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Chuck Grassley
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: September 17
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New Hartford
Iowa
Charles Ernest Chuck Grassley
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You ought to serve on the platform you run on.
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The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.
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I'm the policy-maker I'm the lawmaker.
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All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN
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President Bush has proven he'll take a stand and fight for his programs and initiatives. It's the kind of leadership that makes things happen.
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Gifted students represent a vital resource that has unlimited potential. We need to make sure that these exceptional young people have the support and services they need to be successful.
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Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask nominees to pledge to rule on issues in a particular way.
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I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.
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I want to remind all Americans that the Senate has a very important responsibility to confirm only well- qualified individuals who will faithfully interpret the law and the Constitution.
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I'm worried that a few people are confusing the ringing of a church bell with the ringing of a cash register, .. When I hear about leaders of charities being provided a $300,000 Bentley to drive around in, my fear is that it's the taxpayers who subsidize this charity who are really being taken for a ride.
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If we do our job right, the Supreme Court won't be made up of men and women who are on the side of the little guy or the big guy rather, the Supreme Court will be made up of men and women who are on the side of the law and the Constitution.
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The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981.
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If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.
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Some liberal interest groups have come out in full force and have attempted to paint Judge [Samuel] Alito to be an extremist and to be an activist. They've criticized a nominee who has, from what I see described by these lawyers and fellow judges, a reputation of being a restrained jurist committed to the rule of law and the Constitution.
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As the old saying goes, for somebody as famous as you, you don't need any introduction.
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If we fulfill our responsibility to the Constitution, the Supreme Court will be filled with superior legal minds who will pursue the one agenda that our founding fathers intended in writing the Constitution: justice, rather than political or personal goals.
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Supreme Court nominees should be individuals who not only understand, but truly respect the equal roles and responsibilities of different branches of government and our state governments.
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I don't like to see facts twisted, untruths fabricated to give the [Supreme Court] nominee a black eye, even before he comes before Senate committee.
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My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.
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In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.
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