U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin addressed the Hy-Vee Hall crowd via video, saying he expected Gov. Chet Culver to win re-election and praising congressional Democrats’ work on health-care reform.
He remained in Washington for a key procedural vote to move a health-care reform bill forward in the Senate. After he spoke, Iowa [...]
Gov. Chet Culver spent the first part of his speech on thank yous and federal-level issues, noting that Congress nears passage of historic health-care reform.
But he soon turned to a list of accomplishments in Iowa: Expanding health care for children, lifting a ban on stem-cell research and helping veterans go [...]
U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell recalled a meeting in February with President Barack Obama in which he said he would no longer kick problems down the road.
So the president and Congress will not kick issues like health-care reform and energy policy down the road any longer, Boswell said.
The decorated Vietnam veteran [...]
Congressman Steve King Friday said terrorists would get a foothold in the U.S. if Sept. 11 suspects or suspected terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay Cuba were tried in the United States, as Attorney General Eric Holder has signaled.
Here is the key passage from the Iowa Republican’s comments during a [...]
The Washington Post reports as Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) presented the Senate health-care plan which the Congressional Budget Office said would cut federal deficits:
Democratic leaders were jubilant that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office determined that the Senate bill would cut federal deficits by $130 billion over the next decade. [...]
Gitmo prisoners headed to a prison on the edge of Iowa. Good idea? "Who Turned Out the Lights?" Jean Johnson with guided tour of our energy future. Congressman Tom Latham has a law to prevent the incarceration of Gitmo terrorists in the Midwest.
[...]At Ames High School, he won three state' [...]
Republicans didn't hit the panic button when would-be "shoe bomber" Richard Reid was tried in federal court.
Numerous international terrorists with links to Al-Qaeda are already in U.S. prisons. [...]
Former Iowa State wrestling Coach Jim Gibbons wants to be the third district’s next member of Congress. Gibbons brings the unique perspective of an athlete, coach, father, husband, and financial advisor to his congressional campaign. However, after talking with him for a couple of hours yesterday afternoon, [...]
Veteran Democratic operative Mark Daley will manage Roxanne Conlin’s U.S. Senate campaign, Daley told The Des Moines Register today.
Daley, an Urbandale political consultant since 2004, had been helping Conlin, a Des Moines lawyer and former nominee for governor, get her bid for the Senate underway.
Daley, 32, is a former congressional [...]
May Congress follow the lead of Blizzard Entertainment, and vote on the health care bill “when it’s ready.” Ezra Klein, who’s essential reading on health care reform, points out some of the cost control measures being considered.
The first comes from the excise tax on high-cost health insurance plans. The [...]
Several news agencies are reporting that Recovery.gov, the Obama administration's Web site to track stimulus spending, has been calculating jobs created or *saved* in non-existent congressional districts.
Examples of the website either making things up or just being inept:
The site listed Minnesota receiving $400,000 in stimulus [...]
It’s saving or creating jobs in congressional districts that don’t even exist.
Wow, impressive. ABC News reports:
Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. [...]
Former U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt is coming back to Iowa Friday to make a policy announcement about medical research, event planners said.
Gephardt plans to hold an 11:30 a.m. press conference at the Pappajohn Higher Education Center in Des Moines, as part of the longtime former Missouri congressman’s role with the [...]
Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet with Dave Funk at the new Smokey Row in Des Moines. Dave is one of the GOP candidates for Iowa’s Third Congressional District seat held by Congressman Leonard Boswell. Below is his bio shamelessly stolen from his [...]
Steve Kirby is the Iowa Chapter President of ACT...warns of the influence of radical Islam in Iowa. Earl Taylor and Jim Carley with Save Our American Republic...an upcoming "Making of America" seminar on the Constitution. jcarley104@msn.com or 515-423-4131. Congressman Steve King defends a controversial assessment [...]
The push is on to dilute the climate change bills moving through Congress, and it’s not coming only from conservatives. Mother Jones’ Kate Sheppard reports today that 14 Senate Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, are urging their leadership to amend the proposal to grant more free polluting permits [...]
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