Chuck Grassley

I told the Attorney General in January when he appeared for oversight without having responses to the previous year's hearing questions that that is not acceptable.

The Department is supposed to implement the employer mandate a year overdue and significantly altered from the statute.

The legislative process certainly was by any means necessary, and the implementation has operated similarly.

Congress is going to want to know what the premiums will be for next year.

When you were nominated, I said that anyone put in charge of Obamacare would be set up to fail.

It says that only three of these officers died from torso wounds while wearing bulletproof vests.

Deobligation promotes accountability in the use of grant funds and is vital to effective grant management.

But there are some of us that believe the Senate ought to be the deliberative body it is supposed to be, and I include in that that we should not be spending all day on a bill like this. But there should be some debate on it.

The Government Accountability Office has found that DOJ has deobligated $31 million in undisbursed funds from grant awards whose terms have ended.

I want to thank you because a year or so ago I asked the Government Accountability Office to look into some of what I considered mismanagement of the program.

I think basically I agree with you but let us go down that narrow lane then that you are talking about.

I am glad to yield. I think that is very basic economics: Increase supply and reduce price. The other matter is it makes us more energy independent. We spend hundreds of millions of dollars every day to import oil. There is no sense doing…

The system of penalties in place now is a critical tool for them to be able to dismantle drug-trafficking networks to keep our communities safe.

I hope to discuss the legislation that Senator Feinstein and I introduced last year called 'Saving Kids From Dangerous Drugs Act,' that we can get something done to deter this kind of marketing.

Now, on that latter point, you have seen some of that very much advertised on recent news reports about 4th graders selling marijuana for $11 as an example.

It is hardly surprising that a senior DEA official recently told the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control that what was happening in these States--meaning Washington and Colorado and maybe also, I think, by implication where…

I do not want to remove that cornerstone.

What was happening in these States--meaning Washington or States where there has been recreational marijuana or even medicinal marijuana--is 'reckless and irresponsible.'

These are penalties for dealers, not users. In the midst of the heroin epidemic, as I said to you, I think that this makes no sense.

Maybe as a matter of a summary, would you say that the trends are moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?

If State enforcement efforts are not sufficiently robust to protect against the harms set forth above, the Federal Government may seek to challenge the regulatory structure itself.

I think the sentencing bill that the administration supports does just the opposite.

I want to know if the database will make clear to the readers what specifically a provider accepts is reportable.

I want to say to you, Madam Secretary, that with the release of the rule regarding qualified health plans in the anti-kickback statute, it is very unclear to me what the Federal policy is regarding the anti-fraud provisions available in…

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