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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 [...]

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting 28 Republicans who voted against the economic stimulus bill last week in the U.S. House with radio ads in their districts. Iowa 4th District Rep. Tom Latham made the list.

Iowans in the 4th District will probably be seeing a lot more of Becky Greenwald in few remaining days between now and the November election.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has placed the Greenwald campaign in its Red to Blue program. The distinction heralds the flow of financial, communications and strategic support from the national committee [...]

One of Iowa’s congressmen is continuing to raise eyebrows in Washington. Bruce Braley, a Democrat elected in 2006 to represent the 1st District, was recently named as one of three chairpersons to lead the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Red to Blue Program for the 2008 cycle.
Braley will co-chair the program with Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [...]

Veterans/Political Fronts

After posting disappointing campaign fundraising numbers for the second quarter in a row, Sen. John McCain downsized his Iowa staff, including his veterans outreach aide.

Veterans gathered at the Fort Dodge Public Library on Thursday for a session on veterans affairs led by Robert Hamill, a staff member of U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. One [...]

Gearing up for the 2008 election, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee began targeting 14 vulnerable Republican districts this week by launching its Independence Day ad campaign. “Republicans are going home to talk up their support for our nation’s troops and veterans. But, their constituents deserve to know that the Republican record on veterans is all [...]

Last November, Democrats across the country rejoiced as they gained control of the U.S. House and Senate. Congressman Rahm Emanuel, then-chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), in particular, was praised by some as the brains behind the operation for retaking the House. Now Emanuel’s friend, Congressman Tom Cole, a Republican from Oklahoma, is [...]