Election 2026
Independent, source-first accountability
Issue record
In short
Miller-Meeks's official page lists her veterans bills, including on suicide prevention. Bohannan's campaign lists no veterans position on the pages checked; she has raised concern about strikes on Venezuela without Congress's approval. Bridgford's campaign lists no veterans position on the pages checked; in posts he writes about defense spending and Iran. On the record, Miller-Meeks's SERVICE Act, on veterans' mammograms, stalled in a subcommittee; the Senate's version became law in 2022.
Campaign positions
Her official veterans page, which opens on her 24 years in the Army, says she will continue to champion veterans' needs and lists bills on VA accountability, suicide prevention, cannabis research, mammography screening and breast imaging, and a vote for the largest military pay raise in twenty years. She chairs the Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Health.
On the use of military force she has taken a position; on veterans' affairs this desk finds none. Her statement of January 3, 2026 on the strikes against Venezuela says "we should all be concerned about continued offensive military measures" taken without congressional authorization against a country that poses no immediate threat, and that "there should be no American troops on the ground in Venezuela." None of the eight sections of her campaign priorities page is about veterans or the military: they are costs, government, health care, education, family farms and natural resources, seniors and Social Security, freedom, and a family friendly economy. Across the 45 items her site serves through its own content interface, 29 posts that are its news archive, 8 pages and 8 priorities, the word veteran appears in two posts: a news item on the road of honour to the national cemetery in Keokuk, and her campaign announcement, where it names cuts she attributes to her opponent rather than a position of her own.
On the military he has spoken, and in his own posts rather than on his site. Writing on July 16, 2026 about a request for defence funding, he said "Here we are needing ~$80b in defense funding when less than a yr ago we had ~$90b in “use or lose” Pentagon $." and that "IMO the uniparty just doesn’t care". On July 14, 2026, on the engagement with Iran, he wrote that "it’s a lot easier to get in than it is to get out", called that a lesson that should have been learned "from our prior entanglements in the Middle East", and added "My thoughts are with our troops in harms way and hope that they all come home safely - and soon." On veterans' own affairs this desk finds no position. None appears in the eleven issue panels of his campaign issues page, which cover representation, affordability, term limits and campaign finance, Social Security, corruption, the Constitution, water and education, health care, agriculture, artificial intelligence and manufacturing; searching his site's News page for veteran returns nothing either, and so does searching the whole JavaScript bundle the site serves, which carries the text of every page, zero occurrences in its 587,449 bytes; and across his 451 posts and replies, published from July 1, 2026 to the retrieval on September 13, 2026 and collected in full, the account exhausted rather than stopped at a cap, veteran appears once, in an August 1, 2026 post recording that he met a veteran frustrated with politics in Washington at the Des Moines County Fair, which is an encounter and not a position. VA, GI Bill, TRICARE, National Guard, servicemember and deployment return nothing in those posts.
Evidence timeline
official action
She voted Yea on the 2022 Ukraine aid bill (368-57) and the 2024 one (311-112, with most House Republicans against). Both are law, the 2024 text as part of H.R. 815.
In the October 20 KCRG-TV9 debate, Miller-Meeks said the U.S. should side with Ukraine and that she voted to fund and help Ukraine as it bought weapons from the United States. She voted Yea on the Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022, H.R. 7691, which passed the House 368 to 57 on May 10, 2022 (Roll Call 145) and became Public Law 117-128. She voted Yea on the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024, H.R. 8035, which passed the House 311 to 112 on April 20, 2024 (Roll Call 151), with 101 Republicans for it and 112 against. That text became law as Division B of H.R. 815, Public Law 118-50, which funds the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. Limit: Both Yea votes are on the Clerk's record, and the text of both is law, the 2024 one as part of H.R. 815. In 2024 more House Republicans voted against the Ukraine bill than for it, and she was among those for it. This card does not check her other Ukraine votes, such as amendments or the wider spending bills, or her claims about how the aid was run.
official action
She sponsored the House SERVICE Act, which stalled in a subcommittee, while the Senate's version passed the House 418-0 and became law in June 2022.
Her official issues page says she championed the SERVICE Act, directing the VA to provide mammogram screening for veterans who served where burn pits and other toxic exposure occurred, and that the bill passed the House and was signed into law. The SERVICE Act became law. She sponsored the House bill, H.R. 4571, the SERVICE Act of 2021, introduced July 20, 2021 with nineteen cosponsors; its last recorded action is referral to the Subcommittee on Health on September 8, 2021, so her own bill never reached the floor. The act that was enacted is the Senate companion, S. 2102, the Dr. Kate Hendricks Thomas SERVICE Act, sponsored by Senator Boozman: the House passed it 418 to 0 under suspension on May 18, 2022 (Roll Call 228) and it became Public Law 117-133 on June 7, 2022. Its enacted text carries the mammography screening directive her page describes. This desk also read the whole enacted text of the PACT Act, Public Law 117-168, because that act is the usual home for toxic-exposure provisions, and found no mammography or breast-cancer provision in it. Limit: The subject became law and she sponsored the House bill on it, so "championed" holds and so does "passed the House and was signed into law" about the SERVICE Act. The bill that passed and was signed was the Senate's, not hers; hers stopped at a subcommittee. The check read the enacted text of both public laws named here and the action history of her own bill. Whether the screening the act directs has reached Iowa veterans is a question about administration, which this card does not assess.
