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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The exact figure (of the tax cut) I will release tomorrow (Tuesday), ... It won't be exactly the way the president had it, but it will be very, very aggressive and will send a strong signal that we in the majority party feel that there's a great deal of anxiety about the economy.
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Some of us in Congress wanted more family tax relief in this package than what we ultimately passed,
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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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In recent years, the FDA has demonstrated a too-cozy relationship with the pharmaceutical industry and an attitude of shielding rather than disclosing information, ... The opportunity to name a new commissioner is a chance to take the agency in a necessary new direction ... and reassert that the agency's top priority is what's good for John Q. Public when it comes to reviewing drugs in the marketplace.
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I wonder to what extent a 4-cent reduction in fuel is going to help airlines that are going into bankruptcy anyway. Maybe you might as well let the bankruptcy court sort it out,
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I wonder to what extent a 4-cent reduction in fuel is going to help airlines that are going into bankruptcy anyway. Maybe you might as well let the bankruptcy court sort it out,
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The immediate relief package that we're announcing today will help get short-term aid to hurricane victims by encouraging food donations and the employment of displaced individuals,
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Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,
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There's a blunder a month and more like recently a blunder a week,
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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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Our investigation needs to find out whether Enron's actions were legal, somewhat questionable, highly questionable or even illegal, ... In the end, what's legal for any company could be the most shocking of all.
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The American taxpayers have spent a lot of money on this report and they deserve the right to see it,
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FDA scientists and employees are by and large hardworking and committed to fulfilling the agency's mission. They deserve a commissioner who will reinvigorate the agency.
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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.