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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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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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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The wisest thing to do is disregard revenue that was never supposed to come in anyway,
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The world can come down on a football coach much more quickly than it can come down on a U.S. senator, ... Even considering the salary they get, I would not trade places with them. And you know most of them get six or seven times what I get.
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The rules are full of serious holes that need to be fixed as soon as possible,
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I've seen this office become involved in many questionable projects despite strong and persistent opposition from senior staff. It appears to me that this has created a lack of respect and trust, and has resulted in an ineffective Office of the Inspector General.
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This legislation extends very important benefits for people who live on the edge of poverty,
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They are trying to stall, stall, stall. We need to get this bill passed.
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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'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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A lot of people are not getting what they earned. Here is an attitude I would like to promote among every worker: Be very concerned about your pension.
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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,