Austin Harris

🔥 BIG WEEK FOR IOWA Iowa just became a national leader in protecting children’s health and reclaiming childhood. The Iowa MAHA Act: ✅ Limits K-5 classroom screen time to 60 minutes/day ✅ Removes harmful dyes & chemicals from school food ✅ Increases physical activity ✅ Restores the Presidential Fitness Test Reducing excessive screen time in schools was a top legislative priority for M4L Iowa this session, and Iowa is now leading the nation on this issue.  At the same time, the Office of the @Surgeon_General released a new warning on the harms of excessive screen use in children. @SecKennedy called it “one of the most urgent public health challenges facing American children.” Kids are spending more time on screens than sleeping, exercising, reading, or talking face-to-face with family and friends. “Let kids live real life.” Interim Surgeon General @Dr_Haridopolos was also in Iowa for the announcement and emphasized that this is “a call to reclaim childhood” and help children “live real life.” Huge credit to @IAGovernor Kim Reynolds, Rep. @AustinHarrisIA, Senator Kara Warme, Rep, @samantha_fett, and everyone who helped move this from conversation… to law.

I am so honored to have @SecKennedy join us today to witness Governor @KimReynoldsIA sign into law the largest ‘MAHA’ initiative any state has passed. As the floor manager of this legislation, we: ✅ Make only healthy foods eligible for SNAP ✅ Ban the use of taxpayer money to buy soda, candy, and junk food ✅ Require schools to administer the Presidential Fitness Test ✅ Ban harmful dyes and chemicals in school meals ✅ Increase physical activity in Iowa schools And much more!

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What a great day campaigning with my friend and U.S. Senate candidate @hinsonashley! Ashley is a devoted mother, proven leader, and fearless conservative who will fight tirelessly for every Iowan. I hope you’ll join me in supporting her in the Republican primary on June 2nd!

Thank you to Wes and Randell at The Coffee Grounds for the conversation and hospitality this morning — and for the amazing coffee. Shoutout to Rep. @AustinHarrisIA for joining us as well. It was great to see a small business meeting the needs of their community in Albia! 10/10 recommend stopping in if you’re in the area.

Spare us. You voted to let them be defunded. You funded groups that want them gone. Just ask the folks behind me.

🚨The Patients First Act has been signed into law by @IAGovernor ! I took on the big insurance companies and won. My legislation will: ✅ Prohibit insurance companies from denying or delaying cancer screenings and emergency care ✅ Require insurance companies to pay physicians for their work ✅ Make it easier to expand, upgrade, or add vital health care services ✅ Cut bureaucratic red tape And much more!

Mary was a long-time employee at the Iowa State Capitol and is now part of our Terrace Hill staff. On Monday, an apartment fire left her and her husband without a home. If you want to help, you can donate to Mary through the GoFundMe at the link below! gofundme.com/f/support-mary…

While some politicians talk, I actually get stuff done! From health care access to protecting election integrity to cutting red tape, here are the 18 bills I passed into law this session:

Career criminals, pack your bags. Iowa is not the place to be.

After weeks of negotiations, I am proud to say that we have reached a deal and that Iowa will pass the largest ‘MAHA’ initiative in the nation. ✅ Only healthy foods for SNAP ✅ Bans buying soda & candy with taxpayer money ✅ Iowa schools will lead the nation in physical activity ✅ Bans harmful chemicals in school meals ✅ Requires presidential fitness tests in PE ✅ Requires additional nutrition education in medical schools And much more!

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

The House just passed my bill to rename the Fort Madison Post Office after Martin L. Graber. A well-deserved tribute to a lifetime of service, leadership, and dedication to Iowa.

My common-sense legislation that puts parents in charge of their children's health has passed the Iowa House 63-29!

America is the greatest country in the world. Welcome home patriots 🫡

Within a single human lifetime, America broke free from Earth, soared through space, and planted the Stars and Stripes on the face of the moon. Not because it was easy. Because we dared. Someday, our descendants will carry that same flag to the farthest corners of creation. For America, there is no frontier too far. No dream too bold. No horizon beyond our reach. 🇺🇸🚀🦅