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      <excerpt> Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, who has always been an ethanol supporter, will push Congress to act if the EPA turns down a waiver request that will increase ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...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</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...D.C. Rhee's role in the St. HOPE investigation was raised in a report issued last week by two members of Congress. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, have called into question why Inspector General Gerald Walpin was forced</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> WASHINGTON --- Senator Chuck Grassley said today that he&amp;#39;s asked for information from the Joint Committee on Taxation about which taxpayers would be ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...she will not accept donations from lobbyists or PACs, and Tuesday called on the man she&#8217;s hoping to unseat, Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, to not only do the same but to donate PAC contributions to charity. NRSC spokesman Colin Reed said comment</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> 16 by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the Fighting Medicare Payment Fraud Act of 2009 (S. 2774) would give Medicare more time to pay a claim if it believes the ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight Chairman Claire mccaskill ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> ... time to apply for tax breaks to help them repair or replace their devastated homes under legislation being introduced by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a Republican, agreed. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t know how you could say failure is not an option. I&amp;#39;m a farmer, not a lawyer, but it seems to me ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Senator Chuck Grassley issued the following comment about his opposition to the motion to proceed to HR 3590, the legislative vehicle for the Patient ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The Senate&amp;#39;s post-Thanksgiving health debate will center around GOP ideas, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) suggested Wednesday.</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Mark &#8220;Buenos Aires is the Best Place for Adultery&#8221; Sanford. The list goes on: Sen. Mark Pryor, Sen. James Inhofe, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Mike Enzi, Sen. Sam Brownback, Rep. Heath Shuler, Rep. Mike McIntyre, and Rep. Zach Wamp. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>A few weeks ago, I noted that Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) had introduced an amendment that would prohibit the National Criminal Justice Commission proposed by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) from considering. ... |11.24.09 @ 7:37PM|#. All who  think Chuck Grassle</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>That company, American Republic Insurance Company, headquarter in Senator Chuck Grassley&amp;#39;s home state of Iowa (Des Moine), is one of the companies that Chuck Grassley is so afraid of being &amp;quot;crowded out&amp;quot; by a public option. ...</excerpt>
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