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Fundraising in nine Iowa House battleground districts suggests that GOP candidates might be in a stronger position than once thought, but the Democrats still have the upper hand, according to reports filed last month with the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board.

(Update: The Iowa House of Representatives passed House File 2065 this morning. There were no votes against the bill, which now heads to the Senate. Employers who fail to follow the law face possible simple misdemeanor charges with up to 30 days in jail and fines up to $625. Under the proposed changes to the [...]

The Biden Campaign promised a “surprise musical performance from a renowned Iowan” at their Jefferson Jackson Dinner pre-rally. Who could it be? Grammy-winning folk legend Greg Brown from Iowa City? Des Moines’ grammy-winning nu-metal thrashers SlipKnot?

Not quite. Try Iowa State Sen. Joe Seng of Davenport, whose one-man keyboard band added a homespun flavor to the [...]

The last thing Iowa’s National Guard and reserve soldiers need to worry about while deployed to war is whether or not they’ll have a job when they return to their civilian lives. Knowing this, the federal government passed USERRA (Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act) in 1994 to help protect the soldiers’ jobs, and [...]

The U.S. Senate voted 75 to 23 today to pass Delaware Sen. Joe Biden’s amendment that provides for regional autonomy within a federal system. The amendment also calls for the support of the United Nations and Iraq’s neighbors to help implement an end to the civil war.
Speaking on behalf of his eight colleagues in the [...]

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden drew another leadership card in the Iowa House of Representatives, thus procuring a full house in his endorsement hand.
This morning, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Des Moines endorsed Biden on the steps of the Iowa State Capitol. Last week, the Democrat from Delaware was endorsed by Assistant Majority Leader [...]

As Faith in America begins its ad campaign in Ames to challenge discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, it comes to a state with likely allies. Last week, by a vote of 59 to 37, the Iowa House passed a civil rights bill, according to the Des Moines Register, that “would make it [...]

As the Iowa legislative session came to a close early Sunday, House Democrats marveled that they had passed all but one of the items on their legislative agenda. The next day, they learned that they were short one more thing: a caucus member. The two issues were not unrelated.
On Monday, Rep. Dawn Pettengill, a Democrat [...]