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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 2002
Page
6
Incoming Senate Finance Committee chair Grassley pledges to strengthen Medicare and push a prescription drug plan, an area where Frist has expertise. The remarks signal a bid to advance health care reforms despite partisanship ahead.
Senate deputies unanimously elect Bill Frist as majority leader during a conference call with over 40 participants. Trent Lott, gracious in departure, remains in the Senate but steps away from leadership after months of controversy.
President Bush pardoned seven individuals for past offenses including Walter Schuerer a former Colony Inn co owner in Amana who received Social Security benefits he was not entitled to and later pleaded guilty The group includes a moonshine seller a mail theft defendant a 1957 inductee resistor and others all cited as having led exemplary lives since serving sentences Ashley Snee said the pardons reflect minor long ago crimes followed by rehabilitation and service to communities
In Saint Catharines a community raised over 60 000 Canadian to send Andy to Iowa for treatment after doctors found the tumor a bony vascular malformation. Local jiujitsu members shaved heads and schools held fundraisers, while Ontario health care coverage remains a factor as doctors monitor the tumor’s growth.
Cedar Rapids chamber president Ron Corbett says extending the local option sales tax could fund public projects like RiverRund redevelopment in the Czech Village and support school districts. He notes voters in 2002 would have faced a 1 percent tax renewal, with collection delayed to 2004 if approved.
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