“Once upon a midnight clear, there was a child’s cry, a blazing star hung over a stable, and wise men came with birthday gifts. We haven’t forgotten that night down the centuries. We celebrate it with stars on Christmas trees, with the sound of bells, and with gifts… We forget nobody, adult or child. All the stockings are filled, all that is, except one. And we have even forgotten to hang it up. The stocking for the child born in a manger. It’s his birthday we’re celebrating.

WASHINGTON DC (December 16, 2019) — Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA) and Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Monday hailed the inclusion of their legislation to combat anticompetitive practices used by some brand-name pharmaceutical and biologic companies to block entry of lower-cost generic drugs in the domestic appropriations package filed today in the House.

DES MOINES, IOWA (December 16, 2019) — Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate is leading a bipartisan delegation of 11 Secretaries of State from across the US on a visit to Israel this week. Sec Pate, who is also the president of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), partnered with the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) Project Interchange to arrange the trip.

DES MOINES, IOWA (December 16, 2019) — A bombtastic celebration of arena rock, Hairball returns for the eleventh concert at the Jacobson Exhibition Center on the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Saturday, February 1, 2020. Hairball brings special guest Bonne Finken, described as a true musical warrior by 24OUR Magazine. Finken's beauty, power and emotion, will set the stage for a one-of-a-kind Hairball experience. Hairball tickets go on sale now, Monday, December 16, 2019, at 10AM.