Iowa leaders express skepticism over ports deal
Thursday, March 9, 2006 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| If the Iowa congressional delegation is any sign of sentiment in Congress as a whole, there's little future for a Bush administration proposed deal that would allow a Dubai company the control of six major U.S. ports.
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Candidates split on requiring ethanol
Friday, February 3, 2006 JERRY PERKINS - - Des Moines Register
| Candidates for Iowa secretary of agriculture agreed Thursday that the job needs a strong advocate who will promote Iowa agriculture, ethanol, the livestock industry and enterprises that add value to Iowa's crops.
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Potomac Fever: Grassley and Harkin differ on handling Medicare bugs
Sunday, January 22, 2006 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| Republican Sen. Charles Grassley was one of the authors of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, and Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin one of its foes. You have to take that into account when assessing their reactions to the turmoil that has accompanied the new system's unveiling.
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Conservative 527 group attracts contributions
Thursday, January 19, 2006 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| A new conservative political organization has sprouted up in Iowa, financed with corporate contributions from tobacco firms, a giant beer manufacturer and the management company of payday lender LoanMax, according to records on file with the Internal Revenue Service.
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Iowans giving away Abramoff donations
Friday, January 6, 2006 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| Four members of the Iowa delegation in Congress received campaign money from scandal-plagued lobbyist Jack Abramoff or Indian tribes he represented, and three are moving to give up the cash.
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Iowa Machine Shed TV commercial creates a stir
Thursday, December 1, 2005 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| USDA choice steaks, homemade pies and a campaign booklet titled "Yes to Pork Chops, No to Pork Barrel" are at issue in a complaint filed Wednesday in the increasingly testy Republican race for an open congressional seat in eastern Iowa.
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Girl, 10, helps raise $5 million for Katrina victims
Friday, December 2, 2005 JARED STRONG - - Des Moines Register
| A 10-year-old Waukee girl has helped raise more than $5 million for hurricane victims this fall.
Talia Leman first conceived her fundraising idea T.L.C. — Trick-or-treat for the Levee Catastrophe — several months ago with a goal of $1 million.
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Role in cutting farm subsidies may affect Nussle's campaign
Monday, November 14, 2005 PHILIP BRASHER - - Des Moines Register
| U.S. Rep. Jim Nussle has an unusual entry on his resume as he's running for governor of Iowa: He's in charge of passing a package of budget cuts that will reduce farm subsidies.
But Nussle, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, and fellow Republicans have sought to limit the political fallout of the budget cuts in rural America.
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Whitman criticizes Republican hard-liners
Friday, November 11, 2005 THOMAS BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| Social conservatives have taken the Republican Party hostage by ostracizing advocates of abortion rights and other differing views on sensitive social issues, former Bush Cabinet member Christine Todd Whitman said Thursday.
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Grassley puts limits on rainforest spending
Thursday, November 10, 2005 PERRY BEEMAN - - Des Moines Register
| The Iowa rain forest project planned for Coralville would not be allowed to spend any more of its much-ridiculed $50 million federal grant until its backers raise a like amount on their own, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley said Wednesday.
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Grassley seeks limits to rainforest spending
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 PERRY BEEMAN - - Des Moines Register
| Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, who helped secure $50 million in federal money for a rainforest dome in Iowa, has persuaded the Senate to require rainforest backers to raise private money for the rest of the project within two years or lose the federal money.
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Gubernatorial candidate cited after deadly crash
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 TOM BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gregg Connell was involved in a traffic collision in Pottawattamie County Tuesday that killed an Atlantic man after Connell, the mayor of Shenandoah, failed to stop at a marked intersection.
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Democrat caucuses' clout big in gubernatorial race
Sunday, November 6, 2005 THOMAS BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| The coffee shops are quiet and downtown Des Moines isn't clogged with satellite news trucks, but the Iowa caucuses are right around the corner.
