Q: What's your take on the administration's plan to provide up to $12 billion in short-term farm aid?A: First, I've said for months that if actions taken by the federal government to strike better trade agreements result in economic hardship for certain Americans, the federal government has a ...
DES MOINES - Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate was named President-Elect of the National Association of Secretaries of State recently. The bipartisan organization unanimously backed Pate for the prestigious position during their annual summer conference, held this year in ...
How can Iowa make sure its recent tax reform is fully implemented, including the adoption of fewer and lower tax rates in 2023? The only proven way to lower tax rates is with spending restraint. Some of us in our personal lives have learned Dave Ramsey's lesson that you cannot out-earn your own ...
Q: How does transparency hold government accountable?A: Sometimes I wonder if people get tired of this Iowa senator talking about transparency and accountability. Let me assure skeptics that these two principles of good government aren't trite buzz words or talking points I use in floor ...
In 1976, Bonnie Crawford and her son Brad were in a building in lowa City. They sat in a hallway of outside a room waiting to go in that room for her 10:30 appointment. Bonnie was already nervous, and her nervousness increased as she heard the remarks of people leaving that room. "What more do ...
Last week we celebrated National Civility Day, and I'd like to take this opportunity to share with you that brought the current political divide into a more profound perspective for me.In June of 2017, at the Republican team practice for the Congressional Baseball Game (a bipartisan game to ...
Q: What needs to be done to fix our nation's immigration policies?A: By all accounts, the current immigration system is broken. The last major overhaul was adopted 32 years ago in 1986. Unfortunately, the Immigration Reform and Control Act did not live up to its promises.In exchange for ...
"If it was an accident, it was the best planned accident I've ever heard of"- USS Liberty survivorOn June 8, 1967, Israeli war planes and torpedo boats attacked the USS Liberty, an intelligence gathering ship, while it was on a signals collections mission in international waters off the Sinai ...
As I go about my work of helping communities revitalize and reinvent themselves, I often get to see the best of America and I'm reminded that the foundations that built this country are still just as important today.It's long been said that America is all about rugged individualism, and that is ...
It's been six months since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law. Since then, there have been continuous, positive economic developments in Iowa and throughout the country.Last month, the U.S. economy generated 223,000 new jobs. In fact, more than one million new jobs have been created ...