Election 2026
Independent, source-first accountability
Issue record
In short
Miller-Meeks's official page backs nationwide E15 sales. Bohannan's campaign backs family farms and action against agricultural monopolies; Bridgford's backs farm antitrust enforcement and year-round E15. Miller-Meeks cosponsored and voted for the E15 bill that passed the House in May 2026; it is not law. Her phosphate-fertilizer tariff bill remains in committee. A presidential proclamation authorized temporary relief on some Moroccan phosphate duties; this does not establish that her bill caused it or that relief took effect.
Campaign positions
Her official energy page says she led efforts to allow the sale of E15 in Iowa and nationwide, alongside her work on domestic energy production; her newsroom records her voting for H.R. 1346 to authorize year-round nationwide E15 on May 13, 2026. Neither her campaign site nor her official issues index carries a page on agriculture or the farm bill.
Her campaign says Iowa has lost 30,000 family farms to consolidation, that tariffs and trade wars threaten farms more than in many years, and that input costs on seed and fertiliser reflect monopoly practices; she would direct farm policy to independent family operations and pursue the companies squeezing them.
His campaign says he grew up on a seventh-generation family farm and would fight for a family-farm-first farm bill safeguarding crop insurance and raising loan limits for beginning farmers, enforce antitrust law against seed, fertiliser and meatpacking concentration, permanently authorize year-round nationwide E15, and ban farmland purchases by foreign adversaries.
Evidence timeline
official action
Her 2026 bill to end duties on phosphate fertilizer has not left committee. A June 2026 proclamation authorized suspending some duties on Moroccan phosphate for up to eight months.
In the October 20 KCRG-TV9 debate, Miller-Meeks said she put forward a bill to remove a tariff on phosphate fertilizer that was hurting Iowans, and that the tariff has since been lifted. She is the sponsor of H.R. 8583, the Lowering Input Costs for American Farmers Act, introduced April 29, 2026 with Representative Hinson. It would bar duties on phosphate fertilizer under sections 122 and 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 and end the countervailing duty orders on phosphate fertilizer from Morocco. It was referred to the Ways and Means Committee, and no later action is recorded. On June 29, 2026 the White House announced a proclamation declaring an emergency and authorizing a temporary suspension of certain anti-dumping and countervailing duties on phosphate fertilizer from Morocco, for eight months or until the emergency ends. Her office's release of July 1, 2026 credits that step and names her bill. Limit: The bill is hers and it aims at the duties she named. A presidential proclamation, not her bill, which has not left committee, authorized suspending some of them. The relief is a suspension for up to eight months, not a repeal, and it covers the Morocco duties; this desk did not check what happened to any section 122 or 301 duty on phosphate. Whether her bill led to the proclamation is not something the record shows. This desk did not read the proclamation itself or check whether the suspension took effect.
campaign position
He holds no office and has cast no vote, and a bill for year-round E15 passed the House 218-203 in May 2026 without him.
His campaign says he would back legislation permanently allowing year-round nationwide sale of E15 instead of annual emergency waivers. He holds no office and has cast no vote, so there is no action of his to compare. The bill his sentence describes exists and moved during this Congress: H.R. 1346, the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025, passed the House 218 to 203 on May 13, 2026 (Roll Call 164) and went to the Senate. He was not a member and had no vote on it. Limit: The card shows the bill the statement describes and its recorded vote so a reader can see what the position refers to, but he took no part in it and this desk claims no comparison. Whether he would have voted Yea is not something any record can answer.
official action
She is an original cosponsor of H.R. 1346 and voted Yea when the House passed it 218-203 in May 2026, with members of both parties on each side. It sits in a Senate committee and is not law.
In the October 20 KCRG-TV9 debate, Miller-Meeks said she passed year-round E15 in the House, that it took years, and that it was bipartisan. H.R. 1346, the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025, was introduced by Representative Adrian Smith on February 13, 2025, and she is an original cosponsor. The House passed it 218 to 203 on May 13, 2026 (Roll Call 164), and she voted Yea. 122 Republicans, 95 Democrats and one independent voted Yea; 90 Republicans and 113 Democrats voted Nay. The Senate received it and referred it to its Environment and Public Works Committee. It is not law. Limit: The House did pass the bill, she backed it from the day it was filed, and she voted for it. She is a cosponsor, not the sponsor, so "I passed" means she was one of 218 Yea votes. Members of both parties voted on each side. The bill has not passed the Senate, so year-round E15 is not law through this bill.
