Senator Charles Grassley

Republican  •  Iowa  •  8th Term  •  Sworn In 1975
Current Term 2005 - 2010 View All
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11/08/09
It-boy Pawlenty debuts before Iowa GOP to strains of 'It ain't me ...

”I don't think [the health care reform bill] would have been delayed without you,” Pawlenty said to Iowa's Sen. Chuck Grassley. Pawlenty held out hope that the health care bill that he called “terrible” and “miserable” might yet meet ..

11/08/09
Iowa Republican Party “Leadership For Iowa” by art | The ...

Huge applause came for Senator Grassley as he stepped on the stage to speak. Quotes from Chuck Grassley: Our common focus is leadship and vision for the future., Iowans of every political stripe were telling me, both by words and by ...

11/08/09
GOP 12: T-Paw in Iowa

Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, said none of the possible 2012 candidates have the upper hand. “It's a whole new ball game,” he said. “And nobody should skip Iowa.” [Hat tip: Kathryn Lopez] DOUBLE UPDATE: More goodies. ...

Source: GOP 12
11/07/09
Moe Lane » Good morning, Rep. Barney Frank.

Are you in favor if the admenedment to Controlled Substances Act that Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in reguard to marijuana? TexEd says: November 7, 2009 at 10:45 am. Ya know, there's got to be more to this. ...

Source: Moe Lane
11/07/09
Leadership for Iowa Live Blog | Caffeinated Thoughts

6:27p – Senator Chuck Grassley is speaking. “We need to do our part to keep that trend (Tuesday night) that rejects big government policies.” Raising taxes, raising private insurance premiums, increasing government involvement is not ...

11/07/09
A Gentleman's view. - Elected Officials Statements Made about ...

Less amusing was Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, advancing the same nonsensical argument about the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, the Democrat from Massachusetts who fought hard for the Dems' plan before his death by cancer. ...

11/07/09
The Washington Monthly

Over the summer, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced on Fox News, "I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates." And yet, now the exact same idea is part of Nancy Pelosi's "outrageous" agenda to sen

11/07/09
Pawlenty @ Iowa GOP event : O.KayHenderson.com

Another video, from a young Republican who's a student at Drake — it'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. ...

11/07/09
Free Money Finance: Eight Steps to Lower Your College Costs

Most likely thanks to Sen. Chuck Grassley's (R-IA) efforts to put a harsh glare on colleges with rich endowments who charge sticker-price tuition, more than 60 colleges have either replaced loans with grants or eliminated tuition ...

11/07/09
Coralville Courier: U.S. Sen. Grassley: Administrative burden ...

Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, continues to press the Administration and congressional Democrats to account for the administrative burden and expense to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of significant ...

11/06/09
Economyincrisis.org - America's Economic Report - Daily

The Obama administration has said that before signing the agreements, they plan to rework them. "If you go to class, college, and you don't do anything, you get an F," Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) told Reuters last week. ...

11/06/09
Swing State Project: IA-Sen: Conlin To Run

Conlin, a Democrat, has said last month she is more likely than not to seek the seat held by five-term Republican Chuck Grassley, but had to work out how she was going to handle her law practice and staff a campaign first. ...

11/06/09
What a surprise: Jan Brewer, R.T. Rybak and Roxane Conlin running ...

At the beginning of the year, Democrats were hoping that Chuck Grassley would retire. That has not happened, but it looks like the Iowa senator won't win a sixth term without a fight: Roxane Conlin will reportedly become a Senate ...

11/06/09
Ex-U.S. Attorney To Run For Senate In Iowa – Main Justice

A Democratic former U.S. Attorney will launch a campaign to unseat Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), The Quad-City Times reported today. Roxanne Conlin (Roxanne Conlin & Associates). Roxanne Conlin, who served as the U.S. Attorney for the ...

11/06/09
Bleeding Heartland:: Conlin assembling Senate campaign

I expect Conlin to raise large sums of money quickly once she has formed a campaign committee, but she has a ways to go to become competitive with Senator Chuck Grassley. He had $4.4 million cash on hand at the end of the third quarter, ...

