Noting The Iowa Independent’s report on the Iowa Democratic Party’s and U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell’s responses to a new attack ad, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative group continued to press for answers as to why the 3rd District congressman supported government stimulus plans.
The Iowa Democratic Party struck back at Crossroads GPS today, a 501(c)4 organization that’s begun running ads against U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-Des Moines). Meanwhile, Boswell’s campaign is asking for contributions to help respond to the ad, which attacks Boswell for supporting President Obama’s stimulus plan and jobs bill.
When Saft America Inc. opened its lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant at Cecil Commerce Center in Jacksonville in 2010, More…
Colorado U.S. Representative Diana DeGette on Thursday sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Cliff Stearns urging him to invite Brian Harrison, president and CEO of Solyndra, to testify before an investigative subcommittee of which she is a ranking member.
AMES — Longtime political consultant and activist Fred Karger, the first official Republican 2012 presidential candidate, admits he’s a long shot. But as Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss) bows out of the race because he “doesn’t have the fire in his belly,” Karger insists he does.
Iowa’s public universities are experiencing record enrollments but are being funded in real dollars at the same level as they were 30 years ago. In fact, no area of state government has taken more hits in funding over the past 10 years than Iowa’s Regent universities, according to the Legislative More…
A federal government shutdown will occur unless a continuing resolution deal is reached in Washington, D.C. for the remainder of fiscal year 2011. Or, short of that, an agreement for another extension. If a compromise is not reached, or if the U.S. House Republican proposals go through, thousands of Iowa More…
The tax cuts compromise brokered by President Obama and congressional Republicans will cost more than the 2009 economic stimulus, according to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.
The CBO expects the tax cuts deal to cost $858 billion over 10 years, while the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act More…
Wind industry officials are working overtime to counter a story published yesterday by American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop that finds many of the wind farms that received stimulus money were built during the Bush administration or earlier, potentially undercutting the Obama administration’s claims that it created thousands of new More…
Dan Benishek, a Republican favored to win the congressional seat in Michigan’s First District, has loads of ideas for reducing the federal deficit. “The Department of Energy was created in the 1970s to make us energy independent, and look at us now,” he said. “So what is its purpose, then?” More…
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