A spokesperson for Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who chairs the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, told States Newsroom the panel approved Bove’s nomination in a 12-0 vote — that is, despite panel rules that state “at least two members of the minority” must be present to transact committee business.
Funds will support new levee in NW Cedar Rapids, road reconstruction and more.
Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday he is committed to investigating the members of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation who served during the Biden administration over indictments against President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump in Iowa on Thursday promised to keep the state a central part of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration, celebrated Congressional approval of his sweeping tax and spending legislation, and snuck in a few of his greatest campaign-style rally hits.
State and local leaders gathered Tuesday to celebrate the grand reopening of a wind turbine factory in West Branch, just hours after U.S. Senate Republicans passed Trump’s “one big beautiful bill” that would roll back federal green energy tax credits that spurred the company to restart production that had been idled since 2013.
Following the U.S. Senate’s passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Iowa Hospital Association says it is ‘deeply concerned’ with the impact Medicaid spending reductions will have on Iowa hospitals
National bus tour rolls through Cedar Rapids to rally opposition to Trump’s tax breaks and spending cuts package
Plans by Senate Republicans to scale back a Medicaid provider tax that states like Iowa use to fund their Medicaid program could deal a greater financial blow to rural hospitals, state and national hospital groups warn.
Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley praised President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" Wednesday as 80-plus Iowa faith leaders warned of devastating impacts on vulnerable populations in Iowa from changes to federal social safety net programs.
Iowa U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson said legislative efforts are being considered to sever Iran's financial pathways to nuclear weapons development and financial support of terrorism across the region. A sanctions package may be developed to support President Donald Trump’s pressure strategies against Iran, Hinson told reporters Wednesday.
Also in the Campaign Almanac, Rob Sand announces 100-stop town hall tour
Also in the Capitol Notebook, Iowa nonprofits have sent a letter to Sens. Ernst and Grassley warning of harmful provisions in Trump’s tax bill
Clean energy advocates say Iowa stands to lose jobs, manufacturing facilities, renewable energy project expansions and face more expensive utility bills if Congress passes the budget reconciliation bill as is.
Iowa’s senior senator said the U.S. Senate hopes to send the president a bill by July 4
Leif Olson, a deputy Iowa Attorney General who came to Iowa from the Texas Attorney General’s Office and previously served in the U.S. Department of Labor, has been nominated to be the next U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Iowa.
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