Charles E. Grassley
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Charles E. Grassley is a prominent American politician currently serving as a United States Senator from Iowa. A member of the Republican Party, Grassley has been in office since 1981, making him one of the longest-serving senators in U.S. history. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on issues such as agriculture, healthcare, and fiscal responsibility. Grassley has played a significant role in various legislative efforts, including tax reform and oversight of government spending.
Nov 4, 2003
I don't view my Chairmanship of this Committee as anything more than a Co-Chairmanship with Senator Feinstein.
Sep 10, 2003
I don't believe that survey. They don't reflect the true feeling of the American Muslim community.
May 25, 1994
for the first time, a President of the United States has been sued for acts occurring before he assumed office. Press accounts suggest that when he responds to the lawsuit, the President will argue that he is immune from suit. Not being a…
May 25, 1994
I want to visit for just a short period of time about the budget problems at the Department of Defense, and what they say they are going to be able to do with their being overprogrammed for the amount of money that they are going to…
May 25, 1994
last Wednesday, the New York Times ran a lengthy article on the growing number of crimes committed by gangs of white youths. The article focused on the brutal and senseless murder last August of 17-year-old Michelle Jensen in my own State…
May 17, 1994
on another item, an article appeared in the Washington Post on Monday, May 16, discussing a program for at-risk youth that is finding great success in Prince Georges County. The program is called ``Female Achievers'' and works with middle…
May 17, 1994
now that the smoke has begun to clear from a recent adoption of the budget resolution in the Congress, I can say as always, when you look back on the Record, it allows us to compare what was the rhetoric during that debate and the…
May 11, 1994
we have before us the conference report on the budget, and I believe you would not know it by its cover, but this conference report in and of itself is an oxymoron. We went through this tremendous battle against the big spending machine…
May 10, 1994
I would like to speak about gross, continuing financial mismanagement at the Department of Defense [DOD]. I have spoken on the issue a number of times over the past year. Last week, I spoke about the financial horror stories laid out…
May 10, 1994
Mr. Hamre states and I quote: The department routinely writes checks on accounts that are in the red. Indeed, even when accounts have been in a deficit status for some time, Department procedures permit continued expenditure of funds…
May 5, 1994
I remember last fall, in November, this body voted 100 to 0 for a sense-of-the-Senate resolution that Senator Roth and I put forth. That resolution told the Justice Department that when we passed the Child Pornography Act in 1984, what we…
May 5, 1994
Today is Tax Freedom Day--the day when the average American can stop working for the Government and start working for themselves and their families. The taxpayer has to work 125 days in 1994 to pay for all those taxes--two days more than…
May 4, 1994
I am pleased to join Senator Lieberman in introducing the Congressional Accountability Act. The time is long overdue for Congress to follow the laws it prescribes for everyone else. Our bill will correct the longstanding practice of…
May 3, 1994
In a nutshell, this is what Mr. Hamre said: ``They have been leading the fight to overcome the 40-year-old problems they inherited * * * Like me, they recently moved into these positions of responsibility, and their heroic efforts in these…
May 3, 1994
there is a continuing and a dangerous crisis in financial management at the Department of Defense [DOD] and someone needs to be held accountable for what's going on. The financial mess at the Pentagon was the subject of an excellent…
May 3, 1994
The memo announces the recipients of the 1993 Presidential Rank Awards. Four recipients of the award and $10,000 cash bonuses are senior officials of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service or DFAS as follows: John P. Springett, DFAS…
May 3, 1994
I am pleased to join my colleague, Senator Kohl, in his effort to dramatically and unalterably change the welfare system as we know it. This proposal is reinventing Government at its best. It moves the decisionmaking process closer to the…
Apr 21, 1994
this morning in the newspaper there were reports of a leading Republican Senator saying that we ought to ditch the Exon-Grassley amendment which cut $26 billion from the budget resolution as it passed the House of Representatives and that…
Apr 21, 1994
in regard to this amendment, I am agreeing to take this amendment. I had concerns about how the original amendment would affect farmers in my State of Iowa. I have discussed with the Senator from Louisiana my concerns without fully knowing…
Apr 21, 1994
even though we are going to move forward with this amendment, I want to make the point that I believe that this amendment is not the right amendment. I am opposed to it at this point. I am going to take the amendment now in the interest of…
Apr 20, 1994
I believe that the Senator from Alabama has done a very, very good job of explaining precisely what this legislation does, and what we intend it to accomplish, and also some of the problems we had in working our way through to this…
Apr 20, 1994
If I could, and I cannot do better than the chairman has done on the explanation of this amendment, I would take just a little bit of time to stress a couple of points within it that I think need to be explained because these are things…
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