Hinson backed S.F. 488 in 2017 and voted to double its set-aside in 2019. In 2021 her husband Matthew Arenholz co-founded BAM Development with two fellow Iowa legislators. In 2023 BAM was awarded $1 million in credits S.F. 488 made possible.
The House version of the 2025 budget bill said no state or local government may enforce any law regulating AI systems for 10 years. James voted for it on the floor and three separate times in the Energy and Commerce Committee. Now he is running for governor on local control.
Asked on Aug. 31 whether he backs Miller's reelection, the Speaker said yes and called the abuse allegations 'some issues in his personal life.' Sen. Bernie Moreno, whose daughter is the accuser, says she 'lives in constant fear of this man.'
Whatley's campaign told the Washington Post that 'prices were down considerably in 2025.' The government's own index says the opposite: overall prices rose 2.7% across 2025 and groceries rose 2.4%. Prices have gone up another 3% since.
Judge Julien Xavier Neals refused on Aug. 25 to dismiss Joyce Rosely's whistleblower claim against Ramaswamy personally. She says he demanded she violate securities laws, heard her objections, and helped fire her. A second former Strive employee alleged the same thing.
In 2021, then-state Rep. Joe Mitchell voted to expand Iowa's Workforce Housing Tax Credit. Two development firms he later partnered in took $2,559,880 from that program across three projects. He calls the federal version 'too much paperwork.'
Ben and Felicia Horowitz gave Better Nevada PAC $1 million on May 11. Lombardo posted his support for data centers on May 14. On May 21 the wife of Switch's founder gave another $1 million. He wrote in June that data centers raise water use and power bills, but 'it isn't happening in Nevada.'
On Monday, Trump answered the seven in ten Americans who don't want a data center near them by telling them they're choosing to be poor. Thirteen months earlier he had signed the executive order that hands those data centers federal land, skipped environmental reviews and taxpayer-backed loans.
On June 30, 2026, the EPA cleared trifludimoxazin — a PFAS weedkiller that produced thyroid tumors and liver damage in animal studies — for use on staple crops including corn, wheat, soybeans and apples. Three environmental groups sued, saying the agency never fully assessed the risk.