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The head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is threatening to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if he fails to comply with congressional subpoenas for documents.
Holder has until Feb. 9 to comply.
In a four-page letter to Holder, Committee Chairman Darrell Issa , R-Calif., claims the Department of Justice has “misrepresented facts and misled Congress,” which began its investigation of...Read Full Story
A lawyer for Harbinger Capital Partners blasted the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, a week after Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) suggested that Harbinger had offered improper inducements to get him to drop his investigation of LightSquared, the wireless Internet venture that Harbinger is backing. Those allegations are "unsupported" and based on "selective excerpts," the lawyer wrote.
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Senator Grassley Ups the Ante, Calls for Assistant A.G.'s Resignation from Senate Floor AmmoLand Gun News Washington DC - -( Ammoland.com )- On October 18, 2010, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer sent communiqués to Attorney General Eric Holder alerting the A.G. that indictments over Fast and Furious could be forthcoming. This alert came on the heels of briefings on Fast and Furious which were sent to Holder at least as early July 2010. Yet although Fast and Furious was the topic of...Read Full Story
Former Deputy Attorney General Laid Out Game Plan in Testimony Delivered in March 2009 The Republican-led Congressional witch-hunt to pin blame for ATF’s failed Fast and Furious operation on high-level Obama administration officials may well come full circle back to Congress itself. Documents released by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, as part of his probe into Fast and Furious, as well as testimony provided to Congress prior to the launch of the flawed operation, all seem to indicate that the...Read Full Story
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Sept. 7, 2011: Sen. Charles Grassley speaks on Capitol Hill.
Sen. Charles Grassley called Wednesday for one of Attorney General Eric Holder’s top deputies to resign over controversial federal gunrunning probes, becoming the highest-ranking lawmaker to demand a Justice Department resignation over the scandal.
In a fiery speech on the Senate floor, Grassley called for Lanny Breuer, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Criminal Division, to step down.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Sen. Charles Grassley has scheduled town meetings and other visits Feb. 22 in Northeast Iowa. Grassley has held at least one meeting in each of Iowa's 99 counties every year since he was first elected to the Senate in 1980.
But Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) apparently said something close to it. At a public meeting one of Grassley's constituents asked him, "Why is your insurance so much cheaper than my insurance, and so much better than my insurance?" He then asked ...
GOP leaders stood by their decision to dash the provision, which had been added to the Senate bill by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. House Republicans instead opted to have the issue studied. Grassley called House GOP leadership's "extremely disappointing."
In particular, there was exasperation that a provision added by Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa was stripped from the bill. The Grassley amendment would have required workers in “political intelligence” firms to register with ...
Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, has placed a hold on an immigration bill in the Senate, which could give up to 10,000 visas a year to the Irish. The Irish E3 legislation is part of a broader bill that would allow more hi tech ...
In 2005, Charles Grassley received a 7 percent on the Republicans for Environmental Protection 's ("REP") environmental scorecard. He voted in a manner inconsistent with what the ...
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WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley asked regulators on Thursday to investigate whether drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline Plc withheld data about a risk of suicide linked to its anxiety disorder drug Paxil. Grassley, a Republican from ...