Republicans dismissing as inaccurate the Congressional Budget Office’s cost analysis of the Democrats’ health care reform bills seem to have forgotten history.
In 2004 — amid controversy over the Bush administration’s efforts to bury unflattering cost estimates of the Republican’s More…
It’s not just Alberto Gonzales. Adam Serwer talks to John Bellinger, who served as Condoleezza Rice’s legal adviser at the State Department and the National Security Council, about the Grassley/Sessions/Cheneyite smears on the Justice Department lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees:
“I think it’s unfortunate that these individuals are
A few weeks ago, Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the leaders of the Senate Finance Committee, came together in rare bipartisan fashion to propose an $85 billion bill designed to tackle the nation’s employment crisis.
Don’t expect the same cooperation surrounding the latest jobs proposal.
With health care reform on the back burner following Republican Scott Brown’s Senate win in Massachusetts last month, more and more Republicans are predicting that that’s where it will remain unless Democrats agree to scrap the existing bill in favor of something bipartisan. Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior More…
That’s the question being asked around the country today in response to the $85 billion proposal presented Thursday by Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the leaders of the Finance Committee. Although immediately rejected by Democratic leadership, the draft bill provides a sense of what conservatives More…
The latest draft — but perhaps not the final version — of a Senate jobs bill was released this morning by Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the leaders of the Finance Committee, who are hoping to tackle the nation’s 9.7 percent unemployment rate.
Wish them luck.
Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Finance Committee, told reporters today that he will oppose Ben Bernanke’s bid for a second term atop the Federal Reserve, citing “concerns about inflation and the pattern of resistance to accountability.”
We need a chairman focused on a strong dollar and low
Earlier in the month, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) had some questions for the administration about just how it happened that a top AIG lawyer was given millions of dollars in severance after she quit the bailed-out company in lieu of accepting a pay cut.
Yesterday, Grassley was at More…
As Wall Street prepares to dole out billions of dollars in 2009 bonuses, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has his eyes on one particular payment of $2.8 million. That’s the amount reportedly paid to Anastasia Kelly, AIG’s general council, who resigned abruptly on Dec. 30 More…
Yesterday, reports emerged that liberal Democrats won’t push too hard to assist illegal immigrants under health care reform as long as the White House commits this year to separate immigration reform complete with a plan to provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already in More…
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