After a morning of cloudy skies, the sun appropriately lit up the area as a ribbon was being cut on the largest solar energy project in the state.
Democrat Rita Hart has withdrawn her election contest of Iowa's 2nd Congressional District race, after months spent asking Congress to investigate U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks' six-vote win.
Republican Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate on Monday sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., urging her to respect Iowa’s bipartisan recount process and state-certified election results declaring U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, the winner of Iowa's 2nd Congressional District.
Sen. Joni Ernst and Rep. Ashley Hinson are teaming up to increase the availability of federal funds for child care development.
Iowa Republicans continued a GOP-pressure campaign Thursday, casting a U.S. House review of a contested congressional election in Iowa’s 2nd district as a partisan power grab to pad Democrats' narrow 219-211 majority in the House.
While moderate and vulnerable House Democrats express reservations over the prospect of reversing a state-certified election, Democrat Rita Hart's campaign renewed its call for all lawful ballots to be counted as a GOP-pressure campaign builds casting the contest as a partisan power grab.
"I would be happy to look at a path for citizenship for children who are brought here through no fault of their own, but this bill specifically went too far, beyond amnesty to DREAMers."
A panel of U.S. House Democrats took a procedural step Wednesday to begin delving into the merits of Democrat Rita Hart's election challenge in Iowa's 2nd Congressional District.
State Democratic lawmakers plan to push forward a bipartisan proposal to reform Iowa's election recount process in the wake of issues that arose in Iowa’s historically close U.S. House race, which is still being challenged in Congress.
Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks on Friday voted against a budget resolution that could clear the way for President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.
Miller-Meeks was assigned a seat this week on the House Homeland Security Committee, along with Veterans’ Affairs and Education and Labor committees.
Freshman Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks plans to officially call on Congress to follow precedent and dismiss Democrat Rita Hart’s petition challenging the razor-thin outcome in the contested race for southeast Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District.
Just hours before his inauguration, Iowa Republican U.S. Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Ashley Hinson joined GOP colleagues in a letter sent to Democrat President-elect Joe Biden offering their sincere willingness to work together on key issues facing the nation.
A phone went unanswered and messages unreturned last week at Iowa U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks' short-staffed congressional office in the Longworth House Office Building.
DES MOINES — The Iowa Democratic Party has asked a nonpartisan U.S. House ethics body to investigate Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson over what the Democrats say are ethics violations, an accusation the Congresswoman’s office disputes.
DES MOINES — Republican President Donald Trump’s term in office officially ends Wednesday, exactly two weeks after he sparked a siege on the U.S. Capitol that was motivated by his attempt, joined by his most zealous supporters, to overturn the country’s presidential election results.
Biden’s inauguration looming, Iowa Republicans address Trump’s election claims, U.S. Capitol attacks
DES MOINES — Republican President Donald Trump’s term in office officially ends Wednesday, exactly two weeks after he sparked a siege on the U.S. Capitol that was motivated by his attempt, joined by his most zealous supporters, to overturn the country’s presidential election results.
Had the ballots been tallied, Rita Hart argues she would have gained 18 more votes to Mariannette Miller-Meeks' three additional votes, enough to win the race.
DES MOINES — Cindy Axne, the only Democrat in Iowa’s congressional delegation, cast the lone vote from the state in favor of impeaching Republ…
Miller-Meeks reiterated on Wednesday that impeaching Trump a week shy of the end of his term would "only further divide the nation and make it more difficult for President-elect Joe Biden to unify and lead our nation."
The skirmishes came just shortly after Trump addressed thousands of his supporters, riling up the crowd with his baseless claims of election fraud at a rally near the White House on Wednesday ahead of Congress' vote.
"As a 24-year Army veteran and member of Congress who swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, Congresswoman Miller-Meeks believes that any justification to decertify electoral votes must reach the highest standards."
"As a 24-year Army veteran and member of Congress who swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, Congresswoman Miller-Meeks believes that any justification to decertify electoral votes must reach the highest standards."
CEDAR RAPIDS — Freshman Iowa 1st District Rep. Ashley Hinson, who has said she sees no path to victory for President Donald Trump, expects the…
Had the ballots been tallied, Rita Hart argues she would have gained 18 more votes to Mariannette Miller-Meeks' three additional votes, enough to win the race.
