Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, U.S. Senate Finance Committee“Approaching 25: The Road Ahead for the World Trade Organization”Tuesday, March 12, 2019VIDEO I want to welcome everyone here today for our first trade hearing of this Congress on the future of the World Trade Organization. The WTO is a critically...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a family farmer and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today released the following comment regarding EPA’s proposed rule allowing the year-round sale of higher blends of ethanol known as E15.“I’m still reviewing the proposed rule, and while I have some concerns about certain...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon today introduced bipartisan legislation to retroactively extend tax provisions that expired at the end of 2017 and 2018 through the balance of this year and provide disaster tax relief benefits to individuals and businesses affected by major disasters...
WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provided data to the Senate Finance Committee showing that the Private Debt Collection (PDC) program, a public/private partnership that works to bolster the U.S. Treasury, strengthen the effectiveness of the IRS and ensure fairness in the federal tax system, continues to demonstrate that it can more than...
“It is deeply concerning that CBP appears to be targeting American journalists at our borders.” WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, today requested answers about U.S. Custom and Border Protection (CBP) Agents reportedly targeting journalists for...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) are again
calling on the Trump administration to finalize regulations reforming the EB-5 investor visa program, which has long been riddled with fraud and abuse. Grassley and Leahy have
previously called for the administration to approve regulations addressing the program’s...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold town meetings in Clinton County on March 20 and Cedar County on March 21 as a part of his annual 99 county meetings.“Representative government is a two-way street. I’m one half of the process and the people of Iowa are the other half. You can’t have representative government without dialogue...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Finance Subcommittee on Health Care Chairman Pat Toomey are pushing to boost the oversight and integrity of Medicaid eligibility-related payments, nearly ten percent of which have been improper in recent years. The entire budget for the National Institutes of Health is smaller than the amount...
Q&A: Sunshine WeekWith U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: What is Sunshine Week? A: Sunshine Week celebrates open government and freedom of information. It coincides with the anniversary of James Madison’s birth on March 16. As the Founding Father wrote in Federalist 51: “If men were angels, no government would be...
WASHINGTON – The former and current chairmen of the Senate Judiciary Committee are calling on the newly-confirmed Attorney General to review source records and committee oversight work product regarding investigations stemming from Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) shared material...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined a bipartisan group of Senate colleagues to introduce the Honoring American Veterans in Extreme Need (HAVEN) Act (S. 679) to protect the economic security and well-being of veterans and their families who rely on disability benefits and may...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today released the following statement regarding a Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report publicly released March 6, 2019 that Grassley originally received on February 13, 2019 under restricted status.The report found that “NIH did not...
Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, U.S. Senate Finance CommitteeOn Tax Filing SeasonThursday, March 7, 2019 Mr. President, We are now in our sixth week of the tax filing season. Over 50 million Americans have filed their tax returns. As in previous weeks, the IRS is moving forward in the filing season at a pace...
WASHINGTON – Former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley joined Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) in reintroducing the Inspector General Access Act of 2019 to expand the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General to include alleged DOJ attorney misconduct. The bill is also cosponsored by Lisa Murkowski...
Statement by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the Green New DealWednesday, March 6, 2019VIDEO Mr. President, I appreciate Senator Ernst for organizing this opportunity to discuss the Green New Deal this week. To put it mildly the Green New Deal is ambitious. To frame it more accurately, it is an unworkable pie-in-the-sky attempt to...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, president pro tempore, and Ron Wyden of Oregon sent an informational memo to their colleagues of the new Congress regarding the Senate’s requirements for the disclosure of holds on nominations or legislation. The requirements were adopted in 2011 by a bipartisan resolution brought to the Senate floor by...
Opening Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance“Not Forgotten: Protecting Older Americans from Abuse and Neglect in Nursing Homes”Wednesday, March 6, 2019VIDEO Good morning. I want to welcome everyone to our hearing on an extremely important topic, elder abuse, and thank our witnesses for joining...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and former Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) called on the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general to investigate reports of sexual abuse against unaccompanied minors in HHS facilities. “We respectfully request that you open an investigation...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today announced that the committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, March 12, 2019 with testimony from U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer assessing the current state of the World Trade Organization (WTO) nearly 25 years after its creation and potential reforms that would...
