by Luke Martz | Jan 12, 2021 | Governor, Policy
Tuesday evening, Governor Kim Reynolds delivered her annual condition of the state address, her fourth as governor. The speech is her opportunity to summarize the previous year’s events, highlight achievements, and layout Reynolds’ policy priorities for the new...
by Pat Grassley | Jan 10, 2021 | Legislature, Policy, State Government
After a year of unprecedented challenges, Iowans made their voices heard loud and clear in November – in these uncertain times, they cast their votes for more of the responsible and pragmatic leadership that our Republican majority has provided for the last decade. In...
by John Hendrickson | Dec 11, 2020 | Opinion, Policy
On January 11, 2021, the Iowa legislature is scheduled to reconvene. Besides crafting a budget, the legislature will also be confronted with the challenge of creating policies to help stimulate the economic recovery from COVID-19. Governor Kim Reynolds and the...
by Chuck Grassley | Dec 4, 2020 | Congress, Conservation, Policy
Congress should raise the royalty rates on federal lands. By Senators Charles Grassley and Tom Udall One hundred years ago, Congress passed the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, setting up a system in which companies lease public lands to wrest valuable oil and gas from...
by Luke Martz | Nov 23, 2020 | Congress, Policy
Congressman Kevin McCarthy, the leader of House Republicans from California, sent a letter last week letter to 23 Democrat members of the House of Representatives urging them to keep their word. The letter comes after those same moderate Democrats sent a letter to...
by Alan Ostergren | Oct 14, 2020 | Opinion, Policy
“Defund the police” has become the new rallying cry from the left. They claim that police are a part of a systematically unjust society and that the only way to break that system is to defund it. In a sense, this is a more extreme version of the often-made claim that...
