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Byline: Lauren White D.C. -- The Daily Iowan was at the nation's capital Monday where reporters met with Sen. Chuck Grassley and asked him about the Silicon Valley Bank, minority [...]

Byline: Lauren White WASHINGTON -- Both Iowa Senators signed onto a bill that would overturn President Biden's student loan forgiveness proposal and end the pause on student loan repayments. The [...]

Byline: Lauren White WASHINGTON -- Despite increases in perceived political polarization across the country, Iowa's six Congressional delegates are forced to engage in bipartisanship to pass legislation and navigate the [...]

Byline: Lauren White Temple Hiatt's nephew showed signs of mental illness the day of his death. A Red flag gun safety law could have saved his life. Hiatt, a volunteer [...]

Byline: Lauren White The Johnson County Republicans hosted the University of Iowa's top DEI official Thursday at its weekly meeting amid pending legislation in the Iowa Legislature whether to defund [...]

Byline: Lauren White Iowa House Republicans introduced multiple bills targeting LGBTQ+ students in K-12 schools across the state. These bills would restrict gender and sexuality instruction and out students to [...]

Byline: Lauren White Following the 2022 election, five new delegates represent Johnson County in the Iowa Legislature. While most are in the minority party, they jumped right into focusing on [...]

Byline: Lauren White Gov. Kim Reynolds' proposed 'Students First Act' will advance to the House floor for debate early next week after the House Education Reform committee voted to pass [...]

Byline: Lauren White Gov. Kim Reynolds took the podium on Tuesday night in front of a packed Iowa House Chamber at the Iowa Statehouse for her sixth consecutive Condition of [...]

Byline: Lauren White DES MOINES -- Iowa's legislative leadership announced they would focus on education reform, property tax reform, and population retention rates in the state after gaveling in the [...]

Byline: Lauren White Allen West, retired Lt. Col for The Army, visited the University of Iowa Wednesday evening where he said focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion is bad for [...]

Byline: Lauren White Republicans swept nearly all statewide races on Tuesday night in what many candidates and voters called a 'red wave' this midterm election. Despite the results, elected officials [...]

Byline: Lauren White Iowans voted to amend the state constitution to add a right to bear arms when they were given the opportunity on Tuesday night. The amendment changes the [...]

Byline: Lauren White This is a developing story, check back for updates. Sen. Chuck Grassley was reelected to the U.S. Senate for his 41st consecutive year in the position, according [...]

Byline: Lauren White With the knowledge that midterm elections traditionally see a lower turnout, Republicans and Democrats are encouraging their respective voters to cast their ballots on or before Nov. [...]

Byline: Lauren White Many candidates during the campaign season -- specifically those in Iowa -- have run on a platform of bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle. While bipartisanship is [...]

Byline: Lauren White Abortion rights, infrastructure, and parental rights were a few of the topics that U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, and Iowa Sen. Liz Mathis, D-Hiawatha, clashed during a [...]

Byline: Lauren White Iowa Bar Association and Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate are calling on attorneys and law experts to work at polling locations during the election. The Iowa [...]

Byline: Lauren White Johnson County candidates said at a forum on Thursday that in the case that abortion is banned in the state, medical students should still be able to [...]

Byline: Lauren White Arnold Schwarzenegger and former presidents Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan are just a few who went from the screen to political office. Now, in Iowa's 2nd Congressional [...]

Byline: Lauren White Over burgers and hotdogs, Sen. Kevin Kinney encouraged supporters and local Iowans to re-elect him and vote more Democrats into the statehouse with a barbecue at his [...]

Byline: Lauren White After a lifetime of leadership in Iowa City and time spent overseas as a U.S. Diplomat, Janice Weiner will be heading to the Iowa state senate in [...]

Byline: Lauren White Iowa City abortion-rights supporters and activists came together Saturday afternoon to protest the draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. In a community-led demonstration, [...]

Byline: Lauren White Some Iowa City residents who rent from Prestige Properties, LLC have noticed campaign signs from John Raley, a Democratic candidate running for Iowa Senate District 45, mysteriously [...]

