14 ordspråk av Charles E. Grassley
Charles E. Grassley
A little research can go a long way to stopping the con artists who try to turn this tragedy into a profit-making venture. By making sure a charity checks out, those who are giving can make sure their valuable contributions reach the countless victims of this devastating natural disaster.
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Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.
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FDA scientists and employees are by and large hardworking and committed to fulfilling the agency's mission. They deserve a commissioner who will reinvigorate the agency.
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I hope, sitting in the marble palace, you'll remember that I have great pride in the success of the False Claims Act.
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I've seen this office become involved in many questionable projects despite strong and persistent opposition from senior staff. It appears to me that this has created a lack of respect and trust, and has resulted in an ineffective Office of the Inspector General.
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If state surveyors are missing serious deficiencies in the quality of care, then the federal government has not yet achieved the necessary level of improvement in oversight of the inspection process.
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It is difficult to understand why an entire board would need to travel from New Jersey to the Grand Cayman to discuss improving quality of care for [Medicare] beneficiaries, but I am eager to receive your detailed and documented explanations.
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Negotiators need to keep the focus on the biggest issues that are clogging up the works. At the top of this list is market access for agriculture.
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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.
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People don't see light at the end of the tunnel in Iraq. If the situation a year from now is the same, it's going to be the number one issue in the next election, and consequently for incumbent Republicans, a problem.
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Senior FDA officials acknowledged to my staff that [the Center for Devices and Radiological Health] needed to do a better job. When a regulatory agency official says 'There's a lot of stuff going on under the table,' how can Americans rest easy?
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The only thing that's going to be fatal to this nomination is how she performs before the committee.
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The Red Cross in its disaster response was more than a charity. It was also a federal contractor. It's appropriate for Congress to verify whether taxpayers got their money's worth.
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We did not find anything alarming enough that required additional follow-up beyond what law-enforcement agencies are already doing.
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