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• Republicans escalate conflict over TSA nominee Erroll Southers (Liar Alert!)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 178
  Republicans escalate conflict over TSA nominee Erroll Southers By: Byron YorkChief Political CorrespondentJanuary 6, 2010 A group of seven Republican senators has written a letter to the White House raising new questions about the nomination of Erroll Southers to head the Transportation Security Administration. In the ...
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• Doddering Dodd, Take 2

  
  Politically Speaking — Authority: 126
  When I think of U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, a 2008 Democratic presidential candidate, four things come to mind. First off, he brought to Sioux City perhaps the most well-received surrogate in that presidential race, when Grammy-winning singer Paul Simon came to a West High School field on one of the hottest days of summer ...
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• Report: Senator calls for audit of Cash-for-Clunkers program

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 762
  Filed under: Government/Legal Remember that insane list filled with great cars that were reportedly crushed under the Cash-for-Clunkers program? We were wondering if and when the federal government would thoroughly audit dealers who cashed in products like a 2006 Cadillac STS, an Audi S6 or a 2008 Foose ...
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• Grassley Warns: Immigration Bill With ‘Amnesty’ Has Little Chance

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Yesterday, reports emerged that liberal Democrats won’t push too hard to assist illegal immigrants under health care reform as long as the White House commits this year to separate immigration reform complete with a plan to provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already in the country. Today, Sen. ...
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• Grassley Wants ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Audit

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Concerned that last summer’s  $3 billion Cash-for-Clunkers program might be rife with waste and fraud, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), senior Republican on the Finance Committee, is asking administration officials today for an accounting of where exactly all of that money went. Specifically, Grassley wants to know ...
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• How Will The Sunshine Act Affect Your Medical Meetings Reporting?

  
  TheBeat.travel - a travel business community — Authority: 430
  If youre a meetings manager at a drug company or medical device manufacturer, it would be a smart move to get up to speed on just how the so-called Sunshine Act, a bill sponsored by Senators Charles Grassley (Republican-Iowa) and Herbert Kohl (Democrat-Wisconsin), is going to affect your strategic meetings management ...
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• ObamaCare: Should Republicans Have Negotiated on Health Care Bill?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 819
  Writing for Forbes, Bruce Bartlett puts forth an interesting hypothesis that healthcare legislation could have been made better (hopefully he meant to write “less destructive”) if the GOP had been willing to compromise with Democrats: Democrats desperately wanted a bipartisan bill and would have given a lot to ...
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• New Senate race rankings: Lean Grassley

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 138
  Political statistics guru Nate Silver, who’s also one of the nation’s top political analysts, still thinks the Senate race is Grassley’s to lose but the addition of Conlin definitely makes things more interesting. Silver ranks all 38 open Senate seats, but here’s his take on Iowa: 16. Iowa (R-Grassley) — ...
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• Top 5 Siouxland political events of 2009

  
  Politically Speaking — Authority: 126
  Two years ago we were hours away from New Year’s Day Sioux City campaign visits by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton mere days before the Iowa caucuses, so comparatively the political buzz is much lower as we end another calendar year. Last year here I compile d the Top 8 political events of ‘08 , and this being an ...
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• PantsBurnLegWound

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 138
  The folks at Politico have time to kill this week, what with Congress on recess and most of Washington shut down during the week between Christmas and New Year’s. So there was plenty of time to detail their love of Chuck Grassley’s Tweets . Glenn Thrush describes Grassley as “spellcheck busting.” ...
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• King, Grassley stay out of governor race

  
  Politically Speaking — Authority: 126
  The Iowa Democratic Party this morning has put out a release hacking on 2010 gubernatorial candidate Terry Branstad for the reluctance of two high-profile Republicans to endorse his candidacy. Yesterday during an “Iowa Press” show taping, Iowa 5th District Congressman Steve King declined to endorse a candidate , ...
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• King: Dems pushing dependency class

  
  Politically Speaking — Authority: 126
  Iowa 5th District Congressman Steve King was on “Iowa Press” today for a piece running Friday on Iowa Public Television. In reporting from The Journal’s Des Moines bureau, Charlotte Eby wrote that King lambasted President Obama and the majority party Democrats for wanting to establish a “dependency class” ...
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• The Triage Team

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 722
  This year’s health reform debate has consumed Congress more than any other issue in recent memory. And no figures held more influence in that debate than these ten individuals. Click here to begin slideshow.
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• Batshit Bachmann Has a Farm, E-I-E-I-Oy!

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 435
  From Yasha Levine at truth dig : Michele Bachmann has become well known for her anti-government tea-bagger antics, protesting health care reform and every other government “handout” as socialism. What her followers probably don’t know is that Rep. Bachmann is, to use that anti-government slur, ...
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• Batshit Bachmann Has a Farm, E-I-E-I-Uh-Oh!

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 435
  From Yasha Levine at truth dig : Michele Bachmann has become well known for her anti-government tea-bagger antics, protesting health care reform and every other government “handout” as socialism. What her followers probably don’t know is that Rep. Bachmann is, to use that anti-government slur, ...
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• Under the radar, Obama pushes for Patriot Act renewal

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 499
  Source: Lake Land Times With key sections of the U.S. Patriot Act set to expire Dec. 31, the Obama administration – essentially tiptoeing through the corridors of Congress and using the raucous health care debate as cover – has quietly maneuvered for renewal of the controversial provisions, which he opposed ...
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• Grassley Whines For UnGreen Biodiesel

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 441
  Given that biofuels dont provide a genuine green advance in our nations energy, biofuels businesses ought to be left to sink or swim on their own, and the tax credit ought to be allowed to fade away.
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• Mental Health Year in Review: 2009

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 532
  Another year is over, and so brings us to the close of another year of great stories, great friends, and great insights into the world of psychology — our annual Year in Review of Mental Health. Conflicts of Interest, Lawsuits and Transparency Perhaps 2009 will be noted as the year of reckoning for pharmaceutical ...
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• Grassley: China, U.S. emissions should be equal

  
  Politically Speaking — Authority: 126
  U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said the United Nations Climate Change Conference playing out in Copenhagen (above) should result in a level playing field that puts the U.S. on par with China. The world’s Top Three polluters of carbon dioxide, in order, are China, U.S. and India. “(The goal should be) ...
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• DC City Council Holds Hearings on Area Physicians Relationships with Industry

  
  Policy and Medicine — Authority: 128
  The District of Columbia City Council Committee on Health last month held a hearing regarding various health care related issues .     Included in the hearing was “charges” read out by Health Committee Chairman David A. Catania.   These included reading the names of physicians (top researchers in the ...
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