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      <excerpt>...of Iowa's federal officeholders standing for re-election this year outpaced the opposing party in fundraising. U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell, a Des Moines Democrat, was the only Iowa incumbent to raise less than the Republican field vying to challenge him. </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...First Amendment was never intended to protect the likes of ExxonMobil, Pfizer or Goldman Sachs, nor should it.&#8221; U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, introduced similar legislation immediately following the court&#8217;s decision. That bill would disallow a </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...of Iowa's federal officeholders standing for re-election this year outpaced the opposing party in fundraising. U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell, a Des Moines Democrat, was the only Iowa incumbent to raise less than the Republican field vying to challenge him. </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...as the Register asserts. My fear is the court's elevation of corporate speech that will inevitably overpower the speech and interests of middle Americans who do not have the coffers to speak as loudly. - U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell, Washington, D.C....</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Jan. 24 Thistle to U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell was wrong. It is a basic advantage of the system of checks and balances to not have the power concentrated in the hands of any one of the three branches of government. Congress has the duty of writing laws to</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Des Moines, IA&#8212; Jim Gibbons, Republican candidate for Congress in Iowa&amp;#39;s Third Congressional District responded to Leonard Boswell&amp;#39;s comments on the State ... </excerpt>
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