Iowa Senate
Working mom appreciates Iowa family tax cut
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- Working mom appreciates Iowa family tax cut
- Runtime
- 12:02
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Senator Joe Bolkcom, chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, facilitates a discussion of the Iowa Earned Income Tax Cut (EITC) with Julie Heck, the single mother of three who works fulltime, and Charlie Bruner of the Child and Family Policy Center.
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- Senate votes to fix corrections shortfall
- Runtime
- 0:37
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Senator Daryl Beall seeks support for SF 2071, supplemental funding to address staffing shortages and safety issues at correctional facilities across Iowa. The measure passed the Senate on February 1, 2012, and now goes to the Iowa House
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- Pass working families tax cut FIRST
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Senator Joe Bolkcom, chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, describes why the Legislature should FIRST pass a tax cut for Iowa's working families, and see it signed by the Governor, before considering other proposed tax cuts.
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- Senator Sodders on filling Iowa jobs with Iowa workers
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- State Senator Steve Sodders of State Center responds to questions at a statehouse news conference
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- Help community colleges help Iowans help themselves
- Runtime
- 9:57
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Iowa has a severe skilled labor shortage, holding back our state's economy. If we invest in unemployed and underemployed Iowans, we can fill those jobs and grow our economy. The success of GAP and PACE, two innovative community college programs, shows we can do it if we make the commitment. For more information about the people in this video and this job creation effort, visit http://www.senate.iowa.gov/democrats/.
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- In their own words: Iowans gaining skills, helping grow Iowa's economy
- Runtime
- 3:19
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Three hard-working Iowans -- Mike Sevart of Cedar Rapids, Jamia Peeples of Cedar Rapids, and Fernando Franco of Sioux City -- speak at a January 25, 2012 press conference hosted by State Senator Steve Sodders. After acquiring the skills they needed to succeed, the three describe how Iowa's community college-based GAP and PACE programs have directly helped them achieve the jobs they have today.
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- Sen. Danielson meets with returning soldier using Iowa tuition grants to attend college
- Runtime
- 0:31
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Senator Jeff Danielson talks with Dan Tallon, right, a Davenport native and current University of Iowa student. Tallon, an Iowa National Guard soldier who returned from Afghanistan last summer, was in the gallery as Republicans and Democrats in the Iowa Senate voted unanimously on Wednesday, January 18, to prevent state tuition help for Iowa's returning soldiers from being cut almost in half. More info at http://www.senate.iowa.gov/democrats/?p=12422
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- Iowa families would benefit from an increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit
- Runtime
- 0:52
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Larry Davies and Lana Ross, the executive director of the Iowa Community Action Association, speak out for an increase in the Iowa Earned Income Tax Credit.
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- Wilhelm on helping Iowa families gain jobs through skill advancement
- Runtime
- 1:23
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Senator Mary Jo Wilhelm of Cresco describes two ways that Iowa's community colleges are ready to help Iowans gain the skills needed to fill current local openings.
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- Gronstal on helping Iowans fill existing job openings
- Runtime
- 0:31
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal believes Iowa's community colleges can help Iowa businesses grow by helping Iowans gain the skills needed to fill them
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- Iowa mom says state child care assistance allows her to keep working
- Runtime
- 1:53
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Des Moines resident Amanda Young speaks about how state assistance helped her afford child care for her 16-month-old daughter. Without state assistance, Young would have had to choose between working and paying for child care. Senator Jack Hatch of Des Moines are working to expand access to childcare to help middle class families in a tough economy.
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- Senator Sodders chairs the Senate
- Runtime
- 0:37
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Senator Steve Sodders of State Center stands in for Senate President for Senator Kibbie for a short session of the Iowa Senate on January 13th.
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- Iowa City, West Branch schools explore composting food waste
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Scott Koepke of Iowa City and Linzee Epsensen of West Branch came to the Iowa Statehouse in January of 2012 to talk with legislators about the benefits to all of Iowa of composting food waste at local schools.
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- Iowa Democrats Defend Affordable Care Act
- Runtime
- 9:33
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- State Senators Jack Hatch and Joe Bolkcom host a press conference at the Iowa Statehouse on January 12, 2012, urging Iowa Governor Terry Branstad to withdraw his name from a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, which is already helping protect Iowans across the state. If Iowa is to become the healthiest state in America, Governor Branstad must embrace the law that helps it get there.
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- Iowa Senate opposes effort to dismantle Medicare and Medicaid
- Runtime
- 9:19
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- By a strict party-line vote of 26 to 21, the Iowa Senate approved a resolution opposing recent efforts by the U.S. House of Representatives to dramatically change to Medicare and Medicaid. Senator Jeff Danielson of Black Hawk was the floor manager.
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- Hatch closing on Health and Human Services
- Runtime
- 4:22
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Senator Jack Hatch, chair of the Senate Health and Human Services budget subcommittee, gives closing remarks on a compromise budget.
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- The facts on the size of state government
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
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- Sen. Danielson's opening remarks on limiting the governor's transfer authority
- Runtime
- 4:57
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Sen. Danielson's opening remarks on limiting the governor's transfer authority, House File 148.
