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House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that House Democrats have the fundraising, the issues and the political atmosphere on their side to win back the majority in November. These factors, and an activated party base that's helped Democrats win in special elections across the country this year are the "small droplets of water" that create a wave, Pelosi said headlining a county Democratic Party banquet in Des Moines.
On Friday, Republican Governor Kim Reynolds of Iowa wrote her signature on one of the most limiting abortion bills in the country . In what's referred to as the "heartbeat bill," this legislation bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected-at about six weeks into pregnancy, before many women know they're pregnant.
President Donald Trump insists he "won't be involved" in any attempt to interfere with the investigation into Russian election meddling - unless he changes his mind. Trump also is renewing his attacks on James Comey, the FBI director he fired last year, accusing him of lying about Trump's trip to Moscow in 2013 that has received fresh scrutiny.
From left, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member, confer before considering a bipartisan bill to protect the special counsel from being fired, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 26, 2018. They voted 14 to 7 to send the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act to the full Senate, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has insisted he will not hold a full Senate vote on the legislation which would seek expedited judicial review of a firing.
This file photo taken on June 19, 2013 shows then Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller testifying before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on oversight during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Special counsels like the one named to oversee the probe into Russia's alleged election interference are rare super sleuths with more power and independence than regular US investigators.
A Democratic candidate for Iowa Secretary of State said Tuesday she would refund a major contribution from a national political group after learning it was mistakenly given and accepted in violation of Iowa law. Deidre DeJear's campaign said it would send back the $5,000 contribution to EMILY's List "as soon as possible" after learning of the violation from The Associated Press hours earlier.
Simmering hot-button issues - such as imposing tougher abortion restrictions and authorizing taxpayer-funded vouchers to attend private schools - could approach a boiling point as the Republican-led Legislature pushes toward adjournment.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, left, talks with Altoona Mayor Dean O'Connor during a tour of a carpenters training facility in Altoona, Iowa. The state launched two exceeding long shots, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, to the White House, giving each a look and listen when sophisticates elsewhere treated their campaigns as the stuff of cockeyed fantasy.
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Gov. Kim Reynolds said Monday she abruptly fired one of her longtime political allies after her staff received allegations that the official had sexually harassed multiple employees. The Republican governor told reporters she learned about "credible" complaints of misconduct by Iowa Finance Authority director David Jamison on Friday night.
Agriculture is at the very heart of life in the Hawkeye State and especially so as spring unfolds. The renewal of the earth is also a time when the pace quickens on Iowa's 86,900 farms.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has fired the head of Iowa Finance Authority, Dave Jamison, according to a news release, Saturday. The brief statement said Jamison was terminated after the governor's office "was made aware of credible allegations of sexual harassment against" the director, Friday evening.
It's his first week on the job. -Messenger photo by Hans Madsen Don Heck, director of the Iowa Central Biofuels Testing Laboratory, talks about their services during a meeting with Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and a group of producers concerned about changes to the renewable fuels standards in the Iowa Central Community College Board Room.
U.S. Senators are trying to stop the USDA from making farm program payments to the estates of deceased farmers. U.S. Senators are trying to stop the USDA from making farm program payments to the estates of deceased farmers.
Last December, President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law. Supporters promised that the new law would reform America's broken tax code, make filing simpler and give a necessary break to middle-class families and low-income earners.
Ted Cruz is holding up the confirmation of a key agriculture nominee to help oil refiners in his home state of Texas - infuriating some of the Iowans who fueled his rise in the 2016 presidential primary. Cruz is up for reelection this year in Texas, where oil and gas is king and employs hundreds of thousand of people.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley of Iowa and Graham released a criminal referral they had sent to the Justice Department earlier this year asking for an investigation into the former spy, Christopher Steele.
Yes, some were a bit frustrated that we posted about The New York Times' late Thursday night story about President Donald Trump wanting to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller last June. The fact of the matter is it never happened, but it would certainly rehash the Russian collusion hysteria that has gripped the news media since Trump won the 2016 election.
Sen. Chuck Grassley met with constituents in a rural district that heavily backed tRump . Anyone who has read any of the countless articles about Dump Supporters in Dump Country might have predicted that it was a non-stop MAGA-fest.
Jennings recently stepped down from her position as New Castle County Chief Administrative Officer to prepare for her campaign. Jennings previously served as Chief Deputy AG at the Delaware AG's office and spent over two decades working for the state Department of Justice.