Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week. The Senate is in session.
Senator Grassley will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from Farm Credit Services of America, Iowa school superintendents, the Guthrie County Farm Bureau Board of Directors, the University of Iowa, and the Alliance for Retired Americans.
Senator Grassley will meet with Iowa families from Coralville, Pella, Corning, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Cedar Falls, Dubuque, Pocahontas, Avoca, Parkersburg, Menlo, West Point, Janesville, and Des Moines.
Senator Grassley will meet with Iowa students from Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock Future Farmers of America.
On Tuesday, July 7, at 3 p.m. (ET), Senator Grassley will participate in an Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing on “Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: The Impact on the U.S. Poultry Sector and Protecting U.S. Poultry Flocks.” Two Iowans will provide testimony at the hearing: Mr. James Dean, chairman of the United Egg Producers in Sioux Center, and Mr. Brad Moline, manager and owner of Moline Farms, LLC in Manson. The hearing comes after a request by Senators Grassley and Joni Ernst to Chairman Pat Roberts for the committee to hold a hearing on the federal government’s response to the outbreak. More information on the hearing can be found here.
On Wednesday, July 8, at 10 a.m. (ET), Senator Grassley will participate in a Judiciary Committee hearing on “Going Dark: Encryption, Technology, and the Balance Between Public Safety and Privacy.” Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, Jr. will testify.
On Wednesday, July 8, at 2:15 p.m. (ET), Senator Grassley will participate in a Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism hearing on “Cyber Crime: Modernizing our Legal Framework for the Information Age.”
On Thursday, July 9, at 10 a.m. (ET), Senator Grassley will preside over the weekly executive business meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee will consider S. 1482, the Need-Based Educational Aid Act of 2015, sponsored by Senators Grassley, Patrick Leahy, and Mike Lee, and S. 1300, the Adoptive Family Relief Act, sponsored by Senators Grassley, Dianne Feinstein, Ron Johnson, Amy Klobuchar, John Cornyn, and Ted Cruz. The committee will also consider the nominations of Luis Felipe Restrepo to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Travis Randall McDonough to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr. to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee.
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