The man who led this year’s successful effort to elect a Republican majority in the Iowa senate is now officially the leader who will decide what bills gets debated in the senate. Twenty-eight of the 29 Republicans who will serve in the Iowa Senate for the next two years met last week and voted to make Bill Dix of Shell Rock their majority leader when the senate convenes in January.
Dix says growing the economy is a priority as well and that means tax changes are in store, but the details of the Senate Republicans’ tax plan will be decided at a later date.
Dix will turn 54 at the end of this month and has been a member of the legislature for 16 years. He served a decade in the Iowa House, culminating in a stint as chairman of the committee that drafted the state budget. After four years out of the legislature, Dix returned as a member of the state senate in 2011.
