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 [...]
Des Moines trial lawyer Roxanne Conlin portrayed Republican Sen. Charles Grassley this evening as beholden to special interests and appealed to a crowd of about 200 party activists to lend their time and dollars to her campaign to oust him.
She noted that Grassley, a five-term senator, has served in public [...]
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 [...]
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 speech is below the comment.
“This proposal is another big government [...]
A report Tuesday showed the obesity rate for Americans hanging (like a gut) again in the low-30s percent, while pointing to the rate climbing to 43 percent by 2018. Obesity is measured at 30 pounds above a healthy weight, and if it rises [...]
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 to the senator told the Iowa Independent Thursday.
Jill Kozeny, communications director for Grassley, was responding to an [...]
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s comparison of civilian trials for terrorists to the murder trial of O.J. Simpson is “false and disrespectful,” Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan said Thursday.
While questioning Attorney General Eric Holder about the idea of prosecuting five men accused as co-conspirators in the Sept. 11 attacks [...]
The question of possibly housing Guantanamo Bay detainees at a prison facility on the Iowa-Illinois border isn’t something that deserves consideration, according to U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, who said today that he opposes such individuals ever entering the country.
When asked if the detainees would put Iowa residents in danger, Grassley [...]
Critics of the massive immigration raid in Postville and the subsequent judicial fast-tracking of detained immigrants on criminal charges have been widely expressing their concerns about Stephanie Rose, the U.S. Attorney nominee for the Northern District of Iowa who took part in the legal proceedings. While U.S. Sen. [...]
Word that the federal government may buy the empty Thomson Correctional Center in western Illinois to house suspected terrorists now housed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has stirred concern among Americans. Some are also chapped at the fact that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder also plans civilian court trials for the [...]
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said today Iowans would be afraid to have terrorism suspects housed in a federal prison in Illinois across the Mississippie River from Clinton, Iowa.
“I oppose them even coming to the United States,” the Iowa Republican said during a conference call with Iowa reporters.
Grassley opposes closing the [...]
Grassley's 57 percent approval figure [...]
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley urged President Obama to act soon to grant Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s request for roughly 40,000 additional troops to the war in Afghanistan.
The Iowa Republican also noted that U.S. troops were dying as Obama deliberated and met with military advisers before making a decision.
“Based on the president’s [...]
Up and down the ballot, Republicans have favorable matchups in next fall’s general elections. The top of Republican ballot will feature U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley and a gubernatorial candidate who will emerge from a hard fought primary to face the unpopular and weak incumbent governor, Chet Culver.
While [...]
Even if Democrats manage to pass health reform legislation, if it contains an individual mandate it could prove unconstitutional, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Thursday.
During an interview with KAYL radio in Storm Lake and the Marshalltown Times Republican, Grassley said that even though he’s never studied law and is [...]
U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Tom Harkin bridged the great political divide today to issue similar statements praising and honoring America’s veterans.
Grassley’s official statement:
America’s veterans put their lives on the line to defend freedom, protect national security and secure the safety of loved ones at home.
It’s important on Veterans [...]
Charles Grassley thinks the White House pulled the trigger too quickly when it fired inspector general Gerald Walpin over allegations involving misuse of federal funds, according to Politico.
A federal investigation has cleared Walpin. Grassley has spent a good deal of his time in the Senate on investigations of federal [...]
By Emily Geiger
Roxanne the Rape Enabler Makes it Official
Sen. Chuck Grassley officially has another opponent. That makes three democrats who want to challenge Iowa’s senior Senator.
But only one is a multi-millionaire trial lawyer, tax evader, drunk driver, and rape enabler.
I’ll give you one guess [...]
By U.S. 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, people seemed to divide along the lines of [...]
The three-day gap in posts here is due to a long weekend in Cedar Falls. Had a good time — and had a political connection when watching University of Northern Iowa Panther volleyball. In walked U. S. Sen. Charles Grassley, who goes to a lot of volleyball, in part to [...]
DES MOINES – Des Moines lawyer and Democrat Roxanne Conlin officially filed papers today to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Chuck Grassley.
Conlin, 65, is a well-known Democratic activist who was the party’s nominee for governor in 1982. That year she became the first woman [...]
Veteran politicians say election victories come by winning over one voter at a time. Five-term U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley apparently likes to start the process early.
A Norman Rockwell-like scene unfolded at the Borders bookstore in West Des Moines Sunday night when a 10-year-old girl asked the senator what it was [...]
A busy day of appearances for Sen. Charles Grassley on Sunday yielded only one request that he vote for health-reform legislation that’s similar to what was approved by the House Saturday night, he said.
Grassley was at the Borders in West Des Moines Sunday evening for Mike Huckabee’s book-signing event. The [...]
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.
“The campaign now on hhs.gov is not purely informational because it expressly has visitors [...]
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