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...long as he wanted. For the rest of the 90-min. session, the arguments got personal. Hundreds of G.O.P. staff members would be fired if the Democrats took control. Senators who had worked long and hard to become committee chairmen would have the prize yanked away. Senator Charles Grassley, who had chaired the Finance Committee for just four months, was in tears...
...Finance GOP chair: Charles Grassley, Iowa Democratic chair: Max Baucus, Montana Effect of change: Middle-of-the-road Baucus unlikely to alter Grassley?s course...
SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY Finance Com chair and Iowa gent-farmer harvests enough votes to overhaul bankruptcy laws...
...their postelection Pardongate torpor; they're ready to rumble. "This is the President presenting his tax proposal," says Indiana's Evan Bayh. "This is not Moses coming down the mountain with tablets of stone." Even some Republican leaders aren't singing in unison with Bush. Finance Committee chairman Charles Grassley has predicted that the 10-year resolution his panel passes is likely to provide for tax cuts of "up to" Bush's $1.6 trillion, with smaller reductions in the estate tax and for the top income bracket than Bush proposes...
...Senate, even Republicans were acting as if they hadn't heard. Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Finance Committee that will draft the tax bill, waxed philosophical. "In the House of Representatives, the river starts out high in the mountains, very swift-flowing," he said. "As it reaches the Senate, we're a bit downstream. The river moves slower." Grassley predicted a tax bill will become law "before spring turns to summer...