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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At that point, the Brussels bureaucrats decided to perpetuate the FSC/ETI dispute in an ill-conceived effort to gain some sort of leverage in the civil aircraft dispute. Their blatant linkage of WTO disputes serves as a dangerous precedent,
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Director Mueller has clearly stated that he wants to turn the FBI around. This new report from the inspector general makes it very clear that he's going to need new, forward-thinking leaders at the FBI to make this happen,
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And when we expect trading partners to respect science, we should be willing to do the same. So I don't support depriving the Department of Agriculture with the funding it needs to make decisions based on sound science even while we need to send a loud and clear message to Japan.
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Are you against cameras in the courtroom like Justice Rehnquist was?
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The Red Cross in its disaster response was more than a charity. It was also a federal contractor. It's appropriate for Congress to verify whether taxpayers got their money's worth.
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We've heard too many stories of top executives of bankrupt companies sticking workers with unfunded pensions while running off with millions of dollars of so-called nonqualified pension benefits.
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We've got a lot of strong opposition, but we did have 66 votes three years ago, so I think we have the opportunity to get it passed,
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This was truly a heroic effort. They produced a historically quick rollout of a new major benefit program and surprised us all.
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This was truly a heroic effort, ... They produced a historically quick rollout of a new major benefit program and surprised us all.
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we find out two years later ... that we still have the problems and nothing was done on the recommendations.
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We have about 48 votes for it, and obviously you don't pass anything in the United States Senate with 48 votes,
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We here in Congress have to find solutions. They don't have to, ... The answer is, they are both running for president.
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We're going to work on 4 or 5 senators to see if we can take care of their objections,
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Even documented pledges by FBI bureaucrats to write threat assessments were never kept, and no one was held accountable,