Mariannette Miller-Meeks

U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen, D-Rockford, is urging his colleagues in Congress to pass legislation honoring a Thomson prison corrections officer who died by suicide in March 2023.

U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen, D-Moline, is urging his colleagues in Congress to pass legislation honoring a Thomson prison corrections officer who died by suicide in March 2023.

Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday announced she will not seek re-election in 2026.

The "Delinking Revenue from Unfair Gouging (DRUG) Act" was unveiled by a group of bipartisan lawmakers Tuesday, aimed at reforming the incentive structure for Pharmacy Benefit Managers so that they are not encouraged to promote high-cost drugs.

Welcome to week in Iowa.

Republican Rep. Gabe Evans faces a Toss-up race in Colorado's 8th District, according to Inside Elections' initial race ratings. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. Democrats’ divided responses to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress culminated with 10 of them in the House voting with Republicans on Thursday to censure Texas Democratic [...]The post At the Races: Censure and sensitivity appeared first on Roll Call.

On January 16, 2025, Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Joni Ernst (R-IA) reintroduced the Farm to Fly Act (S. 144), which would help accelerate the production and development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) through existing U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs to allow further growth for alternative fuels to be used in the aviation sector and create new markets for American farmers. According to Moran’s January 21, 2025, press release, the Farm to Fly Act would:Clarify eligibility for SAF within current USDA Bio-Energy Programs, expanding markets for American agricultural crops through aviation bioenergy;Provide for greater collaboration for aviation biofuels throughout USDA agency mission areas, increasing private sector partnerships; andAffirm a common definition of SAF for USDA purposes, as widely supported by industry to enable U.S. crops to contribute most effectively to... Read the complete article here...©2025 Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday brought bleak news for congressional Democrats: Just 21 percent of voters approve of the way they are doing [...]The post At the Races: Dems the breaks appeared first on Roll Call.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and Secretary of State Paul Pate sued the Biden administration on Tuesday for access to citizenship status information of more than 2,000 registered voters.

Neither party made significant gains in 2024, and Republican women still lag behind.

Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks is headed back to Congress after winning her reelection bid

Iowa Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks squared up against Democratic challenger Christina Bohannan in the race for the state's 1st Congressional District.

Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks wins reelection to U.S. House in Iowa's 1st Congressional District

There is $1 trillion in government spending ripe for the cutting, Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst said this week in a letter to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks has called a Democrat-backed recount of her 2024 House race a waste of taxpayer money while she leads Christina Bohannan by fewer than 1,000 votes.

State Sen. Zach Wahls, D-Coralville, said the Iowa Democratic Party needs to demonstrate a genuine understanding and responsiveness to the economic realities and priorities of middle-class and working-class Iowans.

Congress returned to Washington this week with just five weeks left in this year’s legislative calendar. With a Continuing Resolution (CR) that expires December 20, 2024, either a year-end spending package or a new Continuing Resolution will need to be passed to continue funding the government. There are several health policies that may be included in this package, including policies expiring at the end of the year. Must-pass items, such as extensions for Medicare COVID-era telehealth flexibilities and policy changes that enjoy broad bipartisan, bicameral support, such as Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) Reform and BIOSECURE, are on the docket for consideration. Must-PassTelehealth Extension: Medicare FlexibilitiesThe IssueMedicare telehealth flexibilities put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic will expire at the end of this year following a two-year extension in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023. Prior to the pandemic, telehealth coverage was only available with... Read the complete article here...© 2024 Foley & Lardner LLP

Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party’s sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside President-elect Donald Trump

The Democrat looking to unseat an incumbent Republican in a close Iowa congressional race has asked for a recount

