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Third District Rep. Leonard Boswell was the top fundraiser of Iowa’s U.S. House delegation so far during 2009, pulling in more than $300,000, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Lt. Gov. Patty Judge, who serves as Gov. Chet Culver’s point-person for disaster recovery efforts, said visiting Cedar Rapids evoked a mix of emotions.

CEDAR RAPIDS — State and federal officials held a joint press conference Wednesday and pledged both to cut government red tape tangling flood recovery funding and to promote a new climate of natural disaster prevention.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will visit Des Moines next month to raise money for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
The event, held June 6 at the home of Jim and Roxanne Conlin, will cost anywhere from $2,500 to $30,000 to attend and is being hosted by Democratic U.S. Reps. Leonard Boswell, Bruce Braley and [...]

As the saying goes, once elected, a member of Congress must raise $10,000 a week to get re-elected. It sounds like hard work, but it doesn’t always have to be.

U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack has given 2nd District residents a way to visually view the distribution of federal funds that were appropriated through the Recovery Act.

The offices of Congressmen Dave Loebsack (D-Mt. Vernon) and Leonard Boswell (D-Des Moines) have forwarded comments on today’s Iowa Supreme Court decision in Varnum v. Brien. Both statements resist direct involvement in what is, conveniently enough, mostly a state-level issue, but they also signal “respect” for the decision.

Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, received a near perfect score on the American Conservative Union’s annual rankings of House and Senate members.
King scored a 96 out of 100, losing out on collecting the group’s “Defenders of Liberty” award due to his vote last year to override President George W. Bush’s veto of the $307 billion farm [...]

Republican Reps. Steve King and Tom Latham outpaced their Democratic counterparts in the U.S. House in securing earmarks in the 2009 omnibus spending bill, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense.
The nonpartisan watchdog organization reports that Latham personally secured 10 earmarks in the bill, totaling $3.7 million, ranking 100th in the U.S. House. The Ames Republican, [...]

The National Journal has released its 2008 rankings of the most liberal and conservative lawmakers in Washington, and Iowa Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, has come in as the 9th most conservative (or 419th most liberal) lawmaker in the U.S. House.