WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is requesting background information on Sayfullo Saipov, the man responsible for hitting and killing eight people with his rental truck yesterday in lower Manhattan. Eleven others were also injured in the attack.
According to information received by the Judiciary Committee, Saipov...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today introduced bipartisan legislation to reduce single use drug waste. An October 2017 investigation by ProPublica found that many pharmaceutical companies produce eye-drops in over-sized doses, in some cases more than twice what the eye can hold, resulting in drug waste and...
Prepared Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOctober 31, 2017VIDEO Today, the Senate will vote on the nomination of Notre Dame Law Professor Amy Barrett to serve on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. She is an eminently qualified and exceptionally bright nominee who has received praise and support across...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Judiciary Committee member Mike Johnson (R-La.) today introduced legislation to improve transparency and accountability of agents working on behalf of foreign principals to influence American policy. The
Disclosing Foreign Influence Act corrects longstanding loopholes...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has sought information about the process by which the Homeland Security Department reviews the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation.
TPS was established by Congress to provide a temporary shield from removal for foreign nationals from countries with extraordinarily adverse...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote to Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller seeking further details and accompanying documentation regarding the state’s receiving $1.5 million as part of a Justice Department settlement with Mylan over EpiPen’s apparent misclassification under Medicaid’s Drug Rebate Program.
“The cost of EpiPen hit home for a lot of...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst
received a response from Veterans Affairs Department Secretary David Shulkin regarding an
inquiry seeking information on
reported unauthorized waiting lists outside the VA patient tracking system for some mental health appointments at the VA facility in Omaha.
In his response to Grassley and Ernst,...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement regarding federal criminal charges filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller:
“As always, it’s important to let our legal system run its course. While we don’t have any more information regarding the current status of the special counsel’s...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Al Franken (D-Minn.) sponsored the Family Farmer Bankruptcy Clarification Act of 2017, which is now on its way to the President’s desk for his signature. The bipartisan bill would resolve a 2012 Supreme Court ruling on a previous bankruptcy reform law that saddled family farmers with additional...
23 Senators Join Bipartisan Letter Urging Administration to Weigh in on Supreme Court’s Review of Antiterrorism Act Case
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley led 23 Senate colleagues in calling on the administration to avoid any further, unnecessary delay in providing its views on an
Antiterrorism Act case. The case...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan measure making it easier for family farmers to reorganize debts when facing bankruptcy received final approval today in Congress and is headed to the president’s desk for signature. The Family Farmer Bankruptcy Clarification Act of 2017, sponsored by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Al Franken (D-Minn.), was...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following comment on the State of Iowa’s withdrawal of its Section 1332 waiver, also known as the Iowa Stopgap Measure. “In Iowa and across the country, Americans are witnessing the ‘death spiral’ of Obamacare. Premiums are skyrocketing, provider options are disappearing and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today encouraged the administration to take the TN visa program into account while considering any changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) during negotiations.
In a letter to United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Grassley notes that the TN visa program...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley said today that spring internships for Iowans are available. Applications are due Wednesday, November 15. These Senate internships are available in Grassley offices in Washington, D.C., Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo. The spring internship program runs from January 8...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is pressing the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to explain lapses in the screening and tracking of Afghan military trainees in the United States after an inspector general report shows a number went missing, with 13 trainees still unaccounted for.
“There are so...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and other Midwestern senators received several assurances in a letter from Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, including that the agency will not follow through on a proposal that would have undermined the integrity of the Renewable Fuel Standard and represented an abandonment of President...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa today asked the Department of Veterans Affairs for a response to a report in the Omaha World-Herald of unauthorized waiting lists outside the VA patient tracking system for some mental health appointments in Omaha. “With mental health, receiving prompt care is crucial, and in severe...
Reported Justice Department Gag Orders Prevent Accountability of Controversial Obama-Era Deal with Russian Entities
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is calling on the Justice Department to lift a reported non-disclosure agreement preventing a former FBI confidential informant from speaking to Congress about...
