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Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks, M.D. (IA-01) joined the Iowa congressional delegation in urging Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz to support Iowa’s latest funding request through the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), known as Healthy Hometowns. The program, created through the Working Families Tax Cuts law, has already delivered $209 million to strengthen rural health care across Iowa in its first year.

Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks, M.D. (IA-01) has introduced the Medicaid Whistleblower Protection Act, legislation to establish clear federal protections for state and local employees who report fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicaid programs. The bill comes after widespread reports of retaliation against whistleblowers in states like Minnesota, where public servants say they were punished for raising early warnings about fraud that later cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) and President Donald Trump announced the largest steel plant ever built in the United States is coming to Lee County, Iowa. This $15 billion steel plant will create 1,750 new, permanent jobs, support up to 6,000 construction jobs, and generate an estimated $95 billion in U.S. economic output over construction and the first decade of operations.

Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Rep. George Whitesides (D-CA), Rep. Mike Kennedy (R-UT), and Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA) introduced the bipartisan Protecting Kids from Human-Like Chatbots Act, legislation to protect children from AI chatbots designed to imitate human relationships. This bill would prohibit chatbots from communicating by default in a human-like way with minors, including pretending to be human, expressing simulated emotions, or using relationship-building language to keep children engaged.

Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01) joined President Donald Trump in the Oval Office for the announcement of a historic $15 billion investment to build the largest steel plant in American history in Lee County, Iowa. The project is expected to create more than 1,700 permanent jobs paying over $49 an hour, along with 5,000 to 6,000 construction jobs.

Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks, M.D. (IA-01) celebrated Iowa rural communities receiving $15.9 million in new funding she helped deliver to expand cancer prevention, detection, and treatment, helping more Iowans access high-quality care closer to home.

The U.S. Senate today passed bipartisan legislation led by Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01) and Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) to strengthen Iowa and American manufacturing, identify critical products currently being imported, and help bring more production and good-paying jobs back to the United States.

The U.S. House of Representatives has given final passage to the bipartisan Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act, legislation led by Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01) and U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) requiring public disclosure of taxpayer-funded projects that are more than $1 billion over budget or more than five years behind schedule.