Chuck Grassley

GOP Senators Slam Judges For 'Island Paradise' Trip

Reuters | Posted 05.22.2012

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By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' upcoming conference on a Hawaiian island soun...

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Zach Wahls, Iowa Activist With Two Moms, Lobbies Congress To Support Families Like His

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- You may not recognize him by name, but Zach Wahls is known by millions as the teenager who gave powerful testimony to an Iowa House comm...

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'War On Women' Extends To Undocumented

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.05.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The House Republican version of the new Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) would dramatically roll back confidentiality protections for a...

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GOP Senator: Nothing's Changed 'If Heads Don't Roll'

Posted 04.28.2012

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A veteran Republican lawmaker says it's time for an inspector general's investigation to find how widespread the problems at the Se...

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Secret Service Scandal Touches Off Delicate Dance In Washington

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 04.24.2012

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WASHINGTON — The widening Secret Service prostitution scandal has touched off a delicate dance in Washington. From President Barack Obama on do...

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Chuck Grassley Digs Into Secret Service Scandal

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 04.21.2012

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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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Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right for Issa

Josh Horwitz | Posted 04.18.2012

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Why would a man in charge of an ostensibly independent, on-going investigation into the Obama administration appear before a special interest group that is openly hostile to our president and engage in a scathing attack on him, his attorney general and the Department of Justice?

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WATCH: Colbert Pays Tribute To Senator's Baffling Tweets

Posted 04.11.2012

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If you've ever seen Sen. Chuck Grassley's (R-IA) Twitter feed, you know that it's a confusing mess of Republican messages composed of abbreviations, I...

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

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 04.11.2012

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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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GOP Senator Hurls 'Stupid' Charge At Obama

The Huffington Post | Mollie Reilly | Posted 04.07.2012

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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) expressed his disapproval of the president's recent comments about the Supreme Court, apparently referring to Obama as "s...

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GOP Lawmaker Blasts History Channel For Lack Of History

The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 03.13.2012

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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), has been a bit despondent lately -- not about the economy or the war in Afghanistan, but about the lack of history on th...

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Bipartisan Senate Bill Combats Supreme Court's Age Discrimination Decision

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.13.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan Senate bill introduced on Tuesday would restore older workers' rights in the wake of a 2009 Supreme Court decision that mad...

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Asians and Latinos Question Scott Brown's Irish Immigration Bill

Erwin de Leon | Posted 04.25.2012

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The measure, dubbed the Irish immigration bill, would qualify Ireland for the E-3 visa program increasing the number of work visas allocated to the Irish by 10,500 per year. But why should the Irish get a special bill?

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Amanda Terkel Pokes Holes In Grassley's Argument

Posted 02.16.2012

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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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Violence Against Women Act Suddenly Partisan

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 02.16.2012

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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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House Passes Weakened Insider Trading Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A weakened version of the STOCK Act banning insider trading by members of Congress and the administration passed the House Thursday with...

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STOCK Act's Unintended Consequences May Invite Trouble

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The bill to ban insider trading by members of Congress may have unintended consequences, including possibly muzzling whistleblowers and ...

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First Convictions From Fast And Furious Gun Probe

AP | By JACQUES BILLEAUD | Posted 01.24.2012

PHOENIX -- Two men pleaded guilty to buying guns that were destined to be smuggled into Mexico, the first convictions in the federal government's botc...

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Senator's Twitter Account Gets Hacked

The Huffington Post | Meghan Neal | Posted 02.16.2012

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Internet activists took aim at Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Monday. The senator returned to Washington off a flight from Des Moines to find his Twi...

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SOPA BLACKOUT

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 01.20.2012

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Thousands of websites, including some of the most popular, are going dark today to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill which is designed to thw...

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Republicans Press Justice Dept On Legality Of Recess Appointments

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 01.06.2012

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WASHINGTON -- House and Senate Republicans fired off letters to the Justice Department on Friday demanding to know what role the agency played, if any...

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Time to Occupy the Internet Before It's Too Late

Bob Cesca | Posted 02.08.2012

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There's a cold war of attrition being fought for the right to own the Internet, its content and its technology, and you're losing.

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Holder Speaking On 'Fast And Furious'

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 02.07.2012

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers told Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday to fire some Justice Department subordinates over the flawed arm...

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Obama Hits Senate Republicans For 'Obstructionism'

AP | By LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 12.06.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked President Barack Obama's nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, partly as payback for...

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D.C. Circuit Nominee Caitlin Halligan -- A Model of Legal Restraint

Judith E. Schaeffer | Posted 02.02.2012

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One would think that conservative senators, who decry "judicial activism" and claim to revere judges who believe in legal restraint, would be lining up to urge that Caitlin Halligan be promptly confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Surprise of surprises, they haven't done so.

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