Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.
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.
It wouldn’t do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can’t carry on the campaign elsewhere.
In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.
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.
Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities.
We should not have a government program that determines if you’re going to pull the plug on grandma.
Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.
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.
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.
Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.
I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.
The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.
I’m the policy-maker; I’m the lawmaker.
If I can’t negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I’m not a very good representative of my party.
I can only answer for Chuck Grassley; I can’t answer for anybody else.
Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators.
Supreme Court nominees should know without any doubt that their job is not to impose their own personal opinions of what is right and wrong, but to say what the law is, rather than what they personally think the law ought to be.
Supreme Court nominees should know that this exercise of judicial restraint is the key ingredient of being good judge, as the Constitution constrains judges every bit as much as it constrains we legislators, executives and citizens in their actions.
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.