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 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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I think I should have kept my mouth shut back in January,
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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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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.
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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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The irony is that the program actually creates unfair competition,
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If you make a promise, you are responsible for your own promise, ... Unfortunately, there are a few ... bad apples who have abused loopholes ... to avoid funding pensions in a way that shows they are responsible for their own promises.
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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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Ottumwa Regional Hospital and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Regional Office are attempting to work through the issues at hand. It is very rare for CMS to withdraw Medicare funding due to these types of violations, especially when the hospital is working to correct them. And, it is my understanding that the hospital will be submitting a plan of correction to CMS shortly.
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I hope, sitting in the marble palace, you'll remember that I have great pride in the success of the False Claims Act,
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I think there's a management culture here that's at fault. I call it a cowboy culture,
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You see the sort of inconsistency that I get from my members,