Chuck Grassley

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• Senators Thanksgiving Chores: McCain: Im Frying Two Turkeys!

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 807
  Filed under: The Capitolist Senators may have assistants in Washington to do their correspondence and driving, but once they get home, many are more likely to be taking orders than giving them, especially when Thanksgiving dinner needs to get on the table. From three hours of dusting to whipping up a batch of ...
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• GOP Group Undermining Robo-Call Laws Has Ties To DCI

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 772
  American Future Fund (AFF), the shadowy conservative advocacy group thats working to undermine state laws against robo-calling , has ties to DCI Group, a Republican lobbying firm with a reputation for dirty tricks and shady clients. And a closer look at AFF suggests the group has been designed to carry out political ...
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• GOP accuses Conlin of flip-flopping on lobbyist donations

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 653
  The National Republican Senatorial Committee is calling foul on Democrat Roxanne Conlin, saying she is trying to have it both ways on the issue of taking donations from lobbyists and political action committees. Conlin has repeatedly said she will not accept donations from lobbyists or PACs, and Tuesday called on ...
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• Grassley goes after proposed high-income payroll tax increase

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 653
  It was inevitable that conservatives would attack the Senate health care reform legislation over the proposed 0.5 percent hike in Medicare’s payroll tax for the country’s highest earners. Now they’re drilling down into the specifics. Sen. Chuck Grassley, senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has ...
  3 days ago

• Conlin calls on Grassley to reject PAC money

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 653
  One of three Democrats vying to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is calling on the veteran lawmaker to decline all contributions from federal lobbyists and political action committees (PACs). Des Moines attorney Roxanne Conlin said in an e-mail to Grassley that the senior senator has accepted millions ...
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• Putting a Cork in It

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 151
  Nate Silver makes the sharp observation that all the public hand-wringing by red state Democrats about how they wont vote for the health care reform bill in its current form may not do them much good with their voters: Take a look, for instance, at some evidence from Montana, where we have a bit of a controlled ...
  4 days ago

• U.S. Senate confirms Rose, Klinefeldt for U.S. Attorney posts

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 653
  Although the big news out of the U.S. Senate over the weekend was that Democrats garnered enough votes to bring health care reform legislation to the floor for debate, something else that happened might have a more immediate impact on Iowa. Nick Klinefeldt & Stephanie Rose Saturday, the full Senate voted on ...
  5 days ago

• Rethugs, I hope this gives you some cloture…I mean, closure

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 468
  From POLITICS DAILY : With no votes to spare, Democratic senators moved health care reform past its first major hurdle Saturday night, with a party-line, 60-to-39 vote to begin consideration of the 2,000-plus page bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled this week. …snip… The bill that senators ...
  5 days ago

• Grassley opposes measure to proceed on Senate health care bill

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 144
  Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley opposed the procedural measure in the Senate to allow a health care proposal to advance, although the position mattered little in light of majority Democrats’ unified stance. Grassley, a senior Republican and ranking member of the finance committee, said he opposed the Senate bill that ...
  6 days ago

• Sorry, you’ll have to stand in line for 3 hours before you can read this blog, and we might take down the post before then

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 532
  Politics: Bob Herbert with the sad story of Detroit Not sure where  Ray D. Madoff is coming from, but farmers do NOT need protection from estate taxes (that’s  a lie , a Republican lie — it’s never been true and never will be true no matter how many times they lie about it) Tripp Palin’s paternal ...
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• Napolitano For Amnesty

  
  Charlotte Conservative Blog — Authority: 128
  When the head of homeland security says that legalizing 15 million illegal aliens will be good for American workers, well you know shes a Democrat. In a nation of 10% unemployment the Obama team has decided that giving 15 million illegal aliens work papers will help the problem. This is the hope and change the race ...
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• GOP Inquiry Fails To Show Obamas Firing Of AmeriCorps IG Was Politicized

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 772
  A congressional GOP inquiry into the firing of the inspector general for AmeriCorps has been garnering headlines mostly for revealing details of allegations of sexual misconduct by Sacramento Mayor and Obama ally Kevin Johnson. But on the key question of whether the IG, Gerald Walpin, was fired for improper ...
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• Notorious PR Firm That Reps Swift Boaters, Creationists, PhRMA Now Helping Fired IG

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 772
  A heavy-hitting conservative public relations firm that flacked for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and boasts an impressive array of right-wing clients is now helping Gerald Walpin, who was fired this summer by President Obama as the inspector general for AmeriCorps. Creative Response Concepts Public Relations ( CRC ) ...
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• Grassley aide: Kiernan insults Iowans who disagree with president

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 653
  Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan’s attacks against U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley are simply “insulting Iowans who disagree with the [Obama] administration’s political decision to bring terrorists to the United States,” an aide to the senator told the Iowa Independent Thursday. Jill Kozeny, ...
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• Kiernan slams Grassley for comparing terror trial to O.J. Simpson

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 653
  U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s comparison of civilian trials for terrorists to the murder trial of O.J. Simpson is “false and disrespectful,” Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan said Thursday. While questioning Attorney General Eric Holder about the idea of prosecuting five men accused as ...
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• Further Thoughts On The Khalid Sheikh Mohammad Show Trial

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 563
  It’s becoming more and more apparent that the Obama Administration’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in a civilian court has little to do with actual justice. Consider for example this exchange between Senator Chuck Grassley and Attorney General Holder: Sen. Charles Grassley (R., Iowa): “I don’t ...
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• Grassley opposed to detainees even coming to U.S.

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 653
  The question of possibly housing Guantanamo Bay detainees at a prison facility on the Iowa-Illinois border isn’t something that deserves consideration, according to U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, who said today that he opposes such individuals ever entering the country. When asked if the detainees would put Iowa ...
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• Few Universities File Conflict Of Interest Reports

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  Few universities file required reports to the National Institutes of Health about financial conflicts held by their researchers, and even when such conflicts are reported, universities rarely require researchers to eliminate or reduce conflicts, The New York Times reports. The paper writes that a report will be ...
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• Republican hypocrisy watch: terrorist prisoner edition

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 159
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem Congressional Republicans were fine with the Bush administrations decision to prosecute the "20th 9/11 hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui in U.S. federal court. Republicans didnt hit the panic button when would-be "shoe bomber" Richard Reid was tried ...
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• Grassley praises Harkin’s recommendation of Stephanie Rose

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 653
  Critics of the massive immigration raid in Postville and the subsequent judicial fast-tracking of detained immigrants on criminal charges have been widely expressing their concerns about Stephanie Rose , the U.S. Attorney nominee for the Northern District of Iowa who took part in the legal proceedings. While U.S. ...
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