Chuck Grassley

If it is important to him, it is important to somebody besides Chuck Grassley.

In 2014, I was successful in getting the bipartisan Small Business Efficiency Act passed into law.

You might not worry about me, but you had better worry about Chairman Hatch.

The cost of these regulations is surely impacting the entire country and our economic growth.

We have been hitting the Democrats for 3 years that they have not adopted a budget.

It was just a fraud.

So we passed a law, let us say, 6 or 7 years ago that the Defense Department services are supposed to be auditable by 2017.

I want to compliment this agency for something dealing with the report that they are giving to us on financial management at the Department of Defense.

Our country is $19 trillion in debt. The 2016 deficit has been projected to increase that by $544 billion.

Is there an argument here for biannual budgeting so that more time can be spent on oversight and reauthorization efforts?

It just seems like it is going to take a long time to get work done that ought to be done.

I commend the chairman and many of my colleagues on this committee for their work to advance legislation that fixes many of the issues preventing businesses from entering into such plans.

I believe we can do this by helping the expansion of plan options for small businesses, including Multiple Employer Plans.

I think one of the best ways to close that gap is to make it easier for small businesses to enter into a MEP by relaxing regulations.

Restrictions on access to tax-favored savings before retirement may discourage individuals from making contributions.

So by any objective account, CMS has failed in overseeing the CO-OP program; $2.5 billion in loans have been given to these 23 CO-OPs.

I will not question what the minority leader just said, but it seems to me we ought to know who that Senator is besides the minority leader because Senator Wyden and I have worked very hard over the last 10 years, and we finally got done…

May I ask on whose behalf the minority leader is objecting? Is it on his own behalf or on behalf of another Senator?

Sunshine is the best disinfectant

The Sunshine Act, introduced in 2009 by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Herb Kohl (D-WI)...

Senator John Breaux from Louisiana and I spearheaded the so-called 'Tri-partisan' proposal to reform TANF.

Several years ago, I wrote a letter to President Obama indicating my willingness and desire to work with him on welfare reform.

This administration has attempted to bypass the Congress and create regulatory schemes not authorized under the statute.

Welfare programs--and the individuals they are designed to help--have become just another pawn in the endless partisan conflict.

I think it is important that we do review regulation from time to time to ensure that our policies and regulations are functioning.