The Iowa legislature seems to be in full swing now. The state Senate and House have Republican supermajorities, the largest since 1970, so this is their legislative session to be had. Seeing as how many of them represent folks like me in rural Iowa, I sure hope they don’t forget about us and ...

Week Two of the legislature has come to a close! It was a shortened week with Monday off to celebrate Martin Luther King Day, so we hit the ground running on Tuesday. With a shorter week, everything that would normally be done in four days, still had to be accomplished in three. Wednesday was ...

The second week of the Legislative Session brings more work on pieces of legislation. I was excited to have my first subcommittee on HSB 9, which is a bill regarding penalties for assaulting workers, volunteers, and students in health care. Subcommittees are a critical way that Iowans can ...

Did you make a new year’s resolution for 2025? Full confession…I didn’t. According to U.S. News and World Report, around eighty percent of new year’s resolutions fail by mid-February. That expensive Peloton? For lots of Americans, it’s collecting dust. That special edition of the ...

I had lots of visitors from our district this week at the Capitol, which is always welcome and encouraged! It was great to brainstorm ways to tell Marshalltown’s unique story with Director of Tourism Dylan Does on Iowa Tourism night and to see the Marshall County Veterans Affairs team of ...

It is week two in the legislative session. This week I was the chair of four subcommittees regarding the following house files: HF 41, HF 45, HF 46, and HF 32. These bills passed subcommittee and will now be moving forward to committee. This week, Iowa House Democrats repeated their ...