Word: grassley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
True enough. But where do you draw the line? Last month U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Charles Grassley introduced the Personal Information Privacy act of 1997, which would make it tougher for businesses to sell Social Security numbers, unlisted phone numbers and other kinds of personal data. The legislation was prompted when Feinstein's staff members claimed to have found her Social Security number on the Net in less than three minutes. "People are losing control of their identities," Feinstein says. "Our private lives are becoming commodities with tremendous value in the marketplace...
Even congressional critics like Grassley say they think Freeh can "rehabilitate" himself and the agency. His colleague in the House, archconservative Republican Bob Barr of Georgia, has already given the FBI a lesson in that. Last year the agency asked for the authority to apply multiphone roving wiretaps so it could track suspects switching from cell phone to cell phone. But Barr, with heavy backing from both the National Rifle Association and the American Civil Liberties Union, now had ammunition to block the legislation. "My view is that we are not interested in giving the FBI more power until...
...course, the U.S. Congress also has a history of passing unconstitutional laws, and several conservative legislators have already promised that if the Supreme Court rules against this law, they will try again with a more carefully crafted "Son of CDA." "Some way, somehow," says Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, a fierce supporter of the CDA, "we will have to find a constitutional way of protecting kids from porn...
...Williamson says he was there as a private citizen. But several banking-industry invitees complained that Brandt told them that Williamson would be there and that it would be a good opportunity to voice their views on the new bankruptcy law. In a statement last week to Senator Charles Grassley, David Thompson of First Chicago said Brandt told him the dinner would honor Williamson. "If [Brandt] was doing it, it was against my wishes and the directions of the White House counsel," says Williamson. Brandt summed up the influence-selling charges as "all garbage...
...subject to being overruled by a majority vote of each house of Congress." True, Judge Bork does tend to be one of those who looks left and sees Attila, but his book is endorsed on the back cover by such conventionally "mainstream" conservatives as Bill Bennett and Senator Chuck Grassley...