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Chuck Grassley

Charles Ernest "Chuck" Grassley (born September 17, 1933) is the senior United States Senator from Iowa, serving since 1981. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives (1975–1981) and the Iowa state legislature (1959–1974).

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My position, is if I were chairman of Judiciary Committee, I couldn't move forward with it but you'd have to ask Graham what he's going to do. I can't answer that question.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

If the purpose of( a payroll tax cut) or a check is to stimulate the economy and help people in need, I think when a person has a check in his hand... I think that's going to do more economic good than if we dribble out $ 30 every paycheck, because people are going to notice it and maybe take some action as a result.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

People would think that we're hurting Social Security funds when we're really not.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

I'm not going to go. And I'm not going to go because of the virus situation.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Chuck Grassley is always well prepared. I think there is a lot of ways to get power in the Senate, but I think being knowledgeable and being willing to explain it with regard to any position you take -- Chuck Grassley seems to be well prepared on almost anything.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

We expect leadership from our President and particularly in times like this, and I think that when there was destruction to a church or any other historical thing that America would put great confidence in that should not be destroyed, I think a president ought to bring attention to that terrorist activity, and go there and do... what he did last night.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

Government Accountability isn't only Government Accountability or a Democrat issue, inspectors general shouldn't be politically motivated or politically targeted. And those of us in Congress have a duty to promote accountability, regardless of who is in office.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

Congress's intent is clear that an expression of lost confidence, without further explanation, is not sufficient to fulfill the requirements of the IG Reform Act.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 5 months ago Politics

As I've said before, Congress requires written reasons justifying an IG's removal. A general lack of confidence simply is not sufficient detail to satisfy Congress.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

As I've said before, Congress requires written reasons justifying an IG's removal. A general lack of confidence simply is not sufficient detail to satisfy Congress, the President has not provided the kind of justification for the removal of IG Linick required by this law.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

I am doing the usual things, trying not to shake hands with people, washing my hands and being careful about sneezing and stuff like that. Beyond that, not much. I am not avoiding meetings. Yesterday and today, I always have eight 15-minute meetings with constituents, I am continuing those meetings, just not shaking hands like I usually would.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

Farmers in particular have been hard hit by the trade war and deserve recognition for their sacrifice.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 11 months ago US News

The law protects The Whistleblower, i'm an advocate for whistleblowing and passed all these whistleblower protection laws, so I can only say we have to go by what the law says.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I've read the transcript in its entirety. It shows that there was no quid pro quo, it reveals no quid pro quo.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

This person appears to have followed the whistleblower protection laws and ought to be heard out and protected.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

When Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus comes to whether someone qualifies as a whistleblower, the distinctions being drawn between first - and second-hand knowledge aren't legal ones, senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus's just not part of whistleblower protection law or any agency policy. Complaints based on second-hand information should not be rejected out of hand, but they do require additional leg work to get at the facts and evaluate the claim's credibility.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I've read the transcript in its entirety. It shows that there was no quid pro quo.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We now have an uncorroborated accusation, rooted only in unnamed sources, with no direct knowledge of the event, and that the alleged victim doesnt even remember, since when did that become something fit to printby the supposed American paper of record?

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

I don't think you're going to find that the Chinese ever let the world know that they decide to do something because the United States demanded it.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Business

I support nearly every one of President Trump's immigration policies, but this is not one of them, i urge The President to consider other options.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I support nearly every one of President Trump's immigration policies, but this is not one of them.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We haven't negotiated it yet, there's an urgency for it, absolutely. Not because of the present tariff situation, but because the Congress delegated too much authority.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Many of the significant improvements in USMCA are reducing non-tariff barriers and implementing rules and fair practices that will help U.S. workers, jobs and businesses tremendously over the coming years.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Business

I've concluded that they're taking it under consideration, i don't know whether I'll be satisfied or not when it's all done, but I'm beyond the point of considering whether or not I'm going to be satisfied.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I spoke about the competence of people I know.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I know the President's goals on immigration are the same as mine, pretty much the same as mine I would say, and that the President's got ta have people in place who will do his job and since his goals are the same as mine I'm gon na have to accept it.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

House Democrats say they're interested in the tax returns of all presidents when they're really just interested in one : President President Donald Trump.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

