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July 27, 2021

The far left’s obsession with spending taxpayer dollars on electric vehicle subsidies is a deeply irresponsible publicity stunt that props up the Chinese Communist Party to the detriment of Iowa’s own biofuel producers—and to the detriment of our environment and national security.


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July 19, 2021

On paper, U.S. Reps. Cheri Bustos, D-Illinois, and Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, are as different as they are alike.

Bustos announced in recent months that she would not seek re-election, so after 2022, she is on her way out after six terms. Hinson just arrived in January, but is building steam toward her first re-election campaign next year.


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July 19, 2021

U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson supports expanding the child tax credit, but has concerns about the price tag on the American Rescue Plan that includes sending payments averaging $423 a month to about 35 million families with children.


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July 19, 2021

Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) looked to implement an amendment to put an end to a $50 million program that would use taxpayer money to pay for the lawyers who represent migrants who crossed the southern border. 


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July 19, 2021

Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, on Thursday offered an amendment to stop a $50 million pilot program that would use taxpayer money to pay for lawyers to represent migrants who had crossed the southern border – but it was voted down in the House Appropriations Committee.


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July 19, 2021

A bipartisan group of farm-state U.S. House and Senate members Wednesday introduced bills they say will provide a legislative remedy to a recent court decision striking down the year-round sale of an ethanol-gasoline blend.


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July 19, 2021

After landing on a list of 144 cities at risk of losing their metropolitan status, Dubuque will keep its designation as a metro area and the access to federal funding and other critical resources that comes with it.


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July 19, 2021

On Tuesday, House Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee approved their DHS spending budget, which, as Breitbart News reported, revokes all funding for a border wall and expands upon President Joe Biden’s “sanctuary country” orders by maki


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July 19, 2021

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, and fifteen of her Republican colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to U.S. Department of Labor Acting Inspector General Larry Turner calling for an investigation into the amount of federal funds stolen through fraudulent unemployment claims during the pandemic.


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July 6, 2021

Last week marked the 13th anniversary of the Iowa flood of 2008. During this disaster, I was a journalist at KCRG-TV 9 in Cedar Rapids, and I’ll never forget what it was like to cover the flood and its devastating aftermath.