Iowa Legislature Reconvenes Ahead of Presidential Caucuses

Leadership focuses on tax cuts and worker shortages, while school safety emerges as a bipartisan concern.

Iowa Legislature reconvenes with a focus on cutting income taxes and addressing worker shortages.
Republican leadership celebrated their trifecta control of the House, Senate and governor's mansion.
Last year's policies included creating publicly funded educational savings accounts, removing certain books from school libraries, blocking discussion of gender identity in classrooms, and cutting property taxes.
House Minority Leader Jennifer Konfrst identified reproductive rights, recreational marijuana, public education and school safety as her caucuses' priorities.
Leaders on both sides of the aisle agreed that this session needs to address student safety in schools, following a recent shooting at Perry High School.