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WATERLOO, Iowa (KWWL) - In his speech to Congress Wednesday evening, President Biden laid out an ambitious agenda including a $2 trillion "American Families Plan" that would cover universal Pre-K, tuition-free community college, and expanded child care tax credits.
DES MOINES, Iowa – Iowa’s Republican members of Congress responded to President Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress.
U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, who represents Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, criticized Biden’s first 100 days in office.
“President Biden’s first 100 days in office have been disappointing to me and to the Iowans I represent. Tonight, he had a chance to chart a new path forward, but he did not do so.
Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson is co-sponsoring legislation to make a retroactive change in the federal Paycheck Protection Program for some farmers and small business owners.
The PPP was created last spring and quickly ran out of money. A third round of funding was approved by Congress in December.
“Currently, there’s a technicality with the PPP that’s preventing some Iowa farmers and self-employed small business owners from receiving their full PPP forgivable loan,” Hinson said.
House Republicans introduced a slate of bills Friday they billed as "natural solutions" to climate change and an alternative to Sen. Debbie Stabenow's soon-to-be-reintroduced Growing Climate Solutions Act.
On a call with reporters, Republican Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee and fellow Republicans discussed salvage logging, biochar, soil health and Stabenow’s legislation.
Congresswoman Ashley Hinson made a stop in Tama County on April 12. She first met with the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association (ICA) for a lunch meeting at Murph’s Creamery and Grill in Toledo before departing for a meeting on the Meskwaki Settlement.
Hinson’s visit to Murph’s comes in conjunction with the restaurant being named as a Top 10 finalist for the Iowa’s Best Burger Contest put on by the Iowa Beef Industry Council.
Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, introduced new legislation Tuesday to make permanent five of former President Donald Trump's executive orders that President Biden already repealed.
The family of veteran Brandon Ketchum, who died by suicide in 2016, says a new bill named after him could help other rural service-members struggling to acclimate back to life in the U.S.
The "Sgt. Ketchum Rural Veterans' Mental Health Act" was introduced earlier this week by Iowa lawmakers and is being discussed Thursday on Capitol Hill.
WATERLOO -- Hundreds gathered behind a fence at the Waterloo Regional Airport on Wednesday afternoon, holding up signs to welcome home about 100 Iowa Army National Guard soldiers before hugging and kissing them minutes later after they were released.
The soldiers from Charlie Company, part of the 1st Battalion of the 133rd Infantry Regiment -- the "Ironman Battalion," departed the plane and lined up on the tarmac to whistles and cheers for a socially distanced crowd at the homecoming ceremony.
The Iowa Congresswoman visited the Southern Border this week with other Republican members from the Republican Study Committee (RSC) to tour the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) facilities and hear from the law enforcement officers and border patrol that are being affected by the crisis happening at the southern border.
Republican Study Committee members demanded Democratic leadership to visit the southern border and see the consequences of reversing Trump-era immigration policies firsthand.
Iowa Rep. Ashley Hinson told reporters, “Speaker Pelosi needs to come here too. Because, just yesterday, she said things are moving in the right direction. ... Well, law enforcement officials are telling us otherwise."