Articles Tagged: U.S. House of Representatives

Citing growing concern about Chinese investment in U.S. agriculture, Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson announced a renewed push to more closely monitor foreign ownership of farmland across the country.

Eager to confront President Joe Biden and the Democrats, he promised subpoenas and investigations. "Now the hard work begins," the California Republican declared.

Iowa's U.S. House members continued to back McCarthy in a chamber that remained paralyzed, unable to elect a leader and officially seat its members. Until a speaker is elected, University of Iowa graduate and U.S. House Clerk Cheryl Johnson currently presides over the House.

Why Rep. Ashley Hinson voted no

The bill is a relief for hundreds of thousands of couples who have married since the Supreme Court's 2015 decision that legalized those marriages and have worried about what would happen if the ruling -- like the Roe v . Wade abortion decision that 50 years ago legalized abortions -- were overturned.

A House measure passed Wednesday by a vote of 290-137 and now heads to the Senate. If approved there, it will be signed by President Joe Biden, who urged the Senate to act swiftly.

Republicans won control of the U.S. House on Wednesday, returning the party to power in Washington and giving conservatives leverage to blunt President Joe Biden’s agenda and spur a flurry of investigations. But a threadbare majority will pose immediate challenges for GOP leaders and complicate the party’s ability to govern.

A pair of former Iowa broadcast journalists running for an Eastern Iowa congressional seat argued policy over abortion, infrastructure, parental rights and more in their first televised debate before the Nov. 8 general election.

Mariannette Miller-Meeks, the incumbent Republican, and Christina Bohannan, a Democratic Iowa House representative, argued policy over abortion, immigration, inflation, democracy and more in the first of the Iowa Press debate series.

Iowa’s Republican U.S. House members voted against a bipartisan bill to overhaul a centuries-old law in an effort to prevent future presidential candidates from trying to subvert future elections.

The road to recapturing U.S. House and Senate majorities and “restoring common sense” in Washington, D.C., to fight inflation, combat rising crime and secure the U.S.-Mexico border runs through Iowa, according to a slate of Republican speakers.

She criticizes Hinson’s voting record during speech at Iowa State Fair

Iowa Republican U.S. Reps. Ashley Hinson and Mariannette Miller-Meeks said the legislation went too far. The pair instead sponsored a bill that would allow people over age 18 to access FDA-approved birth control pills over-the-counter.

The U.S. House is poised to vote to establish a right to contraception nationwide. Republicans Ashley Hinson and Mariannette Miller-Meeks instead have introduced a bill to access birth control pills over the counter.

House Democrats blocked a measure by U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, that would have stopped President Joe Biden from canceling hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt.