President Barack Obama has the best intentions with his foreign policy, but his rhetoric “sends signals he’s ambivalent” and could lead enemies of the United States to believe he won’t be “tough-nosed when our national security’s at stake,” U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Thursday.
“And I think it [...]
They may not agree on much (health care reform, climate change, housing terrorism suspects in Illinois) but Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley and Democratic U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley have found common ground on at least one issue — loud television advertisements.
Asked by reporters if he’d be willing to [...]
Chuck Grassley said he might vote for a bill that would curb the volume on television commercials. But it’s more about insuring domestic tranquility than forming a more perfect union, he said.
“Since I control the channel switcher in my house, I get tired of my wife telling me to turn [...]
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Even though it took a week of pressure to convince him, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, deserves praise for finally doing the right thing and speaking out against proposed legislation in Uganda that would sentence those found to be homosexual to death, the state’s largest gay-rights group said Monday.
“He [...]
He’s not the king, but Senator Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) record isn’t so hot either, he comes in second of total amount of earmarks requested by Iowa’s Congressmen and Senators. He was skewered by Fox News’ Gregg Jarrett yesterday on about his own earmarks in the upcoming Omnibus [...]
There's a must read article in The Iowa Republican regarding liberal Roxanne Conlin, who hopes to win the Democrat nomination for U.S. Senate and oppose Senator Chuck Grassley.
Conlin Proves She is Good At Spending Other People's Money
It should come as no surprise. A few weeks after announcing that she is a [...]
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said an agreement by Democrats to drop a government-run health insurance provision from a comprehensive reform bill would do little to change his opposition to the Senate bill.
Grassley said the agreement announced Tuesday to abandon the so-called public option would continue to overburden Medicare by expanding [...]
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has signed on to an amendment to health reform legislation that would make it legal for U.S. consumers to buy prescription drugs from other countries.
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa (Lauren Victoria Burke/WDCPIX.COM)
“I’ve always considered [...]
Yesterday, it was Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., citing “Climategate” as reason to doubt the legitimacy of the EPA’s recent finding that greenhouse emissions threaten public health. Today it’s Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, offering the same critique. In a call with reporters, Grassley said Congress never intended for the [...]
The focus of Roxanne Conlin’s campaign for the United States Senate is pretty simple. First, take on special interests groups and political action committees that have too much influence in American politics. Second, remind people that her opponent Senator Chuck Grassley has held elected office for over [...]
Iowa Should Lead on Banning Nuclear Weapons Testing
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is no stranger to unwanted attention, and he has just earned himself another round of it.
After admitting on live television that he has “lived off the public tit” for decades as a member of congress, he attracted the attention of several satirical Web sites.
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said did not agree with his Oklahoma colleague Tom Coburn’s comment Tuesday that Medicare cuts proposed in the Senate health care bill would lead to earlier death for seniors.
But Grassley stopped well short of criticizing his fellow Republican, attributing the comment to a debate environment
that [...]
On Tuesday, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, who wears his Iowa farmer status on his sleeve, let loose again with a barnyard reference similar to one he used in March.
As a guest on C-SPAN’s Morning Journal, the Republican was answering the question of a caller on the cable television public affairs [...]
Although it might be difficult to imagine talk of potential health care reform and climate change legislation getting bumped from the nation’s front pages, the foundation for the next partisan cage match is already being built — and Iowa’s own U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is getting in on the ground [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senator Chuck Grassley said today that he’s asked for information from the Joint Committee on Taxation about which taxpayers would be impacted by the Medicare payroll tax increase in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009.
“If Democratic leaders want to increase [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senator Chuck Grassley today is urging the U.S. Attorney General to fully answer questions about conflicts of interest in detainee policies at the Justice Department. Grassley asked the questions at a November 18 Justice Department oversight hearing.
During the hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric [...]
It was inevitable that conservatives would attack the Senate health care reform legislation over the proposed 0.5 percent hike in Medicare’s payroll tax for the country’s highest earners. Now they’re drilling down into the specifics.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has asked the Joint [...]
One 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 Grassley that the senior senator has accepted millions from “the [...]
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.
“This proposal is another big government spending plan, and after the bailouts for Wall Street [...]
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley opposed the procedural measure in the Senate to allow a health care proposal to advance, although the position mattered little in light of majority Democrats’ unified stance.
Grassley, a senior Republican and ranking member of the finance committee, said he opposed the Senate bill that combines his [...]
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