 A Republican, Raecker served on several committees in the Iowa House - as chair of the Appropriations Committee, as vice chair of the Ethics Committee, and as a member of the State Government committee.He also served on the Governor's 2010 Strategic Planning Council in 2000 and the 21st Century Workforce Council in 1999.He gained notoriety in 2011 for introducing legislation that would have required the University of Iowa to sell Jackson Pollock's "Mural" (1943), which the university owns and regularly displays at the University of Iowa Museum of Art.