Chuck Grassley

This amendment is based largely on the extenders package that passed the House last week. It includes a 30-day extension for unemployment insurance, COBRA coverage, and the SGR Medicare physicians payment fix. It includes provisions on…

Citizens United found that independent expenditures, advertisements, pamphlets, books, documentaries produced independently from a party or candidate's campaign cannot be suppressed under the First Amendment.

The President claimed that the decision 'reversed a century of law' and 'opened the floodgates' for special interests and foreign powers to 'bankroll American elections.'

It did not reverse a century of law because there was no law limiting independent expenditures until 1947.

The President's charge right there before all the American people that the Court had opened the door to special interests, bankrolling elections, I think was very misleading.

We have an administration that gave Miranda warnings and a lawyer to a terrorist directly coming to America.

We have an administration that not only repealed tough and effective interrogation techniques that are lawful.

We have an administration that has announced that it intends to hold an Article III common criminal trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

We have an administration that insists on giving Miranda warnings to terrorists caught during wartime.

I cannot support this pay-go amendment because it would continue the double-standard that exists between taxes and spending. Under current law, more than a dozen mandatory programs will expire over the next 10 years. Extending these…

I hope I am here next year to continue this discussion.

I think my judgment is you have a ways to go.

Your predecessor, Mr. John Hamre, assured me that he would fix that problem after he was confirmed as Deputy Secretary, but he didn't keep his word.

I want to go to interest rates and the publicly held debt.

Obviously, a lot of us agree with the goals that the President articulated.

I do not understand why the State Department would tell us that it was being reviewed by the Justice Department if the Justice Department says they do not have it.

This directive implies that there is a concern that the State Department may have issued visas to individuals who are known or suspected terrorists.

When will we get a copy of this application?

This is not a case about whether there were red flags.

We understood that was a mistake before.

We cannot defeat al Qaeda through half steps, Miranda warnings, minimization procedures, and Inspector General reports.

My judgment is rape victims should never have to pay for the cost of the kit.

I was glad to have Senator Franken ask me if I would join him as a lead cosponsor of this Justice for Survival of Sexual Assault Act because I think that this would cut down on the backlog of untested rape cases.

This Survivors of Sexual Assault Act includes a provision that requires States to be responsible for full up-front costs of the kit, examination.

The American people, however, cannot accept and will not accept another bait and switch like the 1986 bill...