Newton Independent
Springboard Engineering in Newton will receive $150,000 in federal funds to finance research on a clean energy innovation project, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, announced in a press release today.
The funding comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Specifically, the press release notes, the funds will be used [...]
It was inevitable that conservatives would attack the Senate health care reform legislation over the proposed 0.5 percent hike in Medicare’s payroll tax for the country’s highest earners. Now they’re drilling down into the specifics.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has asked the Joint [...]
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley opposed the procedural measure in the Senate to allow a health care proposal to advance, although the position mattered little in light of majority Democrats’ unified stance.
Grassley, a senior Republican and ranking member of the finance committee, said he opposed the Senate bill that combines his [...]
Newton Independent
Jackie Black, director of business services for the Newton Community School District, has been hired as the director of education finance for the Iowa Association of School Boards.
The announcement was made to members of the school board association in a memo dated earlier this week. The group is concluding [...]
A group of filmmakers has sued the Iowa Department of Economic Development alleging the state breached its contract regarding issuing tax credits to finance their work.
The suit, filed Oct. 28 and scheduled to go before Polk County District Court Monday, was filed by a group of filmmaking companies [...]
Floor Statement by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Ranking Member of the Committee on Finance
Government Takeover of Health Care
Monday, November 2, 2009
Mr. President, some on the other side of the aisle are saying that their bills do not represent a government takeover of the health care [...]