Data: Associated Press; Chart: Axios VisualsThey're still counting votes in 28 uncalled House races, but even Democrats admit that Republicans are on track to keep their majority in 2025.Why it matters: House Democrats are the last shot to prevent a GOP trifecta in D.C. next year. Republicans have retaken the Senate majority, and President-elect Trump will be inaugurated on Jan. 20. [The chart above is organized over how the races were expected to go ahead of Election Day. Republicans lead in two seats that were expected to go to Democrats, while Democrats lead in zero races expected to go red.]State of play: Democrats are looking to five Republican-held seats in California and two in Arizona — as well as GOP incumbent Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa who's likely headed for a recount — as their last hope of obtaining the chamber.Republicans currently lead in all those seats, and Democrats also need to protect remaining vulnerable seats in California, Colorado and elsewhere.House Democrats' optimism is dwindling, with some now predicting their best case scenario is falling just one seat short of the House majority.Zoom in: Both parties are looking to California as the final House battleground, especially if Reps. Juan Ciscomani (R-Ariz.) and David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) hold on.Reps. Mike Levin (D-Calif.), Jim Costa (D-Calif.) and Josh Harder (D-Calif.) all lead by surprisingly narrow margins, though Republicans concede those are long-shots and Democrats feel confident about all three.Both parties say the race between Republican Scott Baugh and Democrat Dave Min for retiring Rep. Katie Porter's (D-Calif.) seat could go either way.Republicans believe they have a shot at protecting all five of their vulnerable incumbents in California, though Rep. John Duarte's (R-Calif.) and Mike Garcia's (R-Calif.) races both appear to be particular nail-biters.What they're saying: Duarte told Axios he is "in a better position now" than in 2022 against Democratic opponent Adam Gray, when he squeaked out a win by less than half a percentage point.The California races were discussed on a Democratic leadership call on Wednesday, with one senior House Democrat coming out of the call predicting "a few seats in [California] ... will move our way."

