Iowa Senators Winckler and Webster address failures of legislative session

There were a lot of pieces of legislation that didn’t make it to the governor this session. One is the Pesticide Protection Bill that we talked about on this program a few weeks ago.

Another that would force public school students to sing part of the National Anthem every day didn’t make it either.

Host Jim Niedelman brings back State Senators Cindy Winckler and Scott Webster to consider legislation that Gov. Kim Reynolds strongly supports; That is the measure to give women access to birth control pills without a prescription. It never made it to the House floor despite having bipartisan support.

“”I will continue to support this particular bill to (improve) access for birth control,” Webster said.

“I think it has overwhelming support in both the House and the Senate,” Winckler said.

Click on the video to hear more from our panelists.

Question of the Week

Now we’d like to hear from you, too, and that brings us to our question of the week: What are some of the measures Iowa state lawmakers adopted this session that you like or where do you think they fell short? Please share your thoughts at 4therecord@whbf.com

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