Chuck Grassley

This is a clear violation of Congress' move to strengthen anti-fraud laws.

I call on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the matter to ensure that these price spikes were not a result of anti-competitive behavior or illegal manipulation.

Like many of my colleagues, I believe this is an extremely important issue, and trade agreements might be one of the best means that we have of getting results.

There is not a lot of voice for agriculture in Washington, and we need more of it.

I think you are telling me that as far as these two negotiations going on, TPP and TTIP, you don't have any particular enforcement concerns at this time.

I surely want your agents to find ways to address what I think is an abuse without compromising our tradition of asylum.

I am concerned about the increased number of applicants who are filing for asylum or claiming credible fear at our ports of entry.

What worries me about the suggestion that we impose a judicial process on NSLs is that it would actually make it harder for us to do national security investigations than bank fraud investigations.

Although recent disclosures and commentary have created the impression in some quarters that NSA surveillance is indiscriminate and pervasive across the globe, that is not the case.

One of the things that I am concerned about is that we not rebuild the wall that exists between our law enforcement and national security communities before September 11th.

Our judgment about the government holding the data is that the primary danger of the 215 telephony metadata program is not if it is used only in the way in which its use is authorized, but that it leaves sitting out there a huge amount of…

We have not uncovered any official efforts to suppress dissent or any intent to intrude into people's private lives without legal justification.

The most important responsibility of government is to protect our national security, while at the same time preserving our civil liberties.

There are some number of people in large corporations who learn about things that could be considered violations of securities laws. Now they have a huge motivation to move forward.

One of the problems with the Department's policy of selective enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act in Colorado and Washington is that the Federal priorities identified by the Department are already being negatively impacted by the…

I hope when you run into some of this you will be an advocate for them within the Department.

I often feel that whistleblowers are kind of treated like skunks at a picnic, just as an example.

I very much believe whistleblowers are patriotic people, and that we would not be able to do our job of oversight or in your case prosecution if you did not have some of their information.

It was putting a strain on a lot of people's criminal records which really should not be there.

In my view, the right to self-defense does not mean a whole lot if you cannot access your firearm in a real big hurry.

The Majority Leader can bring up these nominations for a vote on the floor anytime he decides to do so.

I applaud the Chairman for his work.

The majority stripped the minority of any ability to stop any nominee from being confirmed on the floor.

Casting non-believers as outsiders to the political community.

I have reminded my colleagues of the predecessor's involvement of this office orchestrating the quid pro quo...