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Office of Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Opens on her Army service and lists her work for veterans, including the SERVICE Act and the MAMMO for Veterans Act. Both claims are quoted on cards.
official office record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position; Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated record claim
Office of Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Official biography: 24 years in the Army as a private, nurse and doctor; director of the Iowa Department of Public Health from 2010 to 2014; Iowa Senate District 41 from 2018, resigned January 2, 2021; Energy and Commerce, and chair of the Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Health.
official office record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position
Christina Bohannan for Congress · Published Jan 3, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Her statement on the strikes against Venezuela and the capture of Nicolás Maduro. It is the only item on her site that takes a position on the use of military force, and the quotations this desk records on veterans and the military come from it.
candidate statement
For: Christina Bohannan: 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
Christina Bohannan for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
The site serves its own content through a public interface, which this desk read in full rather than page by page: 29 posts, 8 pages and 8 priorities, 45 items in all, each with its date and its address, the posts and priorities read from their own endpoints of the same interface. Cited as the scope of every search behind a silence recorded against her. Across all 45 items, immigrat, border and deport return nothing, and the letters ICE appear only inside the word PRICES in an all-capital headline, never as the agency's name; veteran appears in two posts and nowhere else.
candidate statement
For: Christina Bohannan: campaign position
Christina Bohannan for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Cited for the Keokuk road-of-honour news item on the site's news list, which is one of the two posts on her site where the word veteran appears. The scope of the veterans search itself is the whole site, recorded under bohannan-site-search.
candidate statement
For: Christina Bohannan: campaign position
Christina Bohannan for Congress · Published Jun 17, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Her campaign announcement, and the second of the two posts on her site where the word veteran appears: in a line about cuts to Social Security, veterans healthcare, education and law enforcement that the post attributes to her opponent, rather than in a position of her own.
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
Bridgford for Iowa · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
His campaign's news page. Like every other route on the site it answers a plain request with HTTP 200 and the same client-rendered shell, so its items were read from the site's own JavaScript bundle, which carries the text of every page. The page holds press releases and media items, each with a source line and a date, among them his August 23, 2026 appearance on WHBF's 4 The Record, which is where the words this desk quotes on the border come from, and a WHO 13 item of April 16, 2026 that lists immigration among his interview subjects. The word veteran appears nowhere on it, and nowhere in the bundle's 587,449 bytes.
candidate statement
For: Michael Bridgford: campaign position
X · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Handle taken from the link the campaign site's own code carries, because the site renders its footer in the browser rather than in the page it serves; the bundle was read live on September 13, 2026. Cited as the scope of a search behind a silence recorded against him: its posts and replies were collected in full for the window July 1, 2026 to September 13, 2026, 451 items, the account exhausted rather than stopped at a cap.
social profile
For: Michael Bridgford: campaign position
X · Published Jul 16, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
His own post, a quote post; the post it quotes is from the account @BGOV, which this desk did not read and does not describe. Collected from his declared account on September 13, 2026 and re-read against the platform the same day before it was written down: unchanged, the same author, and one entry in its edit history. He holds no office, so the post is his own words and not a record of any official action.
social profile
For: Michael Bridgford: campaign position
X · Published Jul 14, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
His own post, not a reply and not a quote of anyone. Collected from his declared account on September 13, 2026 and re-read against the platform the same day before it was written down: unchanged, the same author, and one entry in its edit history. He holds no office, so the post is his own words and not a record of any official action.
social profile
For: Michael Bridgford: campaign position
KCRG-TV9 · Published Oct 20, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
18:06. 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
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published May 10, 2022 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022, passed 368 to 57. Miller-Meeks is recorded Yea.
official legislative record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Published May 10, 2022 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
Became Public Law 117-128.
official legislative record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated record claim
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Apr 20, 2024 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024, passed 311 to 112 with 1 present; Republicans 101 Yea, 112 Nay. Miller-Meeks is recorded Yea.
official legislative record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated record claim
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Apr 24, 2024 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
H.R. 815 as enacted. Division B carries the Ukraine text the House passed as H.R. 8035, including funding for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.
official legislative record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated record claim
Congress.gov · Published Jul 20, 2021 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Her own bill, 19 cosponsors, to direct the VA to provide mammography screening for veterans who served in locations associated with toxic exposure. Its last recorded action is referral to the Subcommittee on Health on 2021-09-08.
official legislative record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated record claim
U.S. Government Publishing Office via Congress.gov · Published Jun 7, 2022 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
The enacted SERVICE Act, from S. 2102 sponsored by Senator Boozman. Its text directs the VA to provide mammography screening for veterans who served in locations associated with toxic exposure, the subject her page describes.
official legislative record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated record claim
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published May 18, 2022 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
The House passed the Dr. Kate Hendricks Thomas SERVICE Act under suspension of the rules, 418 to 0.
official legislative record
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U.S. Government Publishing Office via Congress.gov · Published Aug 10, 2022 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Read in full for this desk because it is the usual home for toxic-exposure provisions. Its 203,817 bytes contain 21 mentions of burn pits and no occurrence of mammography or breast cancer, so it is not where the screening directive was enacted.
official legislative record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Matches stated record claim