Chuck Grassley News Archives

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.

"It's all been about politics." The day after she became the only Republican in Congress to vote for a health care reform bill, U.S. Sen.

Why can't car makers install a device that disables cell phones when the car is running? Or do we think their right to blab on the phone is more important than our right to be safe on the road? We got along just fine without phones in our cars before.

"Pretty much everything's been said, and now it's time to get the job done," Sen.

Earlier this year, Alaska governor Sarah Palin claimed that the House health reform bill would create " death panels ." Even though this was thoroughly debunked , that didn't stop conservatives from repeating the false claim, including Sen.

Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley plans to oppose health care legislation in the Senate Finance Committee today, arguing that the bill hits consumers and small businesses too hard while not guarding against politically sensitive side effects.

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Sen. Olympia Snowe becomes first Republican to support a Dem health care bill. The Senate Finance Committee kicked off the debate today on Chairman Max Baucus' health care bill deeply divided across party lines.

When President Barack Obama made his speech on health-care reform before a joint session of Congress last month, he made one bold statement that led even some of his supporters to suspect that he might be dreaming.

Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley has introduced legislation designed to prevent inmates from using cell phones to commit crimes from inside federal prisons.

Rep. Eric Cantor, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Tom Coburn, and Rep. Jean Schmidt are among the Republicans the group has managed to undercut since the presidential election.

Since 1979, Sen. Olympia J. Snowe has been representing the interests of the people of Maine in the U.S. Congress.

It's getting late in the Senate Finance Committee's writing of a health-care bill, but not too late for Republicans last week to make one more valiant stand for the health insurance industry.

Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Article Date: 01 Oct 2009 - 5:00 PDT At the end of a long day of amendments to the Finance Committee's health bill, Sen.

A golf outing in West Virginia and a weekend getaway to Atlantic City, N.J., are just two of the trips taken this year by U.S. Rep.

Oct. 5, 2009 COMMENTARY: Chuck Grassley and the RINO Wing By Nathan Tabor There hasn't been a more controversial piece of Congressional and Senate legislation than the proposed health care program in my memory.

Americans need to prepare for the likelihood that more U.S. troops will be needed in Afghanistan and that they will be there many years, the former president of neighboring Pakistan said in Iowa Saturday.

Republicans and moderate Democrats won the first major battle over the so-called 'public option' in the health care reform war raging in Washington.

For months now, the President, Democrats in congress, and their media stooges have been telling us that government-run health care would not include funding for abortion.

Medicare recipients could see higher premiums for prescription drug coverage as a result of changes to complex provisions in a Senate health care bill, a senior Republican said Friday.

Dear Sam, One of the central ideas of The Death of Conservatism is that "American politics is a replenishing exercise in adjustment and accommodation." I tend to see successive waves of polarization as a more useful lens.

Senators Kent Conrad , Blanche Lincoln , Bill Nelson , Tom Carper and Committee Chair Max Baucus -- joined Republicans in voting against it.

Dangle some cash and a lot of people are happy to turn in their employers for cheating on their taxes.

Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley Skewed Article on Agriculture in TIME Magazine Tuesday, September 29, 2009 I rise today in response to Bryan Walsh's recent article published on August 31, 2009 in TIME Magazine titled " The Real Cost of Cheap Food ." Unfortunately this is one of the most skewed and one sided articles I've ever had ...