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Expanding comprehensive cardiology care close to home

Following Iowa Heart’s official notice to us in April that they would no longer be able to provide 24/7 cardiology coverage for Trinity Regional Medical Center, we completed a full evaluation of current cardiology services and cardiology access for our patients. We believe for the highest quality, most coordinated care, outpatient and inpatient services cannot be separated. Therefore, we made the decision to hire cardiologists and interventional cardiologists that can care for patients in both the outpatient and inpatient setting to ensure a comprehensive heart care program. We ...

Grassley addresses child care issue

Q: How are you working to address affordable child care for families? A: During my annual 99 county meetings, I regularly hear from parents, employers and civic leaders about the need for affordable child care in their local communities. A couple years ago, Sen. Joni Ernst and I held a roundtable discussion in Des Moines to learn more about the barriers that small businesses and parents face to access affordable child care. The shortage of workers and rising cost of living present acute challenges for families across the state, creating situations that have come to be called “child ...

Our debt crisis keeps getting worse

At the end of July, our national debt officially topped $35 trillion. This development comes just seven months after our country surpassed $34 trillion in debt and less than a year since our national debt eclipsed $33 trillion last September. As a father of four, I firmly believe that we have both a moral and financial obligation to our children and grandchildren to enact real reforms that begin to reduce our exploding national debt and restore fiscal sanity to Congress. In fact, for the sake of our economic and national security, we have no other choice but to get our fiscal house in ...

Stand with Israel, bring American hostages home

Today, eight of our fellow citizens are still being held in Gaza by the ruthless terror regime that wants nothing more than the death and destruction of Israel and the United States. I’ve met with the families of our American hostages numerous times — on the ground in Israel and in our nation’s capital. They long for the day when they can embrace their loved ones again, and say two simple, yet remarkably comforting words: welcome home. In the days following Oct. 7, President Biden vowed that Israel would have the full support of the United States. He pledged that we would ...

Hruskas vow to overcome tragic loss, reopen Dam Store one day

Mother Nature may have won the battle when the Hruska family lost its house and widely beloved business to the raging currents of the Blue Earth River that swept away the land beneath the two century-old structures just 12 miles outside Mankato, Minnesota. But the Hruskas — 84-year-old ...

The Farm Bill prevents American farmland from falling into the wrong hands

Before I voted for the Farm Bill — which passed out of the House Agriculture Committee in May — I held many town halls with farmers and producers as part of my 36 County Tour and Feenstra Agriculture Tour to ensure that the priorities of our agricultural community were included in this vital legislation. In my conversations with producers, I repeatedly heard about the need for strong crop insurance protections, more opportunities to access new export markets, and foreign animal disease prevention and response. These provisions — and many others — were incorporated into the ...