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It’s the first year in the U.S. House for Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, who has been on the job for nearly five months.

And we had an opportunity to catch up with her Monday on KMCH.

When we asked Hinson what she hears from constituents as she travels through Iowa’s First District, she says there seems to be a few topics that get brought up most often.

U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, a Marion Republican representing Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, has had several recent tweets about security at the U.S. border with Mexico.

A May 10 fundraising video on Twitter includes a half-dozen sound-bites from Hinson, all about border security. In one, Hinson says “Why haven’t you been to the border, President Biden? Why hasn’t Vice President Harris been to the border?”

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Military veterans living in rural areas in Iowa and beyond may see greater access to mental health care through a bill making its way through Congress just ahead of Memorial Day weekend.

On Tuesday, the U.S. House passed a bill that would require the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to spend more than a million dollars each year to fund the creation of additional mental health care outreach teams to serve veterans outside of cities and to research the VA's effectiveness with those rural veterans. 

VINTON, Iowa (KWWL) -- Six of Iowa's counties are deserts for prenatal and childbirth health care: Worth, Buchanan, Jackson, Jones, Benton and Iowa.

U.S. Representative Ashley Hinson is trying to change that. Today, the Congresswoman helped introduce two bi-partisan bills designed to train more midwives and build more birthing centers to rural areas of the country. Hinson joins another Republican and two Democrats in supporting these bills.

EXCLUSIVE: Two Republican lawmakers are leading 18 members of the U.S. Senate and 64 members of the U.S. House of Representatives in filing an amicus brief at the Supreme Court against selective abortions based on a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis.

DES MOINES, Iowa – U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, wants to prevent former members of Congress from lobbying on behalf of China and other communist regimes. 

The Iowa Torch learned Hinson is an original co-sponsor of the No CCP Lobbying Act introduced on Monday.

This bill would prohibit former Members of Congress from lobbying on behalf of (1) communist governments and (2) entities controlled by communist governments. Violators of the law would be subject to a $25,000 penalty.

U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) met with the owner of aSPArations Salon and Day Spa in Marshalltown to talk policy and issues surrounding the small business community.

Hinson asked owner Tasha Schnathorst questions about how her business has worked to return after closure and how they recovered when Marshalltown was hit with natural disasters.

Schnathorst’s business survived an eight-week shutdown amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and said she has managed to bounce back from the added effects of the 2018 tornado and 2020 derecho.