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      <excerpt>...Iowa politics.com 11/6/2009  WASHINGTON Senator Chuck Grassley today pressed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to step up its commitment to end the fraud and abuse of the H-1B visa program.  Grassley noted that within the last year, Citizenship and Im</excerpt>
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      <title>U.S. Sen. Grassley: Pushes immigration authorities to hold employers accountable for H-1B Visa fraud</title>
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      <excerpt>...of Texas, chairman of the committee, is listed as a host of the Nov. 19 fundraiser for Baker along with Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley, of Iowa, Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, and David Vitter, of Louisiana. Baker, a state senator from Conway, is among </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...leaders &#8220;to enact legislation this year which provides affordable, high quality coverage for all Americans.&#8221; U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a congressional leader known for his watchdog approach to federal agencies, believes that an online initiative lau</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...national campaign finance watchdogs ask: Who does Grassley represent? WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley (R) has raised $154,350 in campaign donations in the 3rd quarter of 2009 from health care interests, including $</excerpt>
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      <title>Sen. Grassley Raised More Than $150,000 Over the Summer From Health Care and Insurance Interests</title>
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      <excerpt>...Moines historian I am tired of only reading negative shots at Sen. Grassley in 2 Cents' Worth. I wake up every morning thanking Chuck Grassley for fighting in the Senate for the rights of Iowans.  A real WDM Republican Why should 3,000 state non-contrac</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...should be greeted with happiness for Republicans but they should not be seen as a public repudiation of President Obama, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday morning. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a referendum on Obama,&#8221; the Republican lawmaker said in</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...doesn't stop them from getting insurance.&quot; Another Senate Republican who was heavily involved in negotiating health care reform, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, has unequivocally declared that the government has &quot;to prohibit insurers from denying coverage to pe</excerpt>
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      <title>Boehner's Health Care Bill At Odds With Pre-Existing GOP Positions</title>
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      <excerpt>...and Human Services secretary, a clear indicator that the bill is actually a government takeover of health care, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Monday. &#8220;Now I know the other side doesn&#8217;t like to hear that this bill calls for a government takeover of o</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Rubashkin photos, outside the jurys presence, of the Rubashkins with prominent politicians. Included in the images were U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, and former U.S. Rep. Jim Nussle. U.S. District Chief Judge Linda Reade has</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...has already voted to strip ACORN of any federal funding, but some members of Congress want to go even further. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, last week sent a letter to John Berry, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, complaining about an A</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Another video, from a young Republican who&amp;#39;s a student at Drake &#8212; it&amp;#39;s an introduction for US Senator Chuck Grassley. Grassley comes on stage, as a country and western song is played to get the crowd roused. ...</excerpt>
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