138 Quotes by Charles Grassley

I think, without a doubt, it hasn't been very adequate, I think both at the state and federal level.

The commission seemed to forget one of the basic guidelines they were to follow.

I think the FBI has shown, going back to January of 1997, its ability to use its power and prestige to curb statements and truths other agencies were willing to give out,

I think that the states will conclude that the committee proposals will help them better serve their beneficiaries, but in the event a state doesn't, this kind of flexibility may be helpful to states such as Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi right now,

I think there's a management culture here that's at fault. I call it a cowboy culture,

Our investigation needs to find out whether Enron's actions were legal, somewhat questionable, highly questionable or even illegal, ... In the end, what's legal for any company could be the most shocking of all.

Our committee has a lot of work to do before we truly think about implementing a guest worker program in this country. I say that because our Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents drive by day-labor centers knowing that illegal aliens loiter the street corner in search of illegal work but do nothing. I don't know how we can reasonably create a system for 10 million illegal aliens when we cannot currently handle the workload on our desks.

Ottumwa Regional Hospital and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Regional Office are attempting to work through the issues at hand. It is very rare for CMS to withdraw Medicare funding due to these types of violations, especially when the hospital is working to correct them. And, it is my understanding that the hospital will be submitting a plan of correction to CMS shortly.

Some of the things they're recommending were hot issues in the 1990s, and they were dropped after being pushed by predecessors of mine very strongly and just didn't get anywhere.