WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: * * * Crapo Announces Finance Committee Staff Updates * Washington, D.C.-- Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) today announced the following staff updates: Molly Newell, Chief International Trade Counsel Molly has been promoted to Chief International Trade Counsel. Molly joined the Finance Committee in January 2023 from Hogan Lovells US LLP, where she was an associate in the Internation  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following news release on July 31, 2025: * * * Crapo Announces Finance Committee Staff Updates Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) today announced the following staff updates: Molly Newell, Chief International Trade Counsel Molly has been promoted to Chief International Trade Counsel. Molly joined the Finance Committee in January 2023 from Hogan Lovells US LLP, where she w  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, July 31 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * DNR enforcement actions, published 07/31/2025 * DES MOINES - DNR staff work with individuals, businesses and communities to help them protect our natural resources by complying with state and federal laws. This approach is very effective. In the few cases where compliance cannot be achieved, the DNR issues enforcement actions. The following list summarizes recent enforcement actions  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: * * * EEOC Sues Mayo Clinic for Religious Discrimination * Suit says employer forced security guard to get vaccination against federal civil rights laws MINNEAPOLIS -- The Mayo Clinic, which operates hospitals in Minnesota, Arizona and Florida, violated federal law when it refused to grant a security guard's request for a reasonable religious accommodation to its mandatory COVID-19 vaccina  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Ernst Bipartisan Bills Exposing Boondoggles and Secret Spending Advance out of Committee Unanimously * WASHINGTON - A pair of U.S. Senator Joni Ernst's (R-Iowa) bills to expose billion dollar boondoggles and secret spending in Washington advanced unanimously out of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. "Today is a great day for taxpayers and a horrific day for waste and sh  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Explosive Ernst Report Exposes Government Boondoggles $160 Billion Over Budget * WASHINGTON - After her years of advocacy led to the defunding of the California Crazy Train, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is releasing an explosive new report exposing other taxpayer-funded projects that are billions of dollars over budget or more than five years behind schedule. Her report details how the worst boondo  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Following Her Advocacy, Ernst Praises USDA Moving Closer to Heartland * WASHINGTON - Following her work exposing out-of-office bureaucrats and advocating for D.C. headquarters to be moved out of the beltway bubble, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) praised Secretary Rollins' major announcement to reorganize the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). During today's Senate Committee on Agriculture hearing  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Grassley Helps Reinstate FBI Whistleblower, Delivers Keynote Address During National Whistleblower Appreciation Day * WASHINGTON - At the National Whistleblower Day celebration on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced he has succeeded in reinstating a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whistleblower's clearance and employment with the agency. This is the sixth whistle  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Grassley Questions Senior USDA Official on Reorganization Proposal * WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong family farmer and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, submitted questions for the record to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden following a committee hearing on USDA's reorganization proposal Wednesday. In his questions, Grassley as  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: * * * HYDE-SMITH WANTS TO GIVE STUDENTS, FAMILIES MORE RELIABLE DATA ON CHOOSING COLLEGES & MAJORS * Hyde-Smith Cosponsors Sen. Cassidy's Bipartisan 'College Transparency Act' WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today announced that she joined U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) in reintroducing legislation to require colleges and universities to provide students and f  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * ICYMI: Grassley Joins America's Newsroom to Discuss His Release of the Durham Annex * WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined "America's Newsroom" on Fox News to discuss his successful efforts to secure the declassification and release of the formerly Classified Appendix ("Durham annex") to John Durham's 2023 Special Counsel report. The Durham anne  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on July 31, 2025: * * * ICYMI: Grassley Joins America's Newsroom to Discuss His Release of the Durham Annex "The Durham annex proves there was an attempt to stop President Trump [in 2016], and the FBI had a hand in it." * Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined "America's Newsroom" on Fox News to discuss his successful efforts  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 (TNSFR) -- Indiana University Bloomington campus, is preparing to repatriate the human remains of at least 492 individuals and 12 associated funerary objects to 18 Native American tribes following the completion of an inventory and determination of cultural affiliation. The human remains and objects were primarily collected from various archaeological sites in Pike County, Illinois, including the McKinnan, Swartz Mound and Village, Lawrence Gay Mound Group, Schaffner, Stilwe  