Today, Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) is highlighting her constituent service and legislative accomplishments of the past year with the release of her 2021 End of Year Report.
“This year has proved to be a particularly busy year for me in Congress as I helped secure historic investments in our infrastructure and tax cuts for our working families that put billions back into Iowa’s economy,” said Rep. Axne. “And in addition, my casework team and I have helped bring nearly a million dollars in taxpayer money back to Iowans who were having trouble with federal agencies, closing over 700 cases on issues ranging from the IRS and Social Security to Medicare and flood recovery. I’m so thankful for everyone I met this year, folks who attended my events and those who wrote me letters and emails and left me voicemails. Those interactions help me do my job better, and I look forward to continuing to represent Iowa’s Third Congressional District.”
This past year, 11 measures backed by Rep. Axne have been signed into law – including landmark investments in Iowa like the American Rescue Plan and the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
In her report, Axne also highlights the nearly $1 million in taxpayer dollars she fought to return to constituents across Iowa’s Third Congressional District with her casework team, as well as $114 million in grant funding secured her communities.
The measures signed into law are:
- The American Rescue Plan Act: landmark COVID-19 relief legislation that helped put over 4 million vaccines in Iowans’ arms, 1.5 million direct payments in Iowans’ pockets, almost $1 billion in Child Tax Credit payments into Iowa’s economy, and $2.9 billion for Iowa small businesses through Paycheck Protection Program loans.
- The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: Bipartisan infrastructure legislation that is projected to bring Iowa more than $5 billion in investments over the next five years.
- Derecho Assistance: Legislation that provides $10 billion to cover damage to crops caused by the 2020 derecho and other natural disasters from 2020 and 2021.
- Coronavirus Unemployment Benefits Tax Relief Act: Legislation to provide tax relief for Americans who lost their jobs and utilized unemployment benefits last year – allowing millions of workers to focus their benefits on covering essentials during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and recession.
- Treatment in Place Act: Legislation to provide fair reimbursements for firefighters, emergency medical services (EMS), and other medical first responders.
- Sgt. Ketchum Rural Veterans’ Mental Health Act: Legislation to expand mental health care for rural veterans that was signed into law.
- Congressional Budget Justification Transparency Act: Legislation that requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) publish each federal agency’s congressional budget justification online and make it publicly available.
- VOCA Fix to Sustain the Crime Victims Fund Act of 2021: Legislation that will make critical improvements to victim services programs that receive grant funding through the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA).
- Congressional Gold Medal for Corporal Daegan Page: Legislation to award Corporal Daegan Page of Red Oak the Congressional Gold Medal.
- Puppies Assisting Wounded Servicemembers for Veterans Therapy Act: Legislation that requires the VA to implement a program to provide canine training to eligible veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Legislation to Rename Clarinda Post Office in Honor of ‘Mother of 4-H’ Jessie Field Shambaugh: Honoring Jessie Field Shambaugh, the former school superintendent from Page County and longtime Iowa educator known to many as the ‘Mother of 4-H.’
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