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Last week, I had the pleasure of welcoming Iowans from Fort Dodge and Webster County to our nation’s capital to discuss opportunities and challenges facing our families, farmers, and businesses. We had an extensive and productive conversation on a wide range of issues from education and agriculture to infrastructure and tax policy.
Every year, April 15 — and March 1 for our producers — marks a dreaded deadline for American families, farmers and small businesses. It’s the day that the federal government extracts as much money as possible from the American people.
Paying taxes is already miserable enough; filing them should not be frustrating, overly complicated and time-consuming. Yet, that remains the case.
In the United States, there are approximately 370,000 children in the foster care system with about 117,000 waiting to be adopted. While the number of kids in foster care has fortunately declined over the decades, there is still more work to be done to ensure that every child can find a permanent, loving home as quickly and safely as possible.
HULL, IOWA – Today, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) introduced the Preserving Rights Of Tenants by Ensuring Compliance To (PROTECT) the Second Amendment Act. This legislation would secure the Second Amendment rights of Americans who live in rental properties whose landlords receive financial assistance from the federal government.
More specifically, this proposal ensures that landlords and rental property managers cannot unlawfully restrict firearm ownership of tenants.
HULL, IOWA – Today, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) joined U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and the entire Iowa congressional delegation in urging President Donald J. Trump to promptly grant Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds’ request for federal disaster assistance in the state of Iowa.
The request follows severe weather on March 19th that produced high winds and blizzard conditions across much of west, central, and northwest Iowa, causing significant damage to public infrastructure and private property.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, mere hours after U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Acting Director of the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) Craig Burkhart requesting renewal of the Center for Industrial Research and Service’s (CIRAS) cooperative agreement with the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), NIST confirmed that CIRAS would receive continued federal funding for Fiscal Year 2025.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) helped introduce legislation to lower the financial costs of adoption by making the Adoption Tax Credit fully refundable and removing income as a barrier to adoption.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Reps. Randy Feenstra (R-IA) and Mark Alford (R-MO) alongside U.S. Senators Pete Ricketts (R-NE) and Deb Fischer (R-NE) led a bicameral group of colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin.
Instead of my usual thoughts on policy debates or various pieces of legislation that I have either introduced or support, I decided that I wanted to share a week in my life representing our families, farmers, workers, and businesses on Capitol Hill. The week spanning from Monday April 7th to Friday April 11th encapsulates a good snapshot of what a typical week looks like for me representing Iowa in Congress.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) voted for, and the U.S. House of Representatives passed, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. This legislation would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in U.S. elections and ensure that states remove noncitizens from their voter rolls.