Sen. Chuck Grassley has pressed the Obama Administration to address whether patient satisfaction surveys linked to Medicare payments encourage opioid pain reliever abuse, already a national epidemic. Grassley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein initially wrote to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services with this concern in June 2014. The...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today introduced legislation to give the congressional watchdog arm complete access to Red Cross records for oversight purposes and improve the Red Cross’ internal investigative function. The American Red Cross Transparency Act follows the results of a Grassley inquiry into the Red Cross’ response to the 2010 Haiti...
Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Sioux City, Jacob Bossman, will be holding open office hours in Emmet, Palo Alto, Kossuth, Osceola and Dickinson counties on July 25 and 28. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express views.Bossman’s schedule is as follows:Monday July 25,...
Here is information about Senator Grassley's schedule this week. The Senate is in session.Senator Grassley will meet with Iowa families visiting Washington, D.C., from Bettendorf, Earlham, Harlan, Hampton, Britt, Charles City, Pleasant Hill, Le Mars, Toledo, La Motte, Des Moines, Rock Valley and Burlington.Senator Grassley will meet with Iowa students...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement after FBI Director James Comey said the FBI would not recommend criminal prosecution of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, despite finding the mishandling classified information. “While Director Comey made it clear that Secretary Clinton and...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio are urging the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to maintain current policy requiring that Medicare prescription drug plans carry six categories of prescription drugs offered to participating beneficiaries. Grassley and Brown are the sponsors of legislation...
Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Davenport, Penny Vacek, will be holding open office hours in Jefferson, Van Buren, Davis, Wapello, Cedar, Henry and Muscatine counties on July 12 and 14. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express views.Vacek’s schedule is as follows:Tuesday,...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today issued the following statement after President Obama signed into law the FOIA Improvement Act, which Grassley led through the Judiciary Committee last year.“Early in his tenure, President Obama boasted that his administration would be the most transparent in our nation’s...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today published the 2015 Open Payments (also called the “Sunshine Act”) data, along with newly submitted and updated payment records for 2013 and 2014, at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/. The Open Payments program requires that transfers of value by drug, device, biological, and...
WASHINGTON – In recognition of the role whistleblowers play in shining a light on fraud, waste and abuse, the members of the bipartisan Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus introduced a resolution to designate July, 30, 2016, as National Whistleblower Appreciation Day. The resolution encourages federal agencies to acknowledge employees who call attention...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Committee on the JudiciaryPuerto Rico LegislationWednesday, June 29, 2016Mr. President,I want to take a few minutes to share my concerns about the Puerto Rico legislation we’re considering. I’ve been involved with this issue for a while now. This past December...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pressing FBI Director James Comey to explain the agency’s policies surrounding ISIS kill lists of American citizens. The questions come after a Circa News report that many Americans weren’t even notified that they were on an ISIS kill list.
“This report is...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack asking that the Department’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) clarify the rules related to over-seeding cover crops.Grassley’s letter is in response to concerns voiced by producers that confusion exists between the Risk Management Agency and...
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 the Children’s Miracle Network, the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farmers and Ranchers Program and the United Spinal Association.Senator Grassley will meet with Iowa families...
UPDATE: Four of the five people klled in the Los Angeles fire allegedly set by undocumented criminal Johnny Josue Sanchez were Jerry Dean Clemons, Mary Ann Davis, Joseph William Proenneke and Tierra Sue-Meschelle Stansberry, all from Ottumwa, Iowa.
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Senate Judiciary Committee...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is pressing the Obama Administration about its failure to use authority provided to it by Congress to hold accountable countries that won’t take back their own citizens who have been ordered removed from the United States, which has allowed thousands of criminals to be released into U.S....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley continues to press the Department of Homeland Security on its reasons for putting numerous employees on paid administrative leave for long periods of time, citing vague reasons from the department for the leave. Grassley also noted that putting the former head of security at the Transportation Security Administration on...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is seeking an update on federal agency efforts to ensure the hospice industry meets Medicare requirements, citing investigative media reports, agency watchdog reports, and a False Claims Act case alleging problems such as the enrollment of Medicare beneficiaries in hospice care who are ineligible, resulting in fraudulent...
Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Sioux City, Jacob Bossman, will be holding open office hours in Woodbury, Ida, Sac, O’Brien, Clay, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Pocahontas, Humboldt and Webster counties from July 6 to July 18. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express...
