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May 15, 2021 In The News

It’s time for millionaires and billionaires like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to pay their fair share in taxes, but we can’t let the new laws that will tax the rich inadvertently devastate our family farms.

May 14, 2021 Press Release

Today, Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) announced a new $4,399,480 grant for the Creston Municipal Airport for a runway renovation.

May 14, 2021 Press Release

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives advanced bipartisan legislation co-sponsored by Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) that will improve workplace protections and accommodations for pregnant workers.

May 13, 2021 Iowan of the Week

Madam Speaker,  As Mental Health Month begins, I rise to ask the House of Representatives to join me in honoring Drake University Graduate Professor of the School of Education’s Department of Leadership, Counseling and Adult Development, Robert Stensrud.

May 13, 2021 Press Release

Today, Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) highlighted the launch of the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) Program and urged eligible constituents to enroll to receive a discount on their monthly internet bill.

May 13, 2021 Press Release

Today, Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) voted to strengthen protections for small business lending and to protect consumers from predatory debt collectors.

May 13, 2021 In The News

Iowa Congresswoman Cindy Axne is sponsoring a bill designed to force big corporations to disclose how many jobs they outsource to other countries and if they’re using so-called tax havens in other countries to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

May 12, 2021 Press Release

Today, Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) announced that Eli Clayton, a senior at Bondurant-Farrar High School in Polk County, is the winner of the 2021 Congressional Art Competition for Iowa’s Third Congressional District.

May 12, 2021 In The News

More than one third of Iowa’s families say they struggle to afford basic costs of food, medicine, and housing.

Despite improving unemployment numbers and an expanding economy, we are leaving too many of our friends and neighbors behind, and their children too.

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March 6, 2021 In The News

The COVID-19 relief bill that passed the Senate on Saturday morning contains a key provision that would come as a big relief to millions of Americans who received unemployment benefits last year: no surprise tax bills.

March 1, 2021 In The News

Iowa Representatives Ashley Hinson (IA-01), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-02), Randy Feenstra (IA-04), and Cindy Axne (IA-03) are calling on the Biden Administration to provide more COVID-19 vaccines for rural Iowa.

March 1, 2021 In The News

ANKENY, IA - The placement of a pipe bomb at a polling place in Ankeny is raising eyebrows in Washington, where Democratic Congresswoman Cindy Axne has responded.

Axne issued a statement Tuesday night condemning the action. She called it a threat to elections and thanked responders who disabled the bomb.

February 26, 2021 In The News

U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne plans to vote for the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package moving through Congress, saying it will provide a boost to Iowans hit hard by the pandemic and provide necessary relief to businesses and local governments.

February 25, 2021 In The News

A dozen lawmakers sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) and the chairmen of the House Rules and Budget committees on Thursday, urging them to waive federal income tax

February 25, 2021 In The News

A group of House Democrats is urging leadership to provide tax relief for recipients of unemployment benefits in the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package the House is expected to vote on this week.

February 24, 2021 In The News

Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, suggested on Wednesday that improved child care support policies from the government might help pull more women into the labor market.

February 24, 2021 In The News

DES MOINES, Iowa — Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) hosted a virtual roundtable Wednesday afternoon with Small Business Administration (SBA) District Director Jayne Armstrong and some 20 black business owners and nonprofit directors from Iowa’s Third Congressional District.

February 19, 2021 In The News

Feb. 19—Creston Mayor Gabe Carroll joined Rep. Cindy Axne and six other mayors from across Iowa's third Congressional district in a virtual roundtable to discuss the impact of the coronavirus on their respective communities Wednesday afternoon.

February 19, 2021 In The News

According to the most recent state profile report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3.7 percent of Iowans have received both doses of their COVID-19 vaccine, while 10.6 percent have received just the first dose.

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