WASHINGTON – The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an annual bill that sets authorized spending for military programs and personnel as wells as updates defense policies, passed the full Senate yesterday and will now go to President Trump to be signed into law. It included two commonsense provisions pushed by Senator Chuck Grassley and the rest...
WASHINGTON—In case you missed it, yesterday the Senate approved the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included a bipartisan bill introduced by U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse in federal agency travel and purchase card spending. The...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, voted for landmark tax reform legislation, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which was approved Thursday by the committee and now goes to the full Senate for consideration. “Iowans are one step closer to keeping more...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate Wednesday night unanimously passed the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act to extend whistleblower protection for employees who provide information to the Department of Justice related to criminal antitrust violations. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), coauthors of the legislation, hailed...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined a bipartisan group of senators led by Sen. Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) in reintroducing the Military Justice Improvement Act. Despite years of effort and small reforms, sexual assault and harassment remain pervasive in the military. Top officials in the military continue to assert that they alone will fix this,...
Editorial: “Simpson’s ‘free tuition’: Why we need clearer college costs”Des Moines RegisterNovember 16, 2017 The Des Moines Register editorial board praised Sen. Grassley’s bipartisan work to rein in skyrocketing college costs and provide students with more transparency about prospective costs and future ability to...
Prepared Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOn the History of the Blue Slip Courtesy for Judicial NomineesNovember 13, 2017VIDEO Mr. President, in the last several weeks, there’s been a lot of discussion regarding the blue slip courtesy that applies to judicial nominations. So I want to take a...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the findings of a study into the Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) implementation of regulations that create potential barriers to the participation of local pharmacies in federal drug take-back programs. The report was requested by Sens. Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today joined a bipartisan group of 30 senators led by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and John Cornyn (R-TX) in writing to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, asking him to provide Congress with information detailing how the Department of Justice (DOJ) is supporting and...
Klobuchar-Grassley legislation co-sponsored by Senators McConnell, Schumer, Shelby, Capito, and Cortez Masto as well as other Rules Committee members will require anti-harassment training for senators, staff and interns of the Senate
Training would need to be completed within 60 days from the date of passage of the resolution; Each employing office...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement for Veterans Day 2017. “As a nation, we owe America’s veterans a debt of gratitude. These men and women in uniform maintained the nation’s military readiness 24/7, 365 days a year. Whether working behind the scenes or fighting on the front lines, our...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Davenport, Penny Vacek, will hold office hours in Jefferson and Henry counties on Wednesday, November 15 and in Cedar, Louisa and Muscatine counties on Tuesday, November 21. Vacek’s schedule is as follows:Wednesday, November 15 Jefferson County9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m....
Senators Express Concern About Conflicting Statements, Urge CMS to Support Inclusion of UDIs on Claim Forms
Text of the letter available here (PDF)
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requesting that CMS clarify its position on the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, received a response from the Department of the Treasury following several inquiries into wasteful spending of the Troubled Asset Relief Program’s (TARP) Hardest Hit Fund (HHF), a $9.6 billion program meant to help homeowners who suffered during the housing crisis. In a...
Revisions strike terms that suggest legal jeopardy for mishandling Classified Info
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is seeking more details on the formulation of former FBI director James Comey’s July 2016 remarks announcing that the FBI would not seek criminal charges following its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s...
WASHINGTON – A memo from the watchdog agency tasked with oversight of Defense Department spending on reconstruction in Afghanistan indicates that the U.S. Department of Defense suddenly classified data that was previously publicly available for years. The memo from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) can be...
WASHINGTON – In a letter to Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Eric D. Hargan, U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), asked HHS to prioritize funding for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Center for Program Integrity (CPI), a program that enhances transparency in...
Prepared Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOn the Nomination of Stephanos Bibas to Serve on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of AppealsNovember 2, 2017VIDEO Today, the Senate will vote on the nomination of Professor Stephanos Bibas to serve on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. Professor...
