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KEOSAUQUA — Iowa U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks faced a combative crowd Monday during her first in-person town hall of the year, as frustrated constituents booed, heckled and shouted over the congresswoman throughout an hourlong event in Keosauqua that laid bare southeast Iowa voters’ anxieties about the economy, health care and immigration enforcement.

Inside the Roberts Memorial Center, the 1st District Republican tried to stick to a format in which audience questions were written on cards and read by a moderator. Critics accused her of filtering tough topics; supporters urged the crowd to let her finish.

Some attendees who stood up and disrupted the town hall were escorted out by law e

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