Grassley Requests Agriculture Disaster Declaration for 27 Additional Iowa Counties
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today asked U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to grant a request by Iowa Governor Terry Branstad for 27 additional counties be designated as disaster areas. The counties sustained substantial...
Grassley Highlights Potential for Whistleblowers on Big-dollar Tax Cheating
M E M O R A N D U M
To: Reporters and Editors
Re: GAO report on improved IRS whistleblower office
Da: Friday, Sept. 9, 2011
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa wrote the 2006 law improving...
Q&A: Historic Iowa Battleship
Q: How is the U.S.S. Iowa battleship to become a museum?
A: The U.S. Navy announced this month that this historic battleship will be donated to the Pacific Battleship Center, a non-profit organization, for permanent berthing and public...
U.S. Patent Laws to Get Update that will Spur Innovation
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee which has jurisdiction over the U.S. Patent Office, today said that legislation passed the Senate that will update U.S. patent laws, spur innovation, and help create jobs. Grassley is an original cosponsor...
Grassley Reacts to President Obama's Speech before a Joint Session of Congress
Senator Chuck Grassley tonight released the following statement after the President’s speech before a Joint Session of Congress.
“What the President’s saying is more of the same, especially with what was in the stimulus bill. That massive government spending bill...
Grassley, Johanns Work to Stop Long Reach of the EPA in Regulating Dust
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today introduced legislation to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating dust in rural America while maintaining the protections of the Clean Air Act to the public’s health and welfare. Grassley introduced the bill with...
SEC freezes document destruction after Grassley, whistleblower inquiry
M E M O R AN D U M
To: Reporters and Editors
Re: Securities and Exchange Commission moratorium on document destruction
Da: Thursday, September 8, 2011
Sen. Chuck...
Grassley Urges President to Send Trade Agreements to Congress
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today joined a group of Republican senators in urging President Obama to submit the pending trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea to Congress for a vote. Grassley said the United States has fallen behind other countries in...
Ranking Member Grassley Comments on the Justice Department Moving Fast and Furious Cases out of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley made the following statement after the Department of Justice moved cases associated with Operation Fast and Furious out of the U.S. Attorney's Office in...
Q&A Agriculture and Washington
Q: What is the farm bill?
A: About every five years, Congress passes a comprehensive farm and food policy bill, covering a range of programs and provisions. The last farm bill, in 2008, contained 15 titles for commodity price...
Revised Account in Fast and Furious
In a stunning development late yesterday, the Justice Department told me that there had been 31 firearm recoveries in the United States and Mexico linked to Operation Fast and Furious, the ill-advised strategy that allowed guns to be purchased by known straw buyers and then transferred to people often transporting...
Remember Legacy of Those Lost on 9/11 Anniversary
by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
A decade after vicious terrorist attacks killed thousands of innocent people and caused immeasurable grief to victims and survivors, America has shown the world that 9/11 may have changed life as we knew it, but it has not changed America’s commitment to freedom, liberty and...
Town Hall Meetings
This week I held town meetings in 14 Iowa communities. I went to Carroll , Denison , Harlan, Oakland, Red Oak, Atlantic, Onawa, Missouri Valley, Glenwood, Sidney, Shenandoah, Bedford, Corning and Audubon to hear directly from Iowans and to have the kind of dialogue that's needed for the process of representative government to...
Grassley, Issa Letter to Phoenix U.S. Attorney's Office Regarding Operation Fast and Furious
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley and House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa Letter to Acting U.S. Attorney, Phoenix
Grassley Reacts to New Fall-out from ATF Oversight
Senator Chuck Grassley made the following comment after the resignations and new assignments of several officials involved in the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives strategy known as Fast and Furious.
“Today’s announcement is an admission by the Obama administration that serious...
Super Committee Staff Director
M E M O R A N D U M
TO: Reporters and Editors
RE: Super Committee Staff Director
DA: Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Senator Chuck Grassley issued the following comment about the selection of Mark Prater to serve as staff director of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit...
Grassley begins town meetings with Iowans in 14 counties
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley will hold town meetings in 14 Iowa communities today through Thursday.
Starting this afternoon, the meetings will take place in Carroll, Denison, Harlan, Oakland, Red Oak, Atlantic, Onawa, Missouri Valley, Glenwood, Sidney, Shenandoah, Bedford, Corning and Audubon....
Q and A: Whistleblowers
Q: What prompted your longstanding advocacy of whistleblowers?
A: Whistleblowers are unsung heroes who often risk losing their livelihoods, friends and career to expose wrongdoing. It takes courage and integrity to go against the grain, especially in deeply entrenched federal bureaucracies like the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,...
King, Grassley, Harkin Ask USPS to Delay Consolidation of Sioux City Mail Processing Facility
Washington, D.C.- Congressman Steve King (R-IA), Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) announce that they have formally requested that the United States Postal Service delay the implementation of its plan to consolidate mail processing...
Disaster Aid to Iowa after Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds and Flooding
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has issued a major disaster declaration for several Iowa counties including Benton, Clay, Dickinson, Marshall, Story and Tama counties. This declaration...
