Senator Charles Grassley

Republican  •  Iowa  •  8th Term  •  Sworn In 1975
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11/23/09
U.S. Senate confirms Rose, Klinefeldt for U.S. Attorney posts ...

Harkin's confidence in Rose also recently received an added boost when U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley noted how admirable it was to see a career prosecutor rise through the ranks of the Department of Justice and be recommended to take over ...

11/23/09
Always Destroy the People Who Catch Your Corrupt Friends - An ...

The report was spearheaded by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. ...

11/23/09
Dog Food Explained! | Mother Jones

The provision in the health care bill was added by Sen. Chuck Grassley. He originally wanted it to cover all federal workers — not just the Congressional ones — and obviously that created a bit of a stir. Baucus tried to placate him by ...

11/23/09
Firms firing U.S. workers cannot hire foreign tech pros - SiliconIndia

... number of American workers, from subsequently hiring temporary workers (such as tech professionals) from outside the U.S., two U.S. senators - Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Chuck Grassley have proposed the 'Employ America Act'. ...

11/23/09
Theresa Gandhi - HerStory: Lobbyists Paying to Write Health Care ...

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) $702595. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) $161706. TOTAL: $3058256. These six senators — who, by the way, represent only 2.74% of Americans — are writing bad policy, and they're doing it while they take money from ...

11/23/09
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » On Holds and a Potential ...

LeMieux's isn't the first hold: Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) had a hold in place because Shannon favored dropping the US' tariff on Brazilian ethanol (the fact that ambassadors cannot unilaterally change US tariffs apparently didn't ...

11/22/09
Three Democrats running for senate court party faithful

Three Democrats who hope to unseat Republican Senator Chuck Grassley in next year's election courted party activists this weekend in Des Moines. Roxanne Conlin, a prominent Des Moines attorney, announced earlier this month that she's ...

Source: Radio Iowa
11/22/09
Rethugs, I hope this gives you some cloture…I mean, closure ...

Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, who voted for the Democrats' bill in the Senate Finance Committee, voted against debating it Saturday night. She objected to many of the the policies in the version of the bill that emerged from the ... The Senate's ot

11/22/09
Health care Plan Proposals - SFC Fishing Forums

The bill "does worse than nothing," said Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. It "threatens the economic recovery. ... Changes to the health care system must be responsible and not break the backs of the taxpayers." ...

11/22/09
Big Education Ape: GOP Inquiry Fails To Show Obama's Firing Of ...

Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the report asserts that the White House's 'failure to use a transparent process to effectuate Walpin's removal deprived the President of an opportunity to explain his action in an ...

11/22/09
Arkansas Blog: Speak softly, Sen. Lincoln

Baucus, indeed, is not alone in this department: virtually everyone who has tried to play a dealmaker role in health care has seen their approval ratings decline, from Chuck Grassley to Olympia Snowe to Harry Reid to President Obama. ...

11/22/09
Coralville Courier: Harkin votes to push ObamaCare, ducks constituents

"If a bill like this can't get support broadly, then something is wrong with it," said Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA.). "2074 pages and trillions of dollars later, this bill doesn't even meet the basic goal the American people had in

11/21/09
Obama accused of doing favors for ally – TheHill.com

A GOP congressional report accuses the White House of doing favors for Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a former NBA star and prominent ally of President Barack Obama. The report was spearheaded by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member of the

11/21/09
Napolitano For Amnesty

From the Politico. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and 11 of his Senate colleagues blasted Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday for supporting the legalization of undocumented immigrants. Last week, speaking at the Center ...

11/21/09
Pundit & Pundette: Today's Senate debate on HR 3590

Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, plans to highlight findings from the Joint Committee on Taxation showing that in the year 2019, 77 percent of the tax increases in the Finance Committee ...

11/21/09
Grassley Votes Against Motion to Proceed with Health Care Bill

Senator Chuck Grassley issued the following comment about his opposition to the motion to proceed to H.R. 3590, the legislative vehicle for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009. The text of Senator Grassley's floor ...

11/21/09
Olbermann/Huffington: Glenn Beck, “fearmonger-in-chief” « Citizens ...

Or to have people like Senator Chuck Grassley giving away books of Glenn Beck. [Can't give away books? Do they even hear themselves? What's more frightening - state run media or freedom of speech?] HUFFINGTON So, this is really what the ...

11/20/09
Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community

So, why not help Max out? Why force him to make a choice between his responsibilities as a senator and his responsibilities as a son? Surely, Chuck Grassley is classy enough to see my point. Right? Of course, any other Republican could ...

11/20/09
The Weekly Standard

Sen. Chuck Grassley asked Attorney General Eric Holder in a hearing Wednesday for a list of the employees at Dept. of Justice who might have to recuse themselves due to conflicts of interest over detainees. Some DOJ employees and their ...

11/20/09
EDITORIAL EXCLUSIVE: On terrorists, Justice recused

...years of delay” -- as ... WashTimes: DOJ has Conflicts of Interest on Detainees weeklystandard.com 14 hours ago — Sen. Chuck Grassley asked Attorney General Eric Holder in a hearing Wednesday for a list of the employees at Dept. of Justice who mi

Source: Beltway Blips
11/20/09
Senator Asks Wash U. and Other Med Schools Their Policies on ...

​Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this week mailed a letter to ten of the nation's top medical schools asking for their policies on ghostwriting. The senator -- the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee -- has grown alarmed by a ...

Source: Daily RFT
11/20/09
GOP Inquiry Fails To Show Obama's Firing Of AmeriCorps IG Was ...

Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the report asserts that the White House's "failure to use a transparent process to effectuate Walpin's removal deprived the President of an opportunity to explain his action in an ...

11/20/09
Fiegen Responds to Grassley Statement | Eastern Iowa News

Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate Tom Fiegen, today responded to Senator Chuck Grassley's prepared statement on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (Fiegen is a former state senator from Cedar County and a bankruptcy ...

11/19/09
U.S. Sen Grassley-Demanding transparency for Pharma funds paid to ...

Senator Chuck Grassley has asked leading medical schools to describe their policies on ghostwriting as part of his continuing effort to shed light on financial ties between the pharmaceutical industry and medical professionals.

11/19/09
NeoMugwump: What Are We Afraid Of?

Senator Chuck Grassley, a politician that a respect has nonetheless come out with one of the most asinine statements, likening the upcoming trial to the OJ Simpson trial. Please. The judicial system has tried terrorists before and did a ...

Source: NeoMugwump
11/19/09
Mole's Progressive Democrat: Iowa Senate Focus: Roxanne Conlin for ...

Iowa Senate Focus: Roxanne Conlin for Senate. Republican Senator Chuck Grassley has a 2010 challenger. Here is an announcement from Iowa: Together, I know we can take on the Washington special interests and fight for a voice that gives ...

11/19/09
Flip Flop? Republicans Attack Reid's Abortion Language Even Though ...

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) suggested that Republicans used to be just fine with the abortion language in the Senate health care bill...but that was before Reid unveiled it.

11/19/09
I am better then you and I do not have to answer your system of ...

But the committee's top Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is unhappy that the committee staff had to submit 10 sets of questions to Brainard before.

11/19/09
Grassley aide: Kiernan insults Iowans who disagree with president ...

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 ...

11/19/09
Michael Smerconish: KSM: Ready For His Closeup?

Grassley To Holder: Remember O.J. Simpson Before Trying KSM. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) offered a stern warning for Eric Holder on Wednesday when addressing the attorney general's confidence that he would get a conviction. ...

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