Wills foresees the legislation coming back before lawmakers next year. "I don't know where it will go," he said. "It depends a little bit on the election." Best, who is not seeking re-election this fall, advised future champions of the issue to gather data to show how dangerous it ...
Trump sued Selzer, her polling company, the Des Moines Register, and its parent company Gannett over the final pre-election Iowa Poll, which showed Vice President Kamala Harris leading Trump by 3 points. The Republican later carried Iowa by a 13-point margin. FIRE’s chief counsel Bob Corn-...
With all the education talk before the Nov. 5 election, Ed Chabal should be a shoo-in to be elected to the Iowa state senate in District 46 (located in Iowa, Washington, and parts of Johnson counties). He served as director …Continue reading→ ...
The high-water mark for women serving in the Iowa House was 34 representatives (24 Democrats and ten Republicans) following the 2018 elections. One Democrat retired in 2019 and was succeeded by a man, bringing the number down to 33 heading into the 2020 election cycle. This decade, voters h...
The Iowa Legislature’s 2022 session dragged into mid-May with a stumbling block: a school voucher bill that Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds proposed to what usually has been the receptive, Republican-led House and Senate.The voucher bill, in the Students First Act, would create 10,000 vouchers...
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“I think he also knows there’s going to be a lot of hard work to maintain control of the Iowa House through the next election but he knows it’s worth it,” Grassley said. He said seeing Democrats take over the U.S. House has “neutered” President Donald Trump’s agenda and his...
Statehouse Trumps Court: Iowa Legislature Changes Law, Overruling Decision on Agent DutyZalma, Barry
In response to the problems during its 2020 caucus, the Democratic National Committee began anassessmentof its nomination calendar that concluded in early 2023, when theDNCvoted to replace its Iowa caucus with a primary election in South Carolina in February 2024, which would be followed by primar...
vote before Election Day. The Iowa caucuses, on the other hand, are held in the evening and voters must attend in person in order to participate, except in a few isolated instances. Caucuses are run by political parties, whereas primaries are usually (but not always) run by the state. ...