WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Sen. Tom Cotton, Sen. Tom Udall, Sen. Martin Heinrich and Sen. Sherrod Brown today introduced bipartisan legislation to improve patient access to podiatrists in Medicaid and improve care for patients with diabetes who need therapeutic shoes via Medicare. “Foot and ankle health is important to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley said today that fall internships for college-aged Iowans are available. Applications are due Friday, July 21.
These Senate internships are available in Grassley offices in Washington, D.C., Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo. The fall internship program runs from August 21 to December...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Waterloo, Jason Mohr, will hold office hours in Franklin, Wright, Hancock, Winnebago and Hardin counties on Monday, July 17. Mohr’s schedule is as follows:Monday, July 17 Franklin County8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.Franklin County Courthouse12 1st Avenue NWHampton Wright...
Video of the floor speech is available here.Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck GrassleyObamacare is Unaffordable for Too Many Americans; Medicaid Emphasizes Spending Over QualityDelivered Tuesday, July 11, 2017I rise today to share real stories of real hardship from hard-working families in my home state of Iowa.Seven years ago, Americans were promised that the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Joni Ernst today invited Iowa lawyers who would like to be recommended for a judicial appointment by President Donald Trump to serve as a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Iowa to submit applications by August 11. The senators intend to make recommendations to fill the federal judgeship that...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and committee member Chris Coons (D-Del.) sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross questioning the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s participation in the Department of Commerce’s initiative to develop shared services for all of the Department’s bureaus, called “Enterprise...
Leadership was reportedly warned about need to follow through on safety measures, yet failed to adequately fund equipment or implement programs
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Body armor with 13 percent failure rate still worn by more than 1,000 agents
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Weakened criteria for training officers tied to flawed safety instructions
WASHINGTON – Thousands of U.S. Marshals...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sought clarification from Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller regarding his office’s ability to determine the value of reimbursement to the state necessary to make Iowa whole from EpiPen’s apparent misclassification under Medicaid’s Drug Rebate Program. In his letter, Grassley...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed renewable volume obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) program for 2018.“The EPA’s proposed renewable volume obligations under the RFS program is a mixed bag. While I’m glad the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley participated in an HBO special featuring former U.S. presidents, current Supreme Court justices, members of Congress and well-known actors reading the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The documentary, called “The Words That Built America,” will air Tuesday, July 4, at 7 p.m. Eastern....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa issued the following statement marking Independence Day 2017.“The Declaration of Independence is perhaps the greatest expression of political freedom ever devised by humankind. It plainly states our liberties come from God, not from the government. What government giveth, it can taketh away. Ratified...
Sen. Chuck Grassley co-authored the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, later enacted, after his oversight and news stories uncovered significant payments from the prescription drug and medical device industry to doctors that had not been disclosed. Rather than prohibit such payments, which in many cases might benefit patients as in through research, the...
SARAH’S MOTHER ON HAND IN U.S. CAPITOL TO WATCH DEBATE AND PASSAGE IN PERSONWASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act (H.R. 3003) which included language from Sarah's Law, a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Iowa Congressmen David Young and Nebraska...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today met with Christopher Wray, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, at his Senate office in Washington. The Senate Judiciary Committee, which has legislative authority and oversight jurisdiction over the Department of Justice and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley rebuked the Justice Department’s Civil Division after a review by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) revealed a lengthy record of unaccountability in addressing sexual misconduct and harassment in the Department while rewarding some of the perpetrators with promotions and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is asking the Justice Department to address more revelations of potential conflicts in the FBI’s handling of recent politically charged investigations. Grassley’s request follows new reports that the acting director engaged in a political campaign and is the subject of an ongoing sex...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement after the Senate’s top Democrat objected to allowing a previously scheduled national security briefing hosted by the Judiciary Committee: “The federal government’s primary responsibility is to protect the American people, so...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham
requested all proposed and final applications for surveillance warrants that the FBI reportedly sought from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections. This includes...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today expressed support for the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner’s actions to help expand access to lower-cost prescription medications through improved transparency and reduced red tape. “I’m encouraged by FDA Commissioner Gottlieb’s...
