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• Grassley press statement on opposition to health care bill

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 139
  Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley released the following today upon voting against the Senate health care bill. The Republican who participated for months in bipartisan talks as the ranking minority member on the Senate Finance Committee said he opposed it, in part, because the two-party negotiations that he was involved in ...
  20 hours ago

• Senate passes historic, if diluted, health reform bill

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 652
  Senate Democrats on Thursday approved the best health care reform bill they could manage: a sweeping $871 billion proposal designed to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and slow the growth of runaway costs. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. (WDCpix) It was at once a monumental ...
  23 hours ago

• The Triage Team

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 737
  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.
  1 day ago

• Grassley puts pressure on Treasury in tax dispute

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 947
  Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) on Wednesday criticized a Treasury Department ruling that let Citigroup keep billions of dollars in tax breaks and threatened to prevent the confirmation of several nominees for senior Treasury posts until the department suspended efforts to collect a tax penalty...
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• Batshit Bachmann Has a Farm, E-I-E-I-Oy!

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 470
  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: 470
  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, ...
  1 day ago

• Grassley, Baucus call for retroactive tax extensions

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 652
  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 ...
  1 day ago

• Under the radar, Obama pushes for Patriot Act renewal

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 514
  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 ...
  1 day ago

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

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 653
  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 .” ...
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• 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 ...
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• Grassley Whines For UnGreen Biodiesel

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 431
  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.
  1 day ago

• THEY have no qualms about taking the money

  
  ravings of a semi-sane madwoman — Authority: 446
  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. ...
  2 days ago

• THE FACTS ARE THE FACTS: TIME FOR THE STEVENS BOARDS TO SPLIT WITH THE INSTITUTE’S PRESIDENT

  
  Charity Governance — Authority: 111
  DATELINE: December 22, 2009, Chicago I went out into the night, I went out to find some light. Kids are dyin’ out in the snow, look at them go, look at them go!Arcade Fire, Power Out Sam Dillon of the...
  2 days ago

• Michele Bachmanns Farm Received Over $250,000 in Federal Subsidies

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 782
  Filed under: Republicans , Conservatives Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has made herself a prominent face in the Republican Party in 2009, delivering incendiary speeches at Tea Party protests against taxes, bailouts, and other forms of government intervention. Last week, she hosted a rally in Washington against ...
  2 days ago

• Grassley helped spread ‘Lie of the Year’

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 652
  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 ...
  3 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 ...
  4 days ago

• Dr Writes 97K Prescriptions in 18 Months

  
  Psychiatry, It's A Killing. — Authority: 99
  TBO.com has: Doctor Writes 97,000 Prescriptions In 18 Months The article quotes Sen Grassley as saying: "Its hard to believe this dramatic level of activity could go unnoticed." And our Federal Government commandeering another Sixth of our economy is going to improve this situation How?
  4 days ago

• The Night Before Christmas

  
  Great Blue Heron — Authority: 109
  (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 ...
  4 days ago

• Mental Health Year in Review: 2009

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 564
  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 ...
  5 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 ...
  5 days ago

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