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In a rare move, the Iowa Legislature passed a law in 1856 allowing the Meskwaki to purchase land. Conversely, the U.S. government forcibly removed the Ho-Chunk tribe from Iowa in 1848 and the Dakota tribe by 1858. The western part of Iowa, particularly around Council Bluffs, served as ...
The chairman of the Iowa House Transportation Committee expects the Legislature to outlaw texting and driving in 2010: “I think given the circumstances of what’s happened lately — what the media has been reporting and actual tragedies (as a result of texting while driving) — it’s a good...
Oddly, the audit report references the Iowa Legislature not advancingDemocraticproposalsto change Iowa law to require reimbursement for emergency contraception and abortion, interpreting this as “Iowans have made their position on public funding of abortions clear.” Is Bird really setting a standard th...
“You can’t just say this is what I want,” Celsi said. “You have to say this is how we’re going to get there. The young people of Iowa have spoken and we’re going to demand that they pass these bills.” Iowa Sen. Janice Weiner, D-Iowa City, said she is advoc...
United States Senate, one of the two houses of the legislature (Congress) of the United States, established in 1789 under the Constitution. Each state elects two senators for six-year terms. The terms of about one-third of the Senate membership expire every two years, earning the chamber th...
As in Iowa, Republicans control the legislatures and governorships in Florida and Montana, where GOP leaders have been stymied from enactingabortion bans that could take effectif the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade and puts decision-making powers in the hands of state governments. ...
LAST YEAR, NEW YORK'S STATE LEGISLATURE, WHICH HAS historically led the nation in passing pro-consumer credit legislation, approved a pair of bills aimed at protecting residents from questionable lending practices, the kind that have com... T Lieberman 被引量: 2发表: 2008年 HOME LOANS: Where...
age 32, Zolnikov has been considered a rising star on the GOP bench and particularly in the party’s libertarian faction. His work on innovative bills protecting technology privacy in the legislature has made him a minor national figure in the conservative and libertarian movements. Overal...