GOP: Whitver Announces Committee Assignments
"After Iowans have validated our agenda by putting Senate Republicans into the supermajority for the first time in half a century, our caucus is ready to continue to deliver results for this state."…
Category: Iowa Senate
Dems: Senate Democrats Select Leadership For 2023-24 Legislative Sessions
Democratic members of the Iowa Senate on Friday re-elected Sen. Zach Wahls as the Senate Democratic Leader. In addition to Wahls’ re-election, Democrats selected Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott as Democratic Whip, the No. 2 position [...]…
GOP: Whitver Announces Committee Chairs
"The first supermajority in the Iowa Senate in 5 decades is ready to deliver results for Iowans."…
GOP: Whitver Reelected Senate Majority Leader
Sinclair chosen as Senate President-select to help lead GOP supermajority…
Dems: Voting in the Iowa 2022 General Election!
A summary of how to vote–and how to help others vote–this fall in Iowa. Make sure you are correctly registered to vote. Are you registered to vote? Any Iowan can check their voter registration status [...]…
Dems: 2022 session is a wrap
The Legislature adjourned for the year early Wednesday. While we some successes this year, thanks to Iowans speaking up, Republican politicians at the Statehouse have ignored real solutions to our state’s workforce crisis, instead treating workers as the enemy.…
GOP: Closing Remarks from Senate Majority Leader Whitver
"If there is one thing that I would tell Iowans about the 89th General Assembly…it is this: Republicans in the legislature have had your back. We made sure you kept more of what you earned. We made sure Iowans had…
Dems: Iowa has turned itself into the Cayman Islands of child sex predators
Statement by Stephen Mills, May 13, 2022 News Conference My name is Stephen Mills, and I am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. I want to take a moment to explain that term—“survivor”—just to be [...]…
Dems: How Senator Chapman Killed Bipartisan Reforms for Iowans Living in Manufactured Housing THREE SEPARATE TIMES
Iowa State Senate President Jake Chapman (R-Adel) has, on three separate occasions, played the key role in sabotaging years of bipartisan work to improve the rights and living conditions of Iowans living in manufactured or [...]…
Dems: Why Iowa needs to end civil statute of limitations for child sex abuse
Iowa gets a failing grade when it comes to protecting kids from sexual abuse & trafficking. SF 32 would remove the civil statute of limitations for people who were abused as minors, allowing them to come forward as adults, seek…