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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Its remarkable that better management of the Medicare program has achieved the same level of savings in just one year as the Senate did in a five-year budget bill passed just last week,
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It seems to me we ought to target our farm bill payments to small and medium-sized farmers,
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It will be a bill that will protect workers' pensions of the defined benefit variety,
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It won't happen. Don't forget, we ought to get a very good idea of how he approaches the law by the 50,000 to 60,000-some pages that have already been released. I don't know how you're going to get anything different from a few pages protected by attorney-client relationship.
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They are trying to stall, stall, stall. We need to get this bill passed.
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It's a little unseemly to be talking about doing away with or enhancing the estate tax at a time when people are suffering,
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the extent to which tax policy needs to be change to affect individual victims and particularly to help the rebuilding of lost businesses.
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The real crime here is the Clinton-Gore record on drugs. He should explain why, during the Clinton-Gore administration, the number of teenagers using drugs nearly doubled.
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When I make a decision, I'm going to be applauded or rejected by the electorate once every six years. There's an immediate response to any decision that a coach makes, and it's either the booing or applauding of those people in the audience.
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We did not find anything alarming enough that required additional follow-up beyond what law-enforcement agencies are already doing.
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There is a ship afloat without a captain,
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We heard much higher numbers today of the stimulus package from our two experts than I anticipated we would hear. In other words, if you're going to do something, it better be something significant enough to get the job done.
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We are talking about maintaining existing (tax) policy beyond whatever sunset we have now,
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Unless Europe changes its mind on agriculture, there won't be much accomplished in Seattle,