That's right, the 2006 caucuses — scheduled for Jan. 16 — are approaching, much more quietly than their presidential election-year counterparts, but with potentially decisive significance for the vast field of Democrats running for governor.
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Grassley tells oil firms to help poor
Wednesday, November 2, 2005 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| Oil and gas companies reaping record profits from soaring prices should give 10 percent of those profits to supplement a federal program to help the poor, Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa said Tuesday.
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Abortion divides Democrats at forum
Wednesday, November 2, 2005 THOMAS BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| Six Democratic candidates for Iowa governor sparred today on abortion rights, the death penalty and economic development during a morning question-and-answer forum sponsored by Des Moines-area Democrat women.
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Iowa's senators disagree on Bush nominee
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| Iowa's two senators provided opposite reactions Monday to the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court, a preview of what is likely to be a highly partisan fight to come in the Senate over the coming weeks.
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Potomac Fever: Skybox links GOP lobbyist, Iowa's Harkin
Sunday, October 30, 2005 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| Sen. Tom Harkin somehow entangled with Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff? It falls in the weird-but-true category in the spider web of relationships that spread through Washington, although Harkin aides say the senator has never met Abramoff.
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Nussle: My parental consent stance due to mother
Sunday, October 30, 2005 THOMAS BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Nussle said Saturday his mother's decision as a pregnant teenager to carry him to term is the main reason behind his proposal to require young women in Iowa to get parental consent before receiving an abortion.
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Harkin: Miers' withdrawal shows power of right wing
Thursday, October 27, 2005 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa said today that the president's withdrawal of Harriet Miers' nomination as a Supreme Court justice is "an illustration of just how powerful and how much sway the right wing has over the Republican Party."
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Carlson: An army short of arms
Sunday, October 23, 2005 JOHN CARLSON - - Des Moines Register
| Before the U.S. can withdraw, the Iraq military must be able to defend the new government. But American soldiers are finding the Iraqi army has plenty of patriotism, but is short on people and implements.
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Vilsack crosses country for ideas
Sunday, October 23, 2005 THOMAS BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| As chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, Iowa's governor has started down a path blazed by Bill Clinton, who embarked on a similar mission in advance of his 1992 presidential campaign.
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'I hear you,' Frist tells Iowans
Sunday, October 23, 2005 THOMAS BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist in Des Moines on Saturday dismissed the drumbeat of allegations against key Republicans in Washington, including himself, as "scare tactics" and "false accusations."
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Study shows political balance of Iowa
Sunday, October 16, 2005 THOMAS BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| Iowa's near-equal political balance makes it among the states closest to a microcosm of the divided nation, two national Democratic scholars report in a new study that attempts to map their party's path back to the White House through the political center.
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Oval Office prospects arriving
Tuesday, October 4, 2005 THOMAS BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| There is nothing wrong with your calendar. Do not attempt to adjust it.
It may seem bizarre that five prospective presidential candidates are planning to visit Iowa this month — more than two years before the state's precinct caucuses are expected to launch the 2008 nominating season.
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Iowa, N.H. could have company in 2008
Sunday, October 2, 2005 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| Iowa and New Hampshire would be joined by as many as four more states in leading off the race for the presidency, under recommendations adopted by a Democratic Party commission here on Saturday.
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2 issues muddle Democrat governor campaign
Sunday, October 2, 2005 THOMAS BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| A cross section of Iowa Democratic activists say the death penalty and abortion — uncommon sticking points in a Democratic primary campaign — have complicated their decision-making as they weigh their party's candidates for governor.
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King views hurricane damage
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| Rep. Steve King of Iowa flew to the stricken Gulf Coast region over the weekend to inspect conditions firsthand, following his vote as one of 11 Republicans in the U.S. House to oppose a $51.8 billion package of hurricane aid.
