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As gasoline prices spiral ahead of the big holiday travel season, President Joe Biden on Tuesday authorized the release of a record 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve — complicating his administration’s goal to transition to cleaner energy sources.
All six members of Iowa’s congressional delegation are sponsoring legislation to give independent cattle producers more information about cattle prices, but they have just 10 days to convince colleagues it should be included in a must-do bill.
The Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act must be reauthorized by December 3 and Senator Chuck Grassley is the lead sponsor of a plan to also force disclosure of the prices paid in private sales of cattle being raised and sold under contracts with a meatpacker.
For years, the federal government has handed out hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to care for migrant children without taking into account whether the contractor’s license is suspended or under investigation.
That would change if a group of bipartisan lawmakers can find support for new legislation introduced this month.
CLINTON — The city of Clinton has been awarded a $15 million federal Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability & Equity grant to reconstruct Manufacturing Drive and Bluff Boulevard, a project known as The Drive to Prosperity.
Iowa political leaders congratulated United Auto Workers union members on Wednesday after they agreed to a new contract, ending a five-week strike at John Deere plants.
WASHINGTON – Iowa members of Congress helped introduce bipartisan legislation in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives aimed to return fairness to the cattle marketplace dominated by four major meat packers.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Wednesday joined all his colleagues in formally challenging President Biden’s vaccine mandate under the Congressional Review Act. This move to overturn the vaccine or test mandate for private employers is guaranteed a vote on the Senate floor, possibly as soon as early December.
University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson traveled to Washington, D.C. this week to meet with members of Iowa’s congressional delegation. A post on Wilson’s Instagram showed meetings with Sens. Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa.
“Thankful to be able to spend time in Washington DC advocating for the university and speaking with Iowa’s US Senators and US Representatives,” Wilson wrote in the post.
With legal and political challenges mounting to a Biden administration COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large employers, federal regulators put the rule on hold just weeks before businesses would have to start complying with requirements.