Sen. Tom Harkin introduced one of the more significant pieces of legislation this year: the Rebuild America Act, a bill designed to help restore America’s middle class.

Now that Ron Paul has made a strong showing in Iowa, the mainstream media monopoly has geared up to smear him as a “racist” and “dangerous man,” dredging up an old newsletter that was repudiated and debunked 20 years ago.

Full transcript of the seven Republican presidential candidates making their case to prospective voters in Sioux City, Iowa, in the last debate of the year 2011.

The following is a full transcript of the ABC News Iowa Republican debate, with Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich, anchored by ABC News' Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos.

Iowa voters have voted to remove three state Supreme Court justices, siding with conservatives angered by a ruling that allowed gay marriage.

Chief Justice Marsha Ternus spoke to a crowd last night defending the State Supreme Court’s ruling making same-sex marriage legal in 2009. Ternus and 2 other justices are up for a retention vote this November, and the right-wing loony tunes are pushing hard to kick them out.

The Iowa district court judge who first ruled that the state's same-sex marriage ban violates gays' constitutional rights says a campaign to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices is "misguided."