Former President Donald Trump has clinched a second term in the White House, and his Republican Party has won control of the Senate. But control of the House of Representatives is still up for grabs, as is the size of the incoming Senate majority.With votes still being counted, here’s a look at the key races that remain uncalled by the NBC News Decision Desk (read more about how those races are called). While some of the battleground states may be projected relatively quickly, it could take days or even weeks to resolve control of the House.Presidential battlegroundsWith Trump’s victory in Michigan projected by NBC News Wednesday afternoon, two battleground states remain uncalled.In the Sun Belt, Trump is also leading in Arizona and Nevada, but Arizona remains too early to call, while Nevada is too close to call.Alaska, where Trump is leading, is also too early to call.Senate races left to callArizona Senate: Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego is leading Republican Kari Lake in the vote count, but the race is still too early to call. Lake is trailing Trump’s margin in the state, while Gallego is outperforming Harris. Gallego, a Marine veteran, touted his military service in his race against Lake, a former local TV news anchor. Lake ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2022, and she made false claims that her 2022 race was affected by voter fraud.Michigan Senate: GOP former Rep. Mike Rogers is locked in a tight race against Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin in a contest that is too close to call. Rogers and Slotkin are competing to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow.Nevada Senate: Republican Sam Brown, a military veteran who was wounded in combat, is in a very tight race against Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen, who is seeking her second term in the Senate. Nevada has been narrowly divided in recent elections, with Republican Joe Lombardo flipping the Governor’s Mansion in 2022 even while Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto won re-election. But while Democrats had been hopeful that the state’s abortion referendum could help boost turnout for Democratic candidates, the margin in the race remains extremely tight.Pennsylvania Senate: Although Trump is projected to win Pennsylvania, the Senate race there is still too close to call. Democratic Sen. Bob Casey is running for a third term against Republican Dave McCormick, a former hedge fund CEO who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP Senate nomination in 2022.Wisconsin Senate: The race between Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin and GOP businessman Eric Hovde remains too close to call. While Democrats have touted Baldwin as a senator who has appeal in rural parts of the state, Republicans also flooded the airwaves painting her as a creature of Washington and making note of the first openly gay senator’s sexual orientation.House control on the lineControl of the House is still unclear in part because dozens of competitive races remain uncalled, including a number of key races in California alone. There are also other races that are not expected to be competitive but have not yet been projected because few votes have been counted.Alaska At-Large District: Republicans are looking to pick up this seat, which encompasses the entire state. Republican Nick Begich is leading Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola, but he is hovering around the 50% threshold required to win the race outright. If he falls short of that threshold, the race will head to ranked-choice voting, but Republicans are confident they would still carry the seat in that scenario.Arizona’s 1st District: GOP Rep. David Schweikert is in a competitive race in the Phoenix suburbs against Democrat Amish Shah, a former state legislator.Arizona 6th District: GOP Rep. Juan Ciscomani is trailing his Democratic opponent, former state Sen. Kirsten Engel, in this competitive district in the Tucson suburbs.California’s 9th District: Democratic Rep. Josh Harder is narrowly leading his Republican opponent, Stockton Mayor Kevin Lincoln.California’s 13th District: GOP Rep. John Duarte is locked in a tight race against Democrat Adam Gray, a former state legislator, in this Central Valley district.California’s 22nd District: GOP Rep. David Valadao, one of two remaining House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, is leading his Democratic opponent, former state Assemblyman Rudy Salas.California’s 27th District: GOP Rep. Mike Garcia is in a tight race against Democrat George Whitesides, a former NASA chief of staff and Virgin Galactic CEO, in this Southern California district.California’s 41st District: Democrats have targeted this Riverside County-based district, and GOP Rep. Ken Calvert is in a competitive race with Democrat Will Rollins, a former prosecutor.California’s 45th District: GOP Rep. Michelle Steel is leading Democratic Army veteran Derek Tran in one of the most expensive races in the country.California’s 47th District: Republicans are looking to flip this open seat in Southern California, and Republican Scott Baugh, a former state legislator, is in a competitive race against former state Sen. Dave Min.California’s 49th District: Also in Southern California, Democratic Rep. Mike Levin is in a tight race against auto dealer Matt Gunderson, a self-described “pro-choice” Republican.Colorado’s 3rd District: GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert’s decision to run in the neighboring 4th District, which is more Republican, opened up this seat on the Western Slope. Democrat Adam Frisch, who came close to defeating Boebert in 2022, is in a competitive race against Republican Jeff Hurd.Colorado’s 8th District: Democratic Rep. Yadira Caraveo is locked in a tight race in the Denver suburbs against Republican state Rep. Gabe Evans.Iowa’s 1st District: Just a few hundred votes separate Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Democrat Christina Bohannan, a former state representative. It is familiar territory for Miller-Meeks, who won her 2020 race by just six votes.Maine’s 2nd District: Democratic Rep. Jared Golden has been a top GOP target, and he is hovering just above the 50% threshold that would allow him to win outright over Republican state Rep. Austin Theriault, a former NASCAR driver (the state holds ranked-choice elections).Maryland’s 6th District: Democratic Rep. David Trone’s unsuccessful Senate run opened up this Frederick-based district. Democrat April McClain Delaney, a former Commerce Department official and the wife of former Rep. John Delaney, is locked in a tight race against Republican Neil Parrott, a former state legislator.Montana 1st District: Democratic attorney Monica Tranel trails Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke, who was Trump’s first interior secretary in between stints in the House.Nebraska’s 2nd District: Harris carried this Omaha-based district and nabbed one of the state’s electoral votes, but GOP Rep. Don Bacon is in a close race against Democratic state Sen. Tony Vargas.North Carolina’s 1st District: Democratic Rep. Don Davis is in a competitive race against Republican Laurie Buckhout, an Army veteran and businesswoman.Nevada’s 3rd District: Democratic Rep. Susie Lee is in a competitive race with Republican marketing consultant Drew Johnson in the Las Vegas suburbs.Nevada’s 4th District: Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford is leading former North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee, the Republican nominee.New York’s 4th District: GOP Rep. Anthony D’Esposito is locked in a tight race against Democrat Laura Gillen, a former town supervisor, in this Long Island-based district that was one of Democrats’ top targets.New York’s 19th District: Democratic attorney Josh Riley and GOP Rep. Marc Molinaro are running neck and neck in a rematch of their close 2022 race.Ohio’s 9th District: Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur is locked in an extremely tight race with GOP state Rep. Derek Merrin.Oregon’s 5th District: Democrat Janelle Bynum narrowly leads Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer.Oregon’s 6th District: Democratic Rep. Andrea Salinas leads GOP businessman Mike Erickson in another rematch. Salinas beat Erickson by 3 percentage points in 2022.Pennsylvania’s 10th District: GOP Rep. Scott Perry, a former Freedom Caucus chairman, has a slight lead over former local news anchor Janelle Stelson, a Democrat.Texas’ 34th District: Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez faces a rematch against former GOP Rep. Mayra Flores, with Gonzalez slightly ahead.Virginia’s 7th District: Democrat Eugene Vindman has a slight lead over Republican Derrick Anderson. Both candidates are veterans, and Vindman came into the public spotlight in 2019 when his brother, Alexander Vindman, testified in Trump’s impeachment hearings about a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Washington’s 3rd District: Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez leads Republican Joe Kent, whom she defeated by less than 1 point in 2022.Washington’s 4th District: Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse narrowly leads Republican former NASCAR driver Jerrod Sessler. (Washington’s primary advances the top two vote-getters to the general election, regardless of party.)Sessler has Trump’s endorsement over Newhouse, who is one of the two Republicans left in the House who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.This story first appeared on NBCNews.com. More from NBC News:Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris to become the next U.S. president, NBC News projectsTrump won the presidency. Here’s what he’s said he’ll do.5 key takeaways from election night 2024

