Judging by the opening-day remarks delivered Monday by leaders in the Iowa Legislature, Republicans and Democrats have decidedly different views about how to attract more workers and people to Iowa, whose population has been stagnant for a decade.
“I think there's going to be an effort to push for everything that's on the agenda,” University of Northern Iowa political scientist Chris Larimer said. “I think they're going to push on tax cuts, maybe more easing of gun restrictions and kind of waiting and seeing what they're going to do on abortion” in anticipation of a United States Supreme Court decision on a Mississippi abortion law.
GOP calls for returning “over-collection” to taxpayers; Democrats call for investments in workforce training, affordable housing and child care, and paid family leave.
Political considerations — such as whether current lawmakers would have to square off against each other in the next election — should not influence state lawmakers’ votes on proposed new political boundaries in Iowa, Iowa House Speaker Pat Grassley said Friday.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, punched back at recent polling suggesting nearly two-thirds of Iowa voters think it’s time for a new face representing them in the U.S. Senate.
Legislators are waiting on the Census Bureau to provide the granular data needed to complete redistricting, the redrawing of congressional and legislative district boundaries based on the decennial census.
DES MOINES — Calling it a “fairness issue,” Gov. Kim Reynolds called for a state law to prohibit transgender students …
“As I've said before, just because it doesn't look like there's not activity going on here that doesn't mean things aren’t getting done,” Rep. Pat Grassley said in a virtual news conference.
Iowa House approves budgets without agreement with Iowa Senate
Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee unanimously supported
Trying to coax lawmakers to finish their 2021 legislative session, Gov. Kim Reynolds has offered a plan to accelerate tax cuts, shift mental health funding from counties to the state and eliminate a local government property tax backfill. But will it be enough for the House GOP?
Telemedicine, ID requirement and funding stream divide House and Senate
DES MOINES — House Republicans plan to freeze funding for regents universities, but said Monday they will have “plenty of …
DES MOINES — The blame game over the deaths of two prison staff members continued Thursday with legislative leaders of …
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