Mariannette Miller-Meeks
RepublicanIncumbent
U.S. Representative for Iowa's 1st district since 2023 (2nd district 2021–2023); physician, Army veteran and former Iowa state senator
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U.S. House · Nov 3, 2026
Incumbent: Mariannette Miller-Meeks, running for re-election.
Miller-Meeks and Bohannan also faced each other for this seat in 2022 and 2024; candidates are listed in the order of the state's candidate list.
U.S. Representative for Iowa's 1st district since 2023 (2nd district 2021–2023); physician, Army veteran and former Iowa state senator
University of Iowa law professor; Iowa state representative from 2021 to 2023; Democratic nominee for this seat in 2022 and 2024
Financial adviser from Bettendorf
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RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
Says she has worked to lower prescription drug prices; introduced bills on pharmacy benefit manager transparency, lowering seniors' out-of-pocket drug costs and access to non-opioid pain treatment, and cosponsored a bill to prevent further cuts to Medicare.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
Supports reversing the recent Medicaid cuts, fully extending the ACA tax credits, letting people buy into Medicare at any age, a $35 monthly cap on insulin for everyone and more Medicare drug price negotiation; opposes a single-payer system.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
Supports requiring hospitals and insurers to post upfront cash prices, higher Medicare payments for rural Critical Access Hospitals, site-neutral payments, correcting Medicare Advantage overpayments and pharmacy benefit manager reform.
RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
Voted for H.R. 1346 to permanently allow nationwide, year-round sales of E15 fuel, which she says supports Iowa farmers and lowers prices at the pump.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
Supports reversing tariffs and expanding markets for farmers, cracking down on anti-competitive practices in seed, fertilizer and meat and grain processing, a Farm Bill with fair crop insurance rates, and incentives for buffer zones and cover crops.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
Supports a Farm Bill that protects crop insurance and raises loan limits for beginning farmers, enforcing antitrust law in seed, fertilizer and meatpacking, permanent year-round E15 sales, and banning foreign adversaries from buying U.S. farmland.
RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
Supported the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, now law, which she says cuts red tape to build more homes and bars large institutional investors that own at least 350 single-family homes from buying more.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
Supports barring hedge funds and private investors from buying Iowa family homes and land, and building and rehabilitating more housing.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
No published position found.
RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
Cosponsored the Educational Choice for Children Act, which would provide $10 billion a year in tax credits for K-12 school choice, and introduced bills requiring loan counseling before federal student loans are disbursed and funding children's mental health programs.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
Supports a national investment in public education from pre-K through college with a focus on rural and small-town schools, expanding career and technical education, and school and summer lunch for every child.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
No published position found.
RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
No published position found.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
Supports banning stock trading by members of Congress, executive officials, Supreme Court justices, their spouses and staff; a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United; term limits and age caps; and a permanent lobbying ban for members. Says she takes no corporate PAC money.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
Supports a constitutional amendment limiting House members to four terms and senators to two, banning members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading individual stocks, and a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
No published position found.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
Supports protecting Social Security and Medicare, shoring up the trust funds, and opposing efforts to cut or privatize them; supports expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision and hearing care and home health costs for family caregivers.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
Pledges to vote against changes to the retirement age or benefits for current retirees and workers within 10 years of retirement; supports gradually lifting the payroll tax cap, slowing benefit growth for the top 5% of future retirees, and a legal lockbox for the trust funds.
RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
Supports the 2025 tax law she calls the Working Families Tax Cuts, citing its deductions for tips, overtime and seniors, the $2,200 child tax credit, the doubled standard deduction and permanent estate tax relief for family farms.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
No published position found.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
No published position found.
RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
Voted for the Secure the Border Act of 2023 and the Laken Riley Act, introduced legislation to finish border wall construction, and cosponsored the HALT Fentanyl Act to permanently classify fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
No published position found.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
No published position found.
RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
Cosponsored the Lower Energy Costs Act to end restrictions on energy production and streamline permitting, led a House-passed measure to keep hydraulic fracturing from being banned, voted to repeal restrictions on natural gas exports, and opposed federal electric vehicle mandates.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
No published position found.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
No published position found.
RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
Supports making VA care more accessible and accountable; introduced bills to expand veterans' mental health screening and suicide prevention and breast imaging for women veterans, and voted for the largest military pay raise in 20 years.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
No published position found.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
No published position found.
RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
No published position found.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
Says lowering costs will be her top priority; supports using Congress's power to end the current tariffs, cracking down on what she calls corporate price gouging and anti-competitive practices, and cracking down on utility monopolies and expanding clean energy to lower energy bills.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
No published position found.
RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
No published position found.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
Says she will work to put Roe v. Wade back into federal law and restore abortion rights; criticizes Iowa's ban on abortion at six weeks.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
No published position found.
RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
No published position found.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
No published position found.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
Supports legislation setting a legal target to cut the federal deficit to 3% of GDP or less and reinstating strict pay-as-you-go rules; pledges to vote against multi-subject omnibus spending packages.
RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
No published position found.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
No published position found.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
Supports tying federal incentives for data centers to local control over siting, requiring tech companies to pay for the infrastructure they need and use closed-loop cooling, a federal fee on large AI models, labels on AI-generated media and data privacy laws.
RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
No published position found.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
No published position found.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
Opposes liability shields for pesticide makers; supports expanding funding for voluntary farm conservation through EQIP and a federally funded investigation of cancer clusters in Iowa.
RepublicanMariannette Miller-Meeks
No published position found.
DemocraticChristina Bohannan
No published position found.
No PartyMichael Bridgford
Supports expanding tax credits for businesses and labor organizations that train apprentices, enforcing Buy American rules on federal infrastructure projects, and removing tax breaks from companies that move manufacturing jobs overseas.