Articles Tagged: U.S. House of Representatives

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.”

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.

Challenge those oversimplified platitudes and you’re a racist, a misogynist, a xenophobe, a climate denier, and a bigot.

A Tama town hall Tuesday was her 29th town hall since being elected to Congress in 2020, and her ninth in-person town hall this year.

U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who represents Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, hosted a town hall in Iowa City, where she fielded questions about protecting women’s reproductive rights, climate change, gun control and bipartisan cooperation. It was her first public town hall in Iowa City since becoming the town’s congressperson.

Bohannan’s announcement Tuesday morning sets up a rematch with GOP incumbent Mariannette Miller-Meeks.

Republican Party of Iowa Chair Jeff Kaufmann issued a statement Friday citing unconfirmed reports that Democrat Christina Bohannan plans to announce her second bid for Congress in the 2024 elections.

Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, of Marion, wants federal workers to start returning to government offices, citing a report that details the cost of unused federal office space.

Ahead of the 15-year anniversary of the historic 2008 flood, Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, of Marion, introduced a bipartisan bill to improve flood and drought mitigation through existing federal conservation programs.

All four of Iowa's Republican representatives voted late Wednesday in favor of

Members of Iowa’s delegation stood their fertile ground, ultimately persuading their party’s leaders to yield so the members could support the bill.