House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been voted out of the job in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history.
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been voted out of the job in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history.
Haley promises to slash budgets, be tough on China and enhance border security in her most recent Iowa campaign swing.
A handful of programs that people nationwide rely on everyday could be disrupted — but the ripple effects would come down to how long the shutdown lasts.
“During the time I was Judiciary chairman and she was the ranking Democrat, we had a wonderful working relationship. She was a true public servant,” Grassley said..
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992 and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, has died.
With only a few days left for Congress to avert a government shutdown, Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley criticized the move by some House Republicans to hold up government funding over certain policy goals. He said a shutdown would hurt American taxpayers.
Federal GEAR UP funding is designed to help districts with large shares of low-income students prepare those students for post-high school education and training.
Former U.S. Sen. Dick Clark, a Democrat who unexpectedly won a single term representing Iowa in the 1970s after campaigning by walking around the state, and who later played a key role in aiding refugees after the Vietnam War, has died. He was 95.
The issue was prominent at an event held this past weekend in Iowa, hosted by the Christian conservative advocacy organization the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition.
At least one Republican presidential candidate has suggested the FBI should be eliminated; U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said anyone who takes that position “is stupid for saying it.”
In an effort to expand equitable access to nature nationwide, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack came to Cedar Rapids Thursday to announce $6 million toward Cedar Rapids’ effort to reforest the city after the 2020 derecho. The city is among 385 recipients of $1.1 billion toward tree planting.
The impending impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, announced by U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday, received a show of support from Iowa’s all-Republican members of Congress, who said the inquiry will give House Republicans more tools to investigate the president and his family.
The lake, created in 1958 by damming the Iowa River as a flood-control measure, is slowly filling with silt and sand. Sedimentation reduces recreational opportunities and can harm water quality.
That administration published state-level data after announcing 10 prescription drugs whose costs it plans to negotiate for Medicare patients under a new federal law
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