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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.

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.

President Joe Biden predicts the program — that will send monthly payments of $300 for each child age 5 and younger and $250 per child for those between 5 and 17 — will halve child poverty rates.

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. 

The amendment, however, was not passed by the House Appropriations Committee, according to Fox News.

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.

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.