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Newsweek
29-05-2025
- Politics
- Newsweek
Iowa Republican Booed, Laughed At During Rowdy Town Hall
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. An Iowa Republican was booed and laughed at during a town hall appearance on Wednesday. Ashley Hinson, who represents Iowa's second congressional district, was heckled while she praised President Donald Trump and his policies, including his spending bill, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill, which passed in the House of Representatives last week, and defended him accepting a jet from Qatar. "I think Americans overwhelmingly rejected the status quo for the country," Hinson said during the event, amid shouts from the audience. "We were seeing an open border, high inflation, we were seeing hardworking men and women in Iowa and in our country feel like their voices were not heard." Representative Ashley Hinson (R-IA) walks through the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Monday, November 14, 2022. Representative Ashley Hinson (R-IA) walks through the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Monday, November 14, 2022. Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images This is a developing story. More to follow.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Budzinski introduces bipartisan biofuel bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WCIA) — Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (D-IL) has introduced a bill to help support innovation in biofuels. The Central Illinois U.S. Representative introduced the Agricultural Biorefinery Innovation and Opportunity Act to help the biofuel economy. She's co-sponsoring the bill with Congressman Zach Nunn (R-IA). 'My district is home to world-class research facilities like the University of Illinois Integrated Bioprocessing Research Lab and SIUE's National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Centerboth at the forefront of biomanufacturing innovation,' Congresswoman Budzinski said in a statement. 'I'm honored to partner with my colleague Zach Nunn on bipartisan legislation that supports the groundbreaking agricultural research led by students and scientists at these institutions. Strengthening Americas bioeconomy drives innovation, creates good-paying jobs, and opens new opportunities for family farms across the Midwest.' Illinois' film industry bounces back after 2023 strikes The bill strengthens the USDA's Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program by updating the current loan guarantee program to include applications year-round. It also creates a new competitive grant program to help build and expand biorefineries. If signed into law, it would also provide $100 million in mandatory funding through FY 2030. Several industry leaders support the bill, including Plant Based Products Council, Corn Refiners Association and the Ag Bioeconomy Coalition. The full text of the AG BIO Act can be found here online. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Forbes
21-04-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Industrial Policy Is Just Another Anti-Progress Variation Of Tariffs
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA - AUGUST 06: Republican presidential candidate North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum ... More speaks to guests at Ashley's BBQ Bash hosted by Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-IA) on August 06, 2023 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Seven of the 14 GOP candidates seeking the party's nomination for president were scheduled to speak at the event. (Photo by) Interior secretary Doug Burgum deters progress when he halts wind projects in New York, all the while requiring review of all wind project permits issued during the Biden administration. The previous comment isn't the championing of wind power, but it is a comment that industrial policy is most harmful for freezing the present in place. Industrial policy is anti-progress sister of tariffs. To understand why, it will be said up front what's hard to deny, that oil is presently the most crucial commodity in the world. Without it, life as we know it would become incredibly primitive in an instant on the way to unrelenting drudgery. To say that oil and its byproducts power us around by train, car and plane goes without saying, at which point it's easily forgotten how much automation of nearly all aspects of production has been driven by oil, not to mention all the produced products in which oil and its byproducts are yet again a driving force. We quite simply can't do without oil right now. Just the same, it's too easily forgotten that 'now' in the world of a commerce is a look into the past. Oil looms large here. How soon we forget that less than two centuries ago no one demanded the extraction of the crude that was bubbling up before our eyes around the world. In other words, what was visible to so much of the world was hiding in plain sight as the most transformative, economy and life-enhancing commodity the world has ever known. The simple truth is that oil's genius as a driver of progress had to be discovered. As the great George Gilder reminds us repeatedly, wealth is knowledge. And massive amounts of wealth were created in concert with the discovery of oil's endless uses as an industrial commodity. Still, it wasn't always a known. Wind power is no different. There's the known and unknown with it. We have a sense of what it can do, but we don't really know yet. Which isn't a call for government subsidization of wind power. Governments are by their very name constrained by the known, or what they think should be known, while market actors are in the process of discovering what's not evident. Much as oil once sat cruelly unused, it's possible that wind and all manner of other existing or would-be energy forms hide in plain sight. It brings us back to the Trump administration. What bills itself as free market is doing markets a disservice with industrial policy meant to pick the energy winners of today and tomorrow. The reality is that tomorrow is an unknown exactly because the U.S. is full of industrious individuals searching for intrepid investors eager to back the impossible that will make the energy present appear primitive relative to what will be. Will the energy future be defined by wind in the way that oil defines the present now? There's no way of knowing the previous question anymore than it was possible to know in the late 19th century if oil would be the progress story of the 20th century, and beyond. And if anyone doubts the previous assertion, they need only contemplate the immense fortune of John D. Rockefeller. If the path he was on had been conventional wisdom, then it's safe to say we would never have heard of Rockefeller. In commerce, the present is invariably a look into the past. The ambitious ensure this. Since we're so eager to progress, it's necessary that the Trump administration does not shower government favor on any specific economic outcome, but instead gets out of the way so that ambitious people with different visions can determine what's ahead.
Fox News
10-03-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
The Importance Of Supporting America's Heartland
Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-IA) is doubling down on her effort to support America's heartland. The Congresswoman joins Jason to discuss their parallel experiences working alongside Democrats in Congress who are unwilling to find common ground with Republicans. She also emphasizes the importance of protecting taxpayers' dollars and supporting the nation's agricultural community. Bring on the stupid: Columbian police arrested a man for attempting to smuggle packs of illicit drugs under his toupee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
Fox News
13-02-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Common Ground: Bipartisan Efforts to Locate Government Waste
Many federal agencies in Washington D.C. serve communities across the country — but how can government officials in D.C. know what the main issues and concerns are for Americans in these places when they work thousands of miles away from them? Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-IA) and Congressman Jared Golden (D-ME) discuss how their bipartisan bill, the Strategic Withdrawal of Agencies for Meaningful Placement (SWAMP) Act, is dedicated to relocating federal jobs out of Washington D.C. and closer to the communities they serve — allowing Americans to feel more connected to federal agencies. They also discuss the need to cut unnecessary spending on Capitol Hill, and how many lawmakers are willing to work across the aisle to find where this should be done. Follow Bret on X: @BretBaier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