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Bush: Help young evacuees
Friday, September 9, 2005 THOMAS BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| First lady Laura Bush visited Des Moines on Thursday, lending her hand to the Bush administration's effort to calm a hurricane-weary nation and ease anger over the government's response.
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Iowa delegation criticizes hurricane response
Wednesday, September 7, 2005 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| Members of the Iowa delegation in Congress returned to Washington on Tuesday disturbed and upset by the response to Hurricane Katrina, which brought back memories for them of Iowa's devastating 1993 floods.
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Vote cuts 1,100 jobs at arsenal
Thursday, August 25, 2005 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| A federal base-closing commission dealt a blow to the Quad Cities on Wednesday with a recommendation to cut almost 1,100 jobs from one of the largest units at the Rock Island Arsenal.
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King: Fence off Mexican border
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 THOMAS BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| U.S. Rep. Steve King said Monday he's not ready to propose building a wall between the United States and Mexico, but a 10-foot-tall chain-link fence topped with razor wire would be a good start.
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Helping nation's poor out of poverty
Saturday, August 20, 2005 THOMAS BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards told Iowa union leaders Friday that organized labor is vital to helping the nation's working poor out of poverty, the policy issue he has focused on since the 2004 election.
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Iraq pullout a deadly choice, Gingrich warns
Saturday, August 13, 2005 THOMAS BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in Iowa on Friday that attacks in Iraq would slow if the United States put more pressure on Arab nations to banish terrorists, but that any withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq would increase, not diminish, American casualties.
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Key differences seen between Vilsack, Bayh
Friday, August 5, 2005 THOMAS BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| Despite some similarities between Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh and Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, caucus-going Iowans will take note of some key differences between the two heartland Democrats, should both be candidates for president in 2008.
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Grassley knocks U.S. anti-meth efforts
Tuesday, August 2, 2005 LEE ROOD - - Des Moines Register
| U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley on Monday accused White House drug czar John Walters of ignoring the rising popularity of methamphetamine and failing to support initiatives that could help stop its use, production and trafficking.
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Accounts needed in Social Security plan, Bush says
Wednesday, August 3, 2005 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| Personal accounts must be included in any Social Security changes developed in Congress, President Bush said Tuesday, and indicated he's looking at what could be a very long haul for the battle over the nation's retirement program.
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Bush holds ground on cell policy
Wednesday, August 3, 2005 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| President Bush stood firm Tuesday in his opposition to expanding stem cell research despite the recent defection of a key Senate Republican, raising the possibility Bush soon may face the first veto of his presidency.
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Iowa projects get $2.3 billion in highway bill
Saturday, July 30, 2005 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| Iowa drivers, bus riders, bicyclists and trail-walkers will benefit from a massive $286.4 billion, five-year highway bill approved by Congress on Friday, following two years of squabbling over how much to spend and where.
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Harkin acts to protect Iowa flights to Dallas
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 JANE NORMAN - - Des Moines Register
| U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa has riled Texans by filing a bill in the Senate that would end commercial flights out of Love Field in Dallas within three years and thus evict the airport's main tenant, low-cost Southwest Airlines.
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Senators get message about vote on judge
Saturday, July 23, 2005 THOMAS BEAUMONT - - Des Moines Register
| A group of Iowa Republicans sent a pointed message Friday to several U.S. senators eyeing the 2008 presidential nomination, saying they will face consequences at caucus time if they don't support President Bush's Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.
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Factoids don't stick, but visitors rave about friendly Iowans
Monday, July 18, 2005 ERIN CRAWFORD - - Des Moines Register
| One of the more charming aspects of the 2005 National Governors Association conference has been the effort to insert a little Iowa trivia into the proceedings.
Before the governors arrived, volunteers were given a list of fun Iowa factoids along with their instructional material. In his speech to the volunteers, Gov. Tom Vilsack went over a number of those facts, reminding Iowans that famous people like Norman Borlaug came from right here. It was the kind of speech that felt as if it might be followed by a pop quiz.
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