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This week, Iowa Senator Joni Ernst along with Senators King, Donnely, and Collins introduced bipartisan legislation increasing the funding for the USDA export promotion programs. The Cultivating Revitalization by Expanding American Agricultural Trade and Exports Act aims to revitalize the export promotion programs, which it claims have added $28 for every dollar invested in the last 40 years.
Widening earlier claims of immigration fraud at the Tesla factory, a recently unsealed whistleblower suit says several other major automakers, including Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Volkswagen, illegally used foreign construction workers to build their U.S. factories. The charges expand on an investigation by the San Jose Mercury News last year into foreign construction workers building Tesla's paint shop in Fremont.
WEBVTT KGROUND THAT MAYBENEFIT IOWA.SONNY PERDUE WILL SOON TAKE ONTHE TITLE AS THE NATION'SSECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.IOWA EXPERTS ARE CONCERNED THATTHERE WON'T BE A SINGLEMIDWESTERNER IN TRUMP'S CABINET.>> AN IDEAL SECRETARY OFAGRICULTURE PICK WOULD HAVE BEENSOMEONE FROM THE MIDWEST, WHOUNDERSTANDS MIDWESTERNAGRICULTURE AND RENEWABLE FUELBUT, THEY'RE HOPEFUL THAT PERDUE-- TOMMIE: BUT THEY'RE HOPEFULTHAT PERDUE CAN LIFT UP ASTRUGGLING AG ECONOMY WITH HISTRADE AND FARMING EXPERIENCE.>> HE'S PRO TRADE WHICH ISCRITICAL NOT ONLY TO IOWA PORKPRODUCERS BUT TO THE ENTIRE USINDUSTRY.WE NEED TO KEEP THAT GOING ANDWE THINK HE'S A GOOD SELECTION.WE HOPE HE IS CONFIRMED.
"Come on! Come on! Go girls!" Annette Sweeney was on horseback, hollering at her chocolate-colored cows on a perfect Iowa morning, happy that her life is better since Donald Trump became president. Sweeney, 60, raises Angus cows and corn on the flat, green farmland of central Iowa.
In this photo taken July 12, 2017, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, talks with the Committee's ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington. Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of a Washington opposition research firm that produced a dossier of salacious allegations involving President Donald Trump is to be interviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee next week.
Iowa Democrats apparently ran out of gas between Caucus Day and Election Day in 2016, but nine months later, that's changed. "We've had more enthusiasm since the election results than we had prior to Nov. 8," Linn County Democratic Party Chairman Bret Nilles told Fox News.
Democrats used a bus emblazoned with the words "Drive for our Lives" to gin up opposition to vulnerable House Republicans who voted against "Obamacare" with the aim of upending the GOP's majority in next year's midterm elections. The vote to repeal and replace the Obama health care law looms large for 21 GOP lawmakers, including Iowa Reps.
Congress is out and the Iowa State Fair is in - which means 2020 prospects are beginning to beat a path to the Hawkeye State. Maryland Rep. John Delaney, who's actually already running for president, is spending a few days with the Butter Cow.
Ketchum's family said last July that he had been refused treatment at the VA medical center in Iowa City and he committed suicide hours after. He had been struggling with PTSD after serving three tours.
The Conservation Reserve Program is facing criticism on Capitol Hill for outbidding cash rental rates on productive farmland, idling whole farms and challenging beginning farmers. Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, told USDA officials that Iowans have written her saying high CRP cash rents were undermining their operation.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday night held a campaign-style rally in Iowa, at which he congratulated the Republican winners of Tuesday's special elections in South Carolina and Georgia. He also sent his well wishes to Rep. Steve Scalise, who was injured in last week's shooting in Alexandria, Virginia.
The Latest on President Donald Trumps' trip to Iowa : 9 p.m. President Donald Trump says he wishes China would offer "a little more help" in applying pressure to North Korea. Trump says at a rally in Cedar Rapid, Iowa: "I wish we would have a little more help with respect to North Korea from China.
Struggling to advance his agenda in Washington, President Donald Trump traveled to the Midwest on Wednesday in search of his supporters' warm embrace and to celebrate a Republican congressional victory in an election viewed as an early referendum on his presidency. Trump touched down Wednesday evening in rainy Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and headed to a local community college, where he toured agriculture technology innovations, and then to a campaign rally where he reveled in Karen Handel's victory in a special election in a House district in suburban Atlanta.
Zachary Wood, a rising senior at Williams College, and Isaac Smith, a student at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, appeared before the committee at a hearing titled "Free Speech 101: The Assault on the First Amendment on College Campuses." As the president of "Uncomfortable Learning," Wood faced backlash for his student organization inviting controversial speakers to campus, like conservative commentator John Derbyshire.
Iowa independents who helped Donald Trump win the presidency see last year's tough-talking candidate as a thin-skinned chief executive and wish he'd show more grace. Unaffiliated voters make up the largest percentage of the electorate in the Midwest state that backed Trump in 2016, after lifting Democrat Barack Obama to the White House in party caucuses and two straight elections.
In this Oct. 28, 2016, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Iowa independents who helped Trump win the presidency see last year's tough-talking candidate as a thin-skinned chief executive and wish he'd show more grace.
From left are, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Sen.... . Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa listen at right as President Donald Trump speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 13, 2017, before having lunch with Republican Senators.