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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I do believe we'll get it through the Senate,
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If Congress does its job, taxpayers won't suffer any tax increase,
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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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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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It seems to me we ought to target our farm bill payments to small and medium-sized farmers,
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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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They are trying to stall, stall, stall. We need to get this bill passed.
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The frustration that I and many of my colleagues in the Senate feel is that China is not satisfying its obligations as a member of the World Trade Organization and as a major beneficiary of open trade.
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The commission seemed to forget one of the basic guidelines they were to follow.
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The irony is that the program actually creates unfair competition,
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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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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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The information from these audits will allow the IRS to target its limited resources on examining those taxpayers who most likely to be up to no good, while leaving honest taxpayers alone.