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President Joe Biden, who vowed to run a “transparent” administration, on Thursday pointedly declined to commit to allow the media and camera crews full access to the situation at the southern border. Now, Republicans are assailing Biden for that stance, calling it being “an insult to the purposes of a free press.”
A group with the US Army Corps of Engineers updated river projects in a meeting Thursday with Congresswoman Ashley Hinson at Lock and Dam 11 in Dubuque.
The meeting’s purpose was to discuss navigation projects for the Mississippi River and flood risk management missions across eastern Iowa.
Sen. Joni Ernst and Rep. Ashley Hinson are teaming up to increase the availability of federal funds for child care development.
Ernst on Thursday introduced the ACCESS Act — Affordable Child Care for Economic Strategies and Success — to provide grants to communities and public-private partnerships. to increase access to child care.
The grants would be administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (IA-01) today toured the industrial manufacturing center at Kirkwood Community College and met with administrators, faculty, and students to learn more about the high-tech training programs they offer, including advanced welding, computer-aided design (CAD), industrial maintenance, and carpentry.
Congresswoman Ashley Hinson led a bicameral group of her colleagues in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressing their outrage with what they describe as her "brazen" efforts to overturn the state-certified election results in Iowa's Second Congressional District and unseat Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks, flouting the will of Iowa voters for her own political gain.
Here is the full letter to Pelosi from lawmakers:
Congressional Republicans are demanding the Biden administration stand up for Taiwan in talks with China's leadership on Thursday.
Members of Dubuque’s leading business and economy organizations said downgrading the county from a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) to a micropolitan area would “wipe it off the map.”
That is why they are coming together to send a strong and consistent message to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) asking it to reject the proposal. That proposal states that MSAs should have a population of 100,000. The current threshold is 50,000.
Dozens of House Republicans lined up on the House floor Tuesday to call for a vote on GOP-backed legislation that would tie school funding to reopening plans.
The effort, led by first-term lawmaker Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), came as House lawmakers were set to debate the rule for a sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that's expected to pass along party lines Wednesday.
"I seek unanimous consent to call up H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens and back in the classroom," Hinson said.
Call it a political cease fire in local Congressional Politics. 1st District Congresswoman Ashley Hinson addressed the Iowa First District Democrats' quarterly meeting on Sunday. The meeting, held virtually, featured statements from top Iowa Democrats including new Chairman and State Representative Ross Wilburn, and Iowa's only Democrat in Congress, Rep. Cindy Axne.
U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, announced she is co-sponsoring three pieces of legislation that will give small businesses certainty and help families save money.
Those bills are the Main Street Tax Certainty Act, the Emergency Savings Account Act, and the Small Business Emergency Savings Account Act. Hinson says these bills will help both small businesses and families recover from the financial toll of the pandemic.