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✅ Tax Relief

✅ Tax Relief

The House just passed the biggest tax relief bill in a generation — but the fight’s not over. Now it’s up to the Senate to finish the job. Why it matters: Without action, Iowa families face a $4,000...

🛑 Stopping SNAP Scams

🛑 Stopping SNAP Scams

David Schroeder is a 65-year-old Army veteran who, like more than 150,000 Iowans, relies on SNAP to put food on the table. But just a few weeks ago, David’s benefits were stolen by scammers in a...

⚙️ Battle-ready innovation

⚙️ Battle-ready innovation

While China pieces together drone fleets in months, it still takes the Pentagon nearly two decades to deliver a new aircraft to the battlefield. The problem: The Department of Defense has no...

🇺🇸Honoring the Fallen

🇺🇸Honoring the Fallen

Today, we pause to remember the heroes who gave their lives so we can live in freedom. More than 26,000 Iowans have been killed in action — including Red Oak’s own Corporal Daegan Page, who gave...

🇺🇸 Honoring Those Who Gave Everything

🇺🇸 Honoring Those Who Gave Everything

This week, I joined my colleagues to wash the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. Etched in granite are 58,000 names—sons and daughters of America who never came home.As a 20-year combat veteran and a...

🛡️ Mobilizing America’s Best

🛡️ Mobilizing America’s Best

The next national emergency won’t wait for bureaucratic red tape in D.C. Whether it’s a cyberattack, natural disaster, or foreign threat—we need our military and private sector partners to be ready....

🧼 Clean Up Congress

🧼 Clean Up Congress

In 2023, a new stock trading app went viral for a new feature — the “Pelosi Tracker” — which let users copy trades from former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and netted a 45% return in its first year. The...

🚜 The Road to Growth

🚜 The Road to Growth

If you’ve ever sat behind a grain truck on a two-lane road — or tried hauling equipment during harvest — you know how much infrastructure matters in Iowa. This week, we pushed for commonsense...

🪖 New Protections for Veterans

🪖 New Protections for Veterans

Veterans reported losing more than $400 million to scams in 2024 alone — and that number keeps rising. The problem: The VA benefits system is so fragmented and confusing that it’s become a prime...

👮 Backing the Blue

👮 Backing the Blue

National Police Week is a time to honor the brave men and women who put on the uniform and step into harm’s way to keep our communities safe. This week, we remember Des Moines Officer Phoukham Tran,...

❌ Deterring China

❌ Deterring China

If China invades Taiwan, it won’t just be a foreign policy crisis — it’ll be an economic disaster right here in Iowa. 🚨 This morning, I joined the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party to...

🌾 Delivering for Iowa Farmers

🌾 Delivering for Iowa Farmers

Iowa's farmers and rural communities don't have time to wait on Congress. Washington hasn’t passed a Farm Bill in nearly seven years. In that time, farm income has dropped 23% while uncertainty has...

🤰Standing Up for Moms

🤰Standing Up for Moms

The United States has one of the highest maternal mortality rates among developed nations, with 32 moms losing their lives for every 100,000 births. At the same time, data from the CDC suggests that...

🛡️Protecting Benefits

🛡️Protecting Benefits

Nearly 1 in 4 Iowa households rely on SNAP or Medicaid to put food on the table or get the care they need. But here’s the reality: between 2018 and 2022, more than $500 billion may have been lost to...

🔓 Unlocking Capital

🔓 Unlocking Capital

When investment capital gets trapped on the coasts, Iowa small businesses pay the price. The problem: Right now, small and mid-sized businesses are required to submit three years of audited...

🌽 Fueling Innovation

🌽 Fueling Innovation

Iowa leads the nation in biofuel production. In 2022 alone, our renewable fuel innovators supported 60,000 jobs and added more than $70 billion to our economy. Why it matters: Iowa's ag economy has...

Iowa Innovation

Iowa Innovation

As digital innovation accelerates, the next wave of technology — from finance to farming — will be shaped by whoever writes the rules first. As a former cyber intelligence officer, I know what will...

Hope is not a strategy

Hope is not a strategy

China is not hiding the ball — they have their eyes on Taiwan. CCP aggression and territorial ambitions have grown in recent years, with more incursions into the waters of Japan, Vietnam, and...

Protecting Care, Preventing Fraud

Protecting Care, Preventing Fraud

More than 150,000 Iowans in our communities rely on Medicaid for healthcare. Another 60,000 count on SNAP to know where their next meal is coming from.  This morning, I visited MercyOne in Des...

Main Street Deserves Better

Main Street Deserves Better

Over the last four years, the federal government has been hitting Iowa businesses with fines as high as $150,000 for following our own state laws that conflict with outdated federal regulations. Why...