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Grassley Urges China to Open Markets to U.S. Ag Products Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, and other senators today urged China to stop threatening U.S. exports of soybeans, soybean products, processed food and other agricultural products. The senators wrote to the Chinese ambassador to the United States and also wrote to...

Pentagon credit cards Today the Pentagon announced the results of the task force it created in March in response to reports of government credit card abuse by defense workers and military personnel. Sen. Chuck Grassley, who has worked to expose credit card abuse by some Department of Defense workers and urged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to take...

Grassley Pushes for Agriculture Expert on Trade Commission I'm sorry I was unable to be here today. As a conferee on the energy bill conference committee, I had to attend a joint House-Senate conference meeting of the conference this morning. However, I would like to submit the following statement for the record. Ms. Lane is the President's nominee to...

Grassley Seeks Whistleblower Protections for New Federal Employees Senator Says Public Safety and Security at Stake ? Sen. Chuck Grassley is calling on lawmakers to make up shortcomings in the airline safety legislation enacted last fall and the homeland security bill now under consideration by Congress. Grassley said that whistleblowers are not adequately...

Grassley: Finance Committee Best Way to Achieve Bipartisan Prescription Drug Bill This Year ? Sen. Chuck Grassley today urged Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to let the Finance Committee develop a bipartisan Medicare and prescription drug bill this summer. A copy of Grassley's letter to Daschle follows here. June 26, 2002 Senator Tom Daschle Democratic...

Grassley Seeks to Build on Welfare Reform's Success In preparing for today's mark-up, Senator Baucus and I met regularly and worked hard to come up with a joint piece of legislation for the committee to consider. I think it's fair to say that our discussions went relatively well but did not lead us to a joint bill. There are many aspects to the chairman's...

Grassley Expresses Concern Over Possible Retaliation at INS ? Sen. Chuck Grassley today sent a letter to the Immigration and Naturalization Service expressing concern over possible retaliation against two supervisors who provided information to investigators about an earlier whistleblower retaliation case. In March, Grassley sent a strongly worded complaint...

Grassley Expresses Concern Over Possible Retaliation at INS ? Sen. Chuck Grassley today sent a letter to the Immigration and Naturalization Service expressing concern over possible retaliation against two supervisors who provided information to investigators about an earlier whistleblower retaliation case. In March, Grassley sent a strongly worded complaint...

Grassley Takes Iowa-Inspired Medal of Honor Flag Resolution to the Senate Latham Initiated Official Designation in Memory of World War II Hero from Jefferson ? Sen. Chuck Grassley has introduced a Senate resolution to follow action by the House of Representatives designating a flag designed in Iowa as the official Medal of Honor flag for the nation. Rep....

False Claims Act case Today attorneys announced that the General American Life Insurance Company has agreed to pay the government $76 million to resolve Medicare fraud charges brought by whistle blowers and the Department of Justice under the civil False Claims Act. This case marks the tenth settlement of Medicare fraud and abuse charges brought under the...

Grassley Applauds $800,000 for Silos and Smokestacks ? Sen. Chuck Grassley today said the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Sen. Conrad Burns of Montana, confirmed that $800,000 in funding for the Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area will be included as part of the fiscal 2003 appropriations bill for the...

Grassley Expresses Concern Over Health Care Fraud Enforcement ? Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, today expressed concern to the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services over whether the government is softening its approach to prosecuting health care kickback and bribery cases under the False...

Grassley Works to Increase Funding for Children's Literacy Senator Seeks Appropriations for Reach Out and Read Program ? Sen. Chuck Grassley today joined with Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts to build Senate support for a program aimed at increasing childhood literacy. The senators are seeking $5 million in fiscal 2003 funding for Reach Out and Read. The...

Grassley Keeps in Touch With Iowans During Congressional Recess Senator Holds Town Meetings Northwest Iowa ? Sen. Chuck Grassley will visit 14 Iowa communities during the congressional recess next week. The visits are part of his long-time commitment to visit each of Iowa's 99 counties at least once every year. "I look forward to talking with as many...

Grassley Works to Liberate U.S. Service Women from Discriminatory Policy ? Sen. Chuck Grassley today joined others to advance legislation that would end a discriminatory policy requiring women in the U.S. military to wear an abaya when they venture off the U.S. base in Saudi Arabia. "It's absurd for the U.S. military to back this kind of a policy at the...

new tax avoidance schemes An article in last Thursday's New York Times described a major accounting firm that has developed several new methods to help wealthy individuals and corporations dramatically reduce their tax burden by hiding income through complex layers of tax avoidance devices. Last week, the Committee on Finance passed the Tax Shelter...

Breaux, Grassley, McCain Introduce Trade Bill for Turkey -- Democratic Sen. John Breaux and Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and John McCain today introduced bipartisan legislation to enhance economic growth and opportunity for the Republic of Turkey. "Turkey is essential for regional stability in the Middle East, and has contributed to the war efforts in...

Grassley Introduces Legislation to Crack Down on Drug-Abundant Raves ? Sen. Chuck Grassley has joined with his colleague Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware to introduce legislation to crack down on the widespread use of illegal drugs at all-night dance parties, or raves. "Drug dealers have discovered that all-night raves are just the place to push their poison,"...

Grassley Urges Good Oversight, Fiscal Management of New Security Agency ? Sen. Chuck Grassley, a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today offered comments and concerns about the creation of a new Department of Homeland Security. He urged strong internal oversight provisions, whistleblower protections, and cost-efficient, non-duplicative...

Committee Passes Grassley Bill Reining in Corporate Expatriation ? The Committee on Finance today passed bipartisan legislation from Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member, to prevent corporations from nominally moving overseas to avoid taxes. "Recent corporate actions, such as Enron and its financial dealings, show the need for greater congressional oversight...