Senator Charles Grassley

Republican  •  Iowa  •  8th Term  •  Sworn In 1975
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11/11/09
Commonsense & Wonder: The knee-capping Presidency

The White House and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have profoundly different takes on the news that a federal investigation cleared fired inspector general Gerald Walpin of allegations of misconduct in connection with an investigation ...

11/11/09
Weasel Zippers: Administration Lobbying Illegally for Obamacare

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). Grassley, a member of the Senate Rural Health Caucus, has served for many years as a watchdog over the leviathan HHS. The senator requested a legal opinion from the American Law Division at the CRS which found ...

11/11/09
Healthcare Headlines - Senator Chuck Grassley makes statement on...

Senator Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance gave a floor statement on November 10th regarding health reform and unemployment in America. Click the link for more. ...

11/11/09
Legally Kidnapped: U.S. Sen. Grassley: Works to promote sales of ...

Senator Chuck Grassley today received a “Legislator of the Year” award from Voice for Adoption, a national organization dedicated to “speaking out for our nation's waiting children.” Posted by LK at 3:00 AM ...

11/11/09
Reforming the Senate | Mother Jones

Back in July, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) put a hold on Thomas Shannon, President Obama's nominee for ambassador to Brazil. Why? Not because he was unqualified or anything like that. It was because Shannon once questioned the value of ...

11/11/09
Law And More: AARP, that gigantic marketing machine, sued over ...

AARP has seemingly turned into a gigantic marketing machine. Now, that machine has bumped up against a lawsuit about its practices. Earlier, Senator Chuck Grassley [R - Iowa] had launched a congressional investigation of how AARP ...

11/11/09
FarmPolicy.com » Blog Archives » Climate Legislation; Crop ...

In addition, Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) participated in yesterday's Finance Committee meeting on climate change. In part, Sen. Roberts focused on the meaning of “green” jobs and the impact climate legislation could potentially have on Kansas .

11/11/09
Sarah Palin's book: What's in, what's out

...If one chapter has ended in Sarah Palin's life, it probably has run about 80 pages. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa could be among those flipping pages for lack of an index. It is Grassley, a good old-school Republican who has appeared in campaign commerci

Source: The Swamp
11/10/09
IA-Sen: Conlin Gets In

She doesn't mention Senator Chuck Grassley directly, but she outlines the case she will make against him. Career politicians in Washington have lost their independence. Iowans were left behind when banks got bailed out and their top ...

Source: Daily Kos
11/10/09
Senators cautious about Fort Hood shooting speculation

Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from New Hartford, Iowa, is equally cautious. “I don't know enough about that right at this point, but I have been briefed on the point that there was some concern through telephone conversations ...

Source: Radio Iowa
11/10/09
Kerry-Boxer Bill Needs Honest Cost-Benefit Assessment, Says Sen ...

At a Senate Finance Committee hearing Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) stated that an honest cost-benefit assessment for climate change legislation is necessary. “An assessment…requires that we first stop trying to sell this policy ...

11/10/09
Streetsblog Los Angeles » Grassley: 'Two or Three Other ...

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) (Photo: CNN). The Finance Committee held a hearing today on the job-creating implications of its climate bill, which would set aside hundreds of millions of dollars for annual clean transportation grants. ...

11/10/09
Coralville Courier: U.S. Sen. Grassley: Unhealthy Rx for U.S. medicine

By US Senator Chuck Grassley Like many citizens across the country, Iowans flocked to town meetings this summer to express strongly held views about proposals to reform the delivery of health care in America. To a large degree, ...

11/10/09
US Senators on the Cuban Blogger Beatings | Babalú Blog: an island ...

It's time the Castro brothers allow the people of this rich nation to enjoy the civil rights and liberties that billions across the world already have," said Senator Chuck Grassley. "The anti-freedom message sent by the Cuban government ...

11/10/09
Capitol Hill Cubans: Senators Strongly Condemn Attack on Yoani

Today, U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Senator George LeMieux (R-FL), Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), Senator Ted Kaufman (D-DE), Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), ...

