Washington, D.C. -- In a signal of growing support for the bipartisan Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017, Consumers Union, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare, and the Academy of Doctors of Audiology have released letters endorsing the legislation. These three groups joined a number of other leading organizations...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley continues his oversight of whether the taxpayers are overpaying insurers in Medicare Advantage, seeking updates and answers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on what the agency is doing to prevent insurance company risk score gaming to get higher payments.
“By all accounts, risk score gaming is...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is asking a health insurer to explain an apparent practice of charging customers more for receiving a brand name prescription drug than a generic drug when the insurer’s own doctors explicitly prescribed the brand name drug for medical reasons. This “brand penalty” reportedly is the difference between the price of the...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley is evaluating the response he received from a Florida assisted living facility in response to his questions following criminal charges filed against an employee alleging she violated the privacy of two residents using Snapchat. The case is the latest example of exploitive videos or photos involving elder care...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, an author of legislation to reform the H-1B and L-1 skilled work visa programs, made the following statement regarding President Trump’s executive order to protect American workers and prioritize H-1B visas for the most-skilled applicants: “The H-1B program was designed...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is seeking answers from a government watchdog and an accrediting organization over investigative news reports of troubling conduct by Universal Health Services (UHS), the country’s largest psychiatric hospital chain.
The news reports “portray a pattern of conduct that is extremely concerning and cast a dark cloud over UHS’...
FBI continues to provide erroneous information about employees’ statutory rights championed by Grassley
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today called on the FBI to explain why it has failed to update its...
ICYMI: Today’s Des Moines Register editorial praises bipartisan legislation to combat campus sexual assault that Senator Grassley is helping lead through the United States Senate. Senator Grassley is an original cosponsor of the “Campus Accountability and Safety Act,” which would reform the way colleges and universities address and report...
Reports: Amid public scrutiny, Manafort, Podesta Group finally file as foreign agents; Justice Dept. lax on enforcement of Foreign Agents Registration Act
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement regarding reports that Paul Manafort and the Podesta Group are voluntarily registering as U.S....
WASHINGTON – Iowa’s U.S. Senators today announced their joint recommendations to the President of individuals to serve as U.S. Attorneys in the Northern and Southern districts of Iowa.“These individuals have the necessary qualifications to effectively serve the public at the helm of the U.S. Attorney offices in Iowa. They have distinguished...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota have re-introduced two bills that would give students and their families better information about the costs of college. The bills continue the senators’ long-time collaboration to help college students avoid sticker shock and insurmountable debt.
“College sticker prices...
22 Senators Join Grassley’s Brief Urging Supreme Court’s Review of Antiterrorism Act Case
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley led 22 Senate colleagues in
calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision undermining the ability of U.S. victims of international terrorism to seek justice. ...
WASHINGTON –Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Patrick Leahy introduced a resolution observing this week as National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. The resolution recognizes the Senate’s commitment to raising awareness about the unique needs of crime victims and their families.
Grassley and Leahy’s resolution expresses...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement after Neil M. Gorsuch was sworn in today as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court: “Congratulations to Justice Gorsuch on joining the U.S. Supreme Court. His record shows that he understands a judge’s job is to...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley has this week reintroduced legislation to ban packer ownership of livestock after seeing continued impact of consolidation within the livestock industry.Over the last several decades large packing companies in the poultry and pork industries have moved to concentrate and vertically integrate. The beef industry is...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold two town meetings in Iowa April 18 and April 20 as part of his annual 99-county meetings. “Representative government is a two-way street. I’m one half of the process and the people of Iowa are the other half. You can’t have representative government without dialogue between...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement following the overnight U.S. military strikes in Syria.“The use of chemical weapons by Assad against his own people, including women and children, is an atrocious act and a crime against humanity,” Senator Grassley said. “Assad’s actions follow a policy under...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley has cosponsored the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2017, S. 870, a bipartisan bill to strengthen and improve health outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries living with chronic conditions.
“It’s common sense that Medicare policies should help prevent a heart attack or...
