Leonard Boswell News

Attorney Roxanne Conlin today announced her intention to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Chuck Grassley , providing the veteran lawmaker with some notable and potentially well-financed competition.

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

NAWG CEO Daren Coppock attended a roundtable discussion on crop insurance with the House Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

The 2nd District Democrat was one of 220 to vote in favor of the bill to help it pass the House Saturday evening.

Ackworth resident and Warren County spokesman Scott Ourth announced last week his bid for the Iowa House of Representatives.

The Hill has compiled the whip count for the Pelosi bill coming to the floor in 2 days.

The Associated Press DES MOINES -- New voter registration numbers show one reason congressional incumbents have little to worry about on Election Day.

LEONARD BOSWELL is a Democrat who represents Iowa's 3rd Congressional District. Contact: http://boswell.house.gov * November 4, 2009 In a matter of days, the House will vote on the Affordable Health Care for America Act.

Discussion about reforming the U.S. health care system and creating more career training opportunities drew thunderous applause from hundreds of people who attended A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy's issues summit Sunday afternoon.

Congressman Leonard L. Boswell of Iowa is the latest member of Congress to show support for the Roadmap to End Global Hunger legislation .

Roxanne Conlin and Terry Branstad? Didn't we see this movie a long time ago, possibly in grainy black and white? And they're back, running for office? Again? Conlin no doubt would do well as a United States senator, probably being able to speak without notes when she argues in opposition to tort reform.

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.