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Those who immediately voiced opposition to a possible plan to move detainees currently housed at a military prison in Guantanamo Bay into a revamped facility on the Illinois-Iowa border should take time to research instead of offering knee-jerk reactions, U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley said today.
“I’m not going to engage in political fear mongering about something [...]

A spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, responded Monday to attacks from Iowa Republicans who say transferring Guantanamo detainees to U.S. soil is a “clear threat to national security.”

Calling it a “clear threat to national security,” Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn called on U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, to oppose a plan to house transferred Guantanamo detainees in Illinois.
A nearly-empty Illinois prison near the Mississippi River on the border with Braley’s Iowa district is among U.S. locations being considered to hold [...]

Many Iowa Republicans looked at Tuesday’s special election in House District 90 and saw an opportunity to demonstrate the party was beginning to reverse its fortunes. As is often the case in politics, though, things don’t always go according to plan.

Declaring that resistance from Republicans and conservatives in the coming months would determine whether the nation continues as a “beacon of freedom” or is instead “swallowed in an avalanche of socialism,” Pence observed what he called a “great awakening,” as Republicans return to core values and fiscal discipline.

Likely ensuring that their phone calls will be returned promptly through the 2012 Iowa Caucuses, the Washington, D.C.,-based news site Politico has named Republcian Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn one of its 50 “politicos” from around the country whose stock is on the rise.
Strawn is included in a list titled “Under the radar” [...]

Wading into a contentious debate being waged within the Republican Party of Iowa, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told a crowd of GOP activists and elected officials Thursday night that the only way back into the majority is to resist demands for ideological purity.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says publicly that trips this week to New Hampshire and Iowa are simply part of his duties as as incoming chairman of the Republican Governors Association. But any visit to the nation’s presidential battlegrounds is going to generate a lot of buzz.

Gov. Chet Culver and Iowa Republican leadership are engaging in a war of words over a recent report showing Iowa in a potentially perilous fiscal situation.

Former Republican state senator Chuck Larson, who was appointed by President George W. Bush to be ambassador to Latvia, tells Lee Enterprise political reporter Charlotte Eby he will not run for governor in 2010, citing his two young children as the reason.