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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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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Twenty to 25 percent of our resources are going to be directed toward making sure companies don't drop programs.
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You have a responsibility to help less fortunate Americans cope with the high cost of heating fuels. It's not unreasonable to expect corporations with 50, 75 or 100 percent growth in earnings this quarter to contribute a mere 10 percent of those profits to fuel fund programs,
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What bothers me is that loudmouths two weeks ago were saying that they had this conversation and that conversation. I see most of them wanting to be big shots and ... want to be more than they really are,
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The only thing that's going to be fatal to this nomination is how she performs before the committee. If she performs all right, then she's obviously going to be approved. But if she doesn't perform well, she probably won't be approved.
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Well, I don't want to directly comment on what Justice Souter said. He is either going to be a colleague or continue to be one of my bosses. So I want to maintain good relations in either case.
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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 need to get these tax incentives on the books and help Katrina victims make a fresh start,
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Negotiators need to keep the focus on the biggest issues that are clogging up the works. At the top of this list is market access for agriculture.