The Associated Press as of Wednesday has not called the race in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District because the margin is close enough that it could prompt a recount

Republican Bernie Moreno from Ohio won a Senate seat campaigning for U.S. "energy dominance."

Iowa has a long history as a presidential battleground state, but when voters cast their ballots in the general election on Nov. 5, it’s the races further down the ballot that may get the most attention

Both House Democrats and Republicans are out with new ads in Southeast Iowa's hotly contested 1st Congressional District.

An attorney for Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ campaign has urged the University of Iowa to take action over an apparent trademark infringement by Democratic challenger Christina Bohannan.

Christina Bohannan and Mariannette Miller-Meeks challenged each other’s positions and voting records on abortion and immigration throughout a televised debate this week.

Republicans are kicking their defensive messaging on abortion into high gear, aiming to blunt Democrats’ attempts to paint them as extreme in the run-up to the election. In debates, GOP congressional candidates are taking a more aggressive approach when talking about the issue, accusing Democrats of misrepresenting their position. Republican campaigns are successfully pitching fact-checks [...]

Friday saw visits to Iowa's 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts by nationally-known Republican and Democratic leaders as the election nears.

Read about the candidate's stances on the issues and their top priorities if elected.

Democrats have a fair shot at flipping control of the House — largely because of the boost provided by Vice President Harris at the top of the ticket — but the battle is a horse race that is too close to call heading into the final weeks of the campaign, according to a host of [...]

The race for Iowa's 1st Congressional District heats up Saturday as incumbent Miller-Meeks campaigns in Walcott while her challenger Christine Bohannon attends forum in Davenport.

State investigators are probing complaints against a secretive group that recruited fervent Donald Trump supporters to run as spoiler candidates in key swing districts against Republicans.

Democrats and Republicans disagree about the fundamental of the Texas Senate race, but Democratic Rep. Colin Allred has seen the race shift toward him and his party.

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, is trailing three points behind her Democratic challenger, Christina Bohannan, according to a Monday poll.

Iowa U.S. senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst joined Republican colleagues to block a bill by Democrats that would establish a federal right to access fertility treatments.

Several little-known pro-Trump candidates are running for Congress in key races as independents, recruited by the same shadowy group. Candidates have been recruited in Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, Virginia and Minnesota.

