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Iowa Crop Progress & Condition Week of July 19 – July 25, 2021 Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented today 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. “Warmer temperatures combined with a drier weather pattern moved…

Weekly Fuel Report July 22 – 28, 2021 Natural gas prices rose 3 cents at the Henry Hub reporting site and are currently priced at $3.97/MMbtu. Crude Oil Summary The price of global crude oil rose this week on the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) by $1.52 per barrel over last week, currently priced at $71.79.…

  Top Iowa Fishing Spots for the Week of July 22 This weekly fishing report is compiled from information gathered from local bait shops, angler creel surveys and county and state parks staff. You can check the activity of your favorite lake or stretch of river within each district, including which species are being caught, a…

Friday, July 16, 2021 Randy’s Roundup: Supporting Legislation to Bolster Broadband Access Dear Friend, This week, the House Agriculture Committee held a markup on the Broadband Internet Connections for Rural America Act. Continue reading below for more information on this legislation, and remember to like my Facebook page by clicking here to stay up-to-date throughout the…

  Monday, July 12, 2021 Politics Taking Priority in Justice Dept. “Crime Strategy” and Biden Domestic Extremism Plan, but Were Career Officials Consulted? With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pushing for information about whether non-partisan, career officials were consulted in the creation of recent…

Wednesday, May 26, 2021 Newsletter for the Final Week Last Thursday May 24, 2021 at approximately 11:30 PM the Legislative Session ended at the Capitol.  The term for ending the session is called Sine Die, which in Latin means to adjourn for the last time.  The session was interesting to say the least.  There were…

  Monday, May 24, 2021 The Williams Weekly by Senator Craig Williams The 2021 session finally ended in week nineteen with a flurry of legislative activity. Thirty-three bills were passed in the Senate (one of them twice). With unanimous support Twenty-one bills passed in the Senate this week with unanimous support including HF367 exempting burial…

  The Schultz Perspective by Senator Jason Schultz Friday, May 21, 2021 As America’s mainstream culture continues to devolve from a Christian values based-representative republic to a mob-rule, squeaky-wheel type democracy, the issues get more and more extreme.  Unheard-of-before issues supported by very few rise to the surface, while the vast majority of citizens are shouted…

Friday, May 7, 2021 Freedom Watch: A legislative update from Representative Steven Holt Budgets & Taxes This week, the Iowa Legislature went into overtime. We were supposed to have completed our work within 110 days, by May 1st. At that point, legislators were no longer being paid per-diem, a great system to help ensure we…

  Friday, July 23, 2021 Joni Ernst: Only in Washington, D.C. does the word “trillion” get thrown around so often and so easily. Under the Biden Administration, there’s a lot of bad news coming out of Washington, D.C. The Administration’s failure to address, or even acknowledge, the crisis at our southern border; their neglect of…