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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If Congress does its job, taxpayers won't suffer any tax increase,
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He is willing to go to the countryside to work hard to sell this, ... I think he is going to have the capability of turning a lot of Democratic senators.
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For our children and grandchildren, it is going to be a raw deal because they won't get out what they pay in,
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And the provision included to offset the cost of these programs recognizes that taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for certain lifestyle prescription drugs through Medicare and Medicaid.
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Some of the things they're recommending were hot issues in the 1990s, and they were dropped after being pushed by predecessors of mine very strongly and just didn't get anywhere.
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It will be a bill that will protect workers' pensions of the defined benefit variety,
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By starting today to tackle this challenge of the baby boomers we can avoid a crisis.
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The oil companies ought to contribute something to LIHEAP with the profits that they have,
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Compared to the situation in Ukraine just one year ago, I think the progress they've made is impressive, ... I wish all our trading partners demonstrated that kind of respect for the rule of law.
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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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There were some unacceptable problems, but as the problems are resolved I'm confident beneficiaries will agree the new benefit will bring them better health security in the long run.
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probably the Securities and Exchange Commission and the attorney general should have been on top of, but aren't.
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Now that I've had more time to absorb the text, I'm very disappointed. The text moves us no closer to resolving the impasse on market access that's really at the heart of development.
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The serious nature of the reported findings and allegations, coupled with the grave implications if these allegations are meritorious, compel me ... to refer these matters to the Department of Justice and to the Securities Exchange Commission for consideration.