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 [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Democratic U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell, who represents Iowa's Third Congressional District and who last week voted to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), received $10,000 in campaign contributions from the nation's largest telecommunications companies this year. The telecommunication industry was a huge supporter of [...]
The Hotline on Call (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
The State Society of Iowa is joining with several Hawkeye State universities to host an Iowa Disaster Relief event this evening in Washington. Honorary hosts, include Gov. Chet Culver , Sen. Chuck Grassley , Sen. Tom Harkin , Rep. Tom Lathan , Rep. Leonard Boswell , Rep. Steve King , Rep. Bruce Braley and Rep. David Loebsack . The event will be held on the rooftop of 101 Constitution Avenue, NW from...
Radio Iowa (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Ed Fallon, a former state legislator who ran for governor in 2006, ran in the Democratic primary for Iowa's third district congressional seat and lost to incumbent Leonard Boswell. Fallon, who is from Des Moines, issued a fundraising appeal to...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
His primary challenge safely over, Democrat Leonard Boswell voted with most House Republicans in favor of passage on the FISA bill that includes full immunity for telecommunications companies. Iowa's other two Democrats, Bruce Braley and Dave Loebsack, voted against the bill but were on the short side of the 293-129 [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Iowans Split on FISA Vote His primary challenge safely over, Democrat Leonard Boswell voted with most House Republicans in favor of passage on the FISA bill that includes full immunity for telecommunications companies. Iowa's other two Democrats, Bruce Braley and Dave Loebsack, voted against the bill but were [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
This blog correctly predicted that Ed Fallon was going to lose in his attempt to wrestle the Democratic nomination away from Leonard Boswell. Funny how you don't hear any Democrats waxing on about how being against the war is a political advantage. After all, Fallon is against all wars and [...]
