BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
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 [...]
PA Pundits (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
By Peter Cohn Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) Senate Finance ranking member Charles Grassley took a swipe today (Fri) at the White House and congressional Democrats for not taking nominees’ tax troubles seriously enough. “The bar has definitely been lowered with this administration’s nominees, in regard to tax compliance,” Grassley said at the...
Covering Health (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Sen/ Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) continues his investigation of "medical ghostwriting" with a letter to 10 medical schools asking "what they are doing about professors who put their names on ghostwritten articles in medical journals — and why that practice was any different from plagiarism by students." [caption id="attachment_696" align="alignright"...
Later On (Free subscription) | yesterday
Those fiscally responsible, deficit-hawk Republicans—where are they? Where were they for the 8 years of George W. Bush? Still missing. Mike Lillis in the Washington Independent: Here’s an interesting response from Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Finance Committee, when asked by a reporter this morning whether Congress intends to pay for the wars [...]...
ImmigrationProf Blog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Republican Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) and many other Republicans released letter contesting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's speech supporting comprehensive immigration reform at the Center for American Progress. see a critique of...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... To address this national crisis of untested rape kit backlogs, Representatives Al Franken (D-MN), Charles Grassley (R-IA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) have introduced the Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault Act of 2009 . As it happens, this is not the first time that Congress has tried to address this crisis. In 2004, Congress passed the Debbie Smith Act ,...
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... sugarcane industry, predicts that sugarcane could supply 15 percent of the power by 2017.” Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa: “ I think Congress has to get involved if they don’t do it [approve blends up to E15] because we’re up against an E10 stone wall and we have to cross that wall or we’re not going to keep the [renewable fuel standard] mandates that are already in the law. And...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
A few weeks ago, I noted that Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) had introduced an amendment that would prohibit the National Criminal Justice Commission proposed by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) from considering changes to the drug laws. The amendment (PDF) says "the Commission shall have no authority to make findings related to current Federal, State, and local criminal justice policies and...
The Sundries Shack (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
You know the old saying that it’s not the crime that really gets you, but the cover-up? I’ve a feeling that someone should have hipped the Obama administration to that a couple of months ago. Just hours after Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa released a report Friday on their investigation into the abrupt firing [...]
The Roar - the news that matters (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
There seems stricter H-1B restrictions are in the offing for IT firms. According to a report, two senators Bernie Sanders and Charles Grassley, have introduced legislation that would bar any company that lays off 50 or more workers from hiring guest workers. The legislation could potentially affect a large number of technology firms that have laid [...]
Libertyblog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Byron York: Just hours after Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa released a report Friday on their investigation into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin, the Obama White House gave the lawmakers a trove of new,...
Seaspook's Rants (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... Obama, The Washington Examiner has learned. The charges are contained in a report prepared by Sen. Charles Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, and Rep. Darrell Issa, ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The investigation began after the AmeriCorps inspector general, Gerald Walpin, received reports that Johnson...
neo-neocon (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Byron York continues on the Walpin case, even if hardly anyone else is paying attention (something the Obama administration is banking on). York writes that, just a few hours after Senator Charles Grassley and Representative Darrell Issa had presented a report on their investigation into the Walpin firing, the White House released previously-withheld documents [...]
Sister Toldjah (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Byron York reports on some potentially explosive information that came out of a WH document drop on Friday afternoon on the politically motivated firing of Americorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin, who the admin tried to paint as senile and unfit for office after the news of his firing was revealed: Just hours after Sen. Charles Grassley [...]
Macsmind - News, Conservative Comme (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Byron York who has done the job the MSM won't do, on the illegal firing of Americorps IG Gerald Walpin has found . "Just hours after Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa released a report Friday on their investigation into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin, the Obama White House gave the lawmakers a trove of new, previously-withheld documents...
