WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is an original cosponsor of bipartisan legislation to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The FOIA Improvement Act was introduced by Senator John Cornyn of Texas and Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Bob Casey (D-Penn.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Mark Warner (D.Va.), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today introduced legislation to enhance the already successful Section 529 college savings plans.“These reforms will make it even more appealing for parents to use 529 college savings...
WASHINGTON – ?Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today again pressed Attorney General Eric Holder for answers on the Justice Department’s handling of alleged instances of intentional and willful surveillance abuses by National Security Agency employees. In September 2013, NSA’s Inspector General revealed to Grassley that it had...
WASHINGTON – ?A document provided to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa revealed that of the 36,007 criminal aliens released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Fiscal Year 2013, one thousand have since been convicted of new crimes.
According to the 38-page document provided by the Department of Homeland Security, the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has received a Legislative Champion award from the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs for his work to “improve the lives and health of mothers, children, and families, including those with special health care needs.”“The program that serves so many mothers and children has...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement after the hearing for U.S. Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch was completed. “I appreciate Ms. Lynch coming before the committee. She has impressive qualifications, but a number of members want to know whether those qualifications can transfer to...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the Senate’s approval of bipartisan legislation authorizing the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The bill passed 62 to 36.“The application to construct this pipeline was submitted to the Obama administration more than six years ago. While it’s good news to approve this...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined senators Jim Inhofe, Jeff Sessions, David Vitter and Ted Cruz in reintroducing the Keep Our Communities Safe Act. This legislation would change a dangerous policy that allows individuals in the country illegally who have been detained for six months to...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Bob Casey (D-Penn.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) today introduced legislation to encourage pharmacists to serve older Americans in communities lacking easy access to doctors or where pharmacists are more convenient to visit for certain services than doctors. “A lot of people in...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) today introduced bipartisan legislation to help coordinate care and improve health outcomes for children with medically complex conditions in Medicaid.“This bill is a creative idea to...
WASHINGTON – In a letter sent to Attorney General Eric Holder Wednesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Patrick Leahy of Vermont questioned the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) use of a national database to track the movement of vehicles around the United States.
News reports this week revealed that the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is working to prevent small business owners from facing a little-known penalty under Obamacare for paying their employees’ health insurance premiums. “I’m hearing from Iowa small business owners who could face major fines from the IRS for doing what they’ve done for years to help their employees buy health...
As then-chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, with jurisdiction over tax policy, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa improved key education savings provisions in the 2001 tax law, including one that encourages parents, grandparents and other family members to contribute to state-run college savings vehicles, called Section 529 plans. Previously, 529 plans...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, along with eight of their Republican colleagues on the Judiciary Committee, today sent this letter to current U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and U.S. Attorney...
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 the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, the Iowa Bankers Association, the National Breast Cancer Coalition, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the National...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following comment on the government’s reported reversal on a health care privacy problem, as reported by the Associated Press.“The Administration is reversing itself only days after claiming consumers were protected and only after the Associated Press disclosed the problem and two U.S. senators weighed...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that Nicholas Alan Fox of Clive has received an appointment to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Great Neck, N.Y., for the 2015-2016 school year.Fox is the son of Amy and John Fox. He will graduate in May from Valley High School. Fox is a member of the Greater Des Moines’ Youth...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa cosponsored legislation this week requiring greater congressional scrutiny of proposed rules and regulations issued by agencies within the executive branch. The Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, which was introduced by Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky on Wednesday, requires...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is one of two leading senators asking the federal government to explain to what extent it allows private companies to use data from users of HealthCare.gov.
“This new information is extremely concerning, not only because it violates the privacy of millions of Americans, but because it may potentially compromise their...
