One of the first orders of business for each new Congress is securing committee assignments. Lawmakers are assigned to committees to divide up the work. This allows members to dive into policy areas and conduct the people’s business, from the budget to taxes, health care, agriculture and ...

One of President Trump’s 111 record setting executive actions, 25 proclamations and 27 memoranda called for election security. Such an action should have been initiated by our 535 Congressional delegates, but they didn’t. Seeing Trump 2.0 in action, Congress should have clarified the ...

With the Iowa Legislature scheduled to adjourn in less than a month now, there are still a lot of decisions to be made before adjournment. While it’s months late, the Governor and GOP lawmakers finally reached an agreement on public school funding for next year. It’s a paltry 2% increase ...

Week 13, and the passing of the second funnel deadline, brought a quieter week in the Iowa House as fewer bills remain alive for the session. As we now transition to focusing on finishing the budget, much of the next few weeks will be spent working on a few larger policy bills such as property ...

Instead of my usual thoughts on policy debates or various pieces of legislation that I have either introduced or supported, I decided that I wanted to share a week in my life representing our families, farmers, workers, and businesses on Capitol Hill. The week spanning from Monday April 7th to ...

“Why do we need a tourism director anyway?” These are the words my eldest son shared with me two months into my role as the Tourism Director of the Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce. My initial reaction, jokingly, was, “How dare you. This job will help pay for you to go to ...