DES MOINES, IOWA (June 24, 2019) — Iowa is getting some much-needed updates to our state’s criminal penalties.

A bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform bill, SF589, passed the Legislature unanimously this year, and was signed into law by [Governor Kim Reynolds] on May 16. The bill goes into effect on July 1.

WASHINGTON DC (June 24, 2019) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley is seeking a review of allegations put forward by Senate Democrats, which called into question how the Social Security Trustees Report presented its predictions on solvency for the Social Security Trust Funds.

On June 21, President Donald Trump informed the world (via tweet) that, after getting US forces "cocked and loaded" to carry out strikes on Iranian targets the night before, he had canceled those strikes at the last minute rather than prospectively kill 150 people. "Not proportionate," he wrote, "to [Iranian forces] shooting down an unmanned drone" earlier that week.

PRESS RELEASE (June 24, 2019) — “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion,” the feature-length film based on the hugely-popular franchise known to insiders as DanMachi, is coming to select US movie theaters this summer. The original television series, first released outside of Japan by Sentai Filmworks in 2015, was a breakout hit and enduring fan-favorite.