Articles Tagged: Mariannette Miller-Meeks

Republican members of Iowa's congressional delegation claimed Tuesday that Democrats are manufacturing a voting crisis in order to exert more control from Washington, D.C.

The bill — which provides a 2.7 percent increase in military basic pay — also includes changes to how the military prosecutes certain crimes like sexual assault, although members of Iowa’s GOP delegation says it does not go far enough.

it struck some Iowans as strange when U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks voted against a bill that would pour more than $100 million in federal money to repair and replace bridges into southwest Iowa, the district she represents in Washington. But not Washington insiders.

Freshman Republican will keep her Ottumwa home but will move into new 1st District to run for re-election

Jack Whitver, the Republican Senate majority leader, announced he is running for re-election, but he will do so in a new legislative district.

It’s “absolutely wrong to depict violence against another member of Congress ... There's no excuse or justification for that behavior and I won't defend that behavior.”

So Eastern Iowa’s Republican members of Congress, 1st District Rep. Ashley Hinson and 2nd District Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, voted against …

Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks will move and seek re-election in Iowa's newly-drawn 1st Congressional District in 2022, avoiding a potentially competitive and contentious race against Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne.

An ad by advocacy group Tax March began airing last month in Iowa. One of the ad’s claims can be measured. But another is, at this point, speculation.

The Iowa Democratic Party on Monday asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate U.S. Rep. Marianette Miller-Meeks' 2020 financial disclosure, saying the ophthalmologist representing Iowa’s 2nd District omitted information.

The key takeaway from their meeting with local election officials was the checks and balances in election operations, including the 40-step process of checking each voting machine before it goes into a polling place and in counting ballots.

Two Iowa Republicans are co-sponsors of a bill offering legal status to ‘documented Dreamers’ but the legislation has gone nowhere since it was introduced in July

Iowa City would switch congressional districts from the 2nd to the 1st.

Iowa’s delegates have investments, rental income, deferred compensation and other income besides the salaries they get for serving in public office. The Gazette decided to take a look at these reports, which are the first for freshmen Reps. Ashley Hinson, Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Randy Feenstra, who all took office in January.

No current members of the U.S. House are thrown into a district with another incumbent. However, Ashley Hinson and Marianette Miller-Meeks would be in unfamiliar territory. Their would-be Democratic challengers — state Sen. Liz Mathis of Hiawatha and state Rep. Christina Bohannan of Iowa City — both would be in the new 1st District. Under the current map, Mathis is in the 1st and Bohannan in the 2nd.