Loebsack told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he even voted for Leach before running against him, despite their difference in political party. “Jim served our district and state honorably ...

As 2024 ends, we remember prominent individuals who called Iowa home, whether for a lifetime or a brief chapter.

There's a new wave of bipartisan support to create a recreational market, but similar bills have stalled in the divided state ...

Maybe I got the legislative assistant job in Jim Leach’s Washington congressional office because I was the only one who could keep the Gestetner mimeograph machine running, a tribute to my youth ...

With Jim Leach’s death, we all have lost something special. It is not hyperbole to say Leach was a good man who worked at doing great things. He brought honor to his party, to this state.

The 118th Congress has been chaotic in many ways, so perhaps it’s unsurprising it's on the brink of missing a government ...

By Clay Risen Jim ... Leach was born on Oct. 15, 1942, in Davenport, Iowa, to James Leach, who owned several small businesses, and Lois (Hill) Leach, a community activist. He was a state wrestling ...

Former Rep. Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican who left Congress in 2007 and later spoke in support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention ...

Flags across Iowa were at half-staff Sunday to honor former Congressman Jim Leach, who died Dec. 11, 2024, at the age of 82. Leach served 30 years as a politician from eastern Iowa and later ...

Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican who served three decades in the US House, broke party ranks by opposing the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, and later served as head of the National Endowment for the ...