Pressure on us, getting an adequate agreement on Education Funding early in this session. Hogg and other lawmakers also want to see progress on cleaning up iowas polluted waterways, oversight on the states move toward privatized medicaid services, and more emphasis on helping small business. 29 43 weve become too focused on one thing only, and thats agriculture. We need to diversify even more. And that helps if we help those young people and people going through life changes in a startup situation for a business. In des moines, brady smith, kcrg tv 9 news. For the first time in history, a woman is leading the iowa house. Republican Linda Upmeyer from clear lake took over as iowas speaker of the house for the first time today. Upmeyer is taking the gavel from kraig paulsen, a republican from hiawatha who stepped down after last session. Three years ago, pam jochum became her partys first female Iowa Senate President , where she still serves. Between jochum and upmeyer, the Iowa Legislat
With a low of 10 degrees. Expect a warm up midweek with partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 30s wednesday and thursday. There is a slight chance for snow on saturday night with another arctic surge over the weekend into the first part of next week. Stay tuned 3 3 3 president obama talks to the nation tonight in his seventh and final state of the Union Address. As c b s news correspondent we juh weijia jang jiang shows us. This years speech wont be like any other. 3 pkg nats 2015 sotu in his seventh and final state of the Union Address tonight president obama will talk to the American People about the nations challenges and opportunities ahead josh earnest Wh Press Secretary whats critical are the kinds of decisions we make now will have a Significant Impact on not just the next generation of americans but future generations of americans nat sot obama i dont think ive ever been more than i am right nowthe president is expected to highlight executive actions he plans to take to t
The lawmakers weve spoken with so far all seem to agree that coming to an agreement on how to fund k12 education early in the session representative ken rizer told us yesterday that how the agreement and how quickly they do it will set the tone for the rest of the session. Right behind education, managed medicaid system. We spoke with senator liz resources committee. She says lawmakers will be working on an oversight bill that will insure the companies that would handle the new system arent taking advantage of iowans. There are a number of other issues on the table making texting while driving a primary offense instead of a secondary offense, making improvements to iowas Water Quality, and finding ways to better help Small Businesses and upstarts get on their feet. Lawmakers say theyre optimistic they can get that all done before their deadline this year, but also last years session. In des moines, brady smith kcrg tv 9 news. If you think its cold out today, just wait until tomorrow. M
The weekend starts off with a slight chance for snow. And colder temperatures. Much colder air returns sunday through the start of next week. Three weeks from today. Iowans will cast the first season that could end with our first woman elected president of the united states. This morning at the iowa statehouse a different Glass Ceiling was shattered. Nats of wooden mallet hitting wooden plate for the first time a session of the Iowa Legislature was gaveled in by a madam speaker. Speaker of the house Linda Upmeyer this morning. She replaces the retired kraig paulsen. And steps up to a seat once filled by her father. After recognizing the significance of the day, upmeyer got down to business in her opening address. She touched on one of the education spending. 112135112212 in each of the last five years, we have found a way to increase funding for schools. We will increase funding for schools again this year. However, we should recognize that the needs of our schools and students extend
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