Des Moines County GOP

This week there has been a mixture of limited floor debate, sub-committee work and committee work.  On Tuesday evening we debated HF 2110, which would allow the spouse of a military member to receive unemployment benefits for voluntarily quitting their job if the reason for quitting due to the relocation of the military member by the military.  I voted against this bill because it was poorly written and too broad in its coverage.  This bill could have been a bi-partisan bill if it had went through the proper committee and would have been more narrowly defined.  HF 2110 passed with 55 yes and 44 no votes.

House Republicans' Jobs Plan

As we went through the second week of the 2010 legislative session, House Republicans reached across the aisle to work with House Democrats to implement our jobs plan.

80,000 Iowans were out of work at the beginning of 2009. Currently, we’re approaching 115,000 Iowans out of work.  In 2009, runaway state government passed budget-busting ideas and bonded its way into debt all in the name of “job creation”, only to end up with even more Iowans out of work.