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Des Moines Register Criticism connected to Sen. Joni Ernst's past comments about the COVID-19 pandemic went viral on social media after the Republican this week became the first Iowan in Congress to publicly receive the vaccine.   On Monday, Sawyer Hackett, the communications director for former Housing and Urban Development Secretary and Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro, tweeted a screenshot of a news headline about Ernst's September comments side-by-side with a photo of Ernst receiving the vaccine.  The tweet was captioned, "How it started: How it's going." As of Tue...

By Tom Barton, Quad-City Times Republican Congresswoman-elect Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ campaign said she was mistakenly added to a letter signed by 25 other Republican representatives-elect calling on the U.S. House to investigate irregularities in the 2020 presidential election. Miller-Meeks’ campaign on Wednesday said she did not sign and did not agree to be included on the letter sent to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., asking Congress to “thoroughly investigate” unsubstantiated claim of voter fraud. U.S. Rep.-elect Kat Cammack, R-Fla., who led the letter, sent out a...

TOM BARTON Democratic former Iowa state Sen. Rita Hart of Wheatland on Thursday defended her plans to file a petition with the Democratically-controlled U.S. House challenging the outcome in Iowa's close 2nd Congressional District race. Congresswoman-elect Mariannette Miller-Meeks says every legal vote was counted in tight Iowa 2nd Congressional District race, and Rita Hart had ample opportunity to appeal any discrepancies in court, rather than ask the U.S. House to intervene. Meanwhile, Iowa Republicans continued to attack the decision as a "shameful" effort to overturn the...