Articles Tagged: Ashley Hinson

Senate leaders have said they will not take up the House proposal, and President Joe Biden has threatened to veto.

Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson said she remains hopeful Congress will pass new legislation yet this year reauthorizing federal spending for programs supporting U.S. farmers and ranchers, including commodity support and conservation programs and crop insurance.

Iowa U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst and U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson are pressing multiple federal agencies to protect Jewish Americans from discrimination, their offices said Thursday.

Corkery, a first-time candidate and two-time breast cancer survivor, said she is running to expand access to affordable health care, lower prescription drug costs, strengthen gun safety laws and help farmers modernize their business.

The event featured guest speaker Riley Gaines, an anti-transgender activist.

Congresswoman also says her staff working to bring Iowans stuck in Israel home.

Also, DeSantis and Haley campaigns expand Iowa footprint

Iowa Republican U.S. House Reps. Ashley Hinson and Mariannette Miller-Meeks publicly declared their support for Steve Scalise as the next House Speaker.

Iowa's four Republican U.S. representatives voted in favor of a House deal to fund the federal government for 45 days and avoid a shutdown.

Iowa’s all-Republican U.S. House delegation voted Friday on a failed last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open as the funding deadline nears. Federal government funding expires after midnight on Saturday.

“The government shutdown possibility sucks all of the oxygen out of the room,” Iowa State University professor Chad Hart says. “So until that is taken care of, you really can’t make forward progress on any other piece of legislation, including a Farm Bill.”

Three of Iowa's four congressional seats — which Democrats held as recently as 2020 — are still winnable, Iowa Democrats say, but the party doesn’t have candidates for two of them thus far.

Prices spiked in Iowa last week. An analyst says refinery disruptions are the real cause, and prices should start dropping soon.

The impending impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, announced by U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday, received a show of support from Iowa’s all-Republican members of Congress, who said the inquiry will give House Republicans more tools to investigate the president and his family.

A walk-through Monday at The Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids was part of a screening demonstration organized by Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, who has been working with TSA officials to ease challenges veterans and those with disabilities face when traveling with service animals.