Grassley Asks for More Information about Veterans’ Benefits Backlog
WASHINGTON – Chuck Grassley today said that figures used in a recent case before the Supreme Court that showed between 50 and 70 percent of veterans’ benefits appeals had been unjustifiably denied were a shocking revelation about the severe and growing backlog of veterans’ claims at the...
Grassley Urges Japan to Address Trade Barriers to U.S. Beef and Gelatin; Insurance, Banking, and Express Delivery Services
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, with Sen. Max Baucus, chairman, today urged the Japanese government to remove scientifically unfounded barriers to U.S. beef and bovine-origin gelatin imports...
Transcription of Senator Grassley's Agriculture News Conference Call
GRASSLEY: This week is the famous National Agricultural Week. It gives us involved in production of food, fiber and fuel a chance to bring attention to the hundreds of thousands of people involved in taking the raw products from our farms to the dinner table, and to...
Grassley works to hold housing department accountable for how stimulus dollars are spent
WASHINGTON --- Senator Chuck Grassley is asking the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to account for the way federal tax dollars obligated by the 2009 economic stimulus bill have been spent, including $312 million for public housing in Puerto Rico and program...
$244,659 to the University of Iowa
WASHINGTON –Chuck Grassley today said that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $244,659 competitive grant to the University of Iowa.
The University of Iowa will use the money from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for a project entitled,...
Grassley continues work for transparency of drug company money in medicine
WASHINGTON --- Senator Chuck Grassley has asked leaders among pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, to describe their efforts to enhance the transparency of financial benefits they receive from drug makers. Grassley also has asked the PBMs for their views on recommendations from...
$587,431 to the University of Iowa from the National Science Foundation
WASHINGTON - Chuck Grassley today said that the University of Iowa will receive a $587,431 competitive grant from the National Science Foundation.
The University of Iowa will use the money to help pay for a research project titled, “Joint Influences on Perceived Vulnerability and...
Grassley: Build America Bonds Program Keeps Getting Richer for Wall Street, Harder on Taxpayers
Floor Speech by Senator Grassley on the Build America Bonds provision in the HIRE Act
Delivered Tuesday, March 16, 2010
One of the few provisions the Democratic leadership decided to put in the HIRE bill is an expansion of Build America Bonds. Build...
Workers at Vantec in Webster City Eligible for Assistance
WASHINGTON - Chuck Grassley today said that workers from Vantec in Webster City are eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
“This assistance will help provide workers with new skills and training so they can get back on their feet and compete for new jobs in the future,” Grassley...
Grassley, Enzi Call for Complete Analysis from Administration’s Chief Actuary
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Mike Enzi are asking the chief actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to provide a complete analysis of health care reform legislation before the House and Senate vote on the legislation.
Grassley and Enzi are the...
More Than $1.6 Million to Iowa for Biofuels from USDA
WASHINGTON- Chuck Grassley today said that the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Rural Development awarded payments totaling $1,644,242.64 to Iowa through the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels.
“It’s great to see the Department of Agriculture working with these Iowa biofuel companies to...
Grassley comment on work of Special Inspector General for TARP
M E M O R A N D U M
TO: Reporters and Editors
FR: Jill Kozeny, 202-224-1308
for U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
RE: Special Inspector...
Grassley questions Boys and Girls Clubs of America about use of federal dollars and tax-exempt funds
WASHINGTON --- Senators Chuck Grassley, Tom Coburn, Jon Kyl and John Cornyn have asked executives for the Boys & Girls Club of America to account for high salaries, perks, executive retirement plans and lobbying expenses consuming federal dollars...
$74,776 to University of Iowa from U.S. Department of Education
WASHINGTON – Chuck Grassley said today that the U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $74,776 grant to the University of Iowa through the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program.
According to the Department of Education, the University of Iowa will use the grant to funds to develop...
Grassley Q&A: Congress Should Live Under the Law
Q: Will Congress keep its good health care even if it passes a bill to change the health care system for everyone else?
A: I don’t support the health care bill passed by the Senate in December because it would mean higher taxes, higher health insurance premiums, more government spending and a...
Nearly $7 Million to Iowa Airports
WASHINGTON – Chuck Grassley announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration has awarded five grants totaling $6,974,588 to Iowa airports.
“This funding will help improve safety and service at Iowa’s local airports and help provide important economic development opportunities...
Transcript from Senator Grassley's Capitol Hill Report
STAFF: The following is an unrehearsed interview with Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, speaking to you live from Washington.
Participating in today's public affairs programs are Nikki Thunder with KCHE Radio in Cherokee and Anelia Dimitrova with the Waverly Democrat in...
Grassley Pushes for Fair Pricing for Permanent Disaster Assistance Program Payments
WASHINGTON – Chuck Grassley today made the case to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack that Iowa hay and forage producers are being pushed out of the permanent disaster assistance program because the...
Grassley comment on CBO’s revised score of Senate-passed health care bill
M E M O R A N D U M
TO: Reporters and Editors
FR: Jill Kozeny, for Senator Chuck Grassley
RE: CBO revised score
DA: Thursday, March 11, 2010
Senator Chuck Grassley...
Grassley seeks more information about cost of Cash for Clunkers
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today is following up on the response he received from the Secretary of Transportation about the costs of the 2009 Cash for Clunkers program.
Grassley said he is seeking more information about data provided by the Department of Transportation, which said the...
