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WASHINGTON, DC – Iowa’s Congressional delegation is asking the IRS to increase staffing at the Iowa Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) office.
The letter says the office, based in Des Moines, does not have enough staff to assist Iowans with questions and concerns regarding their federal taxes.
The full text of the letter is below:
Ms. Collins,
WASHINGTON —
Early Saturday morning, the U.S. House passed a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill 219-212 allowing it to progress to the Senate.
Democrat Rep. Cindy Axne voted in favor of the bill while Republican Representatives Ashley Hinson, Randy Feenstra, and Mariannette Miller-Meeks voted against it.
The bill includes $1,400 payments to Americans that qualify, billions of dollars for COVID-19 vaccines and testing, and financial assistance for schools and businesses.
Washington, DC — Iowa’s congressional delegation is urging the Biden Administration to restructure the state’s weekly allocation of COVID vaccine. The group says putting more doses of Johnson and Johnson’s vaccine in the mix makes sense.
Representative Ashley Hinson of Marion says pharmacies in rural parts of the state cannot afford the freezers required to store the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KWWL) -- Iowa Representatives Ashley Hinson (IA-01), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-02), Randy Feenstra (IA-04), and Cindy Axne (IA-03) are calling on the Biden Administration to provide more COVID-19 vaccines for rural Iowa.
The newly approved Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine that’s now on the way to states including Iowa could protect millions more Americans from contracting the disease — if they can be assured the single-shot vaccine is worth getting as its overall efficacy appears lower than the two-dose ones already on the market.
The shot, which U.S. regulators authorized Saturday, is more convenient than the vaccines cleared last year by the Food and Drug Administration. Besides requiring just one shot, it can be stored for months in a common refrigerator.
Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks joined her Iowa U.S. House colleagues on Monday in a letter pushing the Biden administration to use recent approval of a new single-dose COVID-19 vaccine to ramp up rural vaccination efforts.
(Washington, D.C.) -- Iowa’s congressional delegation is working to have custom cattle feeders included in renewed payments from USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program.
This week, Senators Chuck Grassley, Joni Ernst, and Representatives Cindy Axne, Randy Feenstra, Ashley Hinson, and Mariannette Miller-Meeks sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack highlighting the exclusion of custom cattle feeders from CFAP aid.
Iowa’s congressional delegation is working to have custom cattle feeders included in renewed payments from USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program.
This week, Senators Chuck Grassley, Joni Ernst, and Representatives Cindy Axne, Randy Feenstra, Ashley Hinson, and Mariannette Miller-Meeks sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack highlighting the exclusion of custom cattle feeders from CFAP aid.
WASHINGTON (KMTV) - Iowa’s congressional delegation is asking U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to adjust the eligibility of the department’s coronavirus relief programs to include custom cattle feeders, a sector of the state’s agricultural economy mostly run by family farmers.
In a letter, Senators Chuck Grassley, Joni Ernst, and Representatives Cindy Axne, Randy Feenstra, Ashley Hinson, and Mariannette Miller-Meeks pointed out the exclusion of custom cattle feeders from the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP).