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Four local U.S. Department of Justice officials were recognized nationally at the annual Executive Office for United States Attorneys Director’s Awards ceremony today for their work in relation to an Internet pharmacy case.
Those honored were First Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard ...
Congress
Scott Murphy
Iowa attorney and Democratic political insider Jerry Crawford, longtime supporter and friend of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, has signed on as a lobbyist for Monsanto. (Photo: Crawford, Quilty & Mauro)
As the U.S. Departments of Justice and Agriculture gear up for an ...
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James Inhofe
Jim Gibbons, the former wrestling coach at Iowa State University who hopes to unseat Democratic incumbent Rep. Leonard Boswell in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, issued a release Thursday criticizing Democratic leadership for a what he considers a light workload in 2010.
On the same ...
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Leonard Boswell
Brad Miller
Republican National Committee
Republican accusations that the Senate health reform bill will hurt Medicare recipients by making drastic cuts to the program are “fear tactics,” U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said Thursday.
“I’m sad to see that our Republican colleagues have resorted to fear tactics in a ...
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Health care
Tom Harkin
Chuck Grassley
Tom Coburn
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is on schedule to release federal guidelines for the disposal of coal ash some time this month, but a potential loophole in the new rules has some worried they will leave Iowans unprotected.
For three decades, rules governing the disposal ...
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EPA
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is no stranger to unwanted attention, and he has just earned himself another round of it.
After admitting on live television that he has “lived off the public tit” for decades as a member of congress, he attracted the attention of several ...
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Chuck Grassley
In an interview with the Dubuque Telegraph Herald, former Gov. Terry Branstad said those who say he’s not conservative enough for the Republican Party “don’t know me.”
One of Branstad’s rivals for the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nomination was quick to respond, saying the former ...
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Republican National Committee
Chris Matthews
When American dignitaries arrive in Copenhagen next week to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference the nation will be signaling much more than its commitment to reduce greenhouse gases, said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack ...
World
Barack Obama
Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City has agreed to pay the federal government $400,000 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by inflating charges for heart patients’ care.
The settlement resolves allegations that Mercy inflated charges for Medicare, Medicaid, ...
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Medicaid
Health care
A Democratic tax reform proposal that failed to pass during the 2009 session is supported by a majority of Iowans, according to a poll conducted by Selzer and Associates.
The poll, commissioned by the non-partisan Iowa Fiscal Partnership (IFP), found that 63 percent of those polled favored ...
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Gallup Poll
As legislators streamed into the room around him Tuesday, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, peered over his glasses at the roughly 60 people who’d come to this special hearing on ACORN.
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) reaches into his bucket of acorns ...
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ACORN
Steve King
Story County Treasurer Dave Jamison and Dyersville Mayor Jim Heavens have announced plans to challenge Democratic state Treasurer Mike Fitzgerald .
The pair of Republicans will face off in a primary for the chance to take on the 28-year incumbent.
Jamison lives in Ames and was first ...
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A spokesman for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Roxanne Conlin said accusations that the campaign is strong-arming elected officials for their endorsement are ridiculous.
“We expect ludicrous allegations from Republicans, but not Democrats,” Conlin spokesman Mark Daley said.
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Bob Krause
Chuck Grassley
Clarence Thomas
Employees of The Des Moines Register must take a mandatory one-week furlough during the first quarter of 2010, according to a memo sent to staff by Register Publisher and President Laura Hollingsworth and obtained by the Iowa Independent.
The furloughs were ordered by the Register’s ...
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Democratic elected officials feel pressured to endorse U.S. Senate candidate Roxanne Conlin because of past contributions to their campaigns, one of Conlin’s rivals for the Democratic nomination said Monday.
Roxanne Conlin, left, and Tom Fiegen
Clarence bankruptcy attorney Tom Fiegen said ...
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Chuck Grassley
Bob Krause
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Although it might be difficult to imagine talk
of potential health care reform and climate change legislation...
getting bumped from the nation’s front pages, the foundation for the next partisan cage match is already being built — and Iowa’s own U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is ...
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Grassley, GOP attempt to get in front of White House ...
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State Sen. David Hartsuch, R-Bettendorf, will potentially face
off against two challengers in 2010 — one in...
a primary and one in the general election — the Quad-City Times reported Tuesday. Dave Thede, whose wife, state Rep. Phyllis ...
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Hartsuch faces two challenges in SD41
Cedar Rapids businessman Christian Fong announced Tuesday he will end his campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
Christian Fong
“Today, I announce the suspension of my campaign,” Fong said in a statement. “From this time forward, we will not be actively ...
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Republican National Committee
The ceremony most likely won’t take place at the fabled Little Brown Church in Nashua, but will have Iowa ties just the same.
Friends of Chelsea Clinton received some happy news via e-mail this holiday weekend. The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and current Secretary of State ...
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Ed Gillespie
Bill Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Producers who received letter from bankruptcy court urged to contact Iowa Cattlemen’s Association
Some Iowa cattle producers that sold livestock to the now-defunct Agriprocessors meatpacking operation in Postville have received an unexpected and unwanted piece of holiday mail from the ...
