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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With this first initiative from the Finance Committee - and there will be more in other areas where we have jurisdiction - we want the victims through all of the affected areas to know that they can count on us to create a set of measures that will return vitality and vigor to the Gulf region.
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Unless Europe changes its mind on agriculture, there won't be much accomplished in Seattle,
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the extent to which tax policy needs to be change to affect individual victims and particularly to help the rebuilding of lost businesses.
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We did not find anything alarming enough that required additional follow-up beyond what law-enforcement agencies are already doing.
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There is a ship afloat without a captain,
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When I make a decision, I'm going to be applauded or rejected by the electorate once every six years. There's an immediate response to any decision that a coach makes, and it's either the booing or applauding of those people in the audience.
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We need to look at the tax code to see what might be done to help investment, to help people in need,
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We are talking about maintaining existing (tax) policy beyond whatever sunset we have now,
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I think that the states will conclude that the committee proposals will help them better serve their beneficiaries, but in the event a state doesn't, this kind of flexibility may be helpful to states such as Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi right now,
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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.