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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You know there are powerful interests here -- we call them K Street lobbyists -- that are very prone to defending this sort of things, ... There's big fees for defending them on the Hill.
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I expect the Judiciary Committee to conduct a fair and dignified hearing in a timely manner, followed by an up or down vote by the Senate.
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I do not want another savings-and-loan situation like we had in the late 80s, coming out of bad policy with the PBGC, ... As we've watched this corporation deteriorate rapidly in recent years, the possibility of such a bailout has become increasingly real.
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I believe the victims of Katrina would certainly be covered under this provision, ... that there are no unintended results.
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If we're going to be successful in agriculture (trade negotiations), we've got to have a broad number of issues on the table,
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If we do not have changes that encourage investment, we're not going to be able to get a bill passed,
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only want judges who will do their political bidding on the bench, regardless of what is required by the law and the Constitution.
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One of the results I hope from our hearing will be that HCFA gets on the stick and does its job, and its job obviously is to protect the vulnerable,
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significant flexibility to look at the special circumstances surrounding an individual's financial situation.
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No one got everything they wanted, including the chairman, but I do believe that everyone got something they do believe is important to include in this relief act,
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Money is wasted or lost to fraud, and quality of care can be jeopardized when products and services come from con artists rather than qualified suppliers,
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Now that I've had more time to absorb the text, I'm very disappointed. The text moves us no closer to resolving the impasse on market access that's really at the heart of development.
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We need to look at the tax code to see what might be done to help investment, to help people in need,
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If (Boeing) knew these things presumably 10 years ago or even before that, perhaps the TWA 800 explosion would never have taken place and there would not have been 230 lives lost,