Press Releases
The Manufactured Housing Community Preservation Act would provide grants to resident co-ops and other entities to purchase properties
Today, the House Financial Services Committee passed Rep. Cindy Axne’s (IA-03) legislation designed to keep manufactured housing communities (MHCs) affordable by providing federal assistance for acquiring and preserving these communities.
Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) issued the following statement on the lack of biofuels investments in the bipartisan infrastructure bill agreed to by the White House and members of the U.S. Senate:
New bipartisan, bicameral legislation introduced this week follows provider concern about having to return relief funds intended to fight COVID-19
This week, Reps. Cindy Axne (IA-03) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-02) introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at giving health care providers additional time to use financial assistance they have received from the Provider Relief Fund (PRF).
Funding bills approved in House today also include projects, priorities Axne advocated for, including prohibiting U.S. Postal Service from closing rural post offices or eliminating six-day delivery services
Today, Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) voted to approve and advance a package of seven appropriations bills to fund investments ranging from public health and safety initiatives to expansions of federal support for broadband, skills training, and rural communities.
Yesterday, Reps. Cindy Axne (IA-03) and Jack Bergman (MI-01) introduced the Protecting Patients from Medicaid Fraud Act, a bipartisan bill to improve oversight of Medicaid, prevent improper payments and waste, and protect patients from fraud.
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives approved an amendment authored by Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) to boost funding for career skills training programs at community colleges to help workers displaced by COVID-19-related economic downturn and other layoffs.
The committee advanced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the WHIP+ program to cover agricultural losses from natural disasters in 2020, 2021
Today, Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) and her colleagues on the House Agriculture Committee advanced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus (WHIP+) to cover agricultural losses from natural disasters in 2020 and 2021.
Today, Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) reintroduced bipartisan legislation she wrote last Congress that will provide in-demand skills training and employment assistance to members of National Guard and Reserve who are within 180 days of transitioning into civilian life.
As Co-Chair of New Democrat Coalition task force, Axne will lead development and proposal of policies that promote rural equity and create new opportunities for rural areas
Today, the New Democrat Coalition (NDC) named Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) the Co-Chair of the Rural Reinvestment Task Force, a new group aimed at developing and advancing policy solutions that will support rural communities across the U.S.
Axne, who joined Biden at White House today for signing of the new law, had previously urged congressional leaders to ensure strong funding for grant programs under the Victims of Crime Act
Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) joined President Joe Biden at the White House today for the signing of bipartisan legislation originally cosponsored by Axne that will make critical improvements to victim services programs that receive grant funding through the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA).