WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate today confirmed by a unanimous, bipartisan voice vote the nominations of Peter Deegan, Jr. and Marc Krickbaum to be U.S. Attorneys for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa, respectively, the final step in the confirmation process before being sworn into office. The nominations were previously reported out of the...
Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck GrassleyDelivered Tuesday, September 12, 2017Mr. President, I come to the floor today to question the plan for auditing the Department of Defense (DoD).The new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Mr. David Norquist, presented a plan to the Armed Services Committee on May 9th. It appears flawed like all the others.The department may be...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today is seeking answers about the wasteful and potentially unlawful spending by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) of money recovered from criminal investigations or civil asset forfeitures. He is also inquiring about misleading representations provided to Congress regarding that spending based...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate last night unanimously passed a bipartisan bill to aid in the fight against human trafficking. The
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2017, authored by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and cosponsored by Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), would renew existing programs that make federal...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. John Thune of South Dakota today re-introduced comprehensive legislation to improve customer service at the IRS, create new taxpayer protections, and update and strengthen existing taxpayer protections. The Taxpayer Bill of Rights Enhancement Act of 2017, S. 1793, updates the senators’ prior version of...
WASHINGTON – The Senate this week unanimously approved legislation by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) clarifying Congress’ intent to allow family farmers to more easily reorganize their finances when they fall on hard times. As a part of a 2005 bankruptcy reform bill, Congress passed a...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa today urged the Office of National Drug Control Policy to include an evaluation of drug take back programs in the final report of the President’s Commission on Combatting Opioid Abuse, correcting a shortcoming in the interim report.
“Unfortunately, the interim report did not include any reference...
“However challenging these issues may be, the American people rightfully expect us to follow through on the commitments that we have made, and we believe it is critical that we devote the necessary time to accomplishing these tasks.”WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Iowa’s U.S. Senators Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley sent a letterto...
Prepared Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeSeptember 5, 2017 I’m pleased today to support the nomination of Tim Kelly to be a Judge on the D.C. District Court. Tim serves as my Chief Counsel for National Security, Senior Crime Counsel, and Majority Staff Director for the Caucus on...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, co-chairman, will hold a hearing of the Caucus on International Narcotics Control to examine U.S. counternarcotics efforts in Colombia and how these efforts should be adapted in light of the staggering increases in coca production in the country. Hearing: “Adapting U.S....
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement regarding President Trump’s announced plans to suspend the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order, or DACA. “However well-intentioned DACA may have been, the program was created by executive edict rather than by...
AUDIO AVAILABLE: Click here for Grassley comment. NEW HARTFORD – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley issued the following comment about the nomination today by President Trump of Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey to be Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This position was established in May as...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today pressed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on why it has failed to ensure that nursing home abuse and neglect cases are reported to law enforcement, as required. Grassley also pressed the agency for its lack of urgency in responding to an early alert from the agency watchdog on this problem....
WASHINGTON – Preliminary data provided by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in response to recent inquiries from the House and Senate Judiciary Committees indicate that the Obama administration allowed thousands of DACA recipients to exploit an immigration law loophole to obtain green cards. The data also show that more than a thousand DACA...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is the co-sponsor of the American Red Cross Transparency Act, introduced in March, to give the Government Accountability Office access to Red Cross records for oversight purposes. The Red Cross is congressionally chartered and considered a federal instrumentality. It also receives tax benefits including tax-deductible...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Des Moines, Alec Kennedy, will hold office hours in Monroe and Appanoose counties on Thursday, September 7. Kennedy’s schedule is as follows: Thursday, September 7 Monroe County2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Chariton Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc.Small Conference...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein yesterday made the following statement regarding the committee’s scheduled interview with Donald Trump, Jr. “In late July, Donald Trump Jr. agreed to provide the Judiciary Committee with documents and a transcribed interview prior to a...
