Bohannan focuses on rising costs, corruption as Election Day nears

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Democrat Christina Bohannan is making her third consecutive run for Congress, seeking to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District.

Bohannan came within 800 votes of winning in 2024.

This time, she is making affordability a central issue in her campaign.

Bohannan’s career has spanned engineering, law and state politics. An environmental engineer by training, she joined the University of Iowa College of Law in 2000, where she became a professor. She was elected to the Iowa House in 2020 and served one term before running for Congress.

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Bohannan argues that Washington needs to focus more on Iowa’s working families and less on powerful special interests.

“They’re paying thousands more in fuel and fertilizer because of the Iran war. And they’re paying thousands more for increased insurance premiums from the One Big Beautiful Bill that cut our health care in order to give massive tax breaks to billionaires and data centers,” Bohannan said.

Bohannan wants to roll back President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which she argues are raising costs for consumers and farmers. She also supports expanding affordable housing and taking steps to lower utility bills.

“There’s more we can do,” she said. “We have to crack down on corporate price-gouging. A lot of times, there’s just not enough competition. They’ve been raising their prices and raising their prices.”

Bohannan supports allowing Americans to buy into Medicare at any age, expanding Medicare’s ability to negotiate prescription drug prices and reversing federal Medicaid cuts.

She also supports abortion rights and says she would protect Social Security and Medicare.

“I will work to lower costs, to improve health care in our communities by ending the political corruption that is costing us,” Bohannan said.

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