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 irony is that the program actually creates unfair competition,
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Our committee has a lot of work to do before we truly think about implementing a guest worker program in this country. I say that because our Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents drive by day-labor centers knowing that illegal aliens loiter the street corner in search of illegal work but do nothing. I don't know how we can reasonably create a system for 10 million illegal aliens when we cannot currently handle the workload on our desks.
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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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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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This is a serious development in terms of further erosion of the FBI's credibility.
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If you've been promised a pension, we're going to make sure that you receive it.
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Even documented pledges by FBI bureaucrats to write threat assessments were never kept, and no one was held accountable,
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No Senator has the right to insist on his or her own issue-by-issue philosophy, or seek commitments from nominees on specific litmus test questions likely to come before that court.
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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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If something is wrong, it is like locking the barn door after the horse is stolen, ... But we are still going to pursue it. I want to know what they bought with the money.
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The wisest thing to do is disregard revenue that was never supposed to come in anyway,
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The rules are full of serious holes that need to be fixed as soon as possible,
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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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If (Boeing) knew these things presumably 10 years ago or even before that, perhaps the TWA 800 explosion would never have taken place and there would not have been 230 lives lost,