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U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, is challenging the president to look at his plan to tackle growing unemployment, which more or less comes down to going after undocumented immigrants.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley often brags that he hasn’t missed a vote since 1993, and according to the Pulitzer Prize winning staff of Politifact, he isn’t exaggerating. In fact, the Iowa Republican’s voting record is more consistent than any of his fellow senators with similar tenure, racking up a streak of 5,700 consecutive votes.

Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize winning Web site operated by the St. Petersburg Times, has picked its “Lie of the Year,” and U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, played a part in spreading it.
The lie that stood out above all other in 2009, according to Politifact, was a Republican talking point that end-of-life planning provisions included in [...]

A figure regularly cited by Democrats, most recently U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, that 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance every day is no longer accurate, according to analysis by PolitiFact.
Research showed the number had fallen since the summer to roughly 8,000 people a day.

Responding to the media storm surrounding his statements Wednesday that government-run health care will lead to mandatory euthanasia for the nation’s elderly, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a press release standing by the debunked theory.

Republican state Rep. Kent Sorenson of Indianola garnered headlines last week when he penned an open letter publicly criticizing the recent policy positions of U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley.
Now, the freshman lawmaker has turned his attention to one of the issues troubling him about Grassley — health care reform legislation. But instead of critiquing the legislation, [...]

While Iowa Rep. Steve King is garnering headlines for his call to oust U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, his statement that the federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act would create “special protection for pedophiles” is getting another type of attention.
Politifact, a Pulitzer-prize winning project by the staff of the St. Petersburg Times, has investigated [...]