DES MOINES, IOWA (January 28, 2020) — Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate will meet with election officials across the country and top cybersecurity officials during the annual winter conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS). Election cybersecurity will be a key topic of discussion. Sec Pate is the current president of the organization.

WASHINGTON DC (January 28, 2020) — Statement for the record by Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley honoring the Iowa caucuses:

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In a week, all political focus will be set on my home state of Iowa for the First in the Nation Precinct Caucuses.

Many pundits ask why Iowa should be awarded this much impact in the Presidential nomination process?

Iowans take this job seriously.

DES MOINES, IOWA (January 28, 2020) — Governor Kim Reynolds today announced her appointment of Dana Oxley as a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court Tuesday afternoon at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines.

WASHINGTON DC (January 28, 2020) — Senator Charless "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA) today joined Sens Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) to introduce a bipartisan resolution to bring awareness to human trafficking. The resolution expresses the Senate’s support for National Trafficking and Modern Slavery Prevention Month.

DES MOINES, IOWA (January 28, 2020) — Donald Trump, Andrew Yang, and Bernie Sanders are the top three vote-getters so far among presidential candidates in Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate’s Iowa Youth Straw Poll. Thousands of students across the state voted in the poll on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON DC (January 28, 2020) — Senators Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a classified letter Tuesday to US Attorney General William P Barr to request the declassification of four footnotes in the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector General’s (OIG’s) report on FISA abuses in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

WASHINGTON DC (January 28, 2020) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley released the following statement after the issuance of the Trump administration’s report on the effort to combat trafficking in counterfeit and pirated goods.

WASHINGTON DC (January 28, 2020) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley released the following statement regarding reports that Charles Lieber, the head of Harvard University’s chemistry department, was arrested on charges of allegedly lying to the Department of Defense and National Institutes of Heal

 

DES MOINES, IOWA (January 27, 2020) — Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate presented a National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) Medallion Award to Ambassador Kenneth Quinn during a ceremony at the State Capitol on Monday. The award recognizes Quinn’s many years of service to Iowa and the nation, both as a US State Department official and as President of the World Food Prize Foundation.

DES MOINES, IOWA (January 25, 2020) — Governor Kim Reynolds and Lieutenant Governor Adam Gregg  released their public schedule for the week of Monday, January 27-Sunday, February 2, 2020.

The following events are open to credentialed members of the media:

 

Monday, January 27, 2020

Gov Reynolds holds Executive Council meeting

Robert Ray Conference Room

Iowa State Capitol

10AM

 

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

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