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Charles Grassley stories: 48 news summaries

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(Newser) - Reasoned debate is all well and good, but the more than 300 amendments offered to the health care reform bill by finance committee Republicans are “dangerously close to a parody,” Dana Milbank writes. Or maybe they’re already there. Take Orrin Hatch’s request for “transition relief... More »

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UPDATED

 Public Option Fails 
 in Finance Committee 

Ball's in Reid's court

Sep 29, 09 3:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate Finance Committee voted down both proposed versions of the public option this afternoon, setting up a showdown between conservative Democrats—who sided with Republicans in opposing the creation of a government plan to compete with private insurers—and their liberal colleagues. Jay Rockefeller's amendment failed, 15-8, shortly before... More »

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Charles Schumer • Senate Finance Committee • Charles Grassley • health care reform • Jay Rockefeller • Max Baucus • public option

(Newser) - Well, this should zip right along: Members of both parties on the Senate Finance Committee have drafted no fewer than 564 amendments to be considered when the panel takes up chairman Max Baucus' health care bill next week, reports Bloomberg. Expect to hear the phrases "public option"—Democrat... More »

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Congress • John Kerry • Senate Finance Committee • Charles Grassley • health care reform • Max Baucus • amendment

(Newser) - Max Baucus took to the Wall Street Journal opinion page today to make the case for the health care reform bill he’s unveiling this morning. “Our plan would lower costs and would not add to the federal deficit,” he declares in the first of many statements... More »

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John Kerry • Olympia Snowe • Senate Finance Committee • Charles Grassley • health care reform • Jay Rockefeller • Max Baucus • Ron Wyden • Mike Enzi

Baucus to Push for Bipartisan Health Bill

'Gang of six' chair will test whether GOP
has any interest

Sep 4, 09 4:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Democratic Senator Max Baucus said today he will test the waters of bipartisanship in health care reform, the New York Times reports. After a month of angry nationwide debate, the Senate Finance Committee chair plans to present the bipartisan group of six with a formal health proposal as early as... More »

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health care • Senate Finance Committee • Charles Grassley • health care reform • Max Baucus • conference call • Mike Enzi

Health Reform
'Gang of Six'
at Death's Door

Bipartisan effort has devolved into sniping, members showboating

Sep 1, 09 9:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The bipartisan “Gang of Six” lawmakers working on health care reform looks like history, Ezra Klein reports in the Washington Post. Yesterday, the White House slammed one of the group’s members, Sen. Mike Enzi, after he trashed the Democratic plan for "making the economy sicker without saving... More »

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White House • rationing • Charles Grassley • health care reform • Max Baucus • bipartisan • Mike Enzi

analysis

'Pull the Plug on Grandma'? That's GOP Policy

Republicans, not Obama, willing to let elderly die off: Weisberg

Aug 30, 09 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chuck Grassley’s warning that Obamacare will “pull the plug on Grandma” has become a rallying cry for the GOP’s anti–health reform efforts. But looking at past policies, it’s the GOP that's out to get grandma, Jacob Weisberg writes in Newsweek. A wide range of Republican... More »

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Clean Air Act • GOP • humor • Charles Grassley • health care reform • Social Security • estate tax • George W. Bush

(Newser) - Chuck Grassley, the leading Republican senator negotiating health care reform, said yesterday that Congress should pass a substantially narrower bill in the face of town hall anger. The Iowa legislator said baying crowds at public meetings had convinced him that the public has rejected "a government takeover of health... More »

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health care • Senate Finance Committee • Charles Grassley • health care reform • town hall meeting • bipartisanship

(Newser) - With the GOP line against President Obama's health care plan hardening, Dems see little hope of cooperation and are now poised to set out on their own, drawing a final plan solely from within their own party, the New York Times reports. The White House will still face the challenge... More »

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Jon Kyl • Rahm Emanuel • Charles Grassley • health care reform • President Obama • health care cooperative

 Senators Tweet It Out 
 Over 'Death Panels' 

Specter accuses Grassley of spreading false info

Aug 14, 09 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Arlen Specter and Chuck Grassley engaged in a very 21st-century sniping match today, ABC's Jake Tapper reports. The 79-year-old Pennsylvania Democrat took to Twitter to accuse the 75-year-old Iowa Republican of spreading "myths about health care reform and imaginary ‘death panels.' " He was referring to comments... More »

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health care • social networking • Iowa • Senate • Arlen Specter • Pennsylvania • Charles Grassley • health care reform • medical care • Twitter • death panel

analysis

 GOP Backed 
 'Death Panels' 
 ...in 2003 

End-of-life counseling provided in Medicare bill

Aug 14, 09 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - They’re up in arms against it now, but Republicans voted for a measure providing end-of-life counseling in 2003, Amy Sullivan writes for Time. That year’s Medicare prescription drug bill, which boasted support from 204 GOP representatives and 42 senators, offered funding for “counseling the beneficiary with respect... More »

