From Press Release   U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) filed an amendment Tuesday to the budget legislation under consideration by the full Senate that would disallow the Earned Income Tax Credit for those made newly eligible for past benefits under the President’s executive actions on immigration.  The amendment tracks Grassley’s […]

From Press Release   This week, Congressman Rod Blum (R-IA) led a bipartisan letter to the House Committee on Appropriations requesting a prohibition on funding for the EPA’s proposed Waters of the United States regulations. The bipartisan letter garnered signatures from 104 Members of Congress and if implemented would prevent […]

By The Iowa Statesman   Monday, U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced her first piece of legislation, the Prioritizing Veterans’ Access to Mental Health Care Act, which prioritizes veterans’ mental health care first and provides a back-stop to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs mental health care treatment, and prioritizes incentives […]

By The Iowa Statesman   U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) officially announced he is running for the Republican nomination for President of the United States at an event today at Liberty University. The event was televised. To see the video of the event, scroll down.  

By The Iowa Statesman   While the heads over the weekend focused on a U.S. Senator from Texas who is expected to announce his formal candidacy for President of the United States later today, another official candidate has already been working over the state, growing support in a key demographic. […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to the Associated Press, Liz Mair, the aide to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s political action committee who was critical of Iowa, has resigned. She told AP reporters Tuesday she was leaving Walker’s team just a day after she had been tapped to lead his […]

By The Iowa Statesman   Parliamentary elections have been underway since the wee hours of this morning, Iowa time, and will conclude when polls close at approximately 2 p.m. You can follow the happenings via the live blog hosted by Haaretz by clicking here. The Jerusalem Post is also providing […]

By Jacob Hall Contributor   Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has a funny way of trying to entice Iowa Caucus voters to consider supporting his presidential candidacy. His latest hire will likely throw those on the fence about his candidacy back to the side of undecided. According to CNN Monday morning, […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to ABC News, House Speaker John Boehner is expected to announce this week a new investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e practices as Secretary of State, including her admission that than 31,000 es were destroyed because she determined them to be personal, top House […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to The Times of Israel, an annual report ivered recently to the US Senate by James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, removed Iran and Hezbollah from its list of terrorism threats, after years in which they featured in similar reports. The unclassified version of […]

By The Iowa Statesman   If you thought the Democrats were down and out after the beating they to in 2014, think again. The Hill is reporting that Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic Caucus are making big plans for 2016. According to the report, Pelosi says a […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to The Washington Free Beacon, major networks decd to run an ad on their Sunday morning news shows from a bipartisan group of former senators warning of the seriousness of an Iranian nuclear bomb. The ad comes from a new group called American Security […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to The Washington Post, the Obama administration is investigating allegations that two senior Secret Service agents, including a top member of the president’s protective detail, drove a government car into White House security barricades after drinking at a late-night party last week, an agency […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to Reuters, two police officers were shot and wounded during a protest rally in Ferguson, MO, early on Thursday, hours after the city’s police chief resigned in the wake of a scathing U.S. Justice Department report finding his force was rife with racial bias. […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to the U.S. Geological Survey’s latest California earthquake forecast, the estimated chance of that state experiencing a massive earthquake within the next 30 years has nearly doubled. In a press release Tuesday, the USGS said the Third Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, or UCERF3, […]

By The Iowa Statesman   In a press release issued Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives announced it was walking back on a proposed plan to remove the exemption for “green tip” AR-15 rounds used for sporting purposes. The statement said the formal commenting period […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to Judicial Watch, U.S. Air Force documents reveal the Obama family’s 2014 Christmas vacation to Honolulu, HI, cost taxpayers $3,672,798 in flight expenses alone. Costs for the trip to Hawaii, to the West Coast, and to Martha’s Vineyard last year, cost nearly $3 million alone […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to Reuters, President Obama earlier this week signed and issued an executive order, declaring Venezuela a national security threat and ordering sanctions against seven officials from the oil-rich country. But the move stes tensions between Washington and Caracas just as U.S. relations with Cuba, […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to The Los Angeles Times, the number of Central American children and families illegally crossing the southern border, particularly in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, is likely to be smaller this year than last, but large enough to overwhelm shelters and courts, new Border Patrol […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to The Washington Times, Obamacare exchange customers are about to see spikes in their premiums, the Congressional Budget Office predicted Monday, saying insurers that offer plans are facing twin pressures from the government and the marketplace that will mean hikes of than 8 […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to our good friend, Todd Starnes at FOX News, a chaplain who once ministered to Navy SEALs could be thrown out of the military after he was accused of failing “to show tolerance and respect” in private counseling sessions in regards to issues pertaining […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to Politico, a group of Republican senators gave Iranian leaders — and the president — a refresher on the constitutional balance of power. In a highly unusual move, a group of 47 Republicans in the upper chamber has written to Iran’s top leaders to […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to The Wall Street Journal, President Obama said during a televised interview this weekend the U.S. and other world powers have offered Tehran “an extraordinarily reasonable” nuclear deal after efforts during the past week to move the negotiations forward and shore up support among […]

By The Iowa Statesman   The Hill, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, has updated its list of Top 10 “most vulnerable” senators who are up for re-election in 2016. With Republicans defending than twice as many seats as Democrats, it should come as no surprise that the GOP dominates […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to The Hill, U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the House select committee investigating Benghazi, said that there is a period of missing Hillary Clinton es from her time as secretary of State spanning several months. “There are gaps of months, and […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to The Financial Times, the president of the European Commission has called for the creation of an EU army in order to show Russia “that we are serious about defending European values”. In an interview with German newspaper Die Welt, Jean-Claude Juncker, who leads […]

