• Home
  • News
    • Politics & Government
    • Business & Economy
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • Radio Iowa Poll
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support Page
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters

Radio Iowa

Iowa's Radio News Network

You are here: Home / News / Four US Senators on Iowa Caucus campaign trail this weekend

Four US Senators on Iowa Caucus campaign trail this weekend

May 26, 2019 By O. Kay Henderson

Four of the U.S. Senators who’re running for president held a total of 29 public events in Iowa over the past three days.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand kicked things off Friday afternoon in West Des Moines with a forum focused on what she calls her “Family Bill of Rights.” It includes a federal law requiring paid family leave and a series of steps to expand access to day care.

“I was the sixth woman, ever, to give birth as a member of Congress…Shocking,” Gillibrand told reporters after the event, “but it shows that people who are in these decision-making roles tend to be male, they tend to be white and they tend to be affluent and so they don’t understand, necessarily, that access to affordable day care is make-or-break for any family,” Gillibrand said.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is on a four-day tour of the state in an RV this holiday weekend. During a stop in Burlington Saturday, Booker focused on the closure of the local Planned Parenthood clinic and promised to create an Office of Reproductive Rights and Freedom if he’s elected president.

“Codify Roe v Wade,” Booker said to open the event, “…fully funding organizations like Planned Parenthood which in some counties are the only provider of contraceptive care.”

On Sunday in Oskaloosa, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said Republicans are trying to get “a tilted court” that will nullify constitutional protections.

“It’s partly around issues like Roe…but a big part of it, it’s about corporations,” Warren said. “It’s about a court that, over and over, when it’s a corporation versus an employee, is with the corporation.”

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar told Iowans this weekend that as president she’d end the loopholes oil companies use to get around federal policies promoting ethanol. Klobuchar also emphasized changes she’d make to help farmers facing bankruptcy. At events in Decorah, Charles City, Iowa Falls and Des Moines, Klobuchar heard a familiar song.  Klobuchar turned 59 Saturday and crowds sang “Happy Birthday” to the senator at each stop.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: News, Politics / Govt Tagged With: Democratic Party, Legislature

Featured Stories

Exhibit features lesser known works of Grant Wood

Testing finds 21 new CWD cases in deer

It may become a crime in Iowa to use fake urine in workplace drug tests

February trending 18 degrees below average temperature

Iowa House Education Committee votes to end tenure at UI, ISU, UNI

TwitterFacebook
Tweets by RadioIowa

New look and new format at girls’ state basketball

Youngstown State takes action against assistant football coach

Iowa’s Jack Nunge lost for the season

Key stretch begins for #9 Iowa

Drake’s Roman Penn lost for the season

More Sports

eNews and Updates

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Archives

Copyright © 2021 · Learfield News & Ag, LLC