Press Releases

BURLINGTON, IA — Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks, M.D. (IA-01) hosted House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie and local elected officials and business leaders for an energy roundtable in Burlington on how to power the $15 billion steel mill planned for Lee County, where construction is set to begin next year, and the new businesses and jobs expected to follow it.

MUSCATINE, IA — Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01) today visited the Mississippi Valley Child Protection Center in Muscatine to learn more about their important work protecting children and supporting families.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump has signed into law the Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act, legislation led by Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks, M.D. (IA-01) to bring manufacturing back to the United States and create good-paying jobs for Iowans.

President Donald Trump has signed into law bipartisan legislation led by Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01) and Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) to increase transparency and accountability for taxpayer-funded projects that go over budget and fall behind schedule.

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.