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Jeff Edler The eighth week of this year’s session is known as “funnel week” for the legislature. This week is the first legislative deadline of the year. All Senate policy bills must have passed through committee in order to be considered for the rest of the year. This week we ran a number of mental health bills out of the Senate Human Resources Committee focused on addressing the needs of complex mental health patients. These issues have been challenging Iowa’s mental health system for decades. I made a promise to Iowans to finish what we set out to do in 2018 with the Mental Health...

State Senator Jeff Edler, (R-State Center) The seventh week of session was busier as many bills moved out of committee. Next week is the first funnel week of this legislative session, meaning all Senate policy bills need to be out of Senate committees in order to be considered for the rest of the year. This deadline will narrow the focus to the bills remaining. One of the key concerns to solving workforce issues in Iowa has been the availability of child care. House File 260 allows a person or program providing childcare in someone’s home for five or fewer children. It also would allow six...

Sen. Jeff Edler Dear Constituents, I hope this finds you all well and healthy. Our state has been through a number of unique challenges since my last newsletter and I am proud of Iowa’s determination to persevere and rise above the derecho and all the complications from the pandemic. The Legislature has officially started it’s 89th General Assembly and I am encouraged by the initiatives of Governor Reynolds: Expanding broadband will be a topic for the legislature again this session. We have been working on this issue for several years but it’s not something that can be done in a year or...

Someone had decided to write the names of all the states on the map. They got Iowa right. Then the writer wrote it a second time over Idaho.

But there is a catch to all of this. since the beginning of december, there have been only two polls released in the state of iowa, and neither one of those polls is a dnc debate-qualifying poll. it's a similar story in new hampshire. there's only been one poll released this entire month. nevada hasn't seen a single poll, and south carolina has only had one come out as well. four total polls from all four combined early battleground states in the month of december. jeremy peters, political reporter for "the new york times," joins us now live from des moines to talk about this. jeremy, it's a t...