Government & Politics

The public is invited to meet four finalists for Cedar Rapids police chief as the city approaches an end to the nearly yearlong search. Here’s when and where you can meet them this week.

Also in the Capitol Notebook: Democrats ask for investigation into purchase of Iowa fertilizer plant.

Groups lauded the governor’s support of the expansion, but raised concerns with her proposal to change the eligibility for Medicaid coverage of birth and postpartum care to 215 percent of the federal poverty line, from 375 percent under current law, in order to keep Medicaid costs for pregnancy and postpartum care budget neutral.

On an organized day of LGBTQ advocacy at the Iowa Capitol, Iowa House Republicans advanced a bill that would prohibit teachers from being punished for refusing to use a student’s preferred pronouns.

During a news conference Monday at the Iowa Capitol, Reynolds repeated her criticism of how President Joe Biden’s has enforced federal immigration laws, and cast doubt that Congress will be able to pass border security legislation.

Lawmakers have proposed a bill that would expand the nine-member Board of Regents to include two “non-voting” members of the Legislature. It also would cap tuition rates across the public universities at 3 percent for undergraduate students.

“I think this should be high priority for Congress,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat who has worked with a bipartisan group of governors to promote the program, said in a phone interview. “To many families, $30 a month is a big deal.”

The United States Government Accountability Office recently made six recommendations on how USDA can improve its reporting on foreign-owned land across the country.