Chuck Grassley

Most importantly, we must have a frank discussion about Washington's spending addiction.

Any great power that spends more on debt service than on defense, will not stay great for a long time, a very long time.

I don't put much stock in a study of Biden's fiscal records that leaves out hundreds of billions of dollars of unlawful student loan giveaways.

Taxpayers and workers, and investors are smarter than we are in the United States Senate.

I've criticized both Presidents for not doing enough to control spending and deficit.

We must stop digging ourselves into an ever deeper budget hole, and I think the budget agreement reached between McCarthy and Biden a year ago starts us down that track, maybe not as aggressively as we should, but it's still a start.

Updating the Budget Act for the 21st Century is a shared goal worth continuing to work towards.

Rather than punish success, tax reform should focus on incentivizing work, savings, and investment.

I'm going back to this comes up why can't you guys do something about saving Social Security and Medicare?

It's just ridiculous to think you can raise marginal tax rates to 93 percent and you're going to get people stupid enough to pay 93 percent of their income in taxes, so they're working for nothing.

Okay. Won't the policies Democrats chose to enact as part of their misnamed Inflation Reduction Act overwhelmingly benefit large corporations, as well as banks and even private equity firms?

Proponents of a financial transaction tax argue it would promote market stability. Has that been the experience of countries who have implemented such a tax?

Isn't it true that many of the tax proposals that we've heard about today haven't been enacted because of the Democrats' own failure to enact when they had that opportunity?

Since the 2020 campaign, President Biden has pledged not to raise taxes on Americans earning less than $400,000.

However, at the Budget Committee hearing last year, the majority witness, Bruce Bartlett, let slip the truth by saying this. Quote: 'I think we should raise taxes on the wealthy, but we're going to have to eventually raise taxes on the…

My democrat colleagues talk a big game about making Wall Street pay their fair share.

Congress should regularly examine tax incentives, just as we should review spending programs to ensure that they're working as intended.

Insurance isn't a partisan issue. Mitigation and resilience is not a partisan issue.

How has the Biden administration's economic leadership failed to help our economy, and what can this Committee do to get our economy back on track?

Climate change isn't the primary driver of insurance rates hikes, and collapse of the insurance industry isn't imminent.

Inflation has become embedded in the economy, and the historic levels of borrowing by the Federal Government are crowding out the private sector.

If the majority get their way, Americans can expect to pay much more to put gas in their cars, and to heat their homes.

Expensive liberal policies, not climate change, are much to blame for these market dynamics.

President Biden and the majority would like us all to ignore our exploding $34 trillion debt.

The majority refuses to write a budget, or work together to curb reckless Washington spending.