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health care • Congress • Senate Republicans • Charles Grassley • health care reform • medical care • House Republicans • Congressional Republicans • death panel • end-of-life care

White House Pushes Against Reform 'Myths'

Grassley says death panel language gone from Senate bill

Aug 13, 09 5:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - The White House has chosen to fight fire with fire in its battle for health care reform, the Washington Post reports. An email from David Axelrod posted on the White House web site expresses bafflement at the "lies and distortions" of opponents. Axelrod, whose email went up after... More »

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Congress • Senate • White House • Charles Grassley • health care reform • David Axelrod • Obama administration • President Obama

(Newser) - Put Sen. Chuck Grassley in the fear-the-death-panels camp. Asked today at a town hall meeting to debunk that line of attack, Grassley did precisely the opposite, reports the Iowa Independent. "You have every right to fear," said Grassley—who, by the way, is one of three Republicans negotiating... More »

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Iowa • Charles Grassley • health care reform • town hall meeting • senator • death panel • deathers

(Newser) - Senate Republicans locked arms against Sonia Sotomayor yesterday … or would have, if they’d bothered to stay for the Judiciary Committee’s vote. Instead, half ducked out, leaving Jeff Sessions to repeat “No by proxy,” over and over, writes Dana Milbank in the Washington Post. It was... More »

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Samuel Alito • John Roberts • Senate Judiciary Committee • Jeff Sessions • partisanship • Orrin Hatch • Charles Grassley • Senate confirmation hearings • Lindsey Graham • confirmation hearings • US Supreme Court • Dana Milbank • Sonia Sotomayor

ANALYSIS

Power Meets Prayer at DC 'Family' House

C Street House members believe they 'transcend morality'

Jul 21, 09 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The C Street House, the Capitol Hill religious enclave that Mark Sanford, John Ensign, and Chip Pickering have in common, is more than a residence that happened to shelter three lawmakers involved in recent sex scandals, writes Jeff Sharlet in Salon. "If sexual license was all the Family offered... More »

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sex scandal • religion • Charles Grassley • Tom Coburn • Chip Pickering • John Ensign • Washington, DC • Mark Sanford • Jim DeMint • C Street • C Street House

 10 Who Can Make or 
 Break Health Reform 

Who to watch as debate rages on Capitol Hill

Jul 17, 09 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - As health care talk heats up in Washington, Mark Halperin of Time lists the key players to watch:
  • Sen. Max Baucus is trying to wring out as much GOP support as possible on his finance panel.
  • White House health czar Nancy-Ann DeParle has been winning concessions from the
... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Henry Waxman • Harry Reid • Olympia Snowe • Rahm Emanuel • Charles Grassley • health care reform • Max Baucus • Peter Orszag • Douglas Elmendorf • Nancy-Anne DeParle • Karen Ignagni

Republicans Don't Want 'Help' From Palin

Lawmakers facing tough 2010 battles think she'd hurt them

Jul 10, 09 2:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin may not spend much of her newfound free time campaigning: Many GOP lawmakers facing tough 2010 contests don't want to be associated with the soon-to-be-ex-governor, who they fear will galvanize liberals, the Hill reports. One anonymous Republican said that if Palin came to his district, his opponent would... More »

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Alaska • resignation • Charles Grassley • campaign fundraising • House Republicans • Sarah Palin • fundraising • Election 2010 • Republicans • Republican governor

(Newser) - Democrats in Congress are heading for an intra-party showdown over how to fund health care reform, reports the New York Times. The powerful House Ways and Means Committee is reportedly near agreement on an income tax surcharge of 2% or more on Americans earning above $250,000, which moderate Democrats... More »

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income tax • Senate Democrats • Charles Grassley • surcharge • health care reform • Max Baucus • House Democrats • federal income tax • Blue Dog Democrats

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP



 Biden: 'Real 
 Doubts' About 
 Iran Poll Results 

Elsewhere, officials spar over pending health care proposals

Jun 14, 09 11:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vice President Joe Biden this morning expressed “some real doubt” that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad legitimately won re-election in Iran, Politico reports. “There’s an awful lot of questions about how this election was run,” he told Meet the Press. On health care, Biden reiterated President Obama’s reluctance... More »

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Iran • Joe Biden • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Chris Dodd • Charles Grassley • talk show • health care reform • Kathleen Sebelius • benefits • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi

 GOP Senator Blasts 
 Obama on Twitter  

Grassley angered by health care comment

Jun 8, 09 2:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. Chuck Grassley slammed the president in angry Twitter messages yesterday, saying Barack Obama has "nerve" for declaring "it's time to deliver" on health care while vacationing in Paris. Grassley is a crucial Republican ally on health care reform, which Obama has said needs bipartisan support. But Obama's... More »

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Charles Grassley • health care reform • Twitter • D-Day • President Obama

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