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Pareen Mhatre said she has been in constant fear of her path to American citizenship for the past five years. Mhatre, a University of Iowa student and Immigration Advocate for Improve the Dream, is legally considered an international student despite living in Iowa City for 20 years.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to appoint a select committee to investigate the January 6th Capitol attack since the Senate filibustered a bill to create an independent commission which the House passed in May.
The U.S. Senate voted unanimously to approve bipartisan legislation to expand mental health care for rural veterans. The legislation now heads to the desk of President Biden for his signature.
The Sgt. Ketchum Rural Veterans’ Mental Health Act, named in memory of Iowa veteran Brandon Ketchum, establishes new Rural Access Network for Growth Enhancement (RANGE) programs through the Department of Veteran Affairs and supports additional research on rural veteran mental health care needs.
A bill named in honor of a Davenport veteran who died by suicide has passed the US Senate unanimously last night and is headed to the president’s desk.
The bill cleared the U.S. House in May and outlines steps to improve mental health care options for veterans who live in rural areas. Iowa Congresswoman Cindy Axne of West Des Moines is the lead sponsor of the bill, named in honor of Sergeant Brandon Ketchum, a retired Marine.
Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-02) this week introduced a bill that would tackle anticompetitive practices in the meat and poultry industries that threaten the American food supply and U.S. national security.
Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-02) this week introduced a bill that would tackle anticompetitive practices in the meat and poultry industries that threaten the American food supply and U.S. national security.
Construction hats were donned and shovels were wielded Wednesday to mark the start of an expansion project for a Washington-based organization.
U.S. Reps. Ashley Hinson, R-IA 01, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-IA 02, Cindy Axne, D-IA 03, and Randy Feenstra, R-IA 04, joined over 200 of their U.S. House colleagues in a bipartisan letter to Administrator Isabel Guzman of the Small Business Administration (SBA) urging immediate action to stabilize and improve the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program, which provides emergency assistance grants to venues that were unable to operate during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence of their effectiveness and safety, vaccine hesitancy is still prevalent in the United States.