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A Marion man who previously campaigned for U.S. Senate will officially throw his hat into Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District race this Thursday and kick off his campaign with a three-city tour.
Christopher Reed, who narrowly won a three-way Republican primary to challenge U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin in 2008, will officially become a candidate for the U.S. [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — For all practical purposes, the conservative forum on health care reform held in Iowa’s second-largest city last Tuesday might as well have been a C-SPAN replay of the frustrated talking points emanating from the congressional Republican caucus.

Dr. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a Republican who recently lost her bid to become Iowa’s first female member of Congress, is a veteran, as is her husband. But as she spoke at a veterans event in Cedar Rapids, the political undertones were unmistakable.

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Steve Roberts, a man who was elected to represent Iowa Republicans for years on the Republican National Committee, believes that a state GOP official’s affiliation with an independent anti-abortion group that does not toe the party line presents a clear conflict of interest.

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 [...]

Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks has earned the endorsement of the Ottumwa Courier, her hometown newspaper, in her bid to unseat first-term Democratic Congressman Dave Loebsack in the second district.

Based on his record for supporting veterans’ issues during his first term in Congress, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Political Action Committee endorsed Democratic Rep. Dave Loebsack in Iowa’s Second District Congressional race. Loebsack is running against Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Ottumwa –- a veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve, who served 24 years and retired [...]

“I’ll put my record up against anyone’s,” first-term Rep. Dave Loebsack said in Tuesday night’s 2nd Congressional District debate in Cedar Rapids, as his Republican opponent, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, attacked a “do-nothing” Congress.

The Republican National Committee is pulling its money out of challenger races to shore up suddenly endangered incumbents, reports the Politico:
In 2006, veteran Republicans Gil Gutknecht in Minnesota, Jim Leach in Iowa and Jim Ryun in Kansas suddenly found themselves in tough reelection fights. By the time the party saw what was happening, it was [...]