If the House of Representatives are going to get them, then I want the Senate Finance Committee to have them.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

People are caught between the need for border security and agreeing with( what) the President's trying to do, but not how he wants to do it.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We've all seen the finger-pointing. Every link in the supply chain has gotten skilled at that, but, like most Americans, I'm sick and tired of the blame game. It's time for solutions.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health News

America has a problem with the high cost of prescription medicines, we're all trying to understand the sticker shock that many drugs generate -- especially when some of those drugs have been around for a long time.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health News

We need to have legitimate structural changes &enforcement w China or else they will continue cheating &stealing our IP/trade secrets.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Fostering a culture that respects athletes of all ages and abilities will require continued oversight and support from the Olympic Committee, i'll continue to work with the Olympic Committee, athlete advocates and other stakeholders to ensure that the world's most coveted sports institution continues to inspire athletes, promote safety and make all Americans proud.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Sports

Very seldom do I get involved in primaries and right now you're two years away from elections, ask me maybe in a year and a half or something.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I don't know how the process works, and I want to know the process.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I would hope though that we'd see it as two separate things. One, there's a legitimacy to move judges and it's something we ought to do to make the judicial branch productive, so, I would disagree with him on how he's doing it, but I wouldn't disagree with his objective.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

My policy is that unreturned or negative blue slips will not necessarily preclude a hearing for a circuit-court nominee, unless the White House failed to consult with home-state senators.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Respectfully, the career public servants and professionals at The FBI know what they're doing and how best to conduct a background investigation. The FBI's business should be carried out independent of political or partisan considerations. I hope my York Democratic colleagues do not attempt to interfere in that process.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I lament how this hearing has come about.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Let's just be nice to her.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I promised Christine Blasey Ford that I would do everything in my power to avoid a repeat of the' circus' atmosphere in the hearing room that we saw the week of September 4, i've taken this additional step to have questions asked by expert staff counsel to establish the most fair and respectful treatment of the witnesses possible.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

We have done it because we want to depoliticize the whole process like the Democrats politicized the Anita Hill thing, the whole purpose is to create an environment where it is what Christine Blasey Ford has asked for -- it be professional and not be a circus. That's what we're up to.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

The FBI does not make a credibility assessment of any information it receives with respect to a nominee. Nor is it tasked with investigating a matter simply because the Committee deems it important. The Constitution assigns the Senate, and only the Senate, with the task of advising the President on his nominee and consenting to the nomination if the circumstances merit. We have no power to commandeer an Executive Branch agency into conducting our due diligence. The job of assessing and investigating a nominee’s qualifications in order to decide whether to consent to the nomination is ours, and ours alone.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

We have reached out to her in the last 36 hours, three or four times, by email, and we have not heard from them, so it kind of raises the question, do they want to come to the public hearing or not ?

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

It raises a lot of questions about Democrats' tactics and motives to bring this to the rest of the committee's attention only now rather than during these many steps along the way, senator Feinstein should publicly release the letter Senator Feinstein received back in July so that everyone can know what Senator Feinstein's known for weeks.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Judge Kavanaugh's nomination will proceed as scheduled, next Thursday.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I'm not going to speculate on what the President might do. But I can tell you Jeff Sessions has always been a friend and is still a friend.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I'm not going to speculate on what the President might do. But I can tell you Jeff Sessions has always been a friend and is still a friend, when we get Kavanaugh done we're going to have time -- anything that's in my jurisdiction that the President sends up that we have to do. But that's unrelated to any questions that people are floating around about Jeff Sessions right now. Because I wouldn't want to connect what I just told you about my having time with anything doing with Jeff Sessions.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

The President withdrew it and The President has the authority to do that.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

You could probably get them all if you want to take a year to do it, but obviously, you're going to only ask for what's relevant.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I think that we ca n’t count on any Democrats until we get the 50 votes we need, and then we ’ll get five or six of them, otherwise, I do n’t think we can count on them.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

For more than three decades, Justice Kennedy served with great distinction on the Supreme Court of the United States, i expect the President will soon nominate someone for the Senate to consider. I encourage the President to choose a nominee with the credentials, intellect and commitment to the rule of law necessary to serve on Supreme Court.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

