Iowa Congressional, Legislative and Political Party Information
In addition to the Governor’s race and the U.S. Senate race, Iowa has five Congressional House races, 100 Iowa House races, and 25 Iowa Senate races. Both political parties have party platforms that include statements and recommendations on many child and family issues.
Iowa House and Senate Candidates
Iowa Congressional Candidates
Each major party Iowa Congressional candidate has a website that includes an issue section where the candidate outlines his or her views on different policy issues. A number of these issues relate to child and family policy issues. Basic contact information for each major party candidate is shown below, with direct links to sections that contain any issue statements on the candidate’s website on child and family issues. These links were last updated October 8, 2010.
In addition, the Des Moines Register asked the primary election candidates to answer questions on many issues, and the links to that survey are provided below.
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Bruce Braley Children's Issues Positions
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Benjamin Lange |
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David Loebsack |
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Mariannette Miller-Meeks |
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Leonard Boswell Children's Issues Positions |
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Brad Zaun |
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Bill Maske Children's Issues Positions |
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Thomas Latham |
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Matthew Campbell Children's Issues Positions |
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Steve King |
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Party Platforms
Both the Iowa Democratic and Republican parties have party platforms that outline policy positions on state, local, and national issues. These party platforms include statements on most child and family policy issues raised in the itsaboutourkids questions to Iowa Gubernatorial and U.S. Senate candidates. Links to these party platforms are provided below:
Iowa Republican Party platform
Iowa Democratic Party platform
Iowa House and Senate Candidates
The Secretary of State’s office maintains a current list of all legislative candidates for office in Iowa, with direct contact information on the candidates, with legislative candidates organized by legislative district:
Iowa Candidate Listing by Office (pdf)
The Iowa Legislative Services Agency provides a search tool to enable individuals to provide their addresses and find their state legislators and members of Congress, and their legislative and Congressional districts:
Iowa Senate, House, Congressional District Maps
The Iowa Republican party provides a listing of its candidates for the Iowa House and Senate and their campaign websites and (if current legislators), their legislative websites:
Iowa Republican House of Representatives
The Iowa Democratic party provides contact information for Iowa Senate and Iowa House Democrats.
Candidate websites often contain information about views of state policy issues, but vary widely in their formatting and the information they provide.
