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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.