So we can just delay and delay and delay, if we don't vote for any more judges that Flake doesn't want to vote for until September, we still probably got plenty to do.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

They see a story of kid glove treatment for one side and bare-knuckle tactics for the other.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

After the Kozinski scandal and other allegations, it was a real chance to undertake reforms, but in too many ways, this vague report kicks the can down the road. ... It appears victims could be left wondering to whom they can report, with little instruction or transparency in the process or resolution.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

If I were President of the United States and I had a lawyer that told me I could pardon myself, I think I would hire a new lawyer.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

The question is, is Chuck Grassley using it for legitimate national security purposes ? and I'm sure he feels he is. But I think there is some question about that.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I have no decision now, in fact, it's just come to my attention, not only through your question but a few minutes ago.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

So too does the Committee’s interest in learning the FBI agents ’ actual assessments of their interview of Lt. Gen. Flynn, particularly given the apparent contradiction between what then-Directory Comey told us in March 2017 and what he now claims.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

So my message to any one of the nine Supreme Court justices, if you're thinking about quitting this year, do it yesterday.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Politics

Consequently, I would rely on them to make a judgment on whatever Iowa Republican should recuse Iowa Republican in.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

It seems like after one year that there has been no evidence, at least that has been made public, no evidence that there's been any truth to the accusations of collusion between the The President and Russia, so why would he want to raise an issue that's so far going favorable to him ?

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

It’s a very important part of the process but it’s not entirely definitive.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

Obviously the views of the majority leader are important to consider, but they do not govern what happens here in the Senate Judiciary Committee, if consideration on the floor was the standard for approving a bill in committee or not, we wouldn't probably be moving any bills out of Senate Judiciary Committee.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

And I don't know how to conspire.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I'm at a loss to see how a call for the administration to be more transparent about decisions involving the special counsel — including any decision to fire the special counsel or curtail his investigation — would undermine the Mueller investigation.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

All I’ve done to help him in his job, number one, getting the job, number two, helping with all these assistant attorney generals … a lot of them have been very controversial, when the president wanted to fire him, I said the president shouldn’t do that.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

I’m just very incensed that he would send that letter.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

I don’t take lightly making a referral for criminal investigation. But, as I would with any credible evidence of a crime unearthed in the course of our investigations, I feel obliged to pass that information along to the Justice Department for appropriate review.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

And I’ve said that before and I’ve said it to people who can do it.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

Trump ought to stay out of it. I think it’s a Christopher Wray job.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

Mr. Simpson’s company, Fusion GPS, is the same firm that oversaw the creation of the unverified Trump Dossier, it is vital for the Committee to fully understand Fusion’s failure to register under FARA and its role in the creating and spreading of the dossier.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

Gov. McAuliffe is a longtime friend and fundraiser for the Clintons and the Democratic Party, deputy Director Andrew McCabe met in person with Gov. McAuliffe about his wife’s political plans.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

It doesn't matter if I think it's the right move or not it's something they got the authority to do and we have to accept.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Taking advices (sic) as he did from the deputy Attorney General Rosenstein that Comey should not have acted both as a prosecutor and an investigator. In other words, he should be investigating the Justice Department, under then-(Attorney General) Lynch should have made the decision on prosecuting. He seemed to take responsibility for both, which I think is main reason the President made his decision.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Now, I've never heard any Democrat complain about all that money that was spent last year.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

The issue is of particular concern to the Senate Judiciary Committee given that when Fusion GPS reportedly was acting as an unregistered agent of Russian interests, it appears to have been simultaneously overseeing the creation of the unsubstantiated dossier of allegations of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

It is particularly disturbing that Mr. Akhmetshin and Fusion GPS were working together on this pro-Russia lobbying effort in 2016 in light of Mr. Akhmetshin’s history and reputation.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

When political opposition research becomes the basis for law enforcement or intelligence efforts, it raises substantial questions about the independence of law enforcement and intelligence from politics.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

Here’s what I’ve done: the Justice Department would like to get their deputy out of committee just as soon as they can, i’m not going to schedule a hearing on the deputy attorney general until we get a briefing from Comey.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

The long delays in finalizing regulations to crack down on this practice are frustrating to those of us who want to stop this way of laundering criminal proceeds.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Business

