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Tag Archives: Randy Feenstra
Baby Formula Vote Exposes Iowa Republican Lies
Perhaps like many of you, I get an email newsletter usually on Sunday night from our local congress member Mariannette Miller-Meeks. This week it came on Monday. My guess as to why is that the congress member had to spend … Continue reading
Senator Bolkcom: Rural Iowa Communities Suffer Under Republicans
Thursday’s Des Moines Register included a guest editorial by State Senator Joe Bolkcom. In his editorial Bolkcom lays it right on the line: Iowa’s current poor condition is due fully to the very poor leadership Iowa has endured under Kim … Continue reading
Posted in Republican Policy
Tagged Ashley Hinson, bad leadership, Iowa Republicans, Joe Bolkcom, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Randy Feenstra
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Iowa’s Republican House Delegation Votes To Default
Once again Iowa’s Republican members of the US House shamed the state by voting not to raise the debt ceiling and thus cause the US to default on its debts. This was not a vote to spend more money, but … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 Election campaign, Republican hypocrisy, Republican Policy
Tagged Ashley Hinson, debt ceiling, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Randy Feenstra
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Republicans Ready To Force A New Crisis
Iowa’s Republican delegation will go along almost certainly. It is not like they care about you. Well we come off another stellar week for Iowa’s Republican contingent in the US House of Representatives. After Arizona representative Paul Gosar tweeted out … Continue reading
Posted in #nevertrump, debt ceiling, debt limit, Economy
Tagged Ashley Hinson, Build Back Better, December 15th, Marianette Miller-Meeks, Randy Feenstra
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STATEMENT: Iowa Needs Build Back Better
Progress Iowa <press@progressiowa.org> Contact: Ivy Beckenholdt, press@progressiowa.org STATEMENT: Iowa Needs Build Back Better Des Moines, Iowa — Progress Iowa executive director Matt Sinovic issued the following statement calling on Iowa’s federal delegation to support the Build Back Better framework announced … Continue reading
Posted in Charles Grassley, Education, Joni Ernst
Tagged Affordable Housing, Ashley Hinson, Build Back Better, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Randy Feenstra
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Media Shouldn’t Blame Dems
“Kill Switch” author Adam Jentleson interviewed by Clay Cane on the Clay Cane Show on SiriusXM Urban View Radio. “Kill Switch” describes how Republicans have rendered the government neutered using the filibuster. This video is from January but is still … Continue reading
Posted in #nevertrump, 2022 Election campaign, Charles Grassley, Joni Ernst
Tagged Ashley Hinson, Bannon subpoena, infrastructure bill, Marianette Miller-Meeks, parliamentary system, Randy Feenstra, voting rights bill
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Taking Credit Where Credit Ain’t Due
Ex-Presidents Urge Americans to Get Vaccinated March 11, 2021 at 6:46 am EST By Taegan Goddard 106 Comments All of the living former presidents have joined in a new ad campaign urging Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine—all of … Continue reading
Posted in Charles Grassley, Covid-19, Joni Ernst
Tagged American Rescue Plan, Ashley Hinson, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Randy Feenstra, the former guy
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All Iowa House Republicans Voted Against Covid Relief
Action alert from Senator Rob Hogg: Iowans Need the Covid Relief Bill! [BFIA Editor’s note: All Republican representatives from Iowa Ashley Hinson, Randy Feenstra and Marianette Miller-Meeks voted AGAINST Covid relief. Democrat Cindy Axne voted FOR the relief bill.] Call … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa
Tagged Ashley Hinson, Chuck Grassley, Covid relief bill, joni ernst, Marianette Miller-Meeks, Randy Feenstra, Rep. Cindy Axne
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Three Iowa Republicans In The US House Support Greene
Just for the record, the three Republicans representing Iowa in congress at this moment voted to support congress member and Qanon believer Marjorie Taylor Greene to keep her committee assignments. That is Ashley Hinson, Randy Feenstra and the hopefully temporary … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa
Tagged Ashley Hinson, extremism, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Randy Feenstra, US House
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Feenstra, Miller-Meeks and Hinson Vote For Insurrection
Maybe I am taking their votes in the wrong way, but it sure seems that having had months of watching Trump do all he can to undermine our democratic processes to maintain his hold on power, and then after seeing … Continue reading