Groveling to Grassley

Here's the list of special interest groups Grassley is meeting with in the next week (pasted in below, from a memo from his staff)... the ones that they are telling us about... at least his office is issuing something to go by... it would be a full time job to keep up with all these folks seeking special dispensation from our oligarchy... wait, he has a huge staff to help him with all this, millions paid for by you and me and our future generations.. what a vicious circle... right before our eyes... i know this is not anything new... but i guess i have rarely noticed the level of detail here...

If the Congress stuck to its enumerated authority, it would not have the wherewithall to even hand out any loot to any of these groups, thus there'd be no meetings to be had... it's time to quit gifting from the treasury in order to maintain the welfare and warfare state... the cycle must be broken.

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Update:
How can a congress person possibly keep up with all these meetings?

What would you do with a $2.4 million dollar staffing budget?
Think you'd figure out a way to have a staff around you to keep you in power for decades with that kind of financing?

Here's Chuck's staffing, travel, ear marks and more...
http://www.legistorm.com/member/45/Sen_Charles_Ernest_Grassley.html

His top staffer is making over $167,000 annually...
http://www.legistorm.com/person/David_Edmund_Young/2508.html
you can drill down on each staffer's disclosure forms too... see what kind of stocks they own...and where they have a mortgage... Edmunds has a mortgage for property worth $500K-$1M in DC... no wonder they need such high salaries...

this website is a bit of a rabbit hole... but sheesh... did you know that there was a $182,000,000 (that's right 6 zeros) earmark for a federal courthouse in Cedar Rapids in 2009? that flood was soooo good for the congresscrats to hand out loot, soooo good...
http://www.legistorm.com/earmark/28683.html
how far do you think $182M would have gone to provide relief for actual residents of CR?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Grassley Press
Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:17 PM
Subject: Schedule
To: Grassley Press

M E M O R A N D U M

TO: Reporters and Editors

RE: Grassley schedule for the week of June 7

DA: Monday, June 7, 2010

Following is Grassley’s schedule in Washington, D.C. for June 7-11.

· Grassley will speak with Iowans from Pocahontas; Wellman; the Children’s Miracle Network; the Iowa Propane Gas Association; Iowa refugees (Lutheran Services in Iowa); the United Nations Association of the USA; the National Milk Producers Association; the American Medical Group Association; the Boys and Girls Clubs of America; the Iowa Health Care Association; the Iowa Center for Assisted Living; the Iowa State Education Association; the Farm Credit Council; Fight Crime, Invest in Kids; Des Moines; the American Bakers Association; the Iowa Credit Union League; Des Moines area superintendents; the Health Care Quality Association; Norwalk; Sioux Center; and Cedar Falls.

Grassley will also meet with Iowa 4-H members from Webster County and Northwest Iowa.

· On Tuesday, June 8 at 1 p.m. (CT), Grassley will meet with Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. The Senate Judiciary Committee will conduct the confirmation hearing for the nominee. Grassley has been a member of the Judiciary Committee since being elected to the Senate.

· On Thursday, June 10 at 7:15 a.m. (CT), Grassley will address members of the Greater Des Moines Partnership. The Iowans are in Washington, D.C. to meet with members of Congress about the communities’ priorities in the upcoming appropriations process as well as other legislative initiatives.

· On Thursday, June 10 at 9 a.m. (CT), Grassley will participate in a Senate Finance Committee hearing on “The U.S.-China Economic Relationship: A New Approach for China.”

· On Thursday, June 10 at 9 a.m. (CT), Grassley will participate in a Senate Judiciary Committee executive business meeting.