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Thousands of Iowans will lose access to unemployment benefits by the end of the year if Congress does not renew a program that extends benefits to the long-term unemployed.

The U.S. House has passed a short term extension of the 2008 Farm Bill by a voice vote.

Iowa's governor and the state's entire congressional delegation on Thursday signed onto a letter to the Obama administration asking the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a hearing in Iowa to discuss the agency's proposal to reduce the amount of ethanol that must be blended with gasoline in 2014.

A group of 10 U.S. Senators introduced a bipartisan bill on Thursday to eliminate the corn ethanol mandate, arguing that current law raises the cost of food and animal feed and damages the environment.

They didn't use that word, of course. Republican leaders frown on such labeling because it makes the House majority look, well, crazy.

In his recent Iowa speech, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, repeated an argument he has made around the country.

Celia Wexler is a senior Washington representative for the Scientific Integrity Initiative at UCS.

The Republican Party's inability to prevent some of its elected officials and party operatives alike from making racist and sexist remarks and tamp down others' penchant for cringe-worthy gaffes along those lines necessitates a slight revising of that old saying: It's always like dA©jA vu all over again.

Jakob Volver lugs a video camera up and down the street and boasts that his Viking blood keeps him plenty warm on this 3-degree day in the middle of the snowy Iowa prairie.

TERM FARM BILL EXTENSION: With the House set to recess until 2014 on Friday, lawmakers are running out of time to get a new farm bill done and now are expected to vote this week on a short-term extension of the 2008 farm bill, POLITICO's David Rogers reports.

Iowas Democratic lawmakers in Washington were more supportive of food and farm policy issues than their GOP counterparts, according to a study by a liberal policy group released Tuesday.

Congressman Steve King , U.S. House of Representatives; Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies; and Rosemary Jenks, Director of Government Relations for NumbersUSA discuss the status of amnesty efforts in Congress, as well as President Obama's controversial decisions to suspend deportation for entire categories of ... (more)

The Iowa Republican said whether the immigrants came to the U.S. to work, to send money back home or to join family, allowing them to stay here is letting them profit off their illegal behavior.

Rep. Steve King said Tuesday that granting amnesty to immigrants in this country illegally is more than the equivalent of giving a pass to a bank robber, it's like letting them keep the money, too.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry in 1980s switched from being a Democrat to a Republican. Now several high-profile Republicans are jumping ship.

The City Council president told The World-Herald on Monday that he's been unable to balance his work, family and council responsibilities with the demands of a high-profile congressional race.

Even Representative Steve King, of Iowa, who famously declared that the children of undocumented immigrants have " calves the size of cantaloupes " from hauling marijuana across the desert, has to acknowledge that - calves aside - we actually don't know much about the undocumented.

Few would disagree that the sanctity of the 10th Amendment-that being the amendment stating that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to the people- stands at or near the top of the list of what motivates the American Tea Party movement.

History will record that on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary met to consider the impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama.

Imagine paying seven-dollars for a gallon of milk! Experts say it's a very real possibility without a new farm bill in place.