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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.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, February 27th, 2021, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-02) released the following statement after voting NO on H.R. 1319, the budget reconciliation package.
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).
WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, Iowa’s Congressional delegation urged U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to expand eligibility of the department’s COVID-19 relief programs to include custom cattle feeders, a sector of Iowa’s agricultural economy operated primarily by family farmers.
Vilsack, the former Governor of Iowa and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under the Obama administration, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday by a 92 to 7 vote.
