BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
The House of Representatives is debating the bailout bill that cleared the Senate on Wednesday. Bruce Braley, who voted against the bailout on Monday, has announced that he will support this version. His statement explaining his decision is after the jump. Dave Loebsack and Leonard Boswell voted for the bailout on Monday [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
I was pleasantly surprised to hear that the $700 billion bailout bill failed in Congress today on a truly bipartisan vote: 140 Democrats for, 95 against; 65 Republicans for, 133 against. In the House, Bruce Braley, Tom Latham and Steve King voted no, while Dave Loebsack and Leonard Boswell voted yes. The [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
UPDATE: here's how Iowa's congressional delegation voted on the $700 billion bailout bill. First District Congressman Bruce Braley (D-Waterloo): No Second District Congressman Dave Loebsack (D-Mt Vernon): Yes Third District Congressman Leonard Boswell (D-Des Moines): Yes Fourth District Congressman Tom Latham (R-Ames): No Fifth District Congressman Steve King (R-Kiron): No Here's a link to the [...]...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
I haven't written much about Leonard Boswell since the Democratic primary for the third Congressional district, because there hasn't been much to say. He hasn't been campaigning much, nor has he needed to. IA-03 is not a competitive House district according to any of the people who follow Congressional races [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
"Eat This, Not That" ... Matt Goulding knows. Kim Schmett wants Congressman Leonard Boswell's job. Then, a foster care parent loses her own child... why? [...]
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
In Iowa, Congressman Leonard Boswell held a press conference in conjunction with the Magellan Pipeline Company, Iowa Corn Growers and the Iowa Renewable Fuel Association to build support for the Renewable Fuel Pipeline Act proposed by Boswell and Lee Terry (R-NE). The bill, introduced in July, would add renewable fuel pipelines as eligible projects for [...]
Radio Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Congressman Leonard Boswell, a 74-year-old Democrat from Des Moines, was admitted to a hospital in DC in July for a "procedure" and spent two weeks in the hospital recuperating. Today, Boswell was speaking at The Des Moines Register's Soap Box...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Congressman Leonard Boswell, a 74-year-old Democrat from Des Moines, was admitted to a hospital in DC in July for a "procedure" and spent two weeks in the hospital recuperating. Today, Boswell was speaking at The Des Moines Register's Soap Box on the state fairgrounds when someone in the audience asked [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
On Monday, Congressmen Bruce Braley, Dave Loebsack and Leonard Boswell announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will immediately release $85 million in held-up disaster aid to Iowa. Those three members of Congress wrote to HUD Secretary Steve Preston last week to request the release [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
3rd District Congressman Leonard Boswell put together a little thank you for the thank yous he received during his latest hospital stint. To borrow a phrase from one of the producers in our news room..."he was still in the hospital?" Boswell spent two weeks in the D.C. hospital for what, [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Number of comments: 1 So, I’m listening to the radio this morning, and there was a little one sentence news blurb telling me than Leonard Boswell will be leaving the hospital tomorrow. Did anyone else realize that he was even still in the hospital? That means he has been in the hospital for TWO [...]
Iowa Geek (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Because I don't think mine do. I got this email from our Congressman Leonard Boswell today. Dear Fellow Iowan, The price of energy has skyrocketed in the past few months, and is devastating pocketbooks throughout the United States. On June 26th, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6377, the Energy Markets Emergency Act of 2008, to curb inflation resulting from energy speculators. As a cosponsor...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
I had family visiting the past few days and didn't look closely at the paper, so I only realized today that Congressman Leonard Boswell was hospitalized this week : Boswell, 74, underwent surgery on Wednesday that "made some corrections" to surgery he had in 2005 to remove a non-cancerous tumor from [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
If you're looking for more info on what's going on with Leonard Boswell, well, I don't know what to say. Much like last time around (in 2005 when Boswell had his first surgery), his campaign is slow to say much and when it does, it says very little. This [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
(Leonard Boswell pre-2006 surgery) Several sources confirm to me central Iowa Democratic Congressman Leonard Boswell has undergone surgery in Washington, D.C. You'll remember last time he had surgery, we had a tough time getting information about it. In fact, I don't recall Boswell [...]
