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Today, Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) successfully added an amendment to strengthen legislation that passed the U.S. House of Representatives that protects the independence of the federal government’s Inspectors General (IGs) and ensures they can continue investigations of waste, fraud, and abuse within their agencies.
Rep. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa, is encouraging House and Senate leadership to include provisions to help increase the use and production of biofuels in the final language of the upcoming infrastructure legislation.
Today, Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) announced a total of $151,200 in United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development grant funding will be distributed to four facilities across Iowa’s Third Congressional District to help fund projects at a rural library, an opera center, a hospital and a mental health service provider.
Today, the co-chairs of the bipartisan House Biofuels Caucus — Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03), Rep. Angie Craig (MN-02), Rep. Rodney Davis (IL-13), Rep. Dusty Johnson (SD-AL), Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02), and Rep.
Today, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously to approve Rep. Cindy Axne’s (IA-03) bipartisan legislation to expand mental health care for rural veterans. The legislation now heads to the desk of President Biden for his signature.
Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor DeMarko Walker as Iowan of the Week. Haircuts can make you feel refreshed, like a new and improved version of yourself.
As our communities continue to recover from a difficult year and we focus on how to strengthen our local economies, there has rightly been a lot of discussion about job creation, infrastructure investments and supporting our workers.
Today, Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) voted with a bipartisan House to restore protections against age discrimination by passing the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA).
Congressional representatives on both sides of the aisle are pushing to revitalize two key COVID-related relief programs.
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Since the COVID-19 pandemic reached Iowa in February 2020, 110,000 fewer Iowans are employed, an estimated 86,000 renters still haven’t caught up on rent and more than 339,500 people statewide have been infected by COVID-19.
People who received unemployment insurance in 2020 and who already have filed their income tax return will not need to file an amendment to take advanta
A group of about 20 House and Senate Democrats are urging the Treasury Department and IRS to "take every effort" to ensure that recipients of unemployment compensation can use a tax exemption included in the coronavirus relief law that President Biden Joe Biden signed Thursday.
Included in the COVID-19 relief bill passed by the U.S. Senate on Saturday was a provision first proposed by Rep. Cindy Axne and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin.
With Governor Kim Reynolds recently signing into law changes to voting in Iowa, U.S. Congresswoman Cindy Axne is against those changes.
Axne says the changes to aspects such as reducing the number of early voting days could impact groups such as those with disabilities, students who may be studying out of their residency, older Iowans or those who have difficult work schedules.
March 8 marks one year since the first cases of COVID-19 were found in Iowa.
Since then, we have lost more than half-a-million friends and family members from across the country to this deadly virus. To put that number in perspective, that equals nearly two-thirds of the population of Iowa’s 3rd District, which includes a 16-county stretch from Des Moines to Council Bluffs.
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.
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.
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.
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.