News Iowa Secretary of State sets legislative session goals Updated: Dec. 12, 2024 at 8:26 AM GMT+8| By Conner Hendricks Iowa’s top election official is asking for changes to avoid the chaos that impacted hundreds of Iowans on election day. 10 Day Forecast News...
New Iowa Bill Prompts Hope for Legislative CompromiseDES MOINES -- Iowa bankers and legislators once again are forming alliances and digging foxholes in preparation for the 1986 legislative battle over interstate banking.American Banker
s party that is totally spineless when dealing with the executive branch. The MAGA legislative branch’s only agenda these days is to get re-elected and to do so they will allow the executive to humiliate them in any manner. Their legislative priority is to do what the executive tells them...
Iowa prospered greatly with the beginning of railroad construction, and the rivalry between towns to get the lines was so fierce that the grant of big land tracts to railroad companies was curtailed by legislative act in 1857. Two years earlier the state's first railroad line was completed ...
IA Senate Democrats to press GOP on child care, water quality, cancer rate in legislative session By Nikoel Hytrek | Dec 2024 20 Democrats will still be in the minority in next year’s Iowa Legislative Session, but Minority Leader Janice Weiner (D-Iowa City) said that doesn’t make ...
Iowa government has three branches of government: the executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch. The Executive Branch comprises Gov. Kim Reynolds, Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg, and other staff like the secretary of state, attorney general, and state treasurer and their respective Iowa depar...
advocate for war orphans during the Civil War. She created several Iowa orphanages, including the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Davenport in 1863, which use to be Camp Roberts and Camp Kinsman. Wittenmyer was also the first woman ever mentioned by name in the official Iowa legislative ...
Wittenmyer was also the first woman ever mentioned by name in the official Iowa legislative document. 61. Plowing Into History Getty Images 61. Plowing Into History Vermont-born blacksmith, John Deere, invented the self-scouring steel plow in 1837 and moved his company to Moline in 1848. ...
Trey Jackson, legislative director for March for Our Lives Iowa, said lawmakers should commit to making real policy changes instead of offering “thoughts and prayers.” In2023, Iowa House Republicans introduced and passed a billthat would have allowed guns in school parking lots and c...
The Iowa Senate last year overwhelmingly passed a bill, Senate File 547, that would ban motorists' handheld use of cellphones behind the wheel, but the Iowa House hit the brakes. It failed to advance during this year's legislative session, which ended last month, after the proposal was ...