While he understands why Democrats in the Senate made the changes they have to health care reform legislation, including dropping the public option, U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, said their version of the bill is unlikely to pass in the House.
In an interview with Des Moines Register columnist [...]
The daily drama surrounding health care legislation in the Senate will be forgotten as long as Congress passes a bill, Sen. Tom Harkin said today.
“Mark my words, decades from now people will not remember the twists and turns of debate on health care reform in 2009,”Harkin told reporters today. “What [...]
Provisions of the federal economic recovery legislation passed earlier this year are protecting an estimated 40,000 Iowans from living in poverty, according to a new report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
The nonpartisan Washington, D.C.,-based research and policy institute found that the American Recovery and Reinvestment [...]
Even if a version of health care reform legislation in the U.S. Senate does not include a public option or a Medicare expansion, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said it still has enough positive attributes to garner his support.
Liberal blog Talking Points Memo caught Harkin on his [...]
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 [...]
The current use of the filibuster is not "traditional." This memo from December 1964 shows that no one [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Republican candidate for governor Bob Vander Plaats said today former Gov. Terry Branstad’s support of a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate helped pave the way for health care legislation that advanced in Congress Saturday.
Vander Plaats faulted Branstad, a Republican also running for governor, for endorsing and helping raise money for [...]
I’ve already written that the health care reform bill that Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) introduced includes tax increases, some of which, start in 2010, while the legislation’s answer to health care reform won’t start until 2014.
The Senate’s version of the health care reform includes a mandate [...]
…with roughly a quarter of the stimulus money out the door after nine months, the accumulation of hard data and real-life experience has allowed more dispassionate analysts to reach a consensus that the stimulus package, messy as it is, is working.
The legislation, a variety of economists [...]
U.S. Rep. Tom Latham has pledged to introduce legislation that would prevent the Obama administration from further considering a prison just across the Mississippi River from Clinton as a possible future home for detainees currently housed at a military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
“I have heard from so many Iowans over [...]
The Democratic National Committee announced today it will begin airing radio advertisements criticizing 32 Republicans in the U.S. House for voting against health care legislation this month, and Iowa’s Tom Latham is on the list.
Latham, an eight-term member from Ames, voted against the bill on Nov. 7 because, he said, [...]
