Merlin Bartz is the Iowa State Senator from the 6th District, elected in 2008. A Republican, he sits on the Appropriations, Human Resources, Natural Resources, and Ways and Means committees. He is the ranking member on the Administration and Regulation Appropriations Subcommittee.
Previously he served in the Iowa House of Representatives (19th District, 1991 – 1993), and the Iowa Senate (10th District, 1993 – 2002). He was Senate Assistant Majori...
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Merlin Bartz is the Iowa State Senator from the 6th District, elected in 2008. A Republican, he sits on the Appropriations, Human Resources, Natural Resources, and Ways and Means committees. He is the ranking member on the Administration and Regulation Appropriations Subcommittee.
Previously he served in the Iowa House of Representatives (19th District, 1991 – 1993), and the Iowa Senate (10th District, 1993 – 2002). He was Senate Assistant Majority Leader in the 77th, 78th, and 79th General Assemblies. Bartz was appointed (January, 2002) Special Assistant to the Undersecretary, Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.. He is a sixth generation Iowa farmer. From July, 2004, he was Regional Assistant Chief, Central, for the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). He was a management representative of the Chief, providing direction of NRCS programs and activities and overall leadership and supervision to state conservationists in...
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