In The News

Tuesday, September 22, 2020 Joni Ernst: Every County, Every Year.  This year, much has changed. In the spring, we didn’t gather in Pella to celebrate the town’s Dutch heritage at the annual Tulip Time festival. This summer, we didn’t stuff our faces with fried food on a stick or take our picture with the famous…

Iowa Crop Progress & Condition  Week of September 14 – September 20, 2020 Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig today commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is released weekly from April through November. “Tomorrow marks the official first day of fall and…

  Wednesday, September 16, 2020 Grassley Calls Out Democrat Disinformation on the Social Security System Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman, Senate Finance Committee We have recently seen yet another manufactured crisis from Democrats. As usual during an election season, if there aren’t any real issues regarding Social Security, Democrats make…

  The Schultz Perspective by Senator Jason Schultz 8/4/2020 All right western Iowa, I’m done.  I’m done with the Covid-19 crisis, pandemic, scamdemic, whatever you want to call it.  The virus is real and it’s serious. But the government’s response at ALL levels is not. When your legislature paused the session on March 17, the unknown…

Friday, June 19 “Celebrating Juneteenth National Freedom Day” Congressman Steve King is releasing the text of an op-ed he has written in honor of the celebration of “Juneteenth Day,” June 19, 2020. “Juneteenth” is recognized by the State of Iowa due to legislation King introduced and passed in the Iowa State Senate in 2002. “Juneteenth”…

The Segebart Report Friday, June 19, 2020 The End of the 2020 Session The legislature adjourned for the year on Sunday, June 14. This year’s session was definitely different than in previous years. While we didn’t get to all the legislation we wanted, we were still able to accomplish a lot in the time we…

Thursday, June 16, 2020 The Fight to Save America Our monuments toppled. Our flag dishonored. Our churches burned. Our streets are taken over by anarchists and Marxists hiding behind a noble-sounding phrase. All of this in the United States of America. Right here in Iowa, our first Capitol building was vandalized with profane graffiti in Iowa…

Monday, April 6 Iowa vs. “Shelter-in-Place” States Governor Reynolds tweeted on Monday afternoon that she and Governor Rickets (of Nebraska) spoke with Dr. Anthony Fauci over the phone to discuss “shelter-in-place”. The Governor said the phone call was productive and Dr. Fauci was “100% supportive, saying that Iowa and Nebraska are ‘on the same page’…