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Health care reform backers won a key victory Saturday night as the Senate voted to move ahead with a floor debate on a sweeping $848 billion bill.

Senator Chuck Grassley looks down at the health care bill previously unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid while Senator Mike Enzi speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington November 20, 2009.

CHARLES GRASSLEY is a Republican who represents Iowa in the U.S. Senate.Contact: http://grassley.senate.gov/contact * November 21, 2009 The Nov.

Two congressional Republicans say federal prosecutors rushed into a settlement with a nonprofit operated by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson.

In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder attempted to defend his indefensible decision to provide Khalid Sheik Mohammad and four other 9/11 terrorists with all of the rights afforded to American citizens by putting them on trial in our federal court system -- mere blocks away from Ground Zero in New York City.

Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan's attacks against U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley are simply "insulting Iowans who disagree with the [Obama] administrationa s political decision to bring terrorists to the United States," an aide to the senator told the Iowa Independent Thursday.

By Ken Terry Just as the Senate's reform legislation was about to be unveiled, Sen.

Earlier today, Sam Stein reported on Senator Chuck Grassley , taking a new approach to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed terror-trial fearmongering by raising the specter of O.J. Simpson.

Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that "failure is not an option" in the prosecution of accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a New York City courtroom.

President Barack Obama's choice for a top job in the Treasury Department did not disclose all of her late tax payments until she was repeatedly prodded by Senate investigators, a congressional report issued Wednesday said.

The senior Republicans on three of the Senate's four infrastructure-centric committees signed a bipartisan letter on Tuesday asking the leaders of Congress' upper chamber to call up a six-month extension of the 2005 transportation law .

More than 15 million taxpayers may owe the government $250 or more because of how the IRS last spring set up President Barack Obama's tax break that was designed to help consumers spend the U.S. economy out of recession.

U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said he missed his son's wedding to vote against the health care bill on Nov.

Chuck " I'm no nail " Grassley has a serious Democratic challenger. Former US Attorney Roxanne Conlin officially announced her run yesterday.

Our criminal justice system is in dire need of reform. The United States has 5 percent of the world's population, but houses 25 percent of the world's prisoners.

Ah, what a dramatic moment it was when Maddie turned up on the U.S. House floor, opposing the health care bill.

Posted on Nov 12, 2009 by David DeWitte . Iowa-based emissions of the greenhouse gas most to blame for climate change grew at a much faster rate than the national average from 1990 to 2007, an environmental group said Thursday.

For years, congressmen from Iowa and other smaller, rural states attempting to rectify disparities in Medicare reimbursements to hospitals and physicians struggled to make themselves heard by congressmen from the larger, better-paid states.

Tim Pawlenty insists that his political focus is on the upcoming 2010 election. But some Iowa Republicans are thinking of Pawlenty in terms of 2012.

Roxanne Conlin made her candidacy for U.S. Senate official today, releasing this two-minute video : Conlin narrates the video herself, and it's mostly a biographical piece.