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Muscatine Democrat Taylor Wettach on Tuesday rolled out a “trust and integrity” reform plan just days after both Democratic rival Christina Bohannan and Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks advanced their own ethics proposals, escalating the fight over reform in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District race.

Wettach says his plan would root out corruption, curb the influence of wealthy donors and lobbyists, and make the federal government more accountable to voters rather than “the rich and powerful.”

Wettach, a trade and national security lawyer running in the Democratic primary for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, unveiled the plan as both Bohannan and Miller-Meeks have pushed

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