By The Iowa Statesman   Yesterday, President Obama joined thousands of Americans at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL, to honor the sacrifice and bravery of the men and women who to part in the first of three marches for equal voting rights that to place […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to CNBC, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has informed Congress that unless it takes action, the U.S. will hit its debt limit on March 16, but his department intends to begin taking “extraordinary measures” to finance the government on a temporary basis before that. […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to The Hill, a number of conservative Republicans, long wary of a lack of commitment on the part of Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) regarding GOP efforts to undo several of President Obama’s policies, have openly considered a coup in an attempt […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to The Hill, dozens of children and their parents to to Capitol Hill Thursday afternoon to protest a controversial sledding ban. Capitol Police have refused to lift the sledding ban, but some parents organized a “sled in” on the west lawn of the Capitol […]

By The Iowa Statesman   Hillsdale College is now offering one of its required undergraduate courses on the U.S. Constitution on. “The U.S. Constitution: A Reader” features 113 essential primary source documents, and is divided into eleven sections with introductions by members of Hillsdale’s Politics Department faculty, readings cover the […]

By The Iowa Statesman   In an exclusive report in The Washington Free Beacon, Lachlan Markay reports corporate donors to a green energy nonprofit operated by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s (D., Nev.) former staffers and a current campaign operative have received billions of dollars in federal loan guarantees and […]

By The Iowa Statesman   Iran has no intention of building a nuclear weapon, and the sooner the world recognizes that, the sooner there will be a deal aimed at curbing its nuclear capabilities in exchange for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told NBC […]

By The Iowa Statesman   Chief Justice John Roberts remained nearly silent. Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy did not. And, at the end of the day, those hoping for a clue as to how the U.S. Supreme Court may rule on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s subsidies in King […]

By The Iowa Statesman   The Senate failed on Wednesday to override President Obama’s veto of legislation approving the Keystone XL oil sands pipe, falling five votes short of the two-thirds majority needed in a 62-37 vote. According to The Hill, it’s the first time Congress has voted on whether […]

By The Iowa Statesman   Just days after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ruled in favor of “Net Neutrality,” signalling the end to a two-speed Internet in the United States, Europe has a different thought on the issue. According to The Financial Times, European internet providers would be allowed to […]

By The Iowa Statesman   U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus (ret.) has reached a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department and admitted providing his highly classified journals to a mistress when he was the director of the CIA. According to The New York Times, Petraeus has agreed to plead […]

By The Iowa Statesman   Target Corporation, which operates 22 stores in Iowa, as well as a distribution center in Cedar Falls, has announced it will layoff thousands of its employees over the next few years as part of a multi-billion-dollar restructuring plan meant to address the company’s recent lagging […]

By The Iowa Statesman   Tuesday, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a writ of mandamus, ordering a halt to gay “marriages” in the state. The order, request by Liberty Counsel on behalf of the Alabama Policy Institute and the Alabama Citizens Action Program, comes a few weeks after a U.S. […]

By The Iowa Statesman   The latest development in the Ferguson, MO, officer-involved shooting of Michael Brown probably is the least surprising in quite some time. The Eric Holder-led U.S. Justice Department has concluded the Ferguson Police Department is racist. According to Reuters, the report stated FPD routinely engages in […]

By The Iowa Statesman   U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert was injured Thursday in an attack by a razor-wielding assailant who said he was against the ongoing military drills between the two countries. According to reports from South Korea, Lippert, 42, is in stable condition with non-life threatening […]

By The Iowa Statesman   Some members of Iowa’s congressional egation offered their thoughts on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session today. Some did not, however. The senior member of Iowa’s egation, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, made the following comment on the speech: “The speech was […]

By The Iowa Statesman   Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, is about to speak to a joint session of Congress to lay out the case against a deal with Iran over its nuclear program. The speech is being broadcast by C-SPAN. You can watch it on your computer, tablet, […]

By The Iowa Statesman   Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the presumptive frontrunner for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2016, very likely bre the law, according to several legal experts. It was recently disclosed that she exclusively used a personal e account to conduct government business as Secretary […]

By The Iowa Statesman   Mark Dice was recently at it again, exposing how the intersection of ignorance and the cult of personality bred by our current media environment has impacted America in a new YouTube video. Scroll down to check it out.  

By The Iowa Statesman   The U.S. Constitution clearly lays the power to tax in the hands of Congress. President Obama, however, may lo for another “end around” Congress through an executive action involving the IRS, according to his press secretary. In response to a question regarding U.S. Sen. Bernie […]

By The Iowa Statesman   A group of Texans with a lengthy list of qualms with the federal government, mostly with the behavior of the American legislative and executive branches, got quite a surprise during a meeting last month. According to The San Antonio Express-News, at least 20 officers corralled, […]

By The Iowa Statesman   According to an investigative report by KBET-TV of Sacramento, CA, foreign workers using H-1B visas are replacing American workers for high-paying jobs, including those working on a $200 million project for the state’s Employment Development Department. According to the report, U.S. Department of Labor data […]

By The Iowa Statesman   The IRS’s inspector general confirmed Thursday it is conducting a criminal investigation into how Lois Lerner’s es disappeared, saying it to only two weeks for investigators to find hundreds of tapes the agency’s chief had told Congress were irretrievably destroyed. According to The Washington Times, […]

By The Iowa Statesman   The U.S. Treasury Department has rebuffed a request by House Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R- Wis., to explain $3 billion in payments that were made to health insurers even though Congress never authorized the spending through annual appropriations. According to The Washington […]