Charles E. Grassley

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

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.

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…

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…

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 what is the oversight of people higher up, that senior executives can be spending so much time doing non-productive work when they're on the taxpayer's payroll?

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.

The people filling up their tank, would they rather have the American farmer and the American worker have that money or would they rather to give it to some Arab sheikh to shoot back at us in the war on terror? I think they would choose to…

We shouldn't be asking our troops to be in a tent of death. We ought to be providing them the maximum protection that we can.

It sends a clear signal that you can get away with murder.

I support this amendment.

I am concerned that we have no information as to how this money will be spent.

I sent a letter to President Bush requesting that he make funding for meat and livestock testing a priority.

USDA should be committed to the development of a rapid, live test.

We must place a high priority on rural America.

The Grassley-Murkowski amendment, as amended, would have shifted claims processing and Physicians Panels from DOE to DOL.

I am willing to keep challenging bureaucrats, fighting for amendments, and making the case to leaders who serve on this committee as long as it takes.

The federal government's implementation of this program has been an insult to the Americans who served our country.

The Federal Government's implementation of this program has been an insult to the Americans who served our country working at this ammunition plants for our military.

The reality is that the prospect of meaningful assistance from the Department of Energy does not appear any closer today.

Thank you very much for holding this oversight hearing. This is a first step, I hope, to resolving the problems that you have described.

I'm willing to keep challenging bureaucrats, fighting for amendments and making the case to the leaders who serve on this committee as long as it takes.

I've dedicated a majority of my time today to describe what I believe are the fundamental flaws in the Department of Energy's ability to process claims both efficiently and effectively.

The Grassley-Murkowski amendment would have repaired the front end of the claims process by transferring claims processing and physicians panel responsibilities to department of labor.