Leonard Boswell News Archives

Members of Iowa's congressional delegation spoke out about a controversial health care reform bill on Saturday, days before it's expected to come up for debate in the House of Representatives.

When members of the public call one of their elected officials, they expect a call back.

" Thursday, Congressman Leonard Boswell announced that China will lift its ban on U.S. pork imports that it enacted in the wake of the H1N1 outbreak in humans and the media's mischaracterization of the disease as "swine flu." "This is a huge step toward the recovery of Iowa's long-suffering pork industry," Boswell said.

A senior lawmaker is pushing for a joint Defense Department and Veterans Affairs Department study of breast cancer rates in service members and veterans to determine if there is a link to military service.

Though races elsewhere on the ballot are heating up in Iowa, CQ Politics has downgraded its ratings of two congressional races here, and U.S. Reps.

With final negotiations on a health-care reform package moving forward in Washington, more than two dozen state legislators met with White House and Capitol Hill leaders Oct.

As Shaun Appelby discussed in his diary yesterday , the House of Representatives will soon bring a health care reform bill up for a floor vote.

Allan Culbert, University of Iowa Energy Hawks project coordinator, points to some of the windows that the project hopes to coat with a film to save energy costs at the Nursing Building in Iowa City.

Goldfarb at TWS really has his teeth into this one: The anti-Israel organization J Street has been hemorrhaging sponsors for its conference as Senators and Congressmen learned of its true agenda.

Across the country, people are struggling to make ends meet, and many are struggling to find a job.

According to blogs, Phyllis and Marla Stevens married in Vancouver and backed the same sex marriage cause with thousands of dollars in campaign contributions.

Americans need to prepare for the likelihood that more U.S. troops will be needed in Afghanistan and that they will be there many years, the former president of neighboring Pakistan said in Iowa on Saturday.

The federal government is expected to shower Iowa with more than $2.5 billion as part of the economic recovery program passed by Congress this year, and every dollar must be accounted for.

Two homes valued at more than $550,000 and thousands of dollars in donations to political candidates and gay marriage advocacy groups, all on a $40,000 a year salary.

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.

The U.S. House on Wednesday approved a resolution honoring the life of Norman Borlaug, an Iowa-born food scientist and Nobel laureate who died last month.