Byline: Lauren White The Iowa Federation of Labor endorsed Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate Abby Finkenauer on Thursday. The Federation also endorsed Democratic candidates running for congress in all four Iowa [...]

Byline: Lauren White The three Democrats running to represent Iowa in the U.S Senate are rallying the state party with two months until the primary election as the state decides [...]

Byline: Lauren White Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, highlighted Iowa's role in environmental solutions and encouraged lawmakers to strive for bipartisan strategies in energy at the Iowa Memorial Union on Wednesday. [...]

Byline: Lauren White and Emily Delgado President Joe Biden announced the Environment Protection Agency will issue a waiver to make E15 -- gasoline with 15 percent ethanol blended in -- [...]

Byline: Lauren White In the midst of discussions between national Democratic leaders to scrap the Iowa caucuses, Iowa's Democratic party leaders are determined to make the process more accessible in [...]

Byline: Lauren White PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan's Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. If your time is [...]

Byline: Lauren White Candidate for Iowa Senate District 45, John Raley, visited the University of Iowa on Wednesday night to meet with the University Democrats, where he and the students [...]

Byline: Lauren White Iowa City junior and high school students took to the streets Friday afternoon in a demonstration protesting a new Iowa law that bans transgender girls and women [...]

Byline: Lauren White With a little under eight months until the 2022 midterm elections, Iowa **Gov. Kim Reynolds formally launched her reelection campaign on Wednesday on the platform of protecting [...]

Byline: Lauren White PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan's Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. If your time is [...]

Byline: Lauren White Janice Weiner, an Iowa City City Councilor and candidate for Iowa Senate district 45, University of Iowa Democrats Wednesday night her priorities include affordable child care, funding [...]

Byline: Lauren White Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill that would eventually apply a flat tax rate of 3.9 percent for Iowa taxpayers into law on Tuesday. 'This bill rewards [...]

Byline: Emily Delgado and Lauren White Abby Finkenauer, the major Democratic contender taking on Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, said Grassley no longer stands by the principles that brought him to [...]

Byline: Lauren White Bills that would prevent transgender students from competing on the team of their gender identity passed out of the House and Senate Education committees this week. House [...]

Byline: Lauren White With nine months until the 2022 midterm elections, candidates are amping up their campaigning in Iowa City. Adam Zabner, Democratic candidate for Iowa House District 90, met [...]

Byline: Lauren White Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said, during a press call on Wednesday, that the people who broke into the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection should be [...]

Byline: Lauren White Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Iowa agree that young people need more incentives to decide to settle down in the state. At the beginning of the 2022 [...]

Byline: Lauren White A challenger in the race for a U.S. Senate seat, Mike Franken, visited Iowa City on Wednesday and sat down with The Daily Iowan, where he said [...]

Byline: Lauren White PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan's Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller [...]

Byline: Lauren White On the second day of the 2022 Iowa legislative session, a lawmaker introduced a bill that would put presidential executive orders under review in Iowa if those [...]

Byline: Lauren White Former U.S. Senate candidate Theresa Greenfield, a Democrat, has been appointed as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development State Director for Iowa. President Joe Biden appointed [...]

Byline: Lauren White Iowa City City Councilor Janice Weiner announced on Tuesday that she is running for Iowa Senate District 45 in the 2022 election. Weiner is the first candidate [...]

Byline: Lauren White Janice Weiner confirmed to The Daily Iowan that she will be running for a seat in the Iowa Senate in the 2022 election. While an official announcement [...]

Byline: Lauren White At least four new faces will represent Johnson County under the golden dome in Des Moines following the 2022 election. Political leaders from both parties in Iowa [...]

Byline: Lauren White Former Rep. Neal Smith, D-Iowa, died on Tuesday at 101. Iowa's elected officials at the state and federal levels have put out words of condolences. Smith was [...]

Byline: Lauren White Laurie Goodrich, Hai Huynh, and Mike Knudson won the three open seats in the Coralville City Council election on Tuesday night. According to the unofficial election night [...]