WASHINGTON DC (December 11, 2019) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR), Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy Chairman Rob Portman (R-OH), and Ranking Member Sherrod Brown (D-OH), issued the following joint statement after Finance Committee members received a bipartisan briefing on the health of multiemployer pensions plans.

DES MOINES, IOWA (December 11, 2019) — Governor Kim Reynolds, Iowa Department of Public Health (DPH), and the Iowa Department of Education (DOE) launched a new vaping awareness and prevention campaign aimed at informing teens about the reality of vaping and its consequences, and helping parents know how to address the issue and protect their kids.

DAVENPORT, IOWA (December 10, 2019) — Boasting Tchaikovsky’s glorious score, Ballet Quad Cities and Orchestra Iowa present The Nutckracker in style. Whether this is your first Nutcracker or your fiftieth, the holidays will not be complete without a visit to the Historic Adler Theatre to cheer on Clara and her prince as they battle the fearsome Rat King, and travel through the magical Land of Snow to the Sugar Plum Fairy’s Kingdom of the Sweets.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”— CS Lewis