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, July 31 -- The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship issued the following news: * * * Indulge in Fun 'Fair Sweet Fair' Experiences with Choose Iowa at the 2025 Iowa State Fair * # Choose Iowa will be highlighted throughout the 2025 Iowa State Fair # by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship DES MOINES, Iowa (July 31, 2025) - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig welcomes Iowa State Fairgoers to indulge in fun 'Fair Sweet Fair' experience  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, July 31 (TNSbrep) -- Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand issued the following news release on July 30, 2025: * * * Auditor of State Rob Sand today released a report on a special investigation of the University of Iowa (University), Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology (Department), for the period January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2023. The special investigation was requested by University officials as a result of concerns regarding certain financial transactions processed b  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Newly Declassified Appendix to Durham Report Sheds Additional Light on Clinton Campaign Plan to Falsely Tie Trump to Russia and FBI's Failure to Investigate * WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today is making public the formerly Classified Appendix ("Durham annex") to John Durham's 2023 Special Counsel report. The Unclassified Report and the Classified Appe  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on July 31, 2025: * * * Newly Declassified Appendix to Durham Report Sheds Additional Light on Clinton Campaign Plan to Falsely Tie Trump to Russia and FBI's Failure to Investigate Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today is making public the formerly Classified Appendix ("Durham annex") to John Durham's 2023 Special Counsel report. The  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Nunn Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen U.S.-Taiwan Defense Collaboration * DES MOINES, IA -- Representatives Zach Nunn (IA-03) and Jill Tokuda (HI-02) today introduced the United States-Taiwan Defense Innovation Partnership Act, bipartisan legislation to accelerate defense technology collaboration between the United States and Taiwan in response to ongoing aggression from the Chinese Communist Part  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, July 31 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * Public hearings for water quality standards triennial review to be held in September * DES MOINES - Virtual public hearings for the water quality standards triennial review have been scheduled for Thursday, September 18 at 9:30 a.m. and Tuesday, September 23 at 2:30 p.m. The links to join the hearings can be found under Triennial Review at www.iowadnr.gov/waterqualitystandards/trien  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (TNSLrpt) -- A report released in July 2025 by animal welfare experts and economic analysts strongly criticizes the Food Security and Farm Protection Act (FSFP), also known as the rebranded Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act. The legislation, primarily backed by the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC), aims to nullify state laws that enact meaningful animal welfare standards, especially those restricting the use of gestation crates for sows in pork production.  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, July 30 -- The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship issued the following news: * * * Secretary Naig Announces Start of Construction on Middle Cedar Watershed 'Batch and Build' Project * # The Department is working with Heartland Co-op and other partners to get more nitrate reducing practices efficiently installed in Tama and Grundy Counties DES MOINES, Iowa (July 30, 2025) - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced today that construction is starti  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Marshall: Let's Get Government Employees Closer to the People They Serve * Senator Marshall Joins RFD-TV to Discuss USDA Relocation & Trump Trade Deal Washington - On Thursday, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Suzanne Alexander on RFD-TV's Market Day Report to discuss the USDA coming to Kansas City as part of their relocation efforts, President Trump's trade deals and   more

WASHINGTON, July 29 (TNSFR) -- The University of Tennessee Knoxville campus Department of Anthropology and the University of Kansas have completed inventories of ancestral human remains and associated funerary objects and are preparing for their repatriation to Native American tribes. These actions align with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The institutions have determined a cultural affiliation exists between the remains and objects and the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and   more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: * * * USDA invests $106M to keep working forests working * (Washington, D.C., July 31, 2025) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced the U.S. Forest Service is investing $106 million to support state and landowner efforts to conserve private working forestlands across the country. Funded through the Forest Legacy Program, these projects will protect forests vital to the econ  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, July 31 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * Wildfire smoke affects air quality standards for state * DES MOINES - Exceedances of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particulates are expected today and tomorrow over most of the state. Smoke from wildfires in Northwestern Canada has converged over Iowa and is expected to lead to fine particulate matter exceedances over most of the state today. The smoke   more