Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District

U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson

Education: University of Southern Carolina

Key Policy Issues:

• Lowering the cost of prescription drugs and making health care affordable for Iowans. Hinson also wants to make health care accessible for rural Iowans who often don’t have access to hospital care.
• Hinson is publicly anti-abortion, according to her campaign website. Hinson is a co-sponsor of The Life at Conception Act that would outlaw all abortions with no exceptions in cases of rape, incest, or risk to the life of the pregnant person.
• Hinson has campaigned on her perception of President Joe Biden’s handling of border security. Hinson has criticized Biden for an increase in migrants attempting to cross the U.S. border to seek asylum or possibly gain illegal entry into the country.

Age: 39 years old

Residence: Marion, Iowa

Occupation: Hinson is a U.S. Representative, but formerly worked as a reporter at the Cedar Rapids based ABC affiliate KCRG.

Family: Hinson has two sons and a husband who currently reside in Marion, Iowa.

Liz Mathis

Education: University of Iowa

Key Policy Issues:

• Mathis would like to see health care accessible and affordable for everyone and would accomplish this through public hospitals that will increase competition and choice and expand Medicare.
• Mathis would advocate for small businesses in Congress by “leveling the playing field” in Iowa by breaking up monopolistic tendencies in certain markets like agriculture that prevent small businesses from growing.
• If elected, Mathis would grow clean energy in Iowa and the U.S. Mathis would also support Biofuels that aim to make the fuel supply more renewable, protect the environment through regulations and environmental impact laws.

Age: 64 years old

Residence: Hiawatha, Iowa

Occupation: Mathis is an Iowa State Senator. Before, she was an anchor for KWWL, a Waterloo-based CBS affiliate TV news station, which had just opened its Cedar Rapids Bureau.

Family: Mathis is married to her husband, Mark Mathis.