# Kara Warme Kara Warme is a Republican member of the Iowa Senate for district 26. - Party: Republican - Seat: Iowa Senate, district 26 - Serving since: 2025-01-02 - Current term: IA 2025–26 session - Open States ID: ocd-person/ef7b8c3c-3cd0-4f95-8b4f-9e4daa061479 Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/ef7b8c3c-3cd0-4f95-8b4f-9e4daa061479 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set]. ## Headline Warme sits at +0.61 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 84% of State Senate Republicans. ## Ideology (CSIP) CSIP score +0.61 (standard error 0.04), from 282 donors and 237 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 84% of State Senate Republicans score lower. ## Votes (IA 2025–26 session) 589 roll calls. Attendance 98.4% (Iowa Senate 93.9%). Party unity 98.9% (95.7%). 2 votes against the party majority. Key votes: - 2026-10-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2801 A bill for an act modifying the major economic growth attraction program, and including effective date provisions. · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2801/ - 2026-05-03 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · SF 2472 A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, fees, financial authority, and budgets, by modifying property assessment provisions,… · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2472/ - 2026-05-03 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2788 A bill for an act relating to abortions including definitions, informed consent, dispensing of abortion-inducing drugs, and other abortion-related… · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2788/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2765 A bill for an act providing for the regulation of mining, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2765/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 1036 A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and… · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF1036/ - 2026-05-02 · voted nay · Shall amendment S-5251 be adopted? · HF 1036 A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and… · fail · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF1036/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2787 A bill for an act prohibiting warrant resolution clinics, including enforcement mechanisms, providing penalties, and including effective date… · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2787/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2781 A bill for an act relating to allocations of moneys from the juvenile detention home fund. · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2781/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2542 A bill for an act relating to habitual offenders, and providing penalties. · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2542/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2493 A bill for an act relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibility, funding, and compulsory attendance and… · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2493/ ## Legislation (IA 2025–26 session) Sponsored 6 bills: 6 reached committee, 1 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 0. 16.7% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Iowa Senate 10.8%; rank 11 of 48). Recent sponsored bills: - SF 2279: A bill for an act creating a maternity group home tax credit available against the individual, corporate, franchise, insurance premium, and moneys and credits… (in committee, 2026-04-15) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2279/ - SJR 2008: A joint resolution supporting devolution of power from the United States department of education to the states. (in committee, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SJR2008/ - SF 2120: A bill for an act relating to bona fide retirement and subsequent employment as school district support staff or a coach under the Iowa public employees’… (in committee, 2026-02-11) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2120/ - SR 104: A resolution recognizing and honoring the Young Men’s Christian Association (in committee, 2026-01-21) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SR104/ - SR 101: A resolution honoring Staff Sergeant William Nathaniel Howard, Staff Sergeant Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, and their families. (passed one chamber, 2026-01-15) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SR101/ - SF 467: A bill for an act relating to the licensure of anesthesiologist assistants, and making penalties applicable. (in committee, 2025-03-04) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF467/ ## Campaign money (2026 cycle) Itemized receipts $107.4K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 91% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors. ## Links - Official site: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?personID=37462&ga=91 - Campaign site: https://www.warmeforiowa.com/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WarmeforIowa - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/warmeforiowa/ - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kara-warme-a82b512b Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/ef7b8c3c-3cd0-4f95-8b4f-9e4daa061479