Santorum warms up to Iowa farmers
Steve Boender, a soft-spoken farmer from Oskaloosa, Iowa, first met Rick Santorum in May when he drove the Republican presidential candidate to a scheduled speaking event in Pella. Sitting next to him...
View ArticleIowa House Republicans pressure D.C. on budget amendment
Iowa House leaders sent a letter to Congress today, urging federal lawmakers to pass balanced budget amendment, an Iowa House Republicans spokeswoman said. With an Aug. 2 deadline looming to raise the...
View ArticleIn Iowa, Bachmann calls out Obama on debt ceiling
ANKENY — In the wake of President Barack Obama‘s Monday night national address about the debt ceiling, GOP presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) called the President out on his...
View ArticleObama plans Friday statement on debt ceiling negotiations
White House officials announced Friday morning that President Barack Obama will make a statement on debt ceiling negotiations at 9:20 a.m. CST. The statement will be live-streamed by the White House...
View ArticleFRC’s Values Voter Summit will once again feature Bachmann
Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann has confirmed that she will speak at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., in October. Bachmann has attended the summit, put...
View ArticleLatham only member of Iowa delegation in top fundraisers
Between January and July, U.S. Rep. Tom Latham has garnered more than $1 million in receipts, making him number eleven on a list of the top 50 House incumbents for fundraising and the only member of...
View ArticleGOP spending bill seeks to gut family-planning funding
The same week that anti-abortion-rights advocates and Catholic colleges pushed the Obama administration to repeal a recent decision to include contraception in a list of fully-covered preventive health...
View ArticleGOP leaders promise anti-abortion push
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner told a crowd of thousands at the sixth annual Values Voter Summit in Washington D.C., that giving birth to 12 boys and girls probably was not convenient for his mother....
View ArticlePolitico: 3rd CD race among five ‘that could break the bank’
The race between longtime incumbent U.S. Reps. Leonard Boswell and Tom Latham in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District is among five “that could break the bank,” Politico says. Reporter Dan Hirschhorn...
View ArticleHarkin among wealthiest one percent of Americans
Iowa U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Cumming) can count himself among the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans, according to a USA Today analysis of financial disclosures of members of Congress. Harkin has an...
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