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The congressional races in Iowa will get a little more crowded this week. Republican Mark Rees is announcing a run against incumbent Democrat Leonard Boswell in the Third Congressional District.

House Minority Leader John Boehner has a very small surprise for us: despite lopsided votes in favor of cutting off public funding to Comrade Obama's outrageously corrupt enablers at ACORN in the aftermath of the O'Keefe/Giles videos , the Big Government fire hose will continue to blast a torrent of our money at these vermin .

The current federal funding ban expires Dec. 18. On Tuesday evening the House Appropriations Committee rejected on a party line vote of 9 to 5 an amendment offered by Rep.

Birds of a feather flock together... Dems Vote to Allow Federal Funding for Corrupt ACORN by Rep.

A second challenge to the bill -- also geared to spending -- came on a proposal by Rep.

NEW HARTFORD "There is a lot of anxiety from the American people about the president's plan.

Members of Iowa's congressional delegation will listen for specifics about the potential length and cost of the American commitment in Afghanistan when President Barack Obama addresses the issue in a televised speech tonight.

The union that represents Iowa law enforcement officers has approved budget cuts to comply with Gov.

It didn't take long for proposals to house Guantanamo Bay detainees at a nearly empty Illinois prison to spark tough talk by Republicans - across the Mississippi River in Iowa.

They've always been a staple in this region, but is the small family farm actually becoming an endangered species? "Every year there's fewer farmers on the land, every year farms are getting bigger," said Craig Cox.

CLINTON, Iowa -- Dr. Anis Ansari trusts his town. "I refuse to believe their reaction would be one of hatred," he says.

" Vice President Joe Biden took on critics of the Obama administration in a forceful speech to Democratic activists in Des Moines Saturday.

There was a lot of talk Wednesday from members of the Iowa congressional delegation over the possibility of bringing some terrorists detainees from the Guantanamo prison to a federal prison at Thomson, Illinois which is close to the Iowa state line.

An Iowa Congressman is looking to put the brakes on proposed plans to move terror detainees being transferred from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Thomson Correctional Center.

THOMSON, Ill. -- Nobody disagrees that terrorists belong in prison, but where that prison belongs seems to be a sticky matter for regional lawmakers.

U.S. Rep. Tom Latham has pledged to introduce legislation that would prevent the Obama administration from further considering a prison just across the Mississippi River from Clinton as a possible future home for detainees currently housed at a military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

It was a full house Sunday night as the Hamilton County Republicans gathered at the Webster City Senior Center for the third annual Chili Supper.

The U.S. House passed a landmark bill on health insurance, with Iowa's Congressmen divided.

As freedom loving Americans from around Iowa headed to Des Moines this weekend, President Barack Obama was calling these same U.S. taxpayers "extremists", during an effort to rally the Democrats to pass PelosiCare.