- Title
- Hatch_Health Care_closing
- Runtime
- 9:39
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Recorded on 6/22/2011 - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iowa-senate-quiet-page
- Title
- Hatch_Health Care4
- Runtime
- 8:37
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Recorded on 6/22/2011 - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iowa-senate-quiet-page
- Title
- Jochum opening
- Runtime
- 8:49
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Recorded on 6/22/2011 - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iowa-senate-quiet-page
- Title
- Senate Democrats compromise to prevent shutdown
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal details the compromises Iowa Senate Democrats have made to prevent Iowa's first-ever government shutdown.
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- Sen. Quirmbach sums up tax hearing in less than two minutes
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Sen. Herman Quirmbach of Ames, an ISU economics professor and a former member of the Ames City Council, sums up the testimony given on competing Iowa commercial property tax proposals.
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- How bond defaults caused by GOP tax plan will hurt homeowners
- Runtime
- 9:22
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Iowa bond attorneys Bob Josten and Bill Noth describe how residential property tax owners will be on the hook to pay for any defaults caused by the ill-considered GOP tax plan.
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- Republican tax changes will destroy economic growth efforts by Iowa's small towns
- Runtime
- 7:58
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Mark Jackson, Story City Administrator, lays out facts, figures and examples detailing how the Republican commercial property tax plan will "devestate" job creation efforts by Iowa's small towns.
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- Sen. Jeff Danielson at the Open Budget Hearing
- Runtime
- 5:09
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Sen. Jeff Danielson comments on the issues at stake before the Open Budget Hearing on the Administration and Regulation Budget. More information can be found at www.senate.iowa.gov/democrats.
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- Iowa State Senator to college students: "Go back home"
- Runtime
- 0:52
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- "Filled with contempt" is the only way to describe the tone of the top Republican on the Iowa Senate's Education Budget committee when he spoke to student leaders from the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and the University of Northern Iowa. More information at http://www.senate.iowa.gov/democrats/republican-message-to-students-shut-up/
TRANSCRIPT OF SENATOR SHAWN HAMERLINCK'S COMMENTS: "I do not like it when students actually come here and lobby me for funds. That's just my opinion. I want to wish you guys the best. I want you to go home and graduate. But this political fear, leave the circus to us OK? Go home and enjoy yourselves. I want to thank you for joining us and though I have to concede, your time speaking before us is kind of a tad intense. It's probably a pretty new experience. You probably prepared for it for days and you sat there in front of us trying to make sure your remarks were just right, and that's a good thing. But actually spendi...
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- Iowa State Senator to college students: "Go back home"
- Runtime
- 0:52
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- "Filled with contempt" is the only way to describe the tone of the top Republican on the Iowa Senate's Education Budget committee when he spoke to student leaders from the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and the University of Northern Iowa. More information at http://www.senate.iowa.gov/democrats/republican-message-to-students-shut-up/
TRANSCRIPT OF SENATOR SHAWN HAMERLINCK'S COMMENTS: "I do not like it when students actually come here and lobby me for funds. That's just my opinion. I want to wish you guys the best. I want you to go home and graduate. But this political fear, leave the circus to us OK? Go home and enjoy yourselves. I want to thank you for joining us and though I have to concede, your time speaking before us is kind of a tad intense. It's probably a pretty new experience. You probably prepared for it for days and you sat there in front of us trying to make sure your remarks were just right, and that's a good thing. But actually spendi...
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- Call Governor Branstad, 515-281-5211
- Runtime
- 12:03
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal of Council Bluffs today said Iowans must get involved to break the stalemate over the state budget. Gronstal announced a statewide effort that started yesterday to urge Iowans to call Governor Branstad's office at 515-281-5211 to object to severe cuts to education and economic development.
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- Irmproving Iowa's mental health system
- Runtime
- 4:59
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Senators Jack Hatch and Mike Gronstal respond to questions about reforming Iowa's mental health system
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- "A gut-punch to the middle class"
- Runtime
- 10:21
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal describes Governor Branstad's last minute decision to cut state services even deeper as a gut-punch to the middle class.
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- Hancock wins approval of Lake Delhi restoration
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- On Monday, May 2, the Iowa Senate approved five million dollars to help rebuild the Lake Delhi dam. The money must be matched dollar for dollar by the Lake Delhi homeowners association.
Senator Tom Hancock of Epworth successfully offered the amendment, which was approved on a 26-23 party-line vote, to the state infrastructure bill.
"Rebuilding Lake Delhi should not be a partisan issue," said Hancock. "It is especially important for local Republicans to speak up and urge Republican leaders in Des Moines to help pass this legislation so our care can recover from this economic disaster."
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- Remembering Iowans who died on the job
- Runtime
- 2:32
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Senator Dick Dearden of Des Moines comments on Iowa workers who died on the job.
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- Iowans for Tax Relief should hire Joe Bolkcom, of course
- Runtime
- 4:06
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Speaking on the floor of the Iowa Senate, Senator Bill Dotzler argues that Senate Ways and Means chair Joe Bolkcom would be an excellant choice to lead Iowans for Tax Relief
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- Quirmbach opposes Republican increase on residential property taxes
- Runtime
- 5:15
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- \In an address to the Iowa Senate, Senator Herman Quirmbach of Ames describes how the Republican commercial property tax proposal will hurt residential property owners, small businesses, and local government.
