Topic - Charles E. Grassley

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  Huge House majority backs insider trading ban

  The House overwhelmingly passed legislation banning insider-trading on Thursday, sending it to a conference where lawmakers will try to reconcile the bill with a more restrictive version passed by the Senate.

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  Support wanes in Senate for anti-piracy bill

  Support for an anti-online piracy bill — drafted with rare bipartisan support — is eroding in the face of mounting public and corporate backlash.

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  Holder on 'Fast and Furious': Never again

  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. says an investigation of arms traffickers called "Operation Fast and Furious" was flawed in concept as well as in execution, never should have happened and "it must never happen again."

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  Vote on federal marriage law repeal put off

  Lawmakers on Thursday put off a much-anticipated debate on a bill to repeal the law that forbids recognition of gay marriage at the federal level.

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  Obama flouts law with policy on deportations, senators say

  Eighteen Republican senators led by the Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking member, Sen. Charles E. Grassley, are questioning the Obama administration's immigration policies, saying they go beyond the scope of the law and allow those who entered the country illegally to remain.

• Embassy Row

  A senior Republican senator is determined to force the U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic to give up his post over charges that the envoy misled Congress two years ago when he served as an adviser to President Obama.

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  Taxpayers foot the bill for Justice Department's $16 muffins

  The Justice Department and several of its agencies engaged in "extravagant and wasteful" spending on food, beverages and event planning for law enforcement conferences, including paying $16 each for muffins, $76 per person for lunch and more than $8 for a cup of coffee, according to an audit released Tuesday by the department's Office of Inspector General.

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  New questions, possible cover-up surface in ATF 'Fast and Furious' probe

  Two top Republican lawmakers say Arizona prosecutors "stifled" attempts by agents for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to interdict weapons purchased by "straw buyers" in that state that later were "walked" to drug smugglers in Mexico, and may have covered up the fact that two of those weapons were found at the scene of the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

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  ATF replaces director amid weapons probe

  Kenneth E. Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who was caught this year in a firestorm over the "Fast and Furious" undercover gun investigation, was reassigned Tuesday and will be replaced by U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones of Minnesota.

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  Lawmakers want answers about ATF gun operation

  Two Republican lawmakers investigating a controversial Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives weapons operation known as "Fast and Furious" have asked the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration to explain what role their agents played in the investigation.

• Justice Department orders more reports on border arms sales

  The Justice Department on Monday ordered that all gun dealers in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas be required to notify the federal government about frequent buyers of high-powered rifles, saying that violence along the Southwest border has expanded to a point that it poses a "significant threat" to the United States.

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  Inquiry of weapons smuggling to expand

  The closed-door testimony of ATF's acting director, saying that the Justice Department was obstructing a congressional investigation, has prompted an expansion of that ongoing probe into the controversial "Fast and Furious" weapons-smuggling operation.

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  Grassley seeks data on porn viewer

  The Justice Department declined to press charges against an assistant U.S. attorney caught with child pornography, and the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee demanded Thursday to know why.

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  ATF chief: Higher-ups at Justice blocked response to Congress

  The Justice Department blocked senior ATF leaders from cooperating with Congress in its investigation of the "Fast and Furious" weapons operation, ordering them not to respond to questions and taking full control of replying to briefing and document requests, the agency's top boss told Congressional investigators.

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  Senate approves Cole as Holder's top deputy

  Deputy Attorney General James Cole was confirmed on Tuesday by the Senate, mostly along party lines, as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s top deputy — a position he has held since Jan. 3 when he was installed by President Obama in a temporary recess appointment.

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