Sen. Tom Harkin is starting to get more actively involved with the Barack Obama presidential campaign. On Saturday, Harkin will be a surrogate for the presumptive Democratic nominee at a major presidential forum on disability issues. Republican candidate John McCain will speak by satellite.
The non-partisan event is [...]
Rob Hubler estimates he's driven about 180,000 miles during the past 18 months across western Iowa's 5th District in his campaign to unseat Republican Rep. Steve King. The Council Bluffs Democrat flew 1,100 more this week to Washington to try to raise money and gain attention for his quest. [...]
Rep. Steve King sits on the House Judiciary Committee, a post from which on Friday he took part in an attempt by Republicans to defuse accusations made by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan in a new book.
McClellan is the author of "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House [...]
Here is the White House transcript of President Bush's remarks in Cedar Rapids today:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Iowa City, Iowa)
_____________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release June 19, 2008
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AFTER AERIAL TOUR OF IOWA FLOOD DAMAGE
Kirkwood [...]
With the crisis in Iowa mounting by the hour, both Rep. Dave Loebsack and Rep. Bruce Braley have opted to skip the rest of the votes this week in the House and head back to their besieged districts.
Loebsack's office said in a statement that he would "assess flood damage, visit [...]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today that Rep. Doris Matsui, a California Democrat, will be recommended to join the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
That means Rep. Bruce Braley won't be.
Braley had launched a small lobbying campaign for the job, saying that energy is an important issue for Iowa. Several other [...]
Last night on CNN, the analysts on Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" chewed over Sen. Tom Harkin's remarks about Republican presidential candidate John McCain's military background.
Just to refresh those who haven't kept up with this mini-flap, Harkin recently told Iowa reporters that he thinks McCain, as the son and grandson [...]
Sen. Tom Harkin's comments last week that Republican presidential candidate John McCain's family background has given him a worldview shaped by the military, "and he has a hard time thinking beyond that," continue to reverberate.
Harkin, in a conference call with Iowa reporters on May 16, pointed out that McCain [...]
