Chuck Grassley

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• Grassley, Baucus call for retroactive tax extensions

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 654
  U.S. Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus , D-Mont., and Sen. Chuck Grassley , R-Iowa, the Finance Committee’s ranking member, have sent a letter to Senate leaders signaling their intention to push in the new year for retroactive passage of tax extender legislation, which includes several tax incentives and benefits ...
  8 hours ago

• Bachmann gives death-panel ‘Lie of the Year’ a new lease on life

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 665
  U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is giving Politifact’s “ Lie of the Year ” a new lease on life by helping death panels limp into 2010. According to Bachmann, “unelected bureaucracies will decide what we can and can’t get in future health insurance policy. That’s why they’re called death panels .” ...
  12 hours ago

• Grassley planning ambitious Iowa schedule in January

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 139
  Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley plans to knock 21 counties off the list right away in January, getting off to an early start on his annual quest to visit all 99 counties. “So I hope this shows that I’m committed to fostering the process of representative government, where I go to people to hear their views and they ...
  12 hours ago

• THEY have no qualms about taking the money

  
  ravings of a semi-sane madwoman — Authority: 445
  they just dont want anyone ELSE (including those who REALLY REALLY REALLY need it) to take it NOTE: her name is michele not michelle (i dont point that out because im concerned about bachmanns feelings. im not. i have my reasons) Study reveals Bachmann to be ’something of a welfare queen’ By Stephen C. ...
  18 hours ago

• Grassley helped spread ‘Lie of the Year’

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 654
  Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize winning Web site operated by the St. Petersburg Times, has picked its “ Lie of the Year, ” and U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, played a part in spreading it. The lie that stood out above all other in 2009, according to Politifact, was a Republican talking point that end-of-life ...
  2 days ago

• Progressives of America - Unite!

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 134
  Guest editorial by Ernest A. Canning There have been a few occasions during my 62 years when I heard something profound that stuck with me. The year was 1969. I was attending a freshman college history class, shortly after returning from Vietnam, when my professor said: If the American Right can be criticized ...
  3 days ago

• The Night Before Christmas

  
  Great Blue Heron — Authority: 106
  (With apologies to Clement C. Moore and good poets everywhere)‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the SenateNot a creature was stirring, not a Byrd, not a Bennett;The Solons’ stockings were hung in the chamber with care,In hopes that St. Nick (or his lobbyist) soon would be there;The senators were ...
  3 days ago

• The Republican Health Care Blunder

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  The United States is on the doorstep of comprehensive health care reform. Its a staggering achievement, about which Ill have more to say later. but the under-appreciated thing that strikes me at the moment is that it never would have happened if the Republican Party had played its cards right. At the outset of this ...
  4 days ago

• Amid snow threat, Grassley camps in office Friday to make early Sat. vote

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 139
  Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley often notes that he has not missed a vote since 1993, when record flooding swamped Iowa. Since then, he’s become the iron man of the Senate, and no threat of snow in Washington, D.C., was going to keep him from breaking the streak. So, around 9:30 Friday night, Grassley tweeted the ...
  5 days ago

• A Pfizer Whistleblower Tops Business Ethics List

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 543
  The most influential person in the world of business ethics is someone who blew the whistle on Pfizer. John Kopchinski, a former sales rep whose lawsuit led to the record breaking, eye rolling, jaw dropping $2.3 billion settlement, was given this honor by the Ethisphere Institute , a think tank that is dedicated to ...
  5 days ago

• Harkin, Grassley see same problem for biodiesel credit, different obstacles

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 654
  If Congress doesn’t act soon, biodiesel producers will lose a $1 per gallon tax credit. Creative Commons photo by rrelam via Flick The credit, which is given for biodiesel made from soybean oil or yellow grease and animal fats, helps to maintain the competitiveness of the domestically-produced fuel, and experts ...
  5 days ago

• Feds Probe High Prescribing Docs In Florida

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 543
  The federal government has stopped reimbursing a Miami doctor who wrote nearly 97,000 prescriptions for mental health drugs - such as antipsychotics - to Medicaid patients over 18 months, the Associated Press reports. And the case has prompted Chuck Grassley, the Republican Senator from Iowa, to call for a ...
  5 days ago

• Grassley: Obama’s rhetoric ‘gives some encouragement to enemies’

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 654
  President Barack Obama has the best intentions with his foreign policy, but his rhetoric “sends signals he’s ambivalent about things or going to not be tough-nosed when our national security’s at stake,” U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley , R-Iowa, said Thursday. “And I think it does — gives some encouragement ...
  6 days ago

• 20 senators demand probe of health-care vote ‘threat’

  
  The Betrayal — Authority: 154
  Did White House say it would close Air Force base if Nelson didn’t play? By Joe Kovacs Twenty senators are demanding an investigation into reports the Obama administration threatened to close Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska if that state’s Democratic senator, Ben Nelson, didn’t join other Democrats in ...
  6 days ago

• Grassley speaks out against loud TV ads

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 654
  They may not agree on much (health care reform, climate change, housing terrorism suspects in Illinois) but Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley and Democratic U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley have found common ground on at least one issue — loud television advertisements. Asked by reporters if he’d be willing to ...
  1 week ago

• Grassley: I control TV remote at home

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 139
  Chuck Grassley said he might vote for a bill that would curb the volume on television commercials. But it’s more about insuring domestic tranquility than forming a more perfect union, he said. “Since I control the channel switcher in my house, I get tired of my wife telling me to turn it down every time a ...
  1 week ago

• Historiann: "Intellectual Dishonesty: Ur Doin It Rite on the Left"

  
  Corrente — Authority: 627
  You must read Historiann, because shes on a roll . Talkin about those who say our poor, poor President cant get anything done because of the big, bad partisanship wolf that keeps huffing* and puffing and blowing the House in (and the Senate, especially!)
  1 week ago

• LGBT group praises Grassley’s denouncement of anti-gay law

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 654
  Even though it took a week of pressure to convince him, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley , R-Iowa, deserves praise for finally doing the right thing and speaking out against proposed legislation in Uganda that would sentence those found to be homosexual to death, the state’s largest gay-rights group said Monday. “He ...
  1 week ago

• Sens. Feingold, Coburn, Grassley Denounce Uganda’s “Kill Gays” Bill

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 697
  The past week has seen a number of Senators and Congressional Representative issue statements on the Anti-Homosexuality Act that is before Parliament in Uganda. First, let’s go to Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), to show us how such a statement ought to be done : I share the outrage of many political, religious and ...
  1 week ago

• Uganda Kill the Gays Bill Will Include Death Penalty Provision; Obama, Grassley, Coburn, Feingold, Vatican Speak Out

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 757
  An article appearing in The Guardian over the weekend reports that the death penalty and life imprisonment provisions in Ugandas "kill the gays" bill as it has come to be known, have not been dropped, as Bloomberg reported last week . The Guardian spoke with the bills main sponsor, David Bahati : "Bahati ...
  1 week ago

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