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“I’m too old to be vice president,” Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley told Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill.

Grassley is 74; Republican presidential candidate John McCain is 71.

“But I am young enough to be reelected to the Senate,” said Grassley, hinting at a run for a sixth Senate term in 2010.

Congress approved yet another one-week extension of current farm policy Thursday, giving farm bill negotiators another chance to finally resolve their differences and finish their work.

John Miller is reporting for the Associated Press that Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, is reconsidering his decision to resign on Sept. 30. A spokesperson for the senator is citing legal reasons for the change of heart.
On Aug. 27 Roll Call reported that Craig had been arrested for lewd conduct in a men’s bathroom at a [...]

The unfolding story surrounding U.S. Sen. Larry Craig has reinforced former Iowa Lt. Gov. Art Neu’s view that the Republican Party should focus on economic and foreign policy issues, public-sphere matters of grave seriousness, rather than banking on values-posturing that so often exposes human frailty and outright hypocrisy.

What’s more, Neu, a Carroll attorney and something [...]

Two leading conservative Iowa blogs are calling for Idaho Sen. Larry Craig to step down in the wake of revelations that he was arrested in a Minneapolis restroom in June and pled guilty to disorderly conduct charges in August.

As the national scandal builds, the Mainstream Iowan writes:
“Senator Larry Craig Should Resign Because Cruising Johns [...]

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is scrubbing his campaign of anything scented with the increasingly foul presence of one U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho.
 
Creepy Craig appears to be something of a Men’s Room McLovin.
 
According to the Washington Post and other media, Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after a reportedly lewd incident in a Minneapolis-St. [...]