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Chuck Grassley made news yesterday when he fired off a few shots at President Obama from his Twitter feed. The tweets were on health reform — a subject on which Grassley’s been playing a key role from his perch as the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. That got us wondering what else Grassley’s tweeted on health reform. We found a few and reprinted them below.

We looked for a Twitter feed from Max Baucus, Grassley’s Democratic counterpart, but it appears he doesn’t have one. Those seeking a powerful Democrat’s online perspective on health reform might look at Peter Orszag’s blog (specifically, posts such as this one, this one and this one.)

Here’s a selection of Grassley tweets on health reform:

April 29:

4hrs Finance Comm discussion of one of 3Big subset of health careReform “transforming Care Delivery Improving care Reducing Cost”

Later on April 29:

4hr healthcare mtg turned into 6 hr mtg. Took up all day. Watch my cable show tonight on mediacom. 630pm CST. U can ask questions.

May 6:

Just had a hamburger w obama at WH. Hour lunch discussing health care reform and four Ag/EPA issues

May 14:

Finally aftr 6hrs got to a really intrestin discussion in our Rdtable; public option (backdoor to Canada health system) Scares me

June 1:

The prez is meetin w Finance and Help Demo bc doesn’t appear they on same page Finance working biparty HELP more partisan. Where Prez land?

June 1:

Lunch w Obama 3wks ago he told Max and me his desire for biparty HealthCareRefm. I hope he remembr when he meets w financeHELP Demo Tues

June 7:

Pres Obama you got nerve while u sightseeing in Paris to tell us”time to deliver” on health care. We still on skedul/even workinWKEND.

June 7:

Pres Obama while u sightseeing in Paris u said ‘time to delivr on healthcare’ When you are a “hammer” u think evrything is NAIL I’m no NAIL

Here’s a White House spokesman’s response to the Grassley tweets from June 7, as reported by the AP:

“President Obama is gratified that the Senate is working hard to bring a health-reform bill to the floor on schedule. He looks forward to continuing his work with them upon his return from the commemoration of Allied heroism at D-Day.”

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Sen. Grassley Twitters Health Reform: A Story In Tweets