11/10/09
Grassley, Harkin consider troop “surge” in Afghanistan

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley says he believes a “surge” of more U.S. troops into Afghanistan is what's needed, while Democratic Senator Tom Harkin says he's reluctant to see an “escalation” in Afghansitan. ...

Source: Radio Iowa
11/10/09
Grassley not convinced by climate change alternatives | Brownfield

A climate change bill (the Clean Energy Partnership Act) proposed by his fellow Iowan Tom Harkin and four other senators has the marginal support of Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, “I would support that, but you've got to go way beyond ...

Source: Brownfield
11/10/09
Customs and Border Protection: A Refocus on Trade Facilitation ...

Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and the Finance Committee he chairs in the U.S. Senate have been in the spotlight the past few months over healthcare reform. But did you know that he and Senator Chuck Grassley (R‐IA) introduced a bill back ...

11/10/09
Business Groups Object to Limits on Slave & Child Labor | The ...

The bill this group is referring to is S.1631, Customs Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009, introduced by Senator Max Baucus and co-sponsored by Senator Chuck Grassley. The provisions being objected to are ...

11/10/09
Couple Sues AARP Over Health Plan Marketing - The BLT: The Blog of ...

According to the complaint, AARP's advertising materials did not indicate that the health plan only provided limited coverage. AARP suspended sales of the policies earlier this year when Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) opened a ...

11/10/09
IA-Sen: Conlin Gets In

At Bleeding Heartland, desmoinesdem writes that, in the video: She doesn't mention Senator Chuck Grassley directly, but she outlines the case she will make against him. Career politicians in Washington have lost their independence.

Source: malarkynews
11/10/09
Spare Candy: Sen. Al Franken is up to good again

Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Grassley and Orrin Hatch, to do something about the backlog of rape kits in this country. The legislation -- called the Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault Act -- sounds like a great bill, much-needed, ...

Source: Spare Candy
11/10/09
Utah Savage: C Street "Family"

Sam Brownback, Sen. (R-KS), Chair of Senate Values Action Team. James Inhofe, Sen. (R-OK). Jim DeMint, Sen. (R-SC), Chairman of Steering Committee. Chuck Grassley, Sen. (R-IA), Former Chairman of Finance Committee. Richard Lugar, Sen. ...

Source: Utah Savage
11/10/09
WH v. Grassley on Walpin clearing

...we continue to believe that it was fully merited," said the White House official, who asked not to named. By contrast, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who is something of a patron saint for inspectors general, said the belated clearance of Walpin indica

Source: The Politico
11/10/09
Article

Senator Chuck Grassley today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture made an announcement he has been pushing for. Grassley wrote a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on October 6, ...

11/10/09
Another Senator Asks Justice To Stop Ignoring Grassley – Main Justice

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has garnered a new ally in his quest to get answers to questions he and other Senate Judiciary Committee members have asked the Justice Department over the past few years. ...

11/10/09
Streetsblog Capitol Hill » Grassley: 'Two or Three Other ...

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) (Photo: CNN). The Finance Committee held a hearing today on the job-creating implications of its climate bill, which would set aside hundreds of millions of dollars for annual clean transportation grants. ...

11/09/09
Monday, November 9, 2009

--Senator Chuck Grassley told me in regards to the PelosiCare bill, which did pass later that night. "In God we trust. Everyone else we audit."-- State Auditor Dave Vaudt, via video "For liberals, this legislation is the crown jewel of ...

11/09/09
Five Moms (and a few mommy bloggers) on Capitol Hill

But we did personally meet with with Representative Fred Upton and Senator Chuck Grassley. The photo below shows our group, including Dr. Drew Pinsky, with Representative Fred Upton. Five-Moms-MommyBloggers-Dr-Drew-Rep-Upton ...

11/09/09
MyDD :: IA-Sen: Conlin makes candidacy official

She doesn't mention Senator Chuck Grassley directly, but she hints at the case she will make against him. Career politicians in Washington have lost their independence. Iowans were left behind when banks got bailed out and their top ...

Source: MyDD

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