Chuck Grassley

I hope we do not see a bunch of quorum calls all day where the public back at home is looking at a blank screen that says 'quorum call' when the Senate could be working on dozens of amendments we have been waiting to bring up for a long…

I will vote for DeMint Amendment No. 168 because it provides long-term tax relief. However, I do not agree that State and local tax deductions and other itemized deductions should be eliminated. If the amendment passes, I would work in…

He'll bring that hands-on perspective to ONDCP.

He is a cop's cop and his perspective was shaped controlling the streets in Florida, New York, and Washington State.

These multi-agency Federal local partnerships require cooperation and compromise.

Gil Kerlikowske is the right man to address these challenges.

The drug war will not be won on the streets.

If confirmed as Secretary of Defense, I will do my utmost to strengthen the Department's financial management and internal controls designed to prevent fraud.

I have been an advocate for whistleblowers because I value candid, unfiltered information they provide to Congress.

I have no personal problem with a pardon, but that you expected a howl from the Southern District.

You have admitted to poor judgment in your handling of this case.

I think the False Claims Act... has been a very, very important tool for us to root out fraudulent use of taxpayers' money.

It bothers me that giving Rich a 'get out of jail free' card happens, and that's especially offensive to me.

I wish a President of the United States, previous and this one coming up, would have done that.

Oversight helps make Government more transparent. The taxpayers have a right to know whether the taxpayers' money is being appropriately spent.

Don't you think that before the President--a President, in this case, President Clinton--decides to overturn the sentences of people like those in the video that we just showed doing what I said that they were doing, that the Justice…

If DOD's books cannot be audited, then the defense finance and accounting system is disjointed and broken.

No political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulation or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for 2 years.

I think you spoke to this in your opening statement, so that is a pretty strong statement you made.

I would like to have you take a look at a letter that I sent to the Department NRCS early in December.

For a long time on this issue, I have worked with my colleagues Senator Feingold, Senator Harkin, and others.

Many of us in the Senate have worked hard in years to pass legislation to help restore competition in livestock markets.

I am so pleased to see that one of the President-elect's Cabinet nominations is an Iowan, and I want to personally congratulate you.

He has been around agriculture in the family farm, as mayor of a small town, as a State senator, and as Governor of Iowa.

The only thing whistleblowers are guilty of is committing truth.