Charles Grassley
Charles Grassley
Charles Ernest "Chuck" Grassleyis the senior United States Senator from Iowa, serving since 1981. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representativesand the Iowa state legislature. He was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee from January to June 2001 and from January 2003 to December 2006. Senator Grassley is the current chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the 114th congress...
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I have very good evidence not that the process is broken but within the process there was just mischief,
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The frustration that I and many of my colleagues in the Senate feel is that China is not satisfying its obligations as a member of the World Trade Organization and as a major beneficiary of open trade.
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The exact figure (of the tax cut) I will release tomorrow (Tuesday), ... It won't be exactly the way the president had it, but it will be very, very aggressive and will send a strong signal that we in the majority party feel that there's a great deal of anxiety about the economy.
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The information from these audits will allow the IRS to target its limited resources on examining those taxpayers who most likely to be up to no good, while leaving honest taxpayers alone.
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You've got the Berlin subway being built by Berlin taxpayers, leased to some corporation in America, ... There's no risk. It will never be the property of the corporation. And they get the tax benefits. Indirectly, you're having American taxpayers pay for the infrastructure of Europe.
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I do believe we'll get it through the Senate,
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I am very pessimistic about it in the future, ... Probably the next bite at Social Security will come in 2009.