Chuck Grassley

There is a lot of debate in Congress about moving towards non-corn, non-food biofuels.

These reforms imposed new requirements on nonprofit hospitals to hold them accountable for their tax-exempt status.

Well, you surely talk to Secretary Lew, and he made the same promise that you made: when he comes before the committee, he is going to answer our questions. And I do not know why people say they will answer our questions if they will not.

So disruption would be the answer, the effect on the consumer that I was kind of concentrating my question on.

I am done with my presentation today, but I will have questions for each of you, and quite a few questions for DISH, if you would be willing to answer them in writing.

I would agree with both ends of the table that eliminating all copyright would be exceptionally complex.

Now it is more general.

I am going to ask each of you three questions, and I would like a short answer because, quite frankly, the idea is to summarize some things you have already said in your statement.

This will have to be my last question. Time is running out. Do you have a position on the length of STELA reauthorization if Congress decides to extend it?

If I am fortunate enough to be confirmed by this Committee, by the Senate, I would follow all binding precedent from the Supreme Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

But history turned out that you were right in the controversial decision you were involved in the previous time you were before us.

I only wanted to ask Justice White questions.

I find no offense with your approach. And I hope the rest of you do not feel left out.

You have had a distinguished career as Assistant U.S. Attorney, appellate practitioner, commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and now as chief judge.

Discrimination remains a widespread social problem.

I believe home State support is important in the process, including the Judiciary Committee, as well as the full Senate.

I would hope that my Democrat colleagues would not subject these nominees to any litmus test.

I think this is a problem throughout Republican and Democrat administrations, and there is a culture in these administrations to thumb their nose at the Congress.

After yesterday's confirmation votes, the Senate has confirmed 64 lower-court Article III judges during President Obama's second term.

I wanted to thank you for your leadership on the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act.

Congratulations, all of you, and thank you.

I think it severely harms the credibility of the National Archives and needs to be resolved.

During this administration has the Justice Department ever applied the foreseeable harm standard and decided not to defend an agency in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit?

We are very serious about making this FOIA work and that withholding information is not justified.

I know that the National Archives and other agencies participate in FOIAonline portal, so I would like to hear from you about what we should consider when we examine this matter.