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" Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty delivered a tough critique of the Obama administration and a Congress he said is dramatically off course in the keynote speech at an Iowa GOP fundraiser Saturday night.

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty criticized health care legislation in Congress as he appeared in what may be an early audition for a 2012 presidential bid.

An aide said Friday lawyer Roxanne Conlin intends to seek the Democratic nomination for Senate in 2010 and the right to oppose Republican Sen.

People are worried about their parents, their chilren, and themselves. Now, other members of the family could be in danger of getting the H1N1 virus.

There've been two news items this week that have shown us one of the uglier aspects of the drug war - attempts to censor science and expert opinion in order to maintain the status quo.

As a candidate and President, Barack Obama has had one core message for the middle class: I won't raise your taxes.

Attention has been focused on Governor Chet Culver's plans to cut $565 million from the state's budget, but legislators say they'll probably have to make an equally large cut to the following year's budget.

Senator Chuck Grassley said today that the U.S. Department of Transportation has announced that the Southeast Iowa Regional Airport in Burlington will be getting a new carrier and flight destinations.

When questioned last week by The Chronicle, the National Institutes of Health declined to comment on the cases of 14 university-affiliated physicians who took money from the drug maker Merck as part of the company's plan to promote its controversial anti-cholesterol drug Vytorin.

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, of Iowa, may face a primary challenge from a northwest Iowa man, who says his platform would be to legalize marijuana.

Does health care legislation really shut the door on coverage for illegal immigrants? This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," October 22, 2009.

Sunday's Washington Post will feature a column 5 myths about Wall Street pay days by Professor Roy Smith.

Roxanne Conlin's entry into the race for the Democratic Senate nomination may excite the party's Des Moines powerbrokers, but not the party base, according to a pair of candidates she is joining on the campaign trail.

Changes that will reward Iowa providers of low-cost, high-quality Medicare services have been included in the final legislative language of a health-care reform bill the U.S. House is expected to vote on this fall.

Rep. Anthony Weiner's office today released an internal study showing that 151 members of Congress "currently receive government-funded; government-administered single-payer health care - Medicare." Of those 151 members, 55 are Republicans who also happen to be " steadfastly opposed [to] other Americans getting the public option, like the one they ...

The decision this week by the U.S. Justice Department not to prosecute people using, prescribing or distributing marijuana in states where it is legal is a step towards legitimizing drug use, U.S. Sen.

Democratic senators and a coalition of interest groups are pushing for a so-called "doctor fix" -- a 10-year $247 billion measure to block a planned 20 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement fees to doctors mandated by a 1997 federal law.

Grassley, speaking at the 2009 Reuters Washington Summit on Monday, says the legislation has moved "more leftward" and the "rug has been pulled out from under the bipartisan negotiations." Speaker: Sen.

U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have introduced legislation that would make it easier for consumers to take advantage of a tax break in the stimulus package intended to encourage the purchase and manufacture of energy-efficient doors, windows, and skylights, according to a news release.

That is why the issue of the public option, a less expensive government-run insurance plan, has been so central to both the policy and political debates.