Congressional Profile

Tom Harkin

a) Democrat
b) Cumming
c) Ruth Raduenz since 1968, two daughters-Amy and Jenny, along with two grandchildren
d) worked on farms and construction sites, as a paper boy and at a Des Moines bottling plant, flew a jet plane for the Navy
e) 1969 to join the staff of Iowa Congressman Neal Smith, 1974-1984 in the House
f) joined the Senate in 1984 and has been serving ever since
g) After graduating from Dowling High School in Des Moines, he attended Iowa State University on a Navy ROTC scholarship, earning a degree in government and economics. Following graduation, Tom served in the Navy as a jet pilot on active duty from 1962 to 1967.
h) Catholic
i) Iowa Citizens
j) chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee.
k) Harkin Grants
l) born November 19, 1939, the son of an Iowa coal miner father and a Slovenian immigrant mother. He still lives in the house in Cumming where he was born.

Chuck Grassley
a) Republican
b)New Hartford
c)Married Barbara Speicher 1954; Five children, Lee, Wendy, Robin, Michele, Jay
d)farmer, sheet metal shearer, assembly line worker,Iowa Legislature, House of Reps, Senate
e)In Iowa Legislature(1958), House of Representatives(1974)
f)30 years
g)B.A. 1995, M.A. 1956 Political Science, University of Northern Iowa; Ph.D. work, University of Iowa
h)Christin Baptist
i)Iowa Citizens
j)Finance (Ranking Member), Judiciary, Budget, Agriculture, Joint Tax, Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control (Co-Chairman)
k)S.221 : A bill to amend title 9, United States Code, to provide for greater fairness in the arbitration process relating to livestock and poultry contracts.
l) 1)Grassley maintains the longest consecutive voting streak among those serving today in the U.S. Senate.
2) Grassley's whistleblower laws have become the federal government's #1 anti-fraud tool

Dave Loebsack
a)Democrat
b)Souix City
c)MArried, wife Terry, Jennifer, Sarah, Marcos, Madeleine
d)Political Science Teacher at Cornell College
e)No previous political experience
f)Two terms in office
g)Graduated form East High school, ISU grad, Phd in Political Science from University of California
h)Methodist
i)Second District, Eastern Iowa
j)The House Education and Labor Committee, and The House Armed Citizens Committee
k)H.R.1855 : To promote industry growth and competitiveness and to improve worker training, retention, and advancement, and for other purposes.
l)1)raised by a single parent
2)Wife has two children from a previous marriage