Charles Grassley

Painkiller Association Closes As Senate Launches Probe

ProPublica | Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Purdue Pharma, Charles Grassley, Johnson & Johnson, American Pain Society, Vicodin, The American Pain Foundation, Propublica, The Washington Post, Video, U.S. Senate Finance Committee, American Academy of Pain Medicine, Oxycontin, Prescription Drugs, Opana, Narcotics, Center for Practical Bioethics, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Business News

A version of this story was published in The Washington Post.As the U.S. Senate Finance Committee launched an investigation Tuesday into makers of nar...

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Internal Review Shows Gross Mishandling of Military Whistleblower Reprisal Investigations

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Corruption, Pentagon, US Military, Whistleblowers, Military, Charles Grassley, Retaliation, Military Whistleblowers, Politics News
Project On Government Oversight

We owe military whistleblowers every possible opportunity to safely expose wrongdoing, and this report shows that the system has let them down. It's imperative that we fix it.

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Chuck Grassley Digs Into Secret Service Scandal

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Secret Service Prostitution Scandal, White House, Secret Service Scandal, Video, Charles Grassley, Jay Carney, Chuck Grassley, Secret Service, Chuck Grassley Secret Service, Secret Service Incident, Secret Service Prostitution, Secret Service White House, Politics News

As the Secret Service prostitution scandal deepens, a top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee has engineered an inquiry into whether more ind...

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Amanda Terkel

Senate Debate On Violence Against Women Act Coming Soon

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Violence Against Women Act, Video, War on Women, Mitch McConnell, Vawa, Charles Grassley, Violence Against Women Act 2012, Vawa Reauthorization, Harry Reid, Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization, Vawa 2012, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Democrats are pushing to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act this week, with an event by Vice President Biden on Wednesday and Se...

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The "I'm Rubber, You're Glue" Gambit

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Name-Calling, Leadership, 112th Congress, Congress, Chuck Grassley, Charles Grassley, Chuck Grassley Twitter, Politics News
Robert J. Elisberg

Last week, Sen. Charles Grassley called President Obama stupid. If you're going to go out on a limb and call the President of the United States "stupid" -- especially one educated at Harvard -- you should be really careful about writing something like, "Bcause Am ppl r not stupid."

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FCC Sends Wireless Broadband Firm LightSquared Back to Square One

Corbin Hiar | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Fcc, Charles Grassley, Federal Communications Commission, Philip Falcone, Gps, Harbinger Capital Partners, Lightsquared, Fcc Lightsquared, Technology News
Corbin Hiar

Wireless broadband company LightSquared's fast-tracked approval process came to a screeching halt late Tuesday when the FCC decided to "indefinitely suspend" its conditional waiver to operate.

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Amanda Terkel Pokes Holes In Grassley's Argument

Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Politics News, Violence Against Women Act, Msnbc, Video, Vawa, Charles Grassley, Chuck Grassley, Amanda Terkel, Patrick Leahy, Senator Patrick Leahy, Mike Crapo, Joe Biden, Domestic Violence, Domestic Abuse, Politics News

Protecting women from domestic violence and abuse is one more issue dividing Democrats and Republicans, as The Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel pointed...

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Amanda Terkel

Violence Against Women Act Suddenly Partisan

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Biden, Violence Against Women Act, Video, Vawa, Charles Grassley, Chuck Grassley, Patrick Leahy, Senator Patrick Leahy, Mike Crapo, Joe Biden, Domestic Violence, Domestic Abuse, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Protecting women from violence and abuse has been an issue of bipartisan cooperation since President Clinton signed the landmark Violenc...

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Michael McAuliff

House GOP Introduces Insider Trading Bill But Strips Disclosure Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Video, Insider Trading Bill, Charles Grassley, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, Louise Slaughter, Spencer Bachus, Tim Walz, Barack Obama, Eric Cantor, STOCK Act, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Key provisions of the STOCK Act, the bill to bar insider trading by lawmakers, were removed in the latest version unveiled Wednesday in ...

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Army Probes Crime Lab Workers After Critical News Reports

McClatchy | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Army-Criminal-Investigation-Command, McClatchy Newspapers, Army, Charles Grassley, Patrick Leahy, Mcclatchy, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Stung by critical stories about their crime laboratory, officials at Army Criminal Investigation Command recently questioned lab employe...

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Paul Blumenthal

Auction 2012: How The Drug Industry Games Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Health Care Bill, Pay for Delay, Health Care for America Now, Auction 2012, Charles Grassley, Drug Industry, Lobbying, Medicare Part D, Olympia Snowe, Debbie Stabenow, Canada Drugs, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, Video, Pharmaceutical Industry, Prescription Drugs, Max Baucus, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Byron Dorgan, Health Care, Politics News

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. When he first ran for president, Barack Obama...

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Why Stop at Cameras in the Supreme Court?

Andrew Tucker Avorn | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Simon Cowell, Cameras in the Courtroom, Supreme Court, Tom Ford, Clarence Thomas, Twitter, Charles Grassley, John Roberts, Dick Durbin, Cameras, Citizens United, Comedy News
Andrew Tucker Avorn

The United State Congress is trying to force The Supreme Court to broadcast oral arguments on television. But why stop at cameras in the courtroom? Here are some other ideas to spruce up Supreme Court arguments.

