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Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (IA-01) today announced that Alleesandra Brown of Cedar Rapids is the winner of the 2021 Congressional Art Competition. Alleesandra is a rising sophomore at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids. Her piece is titled A Wonderland of UnCanny and will hang in the U.S. Capitol alongside other selections from around the country.
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Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-IA) today called for immediate consideration of her bill, the See the Crisis Act, legislation that would prevent Vice President Kamala Harris from using taxpayer dollars to travel internationally before seeing the border crisis firsthand. House Democrats refused to consider her legislation. Hinson's full floor remarks are below. |
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (IA-01) recently joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers to introduce the FAIR Leave Act. Currently, a loophole in federal law limits the amount of family leave some married people can take if they work for the same employer. The bill amends federal family leave policy to allow married couples working for the same employer to take the same amount of leave as couples working for different employers.
Washington, D.C. – After continued advocacy and engagement from Representative Ashley Hinson (IA-01), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that Lock & Dam No.10 in Guttenberg, Iowa, will receive approximately $2.9 million in federal funding for essential infrastructure upgrades. Hinson released the following statement on the new investment.
rom Memorial Day to Flag Day, three hundred flags stand firm just east of AMVETS Post 49 in Cedar Falls. Each flag was purchased by a family that wanted to honor a fallen veteran.
Meeting in-person this year, dozes turned up Monday morning outside the post to commemorate those we've lost. The retiring post commander, Ron Kirkland, says this year stings a bit more.
"We lost members that we shouldn't have. It wasn't their time to go, but the virus caused it," Kirkland said.