Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday responded to a federal justice department letter that expressed concern with a right of first refusal provision in her state energy policy proposal.
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday responded to a federal justice department letter that expressed concern with a right of first refusal provision in her state energy policy proposal.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposed energy legislation includes a right of first refusal to incumbent energy companies to build new transmission projects
Sen. Chuck Grassley, as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, plans to hold hearings next week about judicial injunctions -- like ones that have halted actions of the Trump administration.
Governors in several Republican-led states -- spurred by Iowa -- are pressing the Trump administration to cut strings attached to their federal education money, a goal conservatives have long dreamed of that now appears within reach.
Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg detailed a discussion that happened over the Signal messaging app hours before strikes on Iran-backed Houthi-rebels in Yemen ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump.
In an emergency appeal filed Monday, the Republican administration argued the ruling should be put on hold because the judge didn’t have the authority to order some 16,000 probationary employees be hired back.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution and blocked billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts to the agency.
Immigration was the biggest factor in population growth for many booming Sun Belt counties as well as for the agricultural Midwest including counties in Iowa, according to a Stateline analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau county estimates.
“They were ready to serve the agenda of the next president of the United States and the party in charge. They didn’t have that opportunity because that administration, the Republicans, took a chain saw to them. And that, to me, is unbelievably shocking.”
The Trump administration on Friday moved to dismiss lawsuits against Iowa and Oklahoma brought by the Biden administration’s Department of Justice, which challenged the states' immigration laws making it a crime for someone to be in the state if they are in the U.S. illegally.
The judge’s order tells the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, the Interior and the Treasury to immediately offer job reinstatement to employees terminated on or about Feb. 13 and 14.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds declared Tuesday Lutheran Services in Iowa Day as layoffs and the federal government's refusal to pay more than $1.5 million in outstanding reimbursements are imperiling the religious organization.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it will narrow the definition of U.S. waterways — including wetlands, rivers and streams — that receive federal protections under the Clean Water Act.
A new congressional bill aims to improve fisheries and environmental quality in the Mississippi River basin with a federally funded commission.
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