20 Apr 2020

Small Business Versus the State

By Joel Schlosberg

On April 18, the US Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program lent out the last of $349 billion it had on hand in emergency funds. Efforts are underway to ensure that those billions will not be the Program's last.

17 Apr 2020

Iowa Senators Urge USDA to Provide Assistance to Pork Producers

By Grassley Press

WASHINGTON DC (April 17, 2020) – Senators Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) joined Sen John Thune (R-SD) and 28 members of Congress on a bipartisan, bicameral letter urging US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue to take immediate action to assist pork producers and maintain the pork food supply-chain.

17 Apr 2020

EPA Finalizes MATS Supplemental Cost Finding and “Risk and Technology Review”

By EPA Region 7 Office of Public Affairs

LENEXA, KANSAS (April 17, 2020) — Thursday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) corrected flaws in the 2016 Supplemental Cost Finding for the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for coal- and oil-fired power plants, consistent with a 2015 US Supreme Court decision. The agency also completed the Clean Air Act-required residual risk and technology review (RTR) for MATS.

17 Apr 2020

FDA, Gates Foundation, UnitedHealth Group, Quantigen, and US Cotton Collaborate to Address Testing Supply Needs

By David Arvelo

WASHINGTON DC (April 17, 2020) — The US Food and Drug Administration announced a further expansion of COVID-19 testing options through the recognition that spun synthetic swabs — with a design similar to Q-tips — could be used to test patients by collecting a sample from the front of the nose.

17 Apr 2020

Iowa's Unemployment Rate Increases to 3.7 Percent in March

By Iowa Workforce Development

DES MOINES, IOWA (April 17, 2020) — Iowa’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate increased to 3.7 percent in March. The state’s jobless rate was 2.7 percent one year ago. The US unemployment rate rose to 4.4 percent in March.

17 Apr 2020

Sens Charles "Chuck" Grassley, Ron Johnson Request Additional Crossfire Hurricane Records After Declassified Footnotes Reveal Steele Dossier Contained Reported Russian Disinformation

By Grassley Press

WASHINGTON DC (April 17, 2020) — Senators Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, sent a letter Thursday to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray requesting all records from the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team.

17 Apr 2020

Appeals Court Chills First-Amendment Activity by Allowing Cops to Retaliate Against Nonviolent Protesters

By The Rutherford Institute

WASHINGTON DC (April 17, 2020) — The Rutherford Institute is pushing back against an effort by police to chill constitutionally-protected civil rights protests through the use of retaliatory lawsuits.

17 Apr 2020

This Year, More Than Ever, Monmouth College's Scots Day of Giving Was about More Than Just The Gifts

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (April 17, 2020) — During a time when it's easy to feel separated, the Monmouth College community came together Thursday in remarkable fashion.

17 Apr 2020

Sen Charles "Chuck" Grassley Joins Bipartisan Letter to HHS to Advocate for Relief for Senior Adult Communities and Health Care Workers

By Grassley Press

BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA (April 17, 2020) — Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA) joined Sen James Lankford (R-OK) and 25 senators in calling on federal agencies to ensure that long-term care facilities occupied by seniors, as well as those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, receive adequate resources in fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

17 Apr 2020

"China Lied, People Died?" Look Who's Talking!

By Thomas L Knapp

"The costs of the pandemic keep piling up," writes Marc Thiessen at the Washington Post. "Somebody has to pay for this unprecedented damage. That somebody should be the government of China." And why, pray tell, should China's government be punished? For "intentionally lying to the world about the danger of the virus, and proactively impeding a global response that might have prevented a worldwide contagion."

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