Leonard Boswell

Inauguration tix still available

If you want to go to the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama and you live in Iowa’s Fourth or Fifth Congressional District, you may be in luck.
Republican Congressmen Tom Latham and Steve King are asking constituents who are interested in attending to contact their office by Nov. 28. Each has only a limited number of [...]

Gazette backs McCain

Also endorses Harkin, Braley, Miller-Meeks, Schmett
John McCain picked up a relatively rare newspaper endorsement Saturday from the Cedar Rapids Gazette. The eastern Iowa daily also backed incumbent Democrats Tom Harkin for U.S. Senate and Bruce Braley in the 1st Congressional District, but chose Republican challengers Mariannette Miller-Meeks over 2nd District Rep. Dave Loebsack and Kim [...]

Register reluctantly backs Boswell

The Des Moines Register gave Democratic Congressman Leonard Boswell about as weak an endorsement as possible in the third district race today:
After 12 years of light accomplishment and wrongheaded votes, Democratic Rep. Leonard Boswell doesn’t deserve to return to Congress.
But his Republican challenger, Kim Schmett of Clive, also fails to make a compelling case that [...]

McCain scores ‘D’ on veteran report card; Obama, Iowa delegation above average

With four weeks remaining before the election, the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) released its report cards on members of the 110th Congress. Grading was based on legislation that affected veterans and their families.
Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain of Arizona earned a ‘D’ on the report card, while his Democratic opponent, Sen. [...]

Boswell speaks, passes buckets, auctions

“This is the year we’re gonna get it done,” announced U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell.  “Thank you for sending Bruce Braley and Dave Loebsack, the great members that they are.”
Assuring the crowd that even if two more Democrats were added to Iowa’s congressional delegation, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin would be able to find a big enough [...]

Iowa Dems support bailout, GOP continues opposition

Democratic 1st District Rep. Bruce Braley switched his vote on the proposed $700 billion Wall Street bailout, voting to support the measure that finally passed the U.S. House of Representatives this afternoon.
Braley, along with fellow Democratic lawmakers Leonard Boswell and Dave Loebsack, joined with 260 other members of Congress from both parties to pass the [...]

Déjà vu? GOP obstructionism delays military suicide-prevention bill

Despite the steady rise in suicides among active-duty service members, congressional politics trumped an amendment to the recently passed Defense of Defense Reauthorization Bill that would have helped address this increasing problem.

On the bailout bill, the center would not hold

An unusual coalition of the left and right wings of Congress managed to upend a proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street, and Iowa’s delegation is a good microcosm of the vote.

Iowa delegation splits on failed bailout

Iowa’s congressional delegation split 2-3 on the $700 billion bailout proposal rejected by Congress today.
Both Iowa Republicans — U.S. Reps. Steve King and Tom Latham — voted against the bill, along with Democratic U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley. Iowa’s two other Democrats, U.S. Reps. Leonard Boswell and Dave Loebsack, went along with the leaders of both [...]

Civic Skinny claims Boswell wasn’t at Steak Fry, but he was

In this week’s Cityview, Civic Skinny claims that U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell did not attend Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual Steak Fry fundraiser last weekend:
The first bunch of names: Barack [...]