Chuck Grassley
Chuck 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 September 1993
CountryUnited States of America
If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.
Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask nominees to pledge to rule on issues in a particular way.
The review of those projects is probably more needed now because of the cost of the worst natural disaster we've had in this country.
They are making it possible for a very close vote in the House of Representatives to be reversed, ... I'm not proposing that be done, but it could very easily happen... The Chinese government ought to make a clear decision-- Do they want to move forward or do they want these obstacles that put their relationships with other countries, including the United States, in jeopardy.
We need to get the price of wind energy down to 3.5 cents per kilowatt,
As chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, I look forward to working with the White House and moving quickly in finding a successor,
As part of the consensus building process, I agreed to take out a death penalty provision for crimes of violence committed against children that result in the death of a child,
Now it's a shame to put it off to another year because every year we put it off it's going to cost 600 billion dollars more, spread out over 75 years,
You ought to give her an opportunity to appear before the committee.
More of his unreserved honesty is needed inside the beltway,
We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.
I want to remind all Americans that the Senate has a very important responsibility to confirm only well- qualified individuals who will faithfully interpret the law and the Constitution.
Supreme Court nominees should know that this exercise of judicial restraint is the key ingredient of being good judge, as the Constitution constrains judges every bit as much as it constrains we legislators, executives and citizens in their actions.
Supreme Court nominees should know without any doubt that their job is not to impose their own personal opinions of what is right and wrong, but to say what the law is, rather than what they personally think the law ought to be.