While many of the country's top Democrats have gathered in Denver for their party's national convention, the party's nominee will spend part of his Monday in Iowa. As he makes his way to Denver, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is stopping in swing states where polls show the race … [Read more...]
GOP candidate says Leach showed "true stripes" by backing Obama
The Republican running for Iowa's first district congressional seat is ridiculing former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach's endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Leach, a Davenport native, is a Republican who represented Davenport for many years in congress, but lost his bid … [Read more...]
Former Congressman says don’t take Obama’s win lightly
Former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach says Barack Obama's decisive win in the Iowa Caucuses shouldn't be under-estimated. Leach is a life-long Republican who lost his bid for re-election to the U.S. House in 2006. Leach, who's now teaching at Harvard University, says the results in the Democratic race … [Read more...]
Former Iowa Congressman Leach to Harvard
Former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach has been named the director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. "The country faces unique circumstances and it's never been more important to develop a new generation of leadership," Leach says. Leach had been teaching at Princeton, his … [Read more...]
House approves measure to name Davenport courthouse after Leach
The U.S. House Tuesday approved a bill that would name the Davenport federal courthouse in honor of former Republican Iowa Congressman Jim Leach. Representative, Bruce Braley, a Democrat from Waterloo, co-sponsored the bill. Braley says he first met Jim Leach as a freshman in college as Leach was … [Read more...]
Outgoing Congressman Leach sees parties as "mirrors" of each other
Outgoing Republican Congressman Jim Leach, a longtime advocate of campaign finance reform, says the state of politics in America is "awkward." "The two parties are mirrors of each other right now. They're governed in congress by the edges," Leach says. The vast majority of Republicans and … [Read more...]
Congressman Leach touted as U-N Ambassador
Iowa Congressman Jim Leach, who lost his bid for a sixteenth term in Congress this month, has been recommended for a new job -- the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer recommended the republican Leach this (Tuesday) morning on the floor of the House in … [Read more...]
Leach ready for new career
After 30 years in congress, Jim Leach says he's ready for a new career. Leach, a Republican from Iowa City, lost his bid for a 16thither in the U.S. House this past Tuesday. "I look at it as an end to a career that probably should be being brought to an end from a congressional perspective," Leach … [Read more...]
Leach says it may become necessary to pull funding from Iraq
Republican Congressman Jim Leach says at some point, it may be necessary to pull the plug on funding for U.S. military operations in Iraq. "I can see the possibility of it, but I think we'll have to wait for that circumstance to arise. The last thing you want to do is to take body armor away from … [Read more...]
Three Iowa Congressmen say yes, two no ,to gay marriage amendment
Iowa's congressional delegation split in Tuesday's vote on a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Congressmen Steve King, Tom Latham and Jim Nussle -- all Republicans --voted in favor of an amendment to the U.S. constitution that would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. … [Read more...]