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The Democrats are even more willing to continue to spend your money. They aren’t just happy to take it from you in the form of outrageously high taxes. They still refuse to entertain the idea of expanded domestic drilling, forcing gas prices higher and higher. Every day we wait is only exacerbating this situation [...]
Stunning! A US Senator has outed the Grocery Manufacturers Association’s well planned and executed smear campaign against ethanol. Senator Chuck Grassley says “Ethanol and alternative fuels are being made the scapegoat for a whole variety of problems. Never before have the virtuous benefits of ethanol and renewable fuels been so questioned and criticized. The problem [...]
John McCain insists that he's a conservative. Many conservatives insist otherwise. We present four dozen quotes by and about John McCain--to help the reader decide for himself.
We're starting to get some reaction to today's story about poultry magnate Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim prompting Gov. Rick Perry to seek waivers from federal mandates on ethanol production. This is from U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa: Biofuels are being made...
Opponents of ethanol are seeking to exploit an opportunity to relax the federal renewable fuels standard, but drew a strong reaction from Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley on Tuesday. A request for a waiver from the renewable fuels standard (RFS) is gaining support, just as Midwest farmers struggle [...]
Senate Chaplain: Please deliver us from the morons and attention whores in this chamber, and rendereth your healing powers upon Norm Coleman's gopher-fur toupee, in the name of the Lord, amen. Chris Dodd: Let's do dis. Mitch McConnell: If you're not putting on a rabbit suit and engaging in what I think the kids today call "yiffing," you don't have anything to worry about from being wiretapped! Chuck...
In response to sustained public pressure, the National Institutes of Health is now getting set to tighten its oversight on grants awarded academic researchers, whose institutions are required to report any conflicts of interest. Recent examples uncovered by the Senate Finance Committee, however, have embarrassed the NIH and several universities, most notably Harvard University. Over the [...]
The US Senate Finance Committee charges that Stanford University failed to properly monitor alleged conflicts of interest involving Alan Schatzberg, who chairs the psychiatry department at Stanford University and who owns about $6 million in stock in Corcept Therapeutics, which that participates in a National Institutes of Health study he oversees. This is the latest such [...]
From our good friends at FreedomWorks comes a video alerting viewers to a proposal from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) that would create a new federal database of e-commerce transactions: Do you use Ebay, PayPal or Amazon? Senator Charles Grassley wants to know. Grassley plans to create a new government database that tracks businesses online sales. His [...]
The State Society of Iowa is joining with several Hawkeye State universities to host an Iowa Disaster Relief event this evening in Washington. Honorary hosts, include Gov. Chet Culver , Sen. Chuck Grassley , Sen. Tom Harkin , Rep. Tom Lathan , Rep. Leonard Boswell , Rep. Steve King , Rep. Bruce Braley and Rep. David Loebsack . The event will be held on the rooftop of 101 Constitution Avenue, NW from...
June 21, 2008 Sen. Chuck Grassley 135 Hart Senate Bldg. Washington, DC 20510-1501 via email Dear Senator Grassley: Regarding the June 21, 2008 article in my local newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, entitled “ Glaxo’s Paxil faces scrutiny on the Hill ” ( http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20624784.html ), I note your concerns that Glaxo/GSK may have withheld Paxil adverse events information on...
This just in from Pharmalot: A Justice Department investigation of Glaxo’s handling of the marketing and safety research of its antidepressant, appears to be widening, The Wall Street Journal reports. The drugmaker confirmed that a previously disclosed Colorado-based Justice Department investigation of marketing practices also includes the US Attorney’s office in Boston and is being coordinated [...]...
The government likes to support biodiesel. It has all the buzzwords. “Recycling”. “Sustainable”. “Environmentally-friendly”. So they subsidize efforts to blend diesel with biodiesel. One main problem here. Americans don’t use much diesel. So they’re subsidizing foreign, not domestic, use. In fact, they’re simply sending money for non-American-produced diesel [...]