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- School funding key issue as session moves towards end
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- At his weekly news conference, Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal says that local school funding is the key issue to be decided before the session can end.
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- Schools will be hurt by failure to fund schools
- Runtime
- 5:28
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Senator Jack Hatch (D-Des Moines) describes how Des Moines area schools will be hurt by two years of flat funding for local schools.
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- Governor mistaken: Working families do pay taxes
- Runtime
- 2:17
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Sen. Bolkcom corrects Gov. Branstad: Iowa working families DO pay taxes. More information at http://www.senate.iowa.gov/democrats/governor-mistaken-working-families-do-pay-taxes-video/
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- You can't use sick kids to justify cutting education
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Senator Pam Jochum of Dubuque takes Senator Shawn Hammerlink of Davenport to task for claiming "It's very, very difficult to vote for additional funding for schools and then not vote for kids to go to the hospital." Jochum argues that Iowa can and should do both.
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- Governor Branstad: Buck up and focus on Iowa's working families
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- State Senator Joe Bolkcom responds to Governor Branstad's failure to focus on the needs of Iowa's working families.
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- Complete News Conference on 2-year budget chaos
- Runtime
- 20:25
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- An analysis of the last 10 years of budget projections indicates chaos if two year budgets are adopted.
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- Senate Democrats offer middle ground on budget impasse with Gov. Branstad
- Runtime
- 9:36
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Senators Mike Gronstal and Bob Dvorsky unveiled Senate Democrats' budget proposal that would fund next year's budget at 50%, a compromise with the Governor's proposal to fund at 100%.
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- Promoting jobs at McDonalds while firing teachers
- Runtime
- 5:09
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- State Senator Rob Hogg of Cedar Rapids pointed out the irony of Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds celebrating McDonald's "National Day of Hiring" while Gov. Branstad insists on school budget cuts that will lay off an estimated 1500 teachers and school workers.
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- Senate's Job Creation Tax Cut on way to Gov's office
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
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- Bolkcom rebuts arguments against commercial property tax relief
- Runtime
- 2:29
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Senator Joe Bolkcom, chair of the Iowa Senate's Ways and Means Committee, makes closing arguments for Senate File 522, a $200 million commercial property tax cut that favors small and Main Street businesses.
TRANSCRIPT: The benefits, as we talked about this, obviously this has been a long problem that the legislature wrestled with and we brought this proposal forward. We believe in the first year, it's going to provide $600 worth of property tax relief, and when fully phased in, up to approximately $5,300 worth of property tax reduction.
This is a very targeted proposal. It is targeted to Main Street Main Street and small businesses. And I understand that it is not especially helpful to the Wal-Marts out there and the Best Buys and the big insurance companies a few miles from here.
But this grows as we can afford it. It is a responsible right-sized commercial property tax reduction. And we fully fund it in its entirety, and that why we have the support...
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- Senator Tod Bowman speaks at Statehouse education rally
- Runtime
- 4:22
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Senator Tod Bowman spoke out against against Governor Brandstad and the Republicans' two year starvation diet for Iowa's local schools.
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- Gronstal and Kibbie compare Republican and Democratic commercial property tax relief
- Runtime
- 4:44
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- From the April 14 Statehouse news conference by Democratic Leaders.
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- Senator Mary Jo Wilhelm says commercial property tax relief will help Iowa's small communities
- Runtime
- 1:25
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Senator Wilhelm successfully argues for passage of Senate File 522, 200 million dollars in property tax relief that targets Iowa's small and Main Street businesses.
Transcript: Many of you know I was previously a Howard county supervisor for 12 years. I dealt with budgetary issues at the county level hands on. And I know there are inequities in that property tax system, but having said that, I also know that the small business owners on my Main Street pay a lot in property taxes. And this bill addresses that.
And to this day I still hear their concerns walking down my Main Street. Decorah two years ago, the Chamber put on this gathering to bring business in to see what they could do to promote their business and grow and not close. I went to their last meeting, and the first thing, the very first thing, they said was "We need relief in our property taxes on Main Street."
And I was trying to think about strip malls, and maybe in my four counties I'm mis...
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- Senator Quirmbach describes visit to Ames preschool
- Runtime
- 6:04
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Senator Herman Quirmbach of Ames describes, during a point of personal privilege, what he learned visiting Ms. Audrey Watson's preschool class in Ames on Friday April 8th, 2011. Senator Quirmbach chairs the Education Committee.
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- New law further protects Iowa student athletes
- Runtime
- 0:24
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
- Description
- Senator Tod Bowman thanks Gov. Branstad for signing Senate File 367, a bill Bowman floor managed, into law. The new law requires a student-athlete suspected of sustaining a concussion in a game or practice to be removed from competition until they've been seen by a licensed healthcare provider. In addition, parents and student athletes must read, sign and return a concussion awareness fact sheet prior to enrolling in youth sports activities.
