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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.

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Jan 17, 2024

This means lower wages and lost jobs. This Senator Grassley cannot support.

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Jan 17, 2024

President Biden wants to take us back to having the highest corporate tax rate amongst our major trading partners.

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Jan 17, 2024

Thanks to many of you, especially Senator Grassley and Chairman Durbin, I was spared from spending another decade behind bars.

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Jan 10, 2024

We've heard a proposal to create an expensive new federal climate bureaucracy, doling out billions in green handouts to large corporations.

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Jan 10, 2024

It's not appropriate for us to micromanage the state for the sake of climate change, or anything else for that matter.

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Jan 10, 2024

We celebrate when Congress manages to avoid shutting down the government. I think we can set the bar a little higher than that.

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Jan 10, 2024

We're broke here in Washington, D.C.

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Jan 10, 2024

We hear Democrats argue for a cascade of expensive and expansive federal climate proposals that will saddle us and local governments with debt and red tape.

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Jan 10, 2024

For the good of our nation we must begin to find common ground to address a national debt that recently topped $34 trillion.

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Jan 10, 2024

This has prevented us from discussing ways to improve our immediate and dire economic position.

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Jan 10, 2024

Our unsustainable fiscal outlook is a bipartisan problem because both parties talk about it, and it's going to require a bipartisan solution to resolve.

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Nov 8, 2023

I've heard liberal pundits claim that anyone who's not a tax cheat has nothing to worry about from increased IRS enforcement.

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Nov 8, 2023

Let's look at this tax gap, Mr. Edwards, of $625 billion.

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Nov 8, 2023

The proponents of this funding tout this funding as necessary to increase taxpayer services.

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Nov 8, 2023

Efforts to paint one side of the aisle as friendly to tax avoidance, or tax evasion, ignores that taxpayers of all types attempt to minimize their tax liability in a legal way.

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Nov 8, 2023

Democrats abandoned the bipartisan focus on customer service in pursuit of partisan enforcement first efforts.

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Nov 8, 2023

When it comes to holding known tax cheats accountable, I'll take a back seat to no one.

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Nov 8, 2023

If you care about debt and deficits you should want a well-funded, well-functioning IRS.

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Nov 8, 2023

A few years ago, however, IRS reform had strong bipartisan support.

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Oct 25, 2023

We've heard many politicized climate change narratives throughout our 12 climate change hearings, and unfortunately the politicalization of climate change isn't limited to the halls of Congress.

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Oct 25, 2023

We've heard sensationalists and their alarmist rhetoric used to mislead the public on climate change.

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Oct 25, 2023

I take a little bit different approach to the real problem of global warming and climate change.

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Oct 25, 2023

I want to learn from and legislate based upon discussions with both my constituents and experts.

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Oct 25, 2023

Claims that aren't supported by robust review of the science.

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