Iowa Politics Roundup: Budget Cuts First Order of Business in 2011...
House Republicans will begin working the first day of the 2011 legislative session on finding “several hundred million dollars” to cut in the current year’s budget, House Speaker-elect Kraig Paulsen...
View ArticleIowa Politics Roundup: Legislative Democrats Pick Leaders, Fear Extremism by...
Iowa House and Senate Democrats voted this week to stick with their leaders, despite losses in the 2010 election. Representative Kevin McCarthy (D-Des Moines) was re-elected the leader of House...
View ArticleIowa Politics Roundup: Collins Considers Bid for RNC Chair
Former Republican National Committee (RNC) political director and Iowa native Gentry Collins says he is weighing a bid for chair of the organization. The announcement came one week after Collins...
View ArticleIowa Politics Roundup: Branstad Picks Durham to Head Economic-Development...
Governor-elect Terry Branstad has picked Siouxland Chamber of Commerce President Debi Durham to be the new director of the Iowa Department of Economic Development. As Branstad introduced her, the two...
View ArticleIowa Politics Roundup: Branstad Sees Budget Cuts on the Way
Governor-elect Terry Branstad says budget cuts in the upcoming year will include reductions in the Iowa governor’s office staff and security detail, and he will ask other state agencies to make similar...
View ArticleIowa Politics Roundup: Iowa Straw Poll Gets a Boost with Fox News Debate
Iowa Republicans hope that a nationally broadcast GOP presidential debate they’ve scheduled for August 11, 2011, in Ames will up the stakes for the Iowa Straw Poll two days later. “We wanted to make...
View ArticleIowa Politics Roundup: Census Numbers Confirm That Iowa Will Lose...
It’s confirmed: New U.S. Census Bureau numbers show that Iowa will go from having five congressional seats to four. Iowa is one of 10 states that will see a loss of congressional seats. Illinois,...
View ArticleIowa Politics Roundup: Branstad Estimates 2012 State Deficit Over $600 Million
Governor-elect Terry Branstad and incoming Department of Management Director Dave Roederer said Thursday that state expenditures are expected to exceed revenues by $605 million in Fiscal Year 2012 –...
View ArticleIowa Politics Roundup: Branstad Sworn in as Governor, Calls for Less...
Republican Terry Branstad was sworn into office as Iowa’s 41st governor Friday and used his inaugural address to issue calls for service, less government, more integrity and transparency, a reduced and...
View ArticleIowa Politics Roundup: Social Issues Quickly Divide Democrats, Republicans at...
The emergence of a number of socially divisive issues has quickly set up a battle between Democrats and Republicans, and between the Iowa House and Senate, just two weeks into the 2011 legislative...
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