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Adequate broadband access is critical to the success of our rural communities, small business owners, and farmers.

Getting our rural communities connected to the Internet so they can grow and thrive is definitely one of my highest priorities.

The total wealth of the top 1 percent has increased by more than $21 trillion.

Income inequality would be our economy's biggest challenge for the next 10 years.

June is Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month. It is important to recognize the impact Alzheimer's has on families in Iowa and across the country and to recognize the cost to taxpayers because of the care it takes in the last years of…

Later today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to consider four protocols to the United States' tax treaties with Spain, Switzerland, Japan, and Luxembourg. I support swift action on these protocols both in committee and…

Your rhetoric that you have been spewing against unions and also your record against working families is disappointing and, quite frankly, offensive.

I am proud to now be a sponsor of the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act.

You see, I will never forget February of 2017, standing on that State House floor after days of hearing testimony from my friends, my family, and my neighbors in my home State who are just working their tails off to provide for their…

I have to tell you, I have done some research while I have been up here and, again, your rhetoric that you have been spewing against unions and also your record against working families is disappointing and, quite frankly, offensive.

It prevents States from attacking public employees' collective bargaining rights like they did in Iowa.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa will be postponed. {time} 1730 Amendment No. 11 Offered by Mr. Posey The Acting CHAIR…

I seek recognition to take up amendment No. 9 made in order by the rule. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 107, strike lines 14 through 18. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to…

We do not have proper processes and communications in place to help our families in need.

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Gross v. FBL Financial Services. The Court ruled that employees who face age discrimination have to meet a higher standard of proof than workers who face discrimination based…

Last week, I held a hearing on foreign threats to taxpayer-funded research, and a classified briefing was held on the very same subject. We learned a great deal of information regarding the very real and ongoing threat from foreign…

I was unable to vote on June 11, 2019 as I had another commitment that did not allow me to make it back to D.C. in time for votes. Had I been present, I would have voted as follows: ``no'' on rollcall No. 245; ``no'' on rollcall No. 246…

Thank you. And thank you again everybody for being here today. And as a 30-year-old who is also still paying off student loans myself, first generation college grad, I grew up in rural Iowa, so much of what has been said today I hear it…