Word: grassley
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After being briefed on the probe, Republican Senator Charles Grassley predicted that it will reveal a "fraudulent use of taxpayers' money beyond the wildest imagination." Speaking into a committee microphone he thought was turned off, Republican Senator John Warner, a former Secretary of the Navy, confided that "rampant bribery in Government" had been uncovered. Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said he was "utterly astounded...
Rahman said that such biases in U.S. foreign policy can be seen in the recently passed Grassley law, which would shut down the PLO Observer Mission at the United Nations...
Another panelist John Brittain, vice president of the National Lawyers' Guild, said the bill was also a violation of First Amendment rights. The Grassley law is currently under appeal in federal court...
...Washington office to the wolves. But in December Congress cut through all the legal technicalities about what is and is not a foreign mission and simply banned both offices outright. They went down in a spray of self-congratulatory press releases: KEMP DECLARES A VICTORY IN WAR ON TERRORISM, GRASSLEY WINS IN FIGHT AGAINST P.L.O., and so on. A federal district court has upheld the Washington office closing, and the Justice Department seems determined to shut the New York office on schedule next month...
...meantime, however, the supporters of Israel have pushed ahead anyway. Senator Charles Grassley has managed to have an amendment added to the State Department Authorization bill that would close both offices. If the Grassley amendment passes, the legitimate rights of American citizens will be traded for the support of one special interest group! The question is not: Do you support the PLO? The question really is: Do you support the constitutional right of all Americans to express their opinions through political organizations? We urge the press and citizens of the United States of America to join us in resisting this...