WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) today called on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson to provide information about a criminal immigrant who is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a Johnson County, Kan., sheriff’s deputy. In a letter to Sec....
Grassley Waterloo Regional Director to Hold Office Hours September 22 and 23Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Waterloo, Jason Mohr, will be holding open office hours in Fayette, Winneshiek, Howard, Mitchell, Worth, Floyd, Bremer, Butler and Black Hawk counties on September 22 and 23. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today issued the following joint statement urging Democratic senators to...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with Senators Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Michael Lee (R-Utah), Kelly Ayotte...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa released the following statement after receiving responses from both the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission that they would be collaborating with each other and the Department of Agriculture, where appropriate, regarding their work to analyze proposed mergers in the seed and...
Senator Grassley was invited by the Iowa Council for the Social Studies to record a video message for Constitution Day. The video and text can be viewed below.This is one of your two senators, Chuck Grassley. Constitution Day is September 17th.That’s the anniversary of when the delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the extraordinary...
WASHINGTON – The National Farmers Union (NFU) presented Sen. Chuck Grassley with its 2016 “Golden Triangle Award,” the organization’s highest legislative honor, for his “outstanding leadership on issues affecting family farmers in rural America.”“Far too often, the concerns of farmers and rural America are...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate last night reaffirmed its support for efforts to end domestic violence in the United States. In a resolution authored by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, the Senate voiced its continued support for survivors of domestic violence, victim advocates, domestic violence victim service providers, and first...
WASHINGTON – As foreign governments ramp up purchases of private assets for commercial purposes in other countries, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa is working to make sure that these state-owned enterprises don’t attempt to skirt responsibility through the U.S. courts. Grassley introduced the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) along with Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the bipartisan Arsenal Installation Reutilization Authority Act to reauthorize the leasing authority at Department of Defense arsenals for unused office space to outside...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today praised Senate passage of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2016 by a vote of 95 to 3. This bill addresses the civil works program of the Army Corps of Engineers and drinking water and wastewater funding programs through the Environmental Protection Agency. It contains references to flood...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today passed legislation to help reduce crimes against America’s seniors through expanded education, prevention and prosecution tools. The Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act, which was introduced by Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, passed the committee by a...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa is requesting the immigration history of an individual charged in a Des Moines reckless driving incident that led to the death of 12-year-old Lea Phann and left several others seriously injured. Prior to the incident, the driver Fernando Lopez Aguilar, apparently received deferred deportation protection under the...
Grassley Des Moines Regional Director to Hold Office Hours September 26, 27 and 28 Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Des Moines, Alec Kennedy, will be holding open office hours in Decatur, Clarke, Madison, Wayne, Lucas, Warren, Polk, Appanoose, Monroe and Marion counties on September 26, 27 and 28. The office hours provide an...
After Initial Report of Fraud Risks in EB-5, Paper Records Continue to Hamper Detection WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is still unable to comprehensively identify and address fraud in the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, according to a draft Government Accountability Office report that is due to be released this...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Committee on the JudiciaryComments on the FBI’s Refusal to Release Unclassified Clinton Investigation Filesto the Public and the CommitteeMonday, September 12, 2016Mr. President, today I want to discuss my serious concerns about the FBI’s selective release of Clinton...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today released the following statement about legislation introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Ranking member John Conyers to reform the flawed EB-5 visa program, which expires on September 30.“Chairman Goodlatte and Ranking Member Conyers have put forth...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is raising concern about how the EB-5 immigrant investor program is allowing networks of foreign participants to syphon the economic benefits away from the American people living in areas that the program was created to assist. In a letter today to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson,...
