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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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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If Congress does its job, taxpayers won't suffer any tax increase,
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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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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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The American taxpayers have spent a lot of money on this report and they deserve the right to see it,
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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,