State’s Maternal Support for Providers That Oppose Abortion
Iowa women would have more support during their pregnancies and postpartum period under a new bill approved by an Iowa Senate Human Resources subcommittee Wednesday afternoon, but there is a catch. SSB 3145 would require the department of human services to create a...
Grassley Addresses his 1983 MLK Jr. Day ‘No’ Vote
Sen. Chuck Grassley holds the distinction as being the only still-serving legislator who cast a vote in the US Senate against making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday back in 1983. The ranks of those members have dwindled in recent years, though Grassley...
Grassley Dodges on Whether 2020 Election was “Honest” or “Cheated”
The first question Sen. Chuck Grassley faced at his opening public town hall forum of 2022 in Oelwein was whether, in his heart, he felt the 2020 presidential election was “honest” or “cheated.” “Biden was elected president, I said that on December 16th [2020] when...
Finkenauer Rips Sinema as ‘Sell-Out’ For Stalling Progress in Senate
US Senate candidate and former-Rep. Abby Finkenauer called out US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for getting in the way of Democrats’ ability to pass legislation on Thursday. “Now, we technically as Democrats have control of the U.S. Senate, but we’ve got a sellout in Krysten...