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Members of Iowa’s congressional delegation are working to ensure that national health care reform does not leave out important changes to Medicare reimbursement rates.

As Democrats in the U.S. House race toward a Friday floor vote on the controversial cap-and-trade bill, some interests are distorting information on how the legislation affects consumers, according to the Iowa Policy Project (IPP).

Democrats are pushing for a vote on federal climate change legislation, perhaps as early as Friday, despite continued misgivings from farm-state Democrats like U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell.

Reacting to criticism from his 2008 opponent in the Democratic primary, U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell has laid out in greater detail his opposition to proposed legislation to deal with climate change.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell is taking heat from a familiar source over his opposition to climate change legislation currently under consideration in the House.
Boswell’s 2008 opponent in the Democratic primary, Ed Fallon, along with his wife Lynn are calling on him to support the measure and “do as Al Gore would do.” Former Vice [...]

Poweshiek County Republican Mike Mahaffey, who in 1996 lost by only 2 percentage points to Democratic Rep. Leonard Boswell in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, is contemplating another run against his old rival, Congressional Quarterly reports.

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.

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 [...]