Obama Admin. settlements ordered payments to third parties without oversight or congressional approval
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement regarding Attorney General Jeff Sessions’
announcement to end a practice by the Obama Administration that required portions of some settlement...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and lifelong family farmer, wrote to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an update of its 2013 report on farm program eligibility in advance of the next Farm Bill.
The 2013 GAO report outlined shortcomings of the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA)...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement after Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta announced actions to increase protections of American workers and more aggressively confront visa program fraud and abuse. “Secretary Acosta is taking a serious first step to address the rampant problem of visa...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today made the following statement regarding a deal reached in principle by the United States and Mexico on sugar trade, a major step toward averting a potential trade war.“This is great...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is pressing the Department of Veterans Affairs for accurate information on appointment wait times for Iowa veterans after agency officials appeared to mislead his staff about lengthy waits. The VA reiterated that no wait times beyond 90 days existed, when a whistleblower produced...
Public Safety Officers Benefits Improvement Act reduces delays in processing survivor benefits WASHINGTON – Bipartisan legislation aimed at helping families of fallen first responders receive the survivor benefits they’d been promised was signed into law today. The Public Safety Officers Benefits Improvement Act, led by Senate...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today asked the State Department for information on whether then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her staff sought help through official channels for a Bangladeshi businessman who also was a donor to the Clinton Global Initiative and Clinton Foundation. The allegations of special treatment include reports of...
Text of the letter available here.
Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today submitted comments to the Accredited Standards Committee X12 (X12) in support of an update to include the unique device identifier (UDI) of medical devices on health insurance claims forms. X12 released a draft claims form...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is seeking information about whether U.S. Marshals who solicited prostitutes while on detail in Mexico ever faced consequences for their actions and whether the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) has taken steps to mitigate security risks resulting from that conduct.
In his
letter to Acting...
Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, received an estimate from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General that the taxpayers may have overpaid for EpiPen by as much as $1.27 billion from 2006 through 2016, far more than the $465 million that the company reported it had agreed to in settlement...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley continues to seek details from an accrediting organization over a youth psychiatric hospital that is in the news over reported troubling conduct. Grassley followed up with The Joint Commission over the Shadow Mountain facility run by Universal Health Services (UHS), the country’s largest psychiatric hospital chain....
WASHINGTON – In response to a recent bipartisan inquiry led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) outlined steps it is taking to address abuses in the H-1B visa program, which has jeopardized jobs for American workers.
On March 29, Grassley, along with Senators Dick Durbin,...
Companies touting ties to administration claim they can guarantee visas and investment, a potential violation of federal law and securities regulations
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley asked the Department of Homeland Security and the Securities and Exchange Commission to review potentially fraudulent claims by a...
Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck GrassleyRecognizing National Foster Care MonthDelivered Thursday, May 25, 2017I rise today to thank my colleagues for unanimously supporting a resolution recognizing May as National Foster Care Month. National Foster Care Month has been recognized for over 20 years as a time to celebrate the voices of foster youth and to bring...
The chart Sen. Grassley used is available here.
Floor Statement of Sen. Chuck GrassleyThe Affordable Care Act’s Broken PromisesDelivered Thursday, May 25, 2017
I rise today to share real stories from real Iowans who have been harmed, not helped, by the Affordable Care Act. The other side talks about the benefits of the ACA without mentioning the...
Washington—Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), leaders of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, today introduced the Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act, a bill to support research initiatives on the potential benefits of substances such as cannabidiol (CBD) that are derived from marijuana.
In addition to...
Washington DC – Today, Senators Todd Young (R-IN), Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) led a bipartisan effort to modernize the foster care placement process. Their effort takes steps to alleviate our overwhelmed adoption system, which has only become more strained as the opiate abuse crisis worsens. Senators Young, Gillibrand,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today received support from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for a Grassley co-authored reform of the biodiesel tax credit. The bipartisan bill, the American Renewable Fuel and Job Creation Act of 2017, extends this important clean-fuel incentive for three years and reforms the incentive by transferring the...