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SEC Admits Some Docs From Preliminary Investigations Likely Tossed

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Sec, Securities and Exchange Documents, Sec Documents, Charles Grassley, Preliminary Investigations Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Sec Bernie Madoff, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission has acknowledged that some documents from preliminary investigations of major banks and conv...

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Tyler Kingkade

Iowa Democrats Slap At Activists For Town Hall Antics

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Town Hall Protest, Social Security, Charles Grassley, Iowa Democrats, Chuck Grassley, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, Grassley-Town-Halls, Progressive Activists, Iowa Cci, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Iowa Democratic Party is lashing out at one of the Hawkeye State's most politically active progressive groups, potentially alienatin...

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Grassley Demands Review of Veterans Dept Travel After News of $131,000 Commute

Corbin Hiar | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Fraud, Inspector General, Department of Veterans Affairs, Senate Judiciary Committee, Charles Grassley, Chuck Grassley, George Opfer, Official Travel, Politics News
Corbin Hiar

Iowa Republican and longtime government watchdog Sen. Charles Grassley on Thursday demanded a review of $80 million spent on travel last year by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Iowa Senator Questions Education Department's Ties To Hedge Funds

The New York Times | BEN PROTESS | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Senator Charles Grassley, US Department of Education, Education, Tom Coburn, Arne Duncan, Department of Education, Charles Grassley, Education Department, Hedge Funds, Federal Communications Commission, Steve Eisman, Joseph Lieberman, Securities and Exchange Commission, For-Profit Colleges, Education News

Senator Charles E. Grassley is examining whether Education Department officials disclosed confidential government information to hedge fund managers, ...

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Make Churches Accountable

Roy Speckhardt | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Church Scandal, Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, Irs, Charles Grassley, Televangelists, Oral Roberts, Politics News
Roy Speckhardt

From Ted Haggard to Eddie Long, American church empires are no strangers to corruption. But while sex scandals are splashed across the headlines, tax code infringements and financial scandals more frequently fly under the radar.

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Senator Investigates Suspicious Trading By Hedge Fund SAC Capital

AP | By PAUL WISEMAN | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Raj Rajaratnam, Donald Longueuil, Senator Owa, Charles Grassley, Stamford, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Suspicious Trading, Hedge Fund, SAC Capital, Steven Cohen, Business News

-- Republican Sen. Charles Grassley is investigating about 20 instances of suspicious trading by the hedge fund SAC Capital, a spokesman for the sena...

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Steve Cohen's SAC Capital Investigated For Possible Insider Trading

Posted 07.21.2011

Read More: Insider Trading, Steve Cohen, Raj Rajaratnam, Charles Grassley, Senate Judiciary Committee, Hedge Funds, Economic Crisis, Business News, SAC Capital, Business News

CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Ann Saphir and Matthew Goldstein) - A powerful Republican lawmaker is investigating possible insider trading at SAC Capital Advi...

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'SEC's Revolving Door Seems To Be More Active Than Ever"

Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Revolving Door, Project on Government Oversight, Securities and Exchange Commission, Charles Grassley, Senate Finance Committee, Wall Street, Financial Indsutry, Private Sector, SEC Employees, Business News

WASHINGTON (Tim Reid) - At least 219 former officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission have left since 2006 to help clients with business...

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Small Farms and the Farm Subsidies Scandal

Daniel Krotz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Farms, Charles Grassley, Fruit and Vegetable Subsidies, John Thune, Tom Harkin, Daniel Krotz, Berryville Arkansas, Booksellers, Farm Subsidies, Ethanol, Berryville, Food News
Daniel Krotz

From 1995 to 2009, taxpayers shelled out nearly a quarter-trillion dollars in farm subsidies. But while ten percent of farmers received 74% of this money, 62% of American farmers got no subsidy at all.

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Amanda Terkel

Embattled Afghan Watchdog Resigns As Calls For Oversight Grow

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stuart Bowen, John Tierney, Charles Grassley, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Corruption, Arnold Fields, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Susan Collins, Tom Coburn, Chuck Grassley, Afghanistan Oversight, Sigar, Jason Chaffetz, Claire McCaskill, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Arnold Fields, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, stepped down Monday amid widespread congressional dissatisf...

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2010 Midterm Election Twitter Gaffes And Laughs

TylerKingkade | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator Charles Grassley, Snooki, John McCain, Twittering, Twitter, Charles Grassley, Sarah Palin, Slidepollajax, Twitter Gaffes, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Politics News
TylerKingkade

In 2010, use of Twitter, Facebook, and various other social media platforms are de rigeur for elected officials. That doesn't mean, however, that they...

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Amanda Terkel

Lawmakers Speak Out In Defense Of The Minimum Wage

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2010 Elections, Linda McMahon, Charles Grassley, Minimum Wage, John Raese, Chuck Grassley, George Miller, Jim Demint, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Miller, Elections 2010, Politics News

Rep. George Miller (D-Cali.), who led the effort in Congress to raise the minimum wage in 2007, is taking issue with Republican candidates' recent sta...

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High Tech Republicans In Your Pocket

TylerKingkade | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, Terry Branstad, Charles Grassley, Campaign, Apps, Michelle Bachman, 2010 Elections, President Obama, Elections 2010, Home News
TylerKingkade

In 2008, there was a stark difference between Democratic and Republican technological aptitude, most forcibly represented when Sen. John McCain (R-Ari...

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