WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, issued the following weekly column: * * * Keeping China Far Away from American Farmland In rural America, our farmland is our most valuable, yet finite, asset. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the United States is home to over two million farms spanning nearly 894 million acres. This expansive acreage has cemented our position as the third largest agriculture-producing country in the world. However, our abundance of desirable  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, issued the following weekly column: * * * The American Families and Jobs Act Reverses the Failures of Bidenomics President Biden's economic agenda - which he has coined "Bidenomics" - has failed our families, farmers, small businesses, and rural communities by every measure possible. 61% of Americans reported living paycheck to paycheck, 71% of Americans have a negative view of the state of the economy, and gas prices continue their upward t  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following Q&A on Sept. 1, 2023: * * * Q: Why do you hold meetings with Iowans in every county, every year? A: Dialogue is the essence of representative government. The people of Iowa place their trust in me to represent their views and values at the policymaking tables in Washington, D.C. By definition, that means I have a responsibility to keep in touch and find out what's on their minds. I'm one-half of representative gover  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 -- Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: On Tuesday, U.S. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, wrote to Colleen Shogan, the Archivist of the United States, demanding that the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provide records and responses to the senators' two year-inquiry regarding then-Vi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chirs Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressing concerns about ongoing efforts to undermine the pre-el  more