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March 8, 2021

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Randy Feenstra (IA-04) announced high school students across Iowa’s 4th Congressional District are invited to submit their artwork for the 2021 Congressional Art Competition. This competition is conducted by members of the U.S. House of Representatives to encourage students from across the country to express their artistic talents.

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March 8, 2021

WASHINGTON -- Today, Rep. Randy Feenstra (IA-04) was assigned to serve on two House Agriculture subcommittees: Livestock and Foreign Agriculture and Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit (CEEC).

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March 4, 2021

Feenstra, Iowa Delegation Request Additional Staffing to Help Iowans with IRS Issues  

Issues:Congress
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March 3, 2021

WASHINGTON -- This evening, the House is set to vote on H.R. 1, the bill number that is reserved for Speaker Pelosi’s top priority. This bill attempts to nationalize elections, containing many provisions that would severely infringe on states’ rights and grossly abuse taxpayer dollars. Rep. Randy Feenstra (IA-04) blasted this blatant attempt by Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats to take constitutional power away from states and put it in the hands of Washington politicians.

Issues:Congress
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March 2, 2021

WASHINGTON -- In a slew of executive orders, President Joe Biden is rolling back the safer, stricter immigration laws implemented by the Trump administration. These recent actions included a reversal of an executive order that prioritized the prosecution of illegal immigrants who have been charged with committing violent crimes.

Issues:Congress
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February 26, 2021

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Randy Feenstra (IA-04) released the following statement after House Democrats voted to strike his amendment to provide derecho disaster relief for Iowa producers and small business owners already dealing with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic:

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February 24, 2021

WASHINGTON -- On Friday, the House Committee on Rules will meet to consider Speaker Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion Payoff to Progressives, which includes hundreds of billions in spending on liberal agenda items that have nothing to do with COVID testing, contact tracing, or vaccine programs.

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February 24, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Iowa’s Congressional delegation urged U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to expand eligibility of the department’s COVID-19 relief programs to include custom cattle feeders, a sector of Iowa’s agricultural economy operated primarily by family farmers.

Issues:Agriculture
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February 22, 2021

WASHINGTON -- Today during a House Budget Committee markup session on the $1.9 trillion “COVID relief” bill, Rep. Randy Feenstra (IA-04) criticized the partisan approach Democrats have taken -- using it as a trojan horse to advance their political agenda rather than taking a temporary, targeted approach that will benefit all Americans.

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February 19, 2021

On Monday, August 10, 2020, a massive storm system with high winds and isolated tornadoes tore through the Midwest, leaving a 700 mile path of destruction in its wake -- from Nebraska all the way to Indiana. In Iowa, early estimates indicated that 43 percent of cropland was impacted across the state, flattening millions of acres of corn and soybeans, crippling grain bins, and tearing barns and machine sheds apart.