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Maria Theresa Louis came to America from India in 2007, when she was just four years old — and she has spent much of the past 14 years worrying about the day she will be forced to leave her family and “self-deport” back to her birth country.

University of Iowa student Pareen Mhatre has lived in the United States since she was 4 months old, arriving on her father's dependent student visa.

And that has clouded the two decades since for Mhatre. Her life has been spent wondering how long she will be able to legally remain in the only country she has ever known.

In a time of deep partisanship, clean water should be an obvious policy area where lawmakers can collaborate. It is crucial to the lifeblood of our country and ensuring its accessibility is critical to protecting American families.

A BILL INTRODUCED BY THE BIOFUELS CAUCUS IN THE U-S HOUSE WOULD OVERTURN A FEDERAL COURT RULING AND ALLOW YEAR-ROUND SALES OF E-15 AND HIGHER BLENDS OF ETHANOL.

IOWA CONGRESSWOMAN CINDY AXNE CO-CHAIRS THE CAUCUS AND SAYS THEY ARE GOING TO GET LANGUAGE CHANGED AND CODIFIED, SO THAT THEY DON’T SEE ANY MORE OF THESE COURT DECISIONS BASED OFF OF OLD INFORMATION.

In a time of deep partisanship, clean water should be an obvious policy area where lawmakers can collaborate. It is crucial to the lifeblood of our country and ensuring its accessibility is critical to protecting American families.

A bipartisan group of farm-state U.S. House and Senate members Wednesday introduced bills they say will provide a legislative remedy to a recent court decision striking down the year-round sale of an ethanol-gasoline blend.

Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Ottumwa is pushing to ensure a current benefit for military veterans and the families of soldiers who died while on duty is a permanent policy.