Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has been investigating the cost increases for EpiPen to consumers and whether the taxpayers have been shortchanged under EpiPen’s misclassification under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program. He made the following comment today on a settlement announced between the Justice Department and EpiPen maker Mylan over the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold six town meetings in Iowa August 23, August 24, August 29, August 30 and August 31 as part of his annual 99 county meetings. These six open town meetings are in addition to question-and-answer sessions at local businesses, high schools and service clubs in two dozen...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Sioux City, Jacob Bossman, will hold office hours in Cherokee, Buena Vista and Pocahontas counties on Tuesday, August 22.Bossman’s schedule is as follows: Tuesday, August 22 Cherokee CountyNoon to 1 p.m.Marcus City Hall222 North Main StreetMarcus Buena Vista...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley asked the President to grant the request made by Governor Kim Reynolds for a declaration of a major disaster in response to heavy rains, flash flooding, riverine flooding, damaging winds, tornadoes, and hail between July 19 and July 23, 2017.
In a request letter, Grassley wrote, “The Governor determined that this incident...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Ron Wyden are asking the Trump administration to add the topic of individuals with disabilities to discussions on promoting apprenticeships. The president in June established a task force on apprenticeship expansion to “identify and provide a report on strategies and proposals to promote...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is the co-author of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act disclosure requirements for drug company payments to doctors. He is also the co-sponsor of pending bipartisan legislation to apply the disclosure requirements to nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Grassley made the following comment on a new study finding that...
Bloomberg: “Grassley’s Advocacy Has Already Notched A Win, When The White House Pledged Last Month To Respond To Oversight Letters From Rank-And-File Members In Both Parties”The Hill: “Grassley looms as foil to Trump”Alexander Bolton and Katie Bo WilliamsAugust 7, 2017Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has emerged as a pivotal...
Two recent inspector general reports have called for more transparency of scientific research involving human subjects. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General found that the Office for Human Research Protections needs to improve transparency with public availability of its compliance activities. The Environmental...
WASHINGTON—In case you missed it, on Thursday, the Senate approved a bipartisan bill introduced by U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse in federal agency travel and purchase cards spending. The Saving Federal Dollars Through Better Use of Government Purchase...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is welcoming news from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that it has fixed an extension of a Medicare payment designation program that is critical to small, often rural hospitals. The “tweener” program is critical to hospitals in Grinnell, Carroll, Newton and Spirit Lake and the patients they serve....
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, today approved two nominees to serve as Iowa’s U.S. attorneys. Both Peter Deegan, Jr. and Marc Krickbaum, nominees to be U.S. Attorneys for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa respectively, were reported to the full Senate by a unanimous, bipartisan...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley joined bipartisan legislation introduced today to create a temporary transitional reimbursement structure for Medicare home infusion services. A version of legislation introduced by Sens. Mark Warner and Johnny Isakson last Congress to restructure the way Medicare beneficiaries who need intravenous medication...
The Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA OIG) today released the results of its review of the circumstances of veteran Brandon Ketchum’s suicide and whether Ketchum received adequate mental health treatment at the Iowa City VA Health Care System. Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Joni Ernst, Sen. Ron Johnson, and Rep. Dave...
Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), and Representatives Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) today applauded final passage of the Over-the-Counter (OTC) Hearing Aid Act as part of the...
WASHINGTON – The Senate passed bipartisan legislation to step up enforcement against perpetrators of crimes targeting senior citizens. The Elder Abuse Prevention and Protection Act of 2017, introduced by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), passed by a voice vote Tuesday...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) alongside Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released the following statements after the Senate passed the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) Reauthorization Act...
