On Tuesday, August 23rd, Iowa’s Second District Congressman Dave Loebsack spoke to constituents at the Button Factory Restaurant in Muscatine, Iowa. The Muscatine Journal covered the event, and here is an excerpt from their article titled “Representative Loebsack Sympathizes with His Constituents’ Concerns.”

“MUSCATINE, Iowa — U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack holds Congress in about the same regard as most Americans do.

“If I weren’t in Congress, I’d be writing letters to the editor” about the institution’s “massive dysfunctionalism,” the Iowa City Democrat told the Muscatine Kiwanis Club over lunch Tuesday at the Button Factory restaurant.

“I hear that frustration all the time and I get it. I’m going to try the best I can to alleviate that frustration.”

The former college professor gave Congress a grade of C-minus — “at best,” he said. “Eighty percent of the American people think we’re acting like children.

“Even when I’m at Hy-Vee,” he said, “people come up to me and say, ‘Can’t you (in Congress) get your act together?’”

One of the reasons for so much congressional acrimony is that House members feel free to “say what they want and have food fights,” Loebsack said, in part because they serve safe, uncompetitive districts.

Iowa’s Second District, by contrast, is now one of the more competitive in the nation.”

To read the rest of the article, click here.

~ Dave Loebsack is serving in the United States House of Representatives from Iowa’s Second District. He serves on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and on the House Armed Services Committee. He is also seeking re-election to a fourth term. To learn more about Congressman Dave Loebsack, click here.