Videos

Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Representative Xochitl Torres Small (D-NM), health policy experts, and former lawmakers addressed the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on rural health care. Ot…

Tom Tauke talked about recent developments in telecommunications policy, including the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to redirect the Universal Service Fund toward the ex…

Thomas Tauke talked about Verizon’s perspective on several issues involving broadband including the recently released National Broadband Plan and a recent speech in which he called on the fe…

Panelists spoke about the U.S. economy, the state of American business, and the ability of the U.S. to compete in the global marketplace. They also focused on the nature of economic competit…

The Federal Communications Commission held a public hearing on the use of early termination fees by communications service providers.

The Federal Communications Commission held a public en banc hearing regarding broadband network management practices. Topics discussed included network neutrality and piracy. Also discussed …

A hearing was held on the future of telecommunications competition. The witnesses addressed the issues of forbearance, special access, municipal broadband and copper retirement.

Former Rep. Tauke talked about Verizon’s entrance as a cable television provider, its video franchising, network neutrality and programming decency. Mr. Tauke represented Iowa’s Second Distr…

Experts discussed the deregulation of digital technology and responded to audience questions.

The House passed H.R. 2065, to improve tropical forest management, by a voice vote. The House passed H.R. 5932, to improve educational equity and excellence, by a voice vote. The House agree…

Representative Tom Tauke and Senator Tom Harkin, candidates in the Iowa Senate campaign race, debated topics including health care, abortion and social services. Sen. Harkin talked about the…

The House passed H.R. 5313, making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense. During consideration, the House rejected the Penny amendment to have an across-the-…

The House passed H.R. 5229, making appropriations for the Department of Transportation. The House agreed to H. Con. Res. 291, expressing the sense of Congress regarding the need to account a…

Both candidates spoke about issues they consider to be important to Iowans and the nation. Among those topics the candidates promised to address were farm policy, drug policy, economics, and…

Representative Tom Tauke talked about issues during his Senate campaign speech.

The House voted to override the president’s veto of H.R. 20, to amend Title 5, United States Code (the Hatch Act), concerning the participation of federal civilian employees in the political…

The House passed H. Con. Res. 324, amended, concerning human rights, democracy, and illicit narcotics production and trafficking in Burma. The House passed H. Res. 393, concerning the first …

The House passed H.R. 3802, designating the month of May as “Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month.” The House agreed to the motion on H.R. 4404, regarding Fiscal 1990 Supplemental Appropri…

The Iowa Republican Party spoke about Liberal Democrat’s nd contrasted their Republican views on how America should be run.

The House passed H.R. 3, to authorize appropriations to expand Head Start programs and programs carried out under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include child care ser…