WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement on the announced retirement of Kimberly Beal, Assistant Director for the U.S. Marshals Service Asset Forfeiture Division. Grassley has been conducting oversight of the Marshals Service as more than 70 employees have disclosed inappropriate hiring...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeInspector General Empowerment Act of 2015Wednesday, November 4, 2015Americans have a right to know when our government is misbehaving or wasting taxpayer dollars. To ensure accountability and transparency in government, Congress created Inspectors...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) led a bipartisan, bicameral letter urging conferees on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Reauthorization to maintain the gifted and talented education provisions included...
WASHINGTON— Sen. Chuck Grassley made the following statement after the Senate voted on a pair of measures to address the misguided rulemaking by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers known as the Waters of the United States (U.S.) rule. Despite receiving bipartisan support by a majority of the Senate, the Federal...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today pressed the Department of Defense to cooperate with a government watchdog by releasing all documents, names of staff involved and reasons for placing severe restrictions on information behind the construction of a $43 million natural gas filling station in Afghanistan.
“This gas station cost many more...
WASHINGTON – Senate leaders today recognized Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa for casting his 12,000th Senate vote early Friday morning. Only 17 senators in history have cast more votes than Grassley. In addition, no senator serving today has gone as long as Grassley has without missing a vote. Grassley has cast 7,474 consecutive...
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has prepared a report on a compressed natural gas filling station in Afghanistan that cost $43 million, many times more than it should have. A similar station in Pakistan cost no more than $500,000 to construct. SIGAR said the Defense Department is ill-prepared to explain...
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 Indian Hills Community College, the University of Iowa, Denison Job Corps, the Mercy Health Network and the Catholic Heart Association. Senator Grassley will meet with Iowa families from...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following comment on his vote against the budget deal approved by the Senate early this morning.“Government shutdowns don’t save money. They cost money, and they’re best avoided. Defaulting on the nation’s debts is also something to avoid. But this budget deal lifts the debt ceiling to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today joined the grand opening of the DuPont Cellulosic Ethanol Facility in Nevada. The facility converting corn stover and crop residue into ethanol is the biggest cellulosic ethanol facility in the world. Grassley has long-championed efforts to cultivate the state and nation’s tremendous...
Suspect Previously Deported following Domestic Violence Charges
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte are seeking more details regarding the kidnapping and repeated sexual assault of a woman by a man who is in the country illegally and was previously deported twice.
According to a...
Klobuchar, Grassley Call on Federal Trade Commission to Protect Consumers from Anticompetitive Pay-For-Delay Patent Settlements In a letter to FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, the senators urged the FTC to aggressively challenge any anticompetitive settlements where brand-name drug companies pay generic drug companies to delay marketing lower cost...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) are once again pressing a top cabinet official about a government agency’s use of cell-site simulator technology, which can sweep up the cell phone signals of innocent Americans. Following news reports that the Internal Revenue Service is...
WASHINGTON – The Senate yesterday unanimously passed a resolution marking October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The bipartisan measure was introduced by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and cosponsored by Ranking Member Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Senators Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and Amy Klobuchar...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today spoke at a forum of historical experts and educators on the looting of antiquities to fund ISIS and his bill with Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania to help stop the peddling of ill-gotten antiquities in the United States. The Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act (S. 1887/H.R. 1493)...
Prepared Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeCommemorating National Domestic Violence Awareness MonthTuesday, October 27, 2015
Mr. President, last week I introduced a resolution to commemorate the goals and ideals of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which takes place each October. I thank...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is cosponsoring legislation to address and prevent sexual harassment and assault at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The proposal follows allegations of sexual assault involving NOAA staff and contractors, and addresses inadequate reporting and protection protocols for...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is requesting details regarding the September 4, 2015, murder of 17-year-old Virginia boy allegedly by three individuals who entered the United States in 2013 as unaccompanied minors at the southern border. Two of the three suspects may have gang ties, according to news reports. All three...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has notified Attorney General Loretta Lynch of attempts by staff within the U.S. Marshals Service’s Office of Professional Responsibility to limit whistleblower communications with Congress, which are expressly protected by law.
In a letter to Lynch, Grassley described how Sharon Duncan of...
