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Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (IA-01) released the following statement upon successfully securing Dubuque's metropolitan status. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced that the agency would not be moving forward with a proposal to change the definition of a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA); the threshold for an MSA will remain at a population of 50,000.
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Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (IA-01) and fifteen of her 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. |
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.
Our community prepared as best we could, but there was only so much we could do as the Cedar River continued to rise and overtake buildings and homes throughout Cedar Rapids — until it eventually crested at 31.12 feet, the highest level in our history.
A bipartisan bill, aimed at expanding access to mental health care for veterans living in rural areas, is expected to be signed by President Joe Biden on Wednesday.
It's named in memory of Iowa Sergeant Brandon Ketchum, who died by suicide after investigators said he was denied access to mental health services through the Iowa City VA Medical Center.
He was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
The U.S. Senate unanimously approved the bill on June 24.
During a press call last Friday, U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, said she learned about navigating the legal immigration system during a visit to Gentle Dental in Cedar Rapids last week.
She said Dr. Vijay Vaddati, DDS, discussed the challenges faced by those who come legally to the United States.
“Many of them have children in this country, so the age 21 challenges that they’re facing, challenges of the employment-based Green Card backlog. And then, we talked a lot about potential reforms that could help improve our legal immigration system,” Hinson said.
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Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson is pushing the Biden Administration to reopen federal offices to the public.
Many of those local offices - like social security administration and USDA offices - remain closed to the public as part of COVID-19 restrictions that started last year.
That’s despite most state, county and city offices, as well as businesses, reopening to in-person services.
Representative Hinson says her own local offices have been open for months.