Charles E. Grassley

I'm going to start with Mr. Mangual. Last year, I held a field hearing in Iowa for the Drug Caucus that I co-chair with Chairman Whitehouse.

We can have productive processes to have mechanical thinning, to have prescribed burns, and to reduce wildfire risks.

Adopting a budget was once considered an essential part of good governance. Now it's barely an afterthought.

Needless to say things must change.

Unfortunately, President Biden and Senate leadership are uninterested in getting back to regular order, or addressing our dire fiscal outlook.

The delayed process postpones--in other words when appropriators and authorizers can commence hearings to review agency spending.

I think this hearing comes at a critical time because of Russia's influence on the world's supply of grain.

This plan aims to permanently conserve 30 percent of our country's lands and waters by 2030.

The Biden administration is taking action to take more American farmland out of production.

I don't see any activities being taken by the Administration that are recognizing the problems that federal budget faces.

The American Rescue Plan was an enormous policy error.

The Administration has done nothing to improve the budgetary outlook.

To paraphrase former fed chairman Paul Volcker, cutting spending may be painful, but the pain for all of us will be much greater if it isn't accomplished.

Things need to change.

One area of agreement must be that our budget and appropriation process is broken.

Despite our political differences, and they aren't as great as the public believes between Republicans and the Democrats.

I want to applaud two leaders in this process, Senator Murray and Collins, for publicly announcing their commitment to regular order.

It's also important to hold online service providers accountable in keeping our children safe.

Congress has and will continue to play a crucial role.

You spent $25 million on this, you being the American public and you have a right to know what's in the report since you paid for it.

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandate.

Oh, I have been involved in oversight of the Defense Department for almost all the years I have been in the United States Senate. And it's very difficult to get answers from a lot of bureaucracies, but it's quite more difficult in the…

Well, it's quite obvious that they didn't take it seriously, because it wasn't only that I was asking the questions. It wasn't until it started getting questions from people like you who are journalists that -- that this got their…

Do you question the work of the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation? Well, you shouldn't, because they're like God around here.

But it is disconcerting when you have an agency that gives out $6 billion, and you also have that same agency getting $3 billion on top of that in the stimulus package.