11/06/09
Grassley: HHS initiative is propaganda, violates federal law ...

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a congressional leader known for his watchdog approach to federal agencies, believes that an online initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services amounts to state-sponsored propaganda. ...

11/06/09
Conlin aide tells AP: next week : O.KayHenderson.com

Conlin, a Democrat, would face two other Democrats who announced this summer they'd run for their party's nomination for one of Iowa's U.S. Senate seats — a chance to face-off next November against Republican Senator Chuck Grassley. ...

11/06/09
Confirmed: At Last - Arturo Valenzuela to WHA! | Diplopundit

This nomination was reported out of the Committee on Foreign Relations on September 17, 2009; hold placed by Senator Chuck Grassley, R-IA over the firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin. ...

Source: Diplopundit
11/06/09
Miles Mogulescu: Speaker Pelosi: Please Stop Bullsh*ting Us on ...

Grassley Receives $150K From Health Insurance Industry. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley took in $154350 in third-quarter campaign donations from the health insurance industry, according to the Public Campaign Action Fund. Grassley, a. ...

Source: The Blog
11/06/09
Grassley targets HHS website

...Sen. Chuck Grassley said today that a Congressional Research Service memo concludes that the Health and Human Services website may violate laws against using federal money for campaign or propaganda purposes. At issue is a link on the HHS website that a

Source: The Politico
11/06/09
Conlin to file papers at On the Campaign Trail with Ed Tibbetts

Des Moines lawyer Roxanne Conlin will file organizational papers with the Federal Election Commission next week, her spokesman said today, meaning she will seek the Democratic Party's nomination to run against U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley ...

11/05/09
Grassley Receives $150K From Health Insurance Industry | Net The ...

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley took in $154350 in third-quarter campaign donations from the health insurance industry, according to the Public Campaign Action Fu...

11/05/09
The “Party Of No” becomes the “Party Of Slow” « Climate Progress

On Monday, senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) joined Inhofe to demand a “complete and substantive analysis of any bill that attempts to address this issue” and “ complete dat

11/05/09
Alan Grayson Reads Names Of Dead In Republican Districts (VIDEO)

Grassley Receives $150K From Health Insurance Industry. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley took in $154350 in third-quarter campaign donations from the health insurance industry, according to the Public Campaign Action Fund. Grassley, a. ...

11/05/09
John Geyman: No Health Care Bill is Better Than a Bad Bill

Grassley Receives $150K From Health Insurance Industry. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley took in $154350 in third-quarter campaign donations from the health insurance industry, according to the Public Campaign Action Fund. Grassley, a. ...

11/05/09
Iowa Sen. Grassley: Webb Commission will “do what we tell them to ...

Thanks to a tip from our friends at LEAP, I reported on Tuesday about Iowa Senator Charles Grassley offering an amendment to Senator Jim Webb's prison reform. ... Chuck Grassley is a TOOL. Reply. Winder says: November 5, 2009 at 2:21 pm. Ironic name f

11/05/09
PRESS RELEASE: Sen. Grassley Rakes in Health Care & Insurance ...

Public Campaign Action Fund issued a press release today showing that over the summer as health care reform legislation was being debated in Congress Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) raised huge sums from the health care and insurance ...

11/05/09
Barbara Boxer shows how it's done | dagblog.com

As for anonymous holds, as Republican Senator Chuck Grassley once said, "The secret hold is a practice of Senatorial courtesy extended by the respective Leaders. Even though it is one of the Senate's most popular procedures, ...

Source: dagblog.com
11/05/09
Comics: After Thought by David Glover | Hollywood Today

Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley having said he favors a Public Option in health care reform, now says the opposite. Grassly reports his committee is “making progress by inches” on healthcare reform. ...

11/05/09
Grassley Receives $150K From Health Insurance Industry

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley took in $154350 in third-quarter campaign donations from the health insurance industry, according to the Public Campaign Action Fund.Grassley, a ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, ...

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