Word: iowa
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Many on Capitol Hill insist that scrutiny has not gotten significantly tighter. "The Finance Committee is not doing anything different now from what it has always done under the leadership of either [Chairman Max] Baucus or me," ranking Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa said recently. "We are vetting nominees for the current Administration the same way we vetted nominees for the previous Administration." Finance Committee staffers note, for instance, that Paul O'Neill, who was George W. Bush's first Treasury Secretary, had to pay $92 in back taxes when the Finance Committee noticed that he hadn't reported gifts...
...that bogs down or dooms health-care reform. His legislative style is a throwback to the days when it was not so unusual for the two parties to work together in the Senate. Baucus' closest friend in the chamber is the Finance Committee's ranking Republican, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, an equally rough-hewn legislator, with whom he has traded the chairmanship three times since 2001. The two meet at least once a week and boast a rare degree of cooperation. "As far as working together and trying to find solutions," says Grassley, their aides function as "basically one staff...
...pictures from an Iowa steak...
...Dispatched to the consolation round, Caputo found himself face-to-face with growing nemesis Phil Keddy from Iowa. Caputo dropped two bouts this season to Keddy and NCAA’s brought a familiar result. Caputo suffered a heartbreaking 2-0 defeat, sending him to the seventh place bout, where he fell in a rematch with Patterson. But considering the difficulty of earning All-American honors in the wake of a devastating injury, Caputo expressed enthusiasm for the result...
...there a role you didn't get that you wish you had gotten? Katie Baker, AMES, IOWA...