SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS (March 28, 2019) — Last night, Representative André M. Thapedi introduced a transportation-modernization program, backed by the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, to raise $2 billion in annual revenue offset with pro-consumer and pro-business reforms.

DES MOINES, IOWA (March 28, 2019) — Today, Senator Kamala Harris announced that her campaign in Iowa is hosting student and youth organizing trainings on college and community college campuses across the state. The training programs, called Camp Kamala, will happen from April 16-18 at the University of Iowa, Drake, Iowa State, Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC), and the University of Northern Iowa. Students and young people will apply to participate in the program.

WASHINGTON DC (March 28, 2019) — Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri are experiencing historic flooding. In Iowa, two-thirds of our 99 counties have been impacted. The State of Iowa estimated damages across our state to be $1-and-six-tenths billion dollars. The damages estimated for agriculture is $214 million dollars. Damages to homes is $481 million dollars. Levee repair estimates are $525 million dollars. That is just the beginning. Those numbers are likely to rise.

WASHINGTON DC (March 28, 2019) — Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), joined by Sens Rand Paul (R-KY) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), re-introduced the Opportunities for Fairness in Farming (OFF) Act to create a system of financial controls and transparency to reform USDA’s agricultural checkoff programs.