Bachmann slams Obama, GOP candidates as socialists at Family Research Council

Rep. Michele Bachmann at a rally last year. Photo: Patrick Caldwell

At a speech Monday hosted by the Family Research Council—a conservative Christian organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified as a hate group—U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann said she would defeat socialism, described leading Republican candidates for the More…

Santorum only GOP presidential candidate to speak at Florida Tea Party Convention

Bachmann: ‘Obama and Occupy Wall Street need to stop blaming job creators’

In the past few days, presidential contender Michele Bachmann has pushed back against the idea that the rich are to blame for the country’s unhealthy economy.

Rep. Braley brings bill to extend wind tax credit

U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Waterloo) is calling for an extension of the renewable energy production tax credit, joining U.S. Reps. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) in introducing a bill to keep the credit through 2016.

The wind energy industry employs about 3,000 people in Iowa More…

Ron Paul continues to dominate ad buys in Iowa

GOP presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) continues to dominate network TV in Iowa, as Texas Gov. Rick Perry delves into the ad war and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) falls behind.

Paul has ads scheduled to run through early November at KCCI and WHO More…

Wannabe presidents blame current president for downturn

Five Republican presidential candidates hammered on regulations, taxes and President Obama at a manufacturing forum Tuesday in Iowa, calling for major cuts to those areas and aiming to pin the worldwide economic downturn on the president.

Bachmann again argues U.S. should have stayed out of Libya

Michele Bachmann said again that the United States shouldn’t have participated in the overthrow of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

“My position is that the United States should not have gone into Libya because again the last chapter isn’t written. This is a snapshot in time,” Bachmann told Christiane Amanpour of More…

U.S. to pay black farmers $1.25 bil. in racism settlement

Following a ruling Friday by a federal judge, thousands of farmers who endured racial discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture during the decades of the 1980s and 1990s should start receiving portions of a $1.25 billion settlement.

U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said in his written opinion that the More…

U.S. House Republicans sign brief against Affordable Care Act in SCOTUS case

Reps. Chip Cravaack, Michele Bachmann and John Kline lent their names to a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday arguing that the Supreme Court should rule the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional.

Huckabee staffer signs on with Bachmann

The man who managed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s successful 2008 Iowa Caucuses campaign has signed on to manage Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann‘s efforts in Iowa.