Representative Bruce Braley News Archives

Rep. Bruce Braley announced Thursday that $300,000 has been secured for the city of Clinton's wastewater improvements through passage of the Department of Interior and Environment Appropriations bill.

Rep. Bruce Braley today applauded President Obama's signing of his Guaranteed Benefits for Our Troops Act into law.

Rep. Bruce Braley welcomed Senator Tom Harkin to the Populist Caucus' meeting this morning.

What was previously unofficial became official on Tuesday. The Defense Department alerted 3,500 Iowa Army National Guard soldiers that they are part of the rotation that will deploy to Afghanistan next year.

The Washington Bureau will be covering the following news events: - A Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs full committee hearing on Monitoring the Nation's Response on H1N1 Flu.

Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, will introduce legislation creating a mechanism "to monitor medical errors and have a mandatory reporting requirement" for hospitals and doctors that make mistakes, Modern Healthcare reports.

At a news conference yesterday during which he stood alongside medical error victims, Representative Bruce Braley said that a mechanism needs to be put in place "to monitor medical errors and have a mandatory reporting requirement" for those errors.

House leadership and a group of Representatives from low-cost states made news with a deal Thursday that will deliver their support for a public option which would pay providers according to rates based on Medicare.

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.

Rep. Bruce Braley says Americans are entitled to court-awarded damages in medical malpractice cases during a press conference opposing tort reform Wednesday.

Families of medical error victims from nine states traveled to Washington, D.C. today in a continued campaign in support of malpractice victims' rights to legal redress.

Rep. Bruce Braley , along with victims of medical malpractice, urged caution over pursuing tort reform Wednesday, warning that caps on court-awarded damages wona t reduce health care costs.

Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, watches as Resurrection Elementary School students give a special blessing Monday at the end of an assembly in celebration of the school's Blue Ribbon Award in Dubuque.

U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, will recognize Earlville and Resurrection elementary schools as 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools at school assemblies on Monday.

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

A 26-year-old man hopes to challenge U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, for the right to represent western Iowa in Congress.

Although the net loss figures presented to U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley by Iowa dairy families last Friday were shocking, the fact that the families wanted to discuss their non-existent revenues with an elected official was expected.

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

Senate Democrats have not given up on passing health care reform through normal procedures requiring at least 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster.

Rep. Bruce Braley announced that the Eastern Iowa Community College District and Hawkeye Community College have been awarded $276,318 in grant money from the Department of Agriculture for curriculum in ag-based renewable energy programs.

Funding included in Agriculture Appropriations bill, along with additional money for agriculture development in Iowa's First District Washington , DC - Today, Rep.

Although Senate Democrats seem to be moving toward a compromise on health care reform that would allow individual states to opt-out of a national public option, U.S. Rep.

Little more than a year before the general election, Iowa's top two races are effectively frozen - one by a potential candidate who hasn't decided whether to run, the other by a promised candidate who hasn't decided whether to be named.

DES MOINES, Iowa - Little more than a year before the general election, Iowa's top two races are effectively frozen _ one by a potential candidate who hasn't decided whether to run, the other by a promised candidate who hasn't decided whether to be named.

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.

More than a year after record flooding wiped out 17 railroad bridges and hundreds of miles of track in Iowa, officials say repairs are almost done.