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Fighting climate change should be done by international agreements and not with legislation currently being weighed in the U.S. Senate, Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley told reporters Tuesday.
“Otherwise we’re going to lose all of our manufacturing — or manufacturing jobs — to China because it’ll be cheaper for our manufacturing to go over there than to [...]

Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley is taking heat from campaign finance watchdogs for hosting a fundraiser Monday night with lobbyists and a political action committee representing the mortgage, insurance and financial industries.
The problem, critics say, is that Grassley recently backed those industries in his opposition to legislation allowing judges to renegotiate mortgages.

Despite a recent flap over a post on the social networking site Twitter criticizing the president for a comment on health care, Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley said he will keep on using the site to communicate with his constituents.
“I’ve tried to use every latest technology to keep in touch with constituents. Representative government is a [...]

Speaking at a labor rally this weekend, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter voiced support for the Employee Free Choice Act, a turn of events that could revive the hopes of a bill many felt was doomed.
The legislation, which is sponsored by Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, makes it easier for labor unions to organize. Iowa Republican Sen. [...]

President Barack Obama’s meetings Tuesday afternoon with Democratic members of the two Senate committees writing health care bills has Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley nervous that Republican concerns are going to be ignored.
“Today, we’ve reached a fork in the road”, Grassley said. “The president this very day, this afternoon can make a very big difference” on [...]

Discussing health care reform with reporters, Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley pointed to an annual report released Wednesday on Medicare’s financial situation to argue against a government-run health system.
But Robert Reich, secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton and professor at the University of California at Berkeley, says Medicare’s fiscal problems are actually a big reason [...]

Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley is cosponsoring a bill that would amend the U.S. Constitution to prohibit the physical desecration of the American flag.
“No other image depicts as clearly the freedoms and ideals of our country than the American flag.  It’s the symbol our men and women in uniform have fought for over 200 years,” Grassley [...]

Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley plans to oppose Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services, citing her ties to a doctor who performs late-term abortions.
“I expressed my concern last week about her connection to the abortion doctor,” he said. “Not so much just the connection, but the lack of [...]

Conservatives in Iowa would be “incensed” if they were paying more attention to how far to the left U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley has drifted, a leading voice in the state’s social conservative movement told Radio Iowa’s O.Kay Henderson.
Bill Salier, who ran unsuccessfully for the right to challenge U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin in 2002 and [...]

Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, received a near perfect score on the American Conservative Union’s annual rankings of House and Senate members.
King scored a 96 out of 100, losing out on collecting the group’s “Defenders of Liberty” award due to his vote last year to override President George W. Bush’s veto of the $307 billion farm [...]