MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (November 5, 2019) — An alumnus who used his ROTC experience at Monmouth College as a springboard to become a Brigadier General in the Army will be the featured speaker at a Veterans Day ceremony on campus on November 11.

WASHINGTON DC (November 5, 2019) — Prepared floor remarks by Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley, Chairman, Senate Finance Committee:

 

I’m here today to again promote common-sense entitlement reform.

In the past year, we’ve seen a flurry of drug-pricing proposals.

DES MOINES, IOWA (November 5, 2019) — On Thursday, November 7, 11:30AM CST, the National Wildlife Federation will host US Armed Services veterans State Representative Brian Meyer and nonprofit leader Jim Mower for a veteran roundtable discussion on how climate change is impacting America’s national security.  

DES MOINES, IOWA (November 5, 2019) — Governor Kim Reynolds and Lieutenant Governor Adam Gregg on Tuesday released a public schedule update for events during the week of Monday, November 4–Sunday, November 10, 2019.

The following event has been added and is open to credentialed members of the media:

 

Thursday, November 7

Governor’s FOCUS Committee on Criminal Justice Reform

Grimes State Office Building — Room B100

400 E 14th Street

MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS (November 4, 2019) — Oyniso Bakhriddinova, from East Moline, Illinois, has joined more than 1,600 undergraduate students from around the world as they begin their academic careers at Tufts University, located in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts.

The incoming undergraduates continue to reflect Tufts selective admissions trend, with only 3,404, or 15%, of 22,766 applicants admitted.

DAVENPORT, IOWA (October 5, 2019) — Three churches, one street corner. During the trying times of the pre-war years, Edwards United Church of Christ, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Quad Cities, and Temple Emanuel came together and began an interfaith tradition of giving thanks in community.

On November 4, ten dual US-Mexican citizens — members of an offshoot sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints — died in a highway ambush, apparently the latest casualties of rampant and violent drug-cartel activity in northern Mexico. US president Donald Trump promptly called upon "Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth. We merely await a call from your great new president!"

NEVADA, IOWA (November 5, 2019) — Today, Governor Kim Reynolds visited Van Wall Equipment in Nevada to highlight their new Farm Equipment Mechanic Registered Apprenticeship program and celebrate

WASHINGTON DC (November 5, 2019) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ways and Means Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Chairman Danny K Davis, and Ranking Member Jackie Walorski today introduced the Family First Transition Act to help states transform their child-welfare systems and keep more children safely at home, instead of placing them in foster-care.

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