117th Congress
Congresswoman and physician Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R) helped administer COVID-19 vaccines at Washington County Public Health Wednesday afternoon.
CORALVILLE, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa’s 2nd District Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks is touring vaccine facilities in counties she represents to encourage people to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Miller-Meeks is an opthalmologist and past director of the Iowa Department of Public Health. This comes as a new Des Monies Register/Mediacom poll shows there’s a political component when it comes to getting the vaccine.
To read the original piece in the Southeast Iowa Union, click HERE.
The recent weather and energy crisis in Texas shed a light on the energy grid and how it works, or rather, how it may not work under extreme circumstances. While temperatures in Iowa also reached historic lows, our energy grid functioned as it should and other states can learn from Iowa’s energy leadership.
Washington, DC – Representative Mikie Sherrill (NJ-11) and Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-02) today introduced the bipartisan GI Bill NEED Act to protect veterans’ educational benefits from expiring due to institutional closures or other factors caused by the COVID-19 national emergency. This important legislation will allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to pause the time limit currently placed on the use of GI Bill benefits, and allow them to restart the clock after it is safe for veterans to return to school.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, March 19th, 2021, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-02) announced her appointment to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. Miller-Meeks will serve on the Select Subcommittee in addition to her appointments on the Committees on Homeland Security, Education and Labor, and Veterans’ Affairs.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, March 18th, 2021, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-02)spoke on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to recognize the Pella High School boys basketball team, who won the Iowa 3A state championship last Friday in Des Moines.