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Third District Rep. Leonard Boswell was the top fundraiser of Iowa’s U.S. House delegation so far during 2009, pulling in more than $300,000, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.

“We haven’t had this type of work being done this early in the last three cycles,” said Tom Harrington, who chairs the Democrats’ 4th District Central Committee. “We’re hoping that by organizing early, helping find good candidates and having this infrastructure in place for them that it will be a big leg up over what past candidates have had.”

Iowa Republican Rep. Tom Latham of Ames will introduce an amendment to proposed climate change legislation that would kill the measure if energy prices increase down the road.

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.

Though reforming the U.S. health care system will likely produce controversial answers to a long list of complicated questions, one proposed solution to the nation’s worsening nurse shortage is alluringly simple.

Though I know The Beanwalker is touted as nothing more than a conservative political news site to begin with, I’d be negligent in my duties as media critic if I didn’t spend at least a little time on the site’s banner “interview” with U.S. Rep. Tom Latham (R-Ames), published today.

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 [...]

Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, broke from the rest of Iowa’s Congressional delegation, including fellow Republican Tom Latham of Ames, to vote against instituting a 90 percent tax on bonuses for AIG and other financial firms that received bailout funds.

Republican Reps. Steve King and Tom Latham outpaced their Democratic counterparts in the U.S. House in securing earmarks in the 2009 omnibus spending bill, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense.
The nonpartisan watchdog organization reports that Latham personally secured 10 earmarks in the bill, totaling $3.7 million, ranking 100th in the U.S. House. The Ames Republican, [...]

The National Journal has released its 2008 rankings of the most liberal and conservative lawmakers in Washington, and Iowa Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, has come in as the 9th most conservative (or 419th most liberal) lawmaker in the U.S. House.