Today, as the majority leader of the Iowa Senate, I’m telling you that we will keep our commitments. 

We will stay as long as we need to keep the commitments we made last year.  You have my word on it.

I know it won’t be easy.  And you know it won’t be easy.  That was clear last year when we voted to take significant, long overdue steps to expand educational opportunity, to increase the accessibility and affordability of health care, and to build a stronger economy. 

But, Senators, we didn’t make those commitments because we thought they were easy.  We made those commitments—Democrats and Republicans working together—because supporting and defending Iowa’s middle class required us to make them. 

And supporting and defending Iowa’s middle class requires us to work together to keep those commitments this year. 

And that is exactly what we will do.