117th Congress
Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks toured the Farmers Electric Cooperative solar garden, farm and other solar installations affiliated with the energy company on Monday, June 7. Famers Electric is the oldest rural electric cooperative in Iowa, but it is also recognized as a solar energy leader — more than 20% of the cooperative’s kilowatt-hours per year are generated from solar locally. On a sunny Sunday afternoon, the cooperative typically generates 100% of its energy locally.
A bill to increase the maximum life insurance coverage for service members and veterans to $500,000 has been introduced by a bipartisan group of four lawmakers who say the increase is needed to reflect inflation levels.
U.S. Representative for Iowa’s 2nd District Mariannette Miller-Meeks visited several solar farms just north of Washington County Monday morning.
It was one of her usual community stops to touch base with constituents for Congresswoman Marianette Millers-Meeks, but Fort Madison Mayor Matt Mohrfeld wasn’t going to miss the opportunity to tout his marina project.
“There’s no way I’m going to get this many people in one room and not talk about the marina,” he told her and a dozen representatives from local business, industry, schools and government.
The last year has been difficult for all of us, especially our frontline healthcare workers and providers. Throughout the pandemic, our healthcare system was stretched to the limit and tested time and time again.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling on the Biden administration to immediately evacuate thousands of Afghans who have assisted the United States, saying in a letter Friday that those "Afghan friends and allies are at greater risk than ever before" as the US military withdrawal from the country is underway.
The last year has been difficult for all of us, especially our frontline healthcare workers and providers. Throughout the pandemic, our healthcare system was stretched to the limit and tested time and time again.