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“Here in the heartland, we understand that military power alone cannot keep us safe from terrorism, infectious disease and other global threats that recognize no borders. But there is something we can do to make us more secure – we can extend a hand to countries in need and build partnerships that restore America’s moral [...]

Iowa, Nation Need Leader Who Reaches Out to World – Des Moines Register Ask Candidates for their Vision of US Global Leadership – Des Moines Register Advisers Debate Vote at Forum – Des Moines Register Click here to view the sign-on advertisement, which appeared in the Des Moines Register. Over Fifty Iowan leaders came together [...]

By CHRIS DORSEY IowaPolitics.com DES MOINES – At a global leadership forum Tuesday, surrogates from the top four Democratic presidential campaigns used the topic of Iran to compare and criticize the actions of other candidates. Nearly 90 minutes passed at Tuesday’s U.S. Global Leadership forum, sponsored by the Center for U.S. Global Engagement and U.S. [...]

BIDEN: Joe was fired up yesterday, NBC/NJ’s Carrie Dann notes. Speaking about what he said is the Bush Administration’s censorship of images of flag-draped coffins arriving from Iraq, Biden was incensed: “I’m the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, the fifth most senior member of the Senate,” he said. “How DARE the president tell me [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa – Twenty years since his last run for president, former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart returned to the home of the first- in-the-nation Iowa caucuses Tuesday night to tell a crowd they should demand “visionary” foreign policy leadership from this year’s crop of White House contenders. Hart, 70, sported more gray hair than [...]

Senators Nancy Kassebaum Baker and Gary Hart Join Prominent Iowans in Challenge as Foreign Policy Campaign Advisers Debate Candidates’ Readiness to Lead Des Moines, IA – Former U.S. Senators Gary Hart (D-CO) and Nancy Kassebaum Baker (R-KS) join more than 60 prominent Iowans from both major parties in a challenge to all of the presidential [...]

Impact ’08 in Iowa

Business, civic, political, faith-based, and academic leaders from across Iowa have joined together to create the Impact ’08 in Iowa network. Click here to see the Iowa host committee. Following the official launch at the Temple for Performing Arts on October 23rd, 2007 this diverse and influential group of Democrats, Republicans and Independents is now [...]

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