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...
Sen. Chuck Grassley has a long record of nursing home oversight and ensuring quality of care for nursing home residents. He made the following comment on an early alert from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General finding that 28 percent of 134 potential incidents of abuse or neglect in 33 states may not have been...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Senator Mike Lee of Utah are again inquiring about the abuse of an immigration law loophole that allows unauthorized immigrants to obtain a green card and, eventually, U.S. citizenship. The two senators previously wrote to the Obama administration on this issue in March...
Sen. Chuck Grassley has pressed for better oversight of a $9.6 billion program meant to help homeowners who suffered during the housing crisis. Amid the poor federal oversight, a Nevada state agency engaged in “widespread waste and abuse in spending” and “abused the Hardest Hit Fund with, seemingly, a sense of entitlement and no appreciation for the...
In May, Sen. Chuck Grassley asked Energy Secretary Rick Perry a series of questions about a study Perry directed that appeared geared to undermine the wind energy industry. As the father of the wind energy production tax credit, Grassley was concerned that the report would criticize the reliability of energy from renewable sources alongside fossil...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley welcomes the signing of the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act into law. Grassley was the lead co-sponsor of the bipartisan measure, which will make certain types of hearing aids available over the counter to Americans with mild to moderate hearing impairment.“I’ve heard from Iowans and others around the...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has been investigating the cost increases for EpiPen to consumers and whether the taxpayers have been shortchanged under EpiPen’s misclassification under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program. He made the following comment today on a settlement announced between the Justice Department and EpiPen maker Mylan over the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold six town meetings in Iowa August 23, August 24, August 29, August 30 and August 31 as part of his annual 99 county meetings. These six open town meetings are in addition to question-and-answer sessions at local businesses, high schools and service clubs in two dozen...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Sioux City, Jacob Bossman, will hold office hours in Cherokee, Buena Vista and Pocahontas counties on Tuesday, August 22.Bossman’s schedule is as follows: Tuesday, August 22 Cherokee CountyNoon to 1 p.m.Marcus City Hall222 North Main StreetMarcus Buena Vista...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley asked the President to grant the request made by Governor Kim Reynolds for a declaration of a major disaster in response to heavy rains, flash flooding, riverine flooding, damaging winds, tornadoes, and hail between July 19 and July 23, 2017.
In a request letter, Grassley wrote, “The Governor determined that this incident...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Ron Wyden are asking the Trump administration to add the topic of individuals with disabilities to discussions on promoting apprenticeships. The president in June established a task force on apprenticeship expansion to “identify and provide a report on strategies and proposals to promote...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is the co-author of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act disclosure requirements for drug company payments to doctors. He is also the co-sponsor of pending bipartisan legislation to apply the disclosure requirements to nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Grassley made the following comment on a new study finding that...
Bloomberg: “Grassley’s Advocacy Has Already Notched A Win, When The White House Pledged Last Month To Respond To Oversight Letters From Rank-And-File Members In Both Parties”The Hill: “Grassley looms as foil to Trump”Alexander Bolton and Katie Bo WilliamsAugust 7, 2017Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has emerged as a pivotal...
Two recent inspector general reports have called for more transparency of scientific research involving human subjects. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General found that the Office for Human Research Protections needs to improve transparency with public availability of its compliance activities. The Environmental...
WASHINGTON—In case you missed it, on Thursday, the Senate approved a bipartisan bill introduced by U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse in federal agency travel and purchase cards spending. The Saving Federal Dollars Through Better Use of Government Purchase...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is welcoming news from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that it has fixed an extension of a Medicare payment designation program that is critical to small, often rural hospitals. The “tweener” program is critical to hospitals in Grinnell, Carroll, Newton and Spirit Lake and the patients they serve....
