Iowa Public Television   U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R)
posted on September 20, 2013  Showdown.  Again.  Congress lacks
consensus authorizing continued federal spending and raising the
nation's debt limit.  Federal agencies preparing for shutting
down October 1st.  Iowa Senator Charles Grassley has seen it
before and we're questioning him on this edition of Iowa Press.
Borg: Senator Charles Grassley marked a milestone this past week
with an exclamation point, on this 80th birthday running from
his Alexandria, Virginia residence to his Capitol Hill office. 
That's more than six miles.  But then it was down to business
and congressional business this past week was punctuated by
another mass shooting, this time hardly a mile away from the
Capitol at the Washington Navy Yard.  And on Capitol Hill a
political standoff.  Some members of Congress holding the
nation's spending and borrowing authority hostage, demanding
spending cuts and defunding President Obama's signature
achievement, the Affordable Care Act. 