If [the FBI] wants to avoid giving the impression that the FBI was pulling punches, because many people in a similar situation would face some sort of consequence, the agency must now be more transparent than ever in releasing information gathered during its investigation, that means more than simply giving the public a brief summary of his view of the facts. It should include the actual evidence so the public can make an educated decision on its own about the judgment and decision-making of all the senior officials involved.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

That means more than simply giving the public a brief summary of his view of the facts. It should include the actual evidence so the public can make an educated decision on its own about the judgment and decision-making of all the senior officials involved.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

The IRS always seems to be able to find more resources when it wants to. Because of that, and because of non-taxpayer service activities, like union work on the taxpayer’s dime, the IRS deserves skepticism when it continuously seeks more money.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

It's not about him because we're living by the principle 'let the people have a voice,'.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

I am no stranger to political pressure and to strong-arm tactics.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

Now that's a political temptation that the chief justice should resist.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

While the vice president and others have tried to recast his 1992 speech as merely a call for greater cooperation.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

The next Supreme Court justice could dramatically change the direction of the court, the majority of this body believes the American people shouldn't be denied the opportunity to weigh in on this question.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It isn't any different if the President of the United States notifies Congress well in advanced of a piece of legislation that he's going to veto it, whether it's today or tomorrow or whether it's for the next seven or eight months, this is a very important debate that we ought to have about the constitution and about not only who's going to be a replacement for Justice Scalia but about the role of the Supreme Court.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I would wait until the nominee is made before I would make any decisions, in other words, take it a step at a time.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Unless and until the United States can figure out a foolproof screening process to prevent terrorists from masquerading as refugees to infiltrate our neighborhoods and communities, President Obama needs to listen to the concerns voiced by more than half the nation's governors, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on both sides of Capitol Hill, and the American people from across the entire country.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

It appears to be a special provision for higher educational institutions and outlets.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

DuPont and Dow are two titans of American industry and the proposed merger demands serious scrutiny.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Industrials

Perhaps then a federal financial control board should be part of a comprehensive approach to remove obstacles to certain fiscal reform.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago Healthcare

It would be hard for Grassley to say he's not spending enough time in Iowa.

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Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The nominee is an innocent victim of the State Department’s contemptuous failures to respond to congressional inquiries.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

Congress did not intend to create this sort of litigation-style standoff inside the department, it is a waste of time and money for two divisions of the same government department to be fighting over access to the department’s own records.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

If the Inspector General deems a document necessary to do his job, then the agency should turn it over immediately.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

It’s not a secret that the FBI is operating in the skies above our nation’s cities and towns, but what’s unclear is precisely what the bureau is doing and what legal framework is being used to guide its activity, it’s important that federal law enforcement personnel have the tools they need to find and catch criminals, but whenever an operation may also monitor the activities of Americans who are not the intended target, as several media reports suggest, we must make darn sure that safeguards are in place to protect the civil liberties of innocent Americans.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

This program is meant to be used in a limited way to give the government special expertise it can’t get otherwise, an inspector general review is necessary. Available information suggests that in at least one case, the State Department gave the special status for employee convenience, not public benefit.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

A number of conflict-of-interest concerns arise when a government employee is simultaneously being paid by a private company.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

A number of conflict-of-interest concerns arise when a government employee is simultaneously being paid by a private company, especially when that company (is) Teneo.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

A number of conflict-of-interest concerns arise when a government employee is simultaneously being paid by a private company, especially when that company, Teneo.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

Digging into the report and reading about specific cases, you can see just how questionable Mr. Mayorkas' ethics and judgment were, and, just as bad, is the blind eye that the Obama administration turned when elevating this individual to the number two slot at the Department of Homeland Security.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

The Obama administration claims that it is using ‘prosecutorial discretion’ to prioritize the removal of criminal aliens from this country, but this report shows the disturbing truth: 1,000 undocumented aliens previously convicted of crimes who the administration released in 2013 have gone on to commit further crimes in our communities.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

They shouldn't be transparently self-serving attempts to justify whatever the president or an attorney general wants to do for political reasons.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

Ironically, this nominee might be especially well-equipped to advise the Obama administration on inversion policy.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Politics

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