Iowa’s U.S. Senate race is one of the nation’s most entertaining. Its Republican nominee was propelled from obscurity by a television commercial about hog castration. The Democratic nominee, an ambitious Congressman from northeast Iowa named Bruce Braley, has recently been criticized for threatening to sue after a neighbor’s chicken wandered into his yard.

But in the context of the ongoing Veterans Affairs Department health care scandal, Braley’s opponent is now chopping away at another potential weak point: It turns out that Braley failed to attend more than three-quarters of the hearings held by the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, on which he sat during the last Congress.

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