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First District Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, topped  Iowa’s congressional delegation in third-quarter fundraising, bringing in more than $182,000. He now has $446,842 cash on hand.
Congressional campaigns had to turn in their quarterly fundraising reports this week, documenting money raised and spent between July 1 and Sept. 30. Information about other elected officials and challengers is below.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has brought 52 fellow Republicans together on a letter demanding the resignation of Kevin Jennings, the White House’s “safe schools czar.” Greg Sargent looks at the text of the letter, and how it maintains (wrongly) that Jennings covered up child sexual abuse. Here are the other Republicans:

A golf outing in West Virginia and a weekend getaway to Atlantic City, N.J., are just two of the trips taken this year by U.S. Rep. Tom Latham of Ames that have garnered the attention of campaign finance watchdogs.

“The more we looked into it, it just seemed like these allegations may have been unfair,” Dr. Christopher R. Martin said. “[The allegations] were happening in the mainstream media, but it seemed like they may have been coming from more conservative sources.”

I caught up with U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) at the How to Take Back America Conference to follow up on an issue that had come up there: “defunding the Left.” After ACORN, what was the next natural target for Republicans?
King said it would be the Service Employees International Union.
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In an opinion piece dubbed “Iowa Congressman Steve King is heartless and proud of it,” the staff at The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune takes particular offense to U.S. Rep. Steve King’s (R-Kiron) latest comment for a series published by The Hill that typically serves as a light-hearted glimpse of the nation’s elected officials.
In short, King is quoted [...]

Same-sex marriage is not only a radical social idea, it is a “purely socialist concept” and is part of a broader push by to turn the United States into a socialist country, U.S. Rep. Steve King said Wednesday during an interview with a conservative talk radio station.

A U.S. House bill touted as the most sweeping overhaul of federal student loan programs since inclusion of the GI Bill was passed last week with the Iowa delegation splitting on party lines.

In a letter to congressional colleagues, U.S. Rep. Steve King of Kiron is asking for support for South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson after his “You lie!” outburst during a recent presidential address.

Eastern Iowa residents are receiving a recorded phone call regarding health care reform that could be described as a push poll. The calls, paid for by U.S. Rep. Tom Latham’s Political Action Committee, feature the voices of both Latham and U.S. Rep. Steve King.