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Grassley Urges Iowans to Help America's Fund for Afghan Children President Bush Establishes Effort ? Sen. Chuck Grassley today urged Iowa children and families to help the newly created America's Fund for Afghan Children. President George W. Bush last night announced the program and asked every child in America to earn or give $1 to help provide food and...

Grassley, Baucus Examine Customs' Enforcement of Money Laundering ? Sen. Chuck Grassley, lead Republican of the Committee on Finance, and Sen. Max Baucus, chairman, today sent a letter to the U.S. Customs Service to learn whether the agency is adequately enforcing anti-money laundering requirements. Today's request follows a similar request from the...

Grassley Works to Stop Improper Payments for Psychiatric Services in Nursing Homes ? Sen. Chuck Grassley, lead Republican on the Committee on Finance, today asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to end the longstanding problem of improper payments for psychiatric services in nursing homes. Grassley's request letter follows. October 9,...

Economic Booster Shot By Sen. Chuck Grassley, of Iowa   The devastating acts of terrorism on September 11 have changed life as we know it in America. Pure evil tragically took away the lives of thousands of innocent people when suicide hijackers commandeered four U.S. passenger jets, inflicting immeasurable pain and human suffering. The social,...

Word On: Flying the Flag   Q: What steps should Iowans take to make sure they are properly flying the U.S. flag? A: Since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the American people have united together to mourn those whose lives were lost, to grieve with the victims’ families, to open up their pocketbooks to offer financial...

Grassley Seeks End to Improper Tax Benefits for Illegal Residents ? Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, is seeking an end to the Internal Revenue Service's improper issuance of hundreds of millions of dollars annually to hundreds of thousands of people based on their income earned by working in the United States even though they...

Grassley Awarded for Pursuit of Open Government ? Sen. Chuck Grassley has been honored with a "Sunshine Award" from the Society of Professional Journalists. The organization is recognizing his role in the successful effort to have the U.S. Supreme Court make recordings available to the media during the historic proceedings after the 2000 presidential...

Iowa's U.S. Attorney Nominees Move One Step Closer to Confirmation Senate Judiciary Committee Votes to Move Nominations for Senate Consideration ? Sen. Chuck Grassley today said that Iowa's two U.S. Attorney nominees?Charles Larson, Sr. of Cedar Rapids and Steve Colloton of Des Moines?have cleared another hurdle in the Senate confirmation...

Action on Anti-Money Laundering Bill Sen. Chuck Grassley issued a comment on unanimous approval today by the Senate Banking Committee of legislation to toughen anti-money laundering laws. The approved legislation was sponsored by the committee chairman, Sen. Paul Sarbanes. It included many provisions from two bills Sen. Grassley sponsored earlier this year...

TAP Pharmaceutical fraud case Today the Department of Justice announced that TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc. has agreed to pay $875 million to resolve criminal charges and civil liabilities in connection with its fraudulent drug pricing and marketing conduct with regard to Lupron, a drug sold by TAP primarily for treatment of advanced prostate cancer in...

Finance Committee Hearing on Economic Stimulus with Secretary O'Neill Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for calling this hearing today. We need to continue to pursue bipartisan discussions of economic stimulus. This is a thoughtful and necessarily deliberate process that you have put in place. Mr. Chairman, we live in interesting times. The tragic events of...

Finance Committee Hearing on Economic Stimulus with Secretary O'Neill Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for calling this hearing today. We need to continue to pursue bipartisan discussions of economic stimulus. This is a thoughtful and necessarily deliberate process that you have put in place. Mr. Chairman, we live in interesting times. The tragic events of...

Vietnam trade agreement Today the Senate passed the U.S.-Vietnam trade agreement on a vote of 88 to 12, sending the measure to the President for consideration. Sen. Chuck Grassley is ranking Republican of the Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over trade. Grassley made the following statement on the agreement. Our nation's healing process over the...

Grassley Continues Call to Confirm Federal Law Enforcement and Judicial Nominees ? Sen. Chuck Grassley today continued his call for prompt action by the Senate on U.S. attorneys and federal judicial nominees. Grassley said that the arrest last week in Cedar Rapids in connection with the federal terrorism investigation illustrates the need to fill federal...

Iowa Firemen's Association Memorial Service Thank you for inviting me to join you in honoring the firefighters who lost their lives trying to save others on September 11. Life as we knew it changed for good on that morning just 19 days ago. A horrific nightmare of death and destruction was unleashed by international terrorists. Our national sense of...

Word On: September 11 Funds   Q: How can Iowans donate to the disaster recovery efforts underway in New York City and Washington, D.C. ? A: Like millions of other Americans, people in Iowa want to do everything possible to help the survivors and the families of the victims cope with the devastating terrorist attacks and find a way to rebuild their...

Targeting Terrorists’ Money Laundering by Sen. Chuck Grassley, of Iowa   The terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. were orchestrated with horrifying precision. It must have taken the terrorists years of planning to synchronize the suicide air assaults on September 11 and also required substantial sums of money to bankroll the...

Fight Back with Free Trade ? National Press Club Thank you for the opportunity to express my strong support for passing Trade Promotion Authority this year. The fact that so many fine institutions have gathered here today in support of TPA is a testament to the importance of this issue to our economic future and our ability to lead abroad. International...

Grassley, Baucus Investigate Adequacy of Key Anti-Money Laundering Law ? Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, and Sen. Max Baucus, chairman, today sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service to collect information that will help them determine whether a key anti-money laundering law is adequate and if so, is being enforced...

Free Trade Area of the Americas Negotiations Move Toward Agreement Today, I am releasing the second of two reports by the United States General Accounting Office on the status of the Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations. I commissioned this GAO review over one year ago because of the tremendous significance of the FTAA negotiations. These are...