Posts Tagged ‘Grassley’

Ron Corbett When Ron Corbett was elected as Cedar Rapids Mayor, Republicans across Iowa celebrated. RPI Chairman Matt Strawn trumpeted Corbett’s victory as an indication that Republicans were on the move again. Some even speculated that Corbett’s return to politics might mean that he is looking at a run for Governor or the U.S. Senate ... Full story

A new TIR/Concordia Group poll shows the political environment in Iowa has improved for Republicans in the last six months. The poll was commissioned by TheIowaRepublican.com in conjunction with Concordia Group LLC, an Iowa based public affairs company. Voter Consumer Research, a highly respected polling firm based in Washington D.C., conducted the poll ... Full story

Less than three months after launching a campaign promising to “take on the special interests,” Roxanne Conlin is now spending her weekend hobnobbing with her fellow trial lawyers on a balmy beach in Hawaii. Meanwhile, her would-be constituents in Iowa are facing frigid temperatures and flooding as they suffer through some of the worst winter weather ... Full story

Rasmussen has just released polling results for the Iowa U.S. Senate race between Sen. Chuck Grassley and liberal millionaire trial attorney Roxanne Conlin. The poll shows that Grassley leads Conlin 59% to 31%. In October, Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Mike Kiernan said that Grassley would be in for the race of his life. ... Full story

After all the anxiety and hardship people are facing because of double-digit unemployment and a continued sluggish economy, at this point, it’s not what the President says, it’s what he does. During the last year, the administration’s focus has been on government spending, government control of the financial system, energy and health care policies that ... Full story

Senator Chuck Grassley was rebuffed today when he asked senators to permit consideration of and a vote on his amendment to include the staff of Senate leadership and committees, as well as the President, Vice President and White House staff, in a requirement that members of Congress and congressional staff get their employer-based health ... Full story

Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck Grassley Tax Cuts v. Tax Increases Delivered Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 Yesterday’s early morning vote brings the health care reform bill one step closer to final passage. Regardless of whether the other side has 60 votes, my friends on the other side still have a problem. The pending bill still raises taxes on middle-income Americans. The ... Full story

It should come as no surprise. A few weeks after announcing that she is a candidate for the United States Senate, Roxanne Conlin is standing beside Governor Chet Culver announcing that Iowa schools will receive $60 million in vouchers for computers as part of the Microsoft settlement that made her rich. In a ... Full story

Senator Chuck Grassley issued the following comment about his opposition to the motion to proceed to H.R. 3590, the legislative vehicle for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009. The text of Senator Grassley’s floor speech is below the comment. “This proposal is another big government spending plan, and after the bailouts for Wall ... Full story

TheIowaRepublican.com will Cover Vice President Joe Biden visit to Iowa LIVE While the political divide that exists between Republicans and Democrats is wide, the political community in Iowa is still rather small. When the Iowa Democratic Party announced that Vice President Joe Biden would be headlining their annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner, I sent Norm ... Full story