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...cubbyhole on the House side that Hastert gave him as a courtesy. Democrats are talking about making Cheney come to the Hill for so many votes that he'll end up living there--perhaps impairing his ability to manage the rest of Bush's government. Says Republican Senator Charles Grassley: "We need...
LOST CHECK? If you are missing a pension payment, it may be owing to mismanagement at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. Last week Senators Charles Grassley and Kit Bond held hearings to determine why the agency, which has been charged with underwriting retiree pensions, allowed some serious missteps. Some former Pan Am workers received misinformation about the very existence of their benefits, and one woman received a half-million-dollar payment in error. Having trouble with a PBGC account? Call...
This month Congress will consider ways to increase the use of Medicare's hospice benefit. Senator Charles Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Special Committee on Aging, wants to clarify Medicare's requirement of a six-month life expectancy as a guideline, not a hard rule. (Reformers hope Congress will formally declare it an average instead of a cap.) Senators Susan Collins, a Republican, and Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat, also plan to introduce a more general end-of-life health-insurance plan...
Even so, the Federal Government has launched a major p.r. effort to fight ecstasy based on the Internet at clubdrugs.org Last week two Senators, Bob Graham of Florida and Charles Grassley of Iowa, introduced an ecstasy antiproliferation bill, which would stiffen penalties for trafficking in the drug. Under the new law, someone caught selling about 100 hits of ecstasy could be charged as a drug trafficker; current law sets the threshold at about 300,000 pills. "I think this is the time to take a forceful set of initiatives to try to reverse the tide," says Graham...
...easy solution for overextended consumers. And some were troubled by what they saw as a decline in values. "We have had a general lack of shame or personal responsibility that used to be associated with paying bills or not paying bills and the filing of bankruptcy," said Senator Grassley, who has collected more than $100,000 in campaign contributions from credit-card companies and other lenders since...