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Office of Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Carries the sentence "I led efforts to allow the sale of E15 fuel in Iowa and around the nation." and links a May 13, 2026 release recording her vote for H.R. 1346.
official office record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published May 13, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
The House passed the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act, the year-round E15 bill, 218 to 203. Miller-Meeks is recorded Yea.
official legislative record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position; Michael Bridgford: Not comparable yet; Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated record claim
Office of Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
The index links seven subject pages and no others: delivering results, border security, economy, health, energy, veterans and education. Cited on this desk as one part of the scope behind a position recorded as not found on her; the other parts are her official press-release index and her campaign site, because a search of the issue pages alone is not a search of what she has said.
official office record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position
Christina Bohannan for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Eight sections: lowering costs, restoring faith in government, health care, education, family farms and natural resources, seniors and Social Security, freedom, and a family friendly economy. Read directly from the live site; no archive was needed. The government section carries the sentence "I take no corporate PAC money.", which is the statement side of the money card on her.
candidate statement
For: Christina Bohannan: campaign position
Bridgford for Iowa · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Eleven issue panels. The site is a client-rendered application: it answers a plain request with HTTP 200 but serves the same shell for every route and has no content API, so the panels were read twice, once rendered in a browser with each panel expanded and once extracted verbatim from the site's own JavaScript bundle. This is not a block and no archive was used.
candidate statement
For: Michael Bridgford: campaign position; Michael Bridgford: Not comparable yet
KCRG-TV9 · Published Oct 20, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
8:26. Paraphrased from YouTube's captions of the station's video; no second transcript was found to confirm the exact words.
candidate statement
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated direction
KCRG-TV9 · Published Oct 20, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
31:03. Paraphrased from YouTube's captions of the station's video.
candidate statement
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated direction
KCRG-TV9 · Published Oct 20, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
33:58. Paraphrased from YouTube's captions of the station's video.
candidate statement
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated direction
Congress.gov · Published Apr 29, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
Her own bill, with Representative Hinson as original cosponsor. Bars section 122 and 301 duties on phosphate fertilizer and ends the countervailing duty orders on phosphate fertilizer from Morocco. Referred to Ways and Means on 2026-04-29; no later action.
official legislative record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated direction
The White House · Published Jun 29, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
Authorizes a temporary suspension of certain anti-dumping and countervailing duties for eight months or until the emergency is terminated, whichever occurs first. The proclamation itself was not read.
official office record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated direction
Office of Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks · Published Jul 1, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
Says the Administration suspended duties on phosphate fertilizer imports and names her Lowering Input Costs for American Farmers Act.
official office record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated direction
Iowa Secretary of State · Published Aug 19, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
The document is stamped last updated 8/19/2026 1:36 PM. Its United States Representative District 1 block lists Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks (filed 3/6/2026), Democratic Christina Bohannan (filed 2/25/2026) and No Party Michael Bridgford (filed 6/1/2026), in that order, which is the ballot order this desk follows. Every page of the document carries the same header line on filing: the period for federal and state offices for No Party and petition candidates runs February 23 to June 2 at 5:00 p.m.
official election record
For: Michael Bridgford: Not comparable yet
KCRG-TV9 · Published Oct 20, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
31:38. Paraphrased from YouTube's captions of the station's video; no second transcript was found to confirm the exact words.
candidate statement
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated record claim
KCRG-TV9 · Published Oct 20, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
37:44. Paraphrased from YouTube's captions of the station's video.
candidate statement
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Published Feb 13, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
Sponsored by Representative Adrian Smith; Miller-Meeks is an original cosponsor. Passed the House 2026-05-13 (Roll Call 164); received in the Senate and referred to Environment and Public Works. No public law.
official legislative record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated record claim