Government Policy and Law

More than two dozen members of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
(CCI) showed up unannounced at the Des Moines presidential campaign offices of
Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama on Thursday and demanded …

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey has been elected to serve as president of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) for 2011/12.

The election took place at the organization’s recent annual meeting …

A government lawsuit filed yesterday claims that Bass Pro Shops discriminate in hiring practices, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a suit that alleges that Bass Pro managers repeatedly refused …

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) yesterday launched a new program designed to enable many employers to resolve past worker classification issues and achieve certainty under the tax law at a low cost by reclassifying their …

Criticizing House Republicans for the disaster relief …

President Barack Obama said today he would veto any cuts to Medicare unless Congress hikes taxes on companies and the wealthy, Reuters reported.

Obama’s remarks came as he laid out a plan to save $3 …

Republican Congressman Darrell Issa plans to offer an amendment that would boost the annual savings in his bill to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service to more than $10 billion, his office said. A draft of …

Findings of the second major investigation by the U.S. government into the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill may press energy giant BP plc to put more than $30 billion on the table to quickly …

The state of Iowa on Thursday awarded the H.J. Heinz Co. direct incentives of $100,000 and refundable investment tax credits for a proposed $10.9 million upgrade to the Heinz soup plant in southwest Cedar Rapids, …