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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My perception is that we're making considerable progress. But not as much progress as we thought that we would make.
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I'm extremely disappointed that the European Commission has insisted on perpetuating this dispute,
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The FBI, by failing to admit it was mechanical problems until almost one year later, it seems to me needlessly jeopardized the safety of our air travelers,
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A little research can go a long way to stopping the con artists who try to turn this tragedy into a profit-making venture. By making sure a charity checks out, those who are giving can make sure their valuable contributions reach the countless victims of this devastating natural disaster.
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The bottom line (is) the NTSB did not have this information, there has been a lot of time wasted, a lot of wasted money and a compromise of public safety,
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only want judges who will do their political bidding on the bench, regardless of what is required by the law and the Constitution.
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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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I think I should have kept my mouth shut back in January,
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You've got the Berlin subway being built by Berlin taxpayers, leased to some corporation in America, ... There's no risk. It will never be the property of the corporation. And they get the tax benefits. Indirectly, you're having American taxpayers pay for the infrastructure of Europe.
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I would suggest, then, to the chairman that we move quickly on that bill before he's got an opinion on it.
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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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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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I think it's a matter of accommodating people who see unfair competition,
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If we're going to be successful in agriculture (trade negotiations), we've got to have a broad number of issues on the table,