Several little-known pro-Trump candidates are running for Congress in key races as independents, and an Associated Press review finds they were recruited and backed by the same shadowy group.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Joe Wiederien was an unlikely candidate to challenge a Republican congressman in one of the nation’s most competitive House districts. A fervent supporter of former President Donald Trump, Wiederien was registered as a Republican until months earlier. A debilitating stroke had left him unable to drive. He had never run for [...]The post Secretive Group Recruited Far-Right Candidates in Key US House Races. It Could Help Democrats appeared first on GV Wire.

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, is in a more competitive race.

Marquee toss-up races and high-profile candidates have dominated the political conversation as both parties battle for the House and Senate, but some potential sleeper contests could offer political observers a surprise. Democrats’ razor-thin edge in the Senate is at risk this fall, and observers are eyeing a small handful of races that could deliver surprise [...]

Three Libertarian candidates running for Congress in Iowa will not be named on the ballot this November

The state supreme court ruled Wednesday the three Libertarian congressional candidates, including Nicholas Gluba in the 1st District, will not appear on the ballot. All three plan write in campaigns.

The White House is plotting with Democratic leaders in Congress to try to force Republicans to accept a short-term spending bill that would fund the government through mid-December, Axios has learned.Why it matters: The Biden administration's embrace of a three-month stopgap measure is an attempt to establish the terms of the spending debate with House Republicans, who are pushing for a six-month bill.If Congress and the White House can't agree on how to fund the government by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, the federal government will shut down in early October, weeks before Election Day.The December timeline Democrats want would require Congress to return to the Capitol for a lame-duck session when lawmakers — and the next president — would know who was going to control what branches of government starting in January.The new Congress begins Jan. 3, and the new president is to be sworn in on Jan. 20.Driving the news: White House officials spoke separately with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) late last week to agree on a strategy, according to people familiar with the matter.On the call from the White House's team were Jeff Zients, chief of staff; Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the president; Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget and Management, and Shuwanza Goff, director of legislative affairs.Biden's team wants to be on the same page with congressional Democrats heading into the year-end funding battle to force House Republicans to accept a plan to fund the government largely at fiscal 2024 levels.Speaker Mike Johnson told his members last week to prepare to vote for his six-month plan early this week.Johnson wants a spending plan that would include a measure requiring voters to offer proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.Zoom in: This week, the White House will begin to highlight the risks of a six-month continuing resolution on military readiness, veterans care, disaster relief and other national security priorities, like competing with China.Democrats also want to avoid handing a potential President Harris a tight deadline to fund the government in the first few months of her term.A six-month timeline would set up a massive spending showdown before March 31, which for Democrats is uncomfortably close to the April 30 deadline for the Fiscal Responsibility Act to take effect.After that date, automatic cuts would kick in across the board, affecting spending levels for education, veterans, the military and border security.Zoom out: With Congress struggling to pass funding bills in a timely manner, year-end showdowns over a shutdown have become a feature of modern politics.Many conservative Republicans are willing to either shut down the government or bluff about doing so, more moderate lawmakers worry that voters will blame them for failing to keep the government open and operating."How long do we take this?," Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) asked her colleagues on a GOP call last week. "Are we going to take this to a shutdown?"What they're saying: "As we have said repeatedly, avoiding a government shutdown requires bipartisanship, not a bill drawn up by one party," Schumer and Senate Appropriations chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said in a joint statement Friday."This tactic didn't work last September and it will not work this year either," they said of Johnson adding conditions to a temporary spending resolution. "The House Republican funding proposal is an ominous case of déjà vu."

Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks held her annual tailgate fundraiser Saturday in Iowa City.

A state panel’s ruling to remove Libertarian candidates for Congress from Iowa’s ballots in the First, Third and Fourth Congressional Districts.

A state panel’s ruling to remove three Libertarian candidates for Congress from Iowa’s ballots in the Nov. 5 election was upheld Saturday by a judge.

'I hope it doesn’t hold up the funding'