Newsletter for Friday, March 15We quickly shifted gears this week, spending much more time in caucus meetings reviewing bills and then debating them on the floor. We debated and passed over 40 bills this week. Many of the bills are non-controversial, taking but a few minutes to discuss and ...
Newsletter for Friday, March 8, 2019March 8 was the "Funnel" date, the date when our policy bills need to be passed by a committee to stay eligible for floor debate. By one accounting, there have been 1,647 bills filed so far this session in both chambers. The committee chairs, their ...
Newsletter for Thursday,February 28, 2019We are quickly approaching "Funnel Week", which is when all policy bills need to be voted out of committee for them to be considered for further action. Each year hundreds of bills are filed, but only about 200 make it through the funnel deadline. Each ...
In the LegislatureThis was the seventh week of the 2019 legislative session, and a week busy with subcommittee meetings. Next week is the first funnel week of the year, meaning Senate bills need to be out of Senate committees in order to be considered for the rest of the year. This does not ...
Newsletter for Thursday,February 21, 2019As work progresses in committees we have begun to debate a few bills on the floor of the House as well. These are generally non-controversial bills that pass unanimously or with only a few no votes. These bills have included increases in mileage ...
This week marked the sixth week of the 2019 Legislative session. The majority of the work has still been in subcommittee and committee as funnel week moves closer. March 8 the end of funnel week and the final date for individual bills of a chamber to pass through the respective committees to ...
In the LegislatureAs we moved into the fifth week of the legislative session, subcommittee work remained the primary focus while bills have been moving through the Senate.This week one of my sponsored bills, Senate File 88 passed out of the Transportation Committee. This bill creates a new ...
Newsletter for February 14, 2019Work continues at a fast pace. I'm continuing to work on bills I've filed on behalf of my constituents on a variety of topics, as well as work on bills assigned to the Environmental Committee I chair, and bills that have been assigned to me in the committees I ...
In the LegislatureThe attention of many Iowans was focused on the work being done in the Senate this week. Several key issues being discussed this legislative session began to work their way through the process and have been the topic of many discussions at the Capitol.Some of those bills ...
In the Legislature-This week we continued to run at a busy pace. While most of the week was consumed by subcommittee and committee work, a good portion of time was also spent meeting constituents and organizational representatives from our area.On Monday representatives from our Rural Water ...