Articles Tagged: U.S. House of Representatives

Also, Iowa City’s Adam Zabner announces re-election bid for Iowa House

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’s delegation joins Republican colleagues in backing low-profile Mike Johnson.

Iowa U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks switched her vote for House speaker Wednesday, joining nearly two dozen Republicans who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio on his second try at clinching the position.

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.

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

Miller-Meeks and Grassley also move to freeze Iranian assets.

Iowa Republican said the Hamas terrorist organization ‘needs to be destroyed.'

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

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been voted out of the job in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history.

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.

Iowa Democratic Party Chair Rita Hart called on Iowa’s Republican U.S. House to put politics aside and work across the aisle on a budget resolution palatable to the Senate to avert a federal government shutdown.

“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.”