Clay Masters
Host: Morning EditionClay Masters is the senior politics reporter for MPR News.
Before MPR News, he worked for Iowa Public Radio as a statehouse and political correspondent starting in 2012 and the host of Morning Edition beginning in 2014.
Clay is an award-winning journalist whose reporting has appeared on various NPR and American Public Media broadcasts and podcasts. He was one of the founding journalists of Harvest Public Media. Clay began his public media career in his native Nebraska where he covered agriculture and food production for Nebraska Public Media.
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The Iowa Legislature could wrap up the 2023 session as early as this week. But before lawmakers head home, they have to finalize a budget.
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Here's what happened last week as lawmakers near the end of the 2023 legislative session
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Former President Donald Trump was the only speaker who addressed the crowd remotely.
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Lawmakers moved forward with several measures last week, including a bill to allow gun owners to keep their firearms in their cars at certain public buildings and sending a bill that tightens eligibility requirements for public assistance programs to the governor’s desk.
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The case will determine whether or not Iowa Republicans can move ahead with enacting more restrictions on abortion in the state.
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After another “funnel week,” the House and Senate now have a shorter list of bills to consider.
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Gov. Kim Reynolds signed two laws that ban transgender kids in Iowa from getting gender-affirming medical care and from using school bathrooms that align with their gender identity.
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Nearly four months after declaring his third run for the White House, former President Donald Trump visited Iowa — the first in the nation caucus for Republicans.
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To get through “funnel week,” most bills need approval by a committee in either chamber in order to move forward.
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Kirk and Brian Ferentz, Gary Barta and Chris Doyle have all been dropped from the suit filed by over a dozen former Hawkeye players.