Newsletter forThursday, April 18, 2019Week 14 of the session is done. The first year of a General Assembly is officially scheduled for 110 calendar days counting all 7 days of the week. Therefore our 110 days comes out to 15 weeks and 5 days which falls on Friday, May 3. Of course the ...
In the LegislatureAfter last's week legislative deadline for bills, week thirteen included more floor debate. We remain focused on our budget work while we continue to pass bills out of the Senate.While we are still in negotiations with the House and the governor on what the budget will look ...
In the LegislatureThis was the twelfth week of the 2019 legislative session and budget bills have started moving in both chambers. The first budget bill passed off the floor of the Senate this week. Senate Republicans have proposed a budget for the next fiscal year that is sustainable, ...
Newsletter for Thursday, April 4, 2019Friday, April 5, was the second funnel date where Senate bills must get approval from at least one House committee. This funnel does not apply to Appropriations or Ways and Means bills, and a few other bills that have companions in both chambers. We have ...
Senator Jeff Edler and State Rep. Dean Fisher, the legislative pair who include all of Tama County among their districts, gave an overview of the session underway in Des Moines and responded to questions in Toledo Friday.More than 30 persons were on hand for the forum at the State Bank of ...
In the LegislatureWeek eleven finished in the Iowa Senate this week, leaving just over a month left until the scheduled end of the legislative session. Floor debate on a number of bills has continued as we work on legislation to send to the House for their consideration.The Iowa Senate passed a ...
State Rep. Dean Fisher (R-Montour) and State Senator Jeff Edler (R- State Center) will be on hand for a legislative forum this Friday, April 5, at the State Bank of Toledo Community Meeting Room, 103 S. Broadway.The Tama-Toledo Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting the event scheduled to be from ...
Newsletter for Thursday, March 28, 2019We continued with debate this week as the next funnel looms large in our minds as we press for our bills to come to the floor.PioneerLawmakersof IowaWednesday afternoon of this week we held a joint meeting of the House and Senate for the 2019 induction ...
State Rep. Dean Fisher (R-Montour) and State Senator Jeff Edler (R- State Center) will be on hand for a legislative forum this Friday, April 5, at the State Bank of Toledo Community Meeting Room, 103 S. Broadway.The Tama-Toledo Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting the event scheduled to be from ...
Week nine in the Iowa Senate included some of the first major debate of this year. Just this week, we passed over 30 bills out of the Senate chamber.The Senate passed Senate File 536 on Wednesday, which took out a restriction in the Iowa code that limited the operation of tele-pharmacies in ...