Statement for the Congressional Record by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeSunshine Week and Freedom of Information March 15, 2017 Mr. President, This week is Sunshine Week, an annual nationwide celebration of the good that comes from peeling back the curtains on government. Sunshine Week coincides with the National...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Amy Klobuchar today reintroduced bipartisan legislation to expand the public’s window into federal court processes and procedures by allowing cameras in federal courtrooms. The
Sunshine in the Courtroom Act allows judges to permit media coverage of trial and appellate cases...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senators Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today introduced legislation expanding protections for whistleblowers in the legislative branch. The bill shields congressional employees from retaliation when they expose fraud, waste or misconduct. The bill is...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) put EB-5 industry organizations on notice that backroom deals that do not address the many flaws of the EB-5 program would be dead on arrival.
In a letter to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Real Estate Roundtable, the senators pledge to...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan today introduced new bipartisan legislation to give top U.S. agriculture and food officials permanent representation on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The “Food Security is National Security Act of 2017” will also include new agriculture and...
WASHINGTON – YMCA of the USA and the Iowa Alliance of YMCAs presented Sen. Chuck Grassley, co-founder and co-chairman of the Senate Caucus on Foster Youth, with its “YMCA Congressional Champion” award for his “commitment to the development of youth” and “being a Champion to the YMCA.”“Working to improve the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley has asked the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority and newly confirmed Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to explain potentially excessive travel and conference expenses by the housing authority, including that the executive director reportedly has spent 158 days over four years attending...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee is releasing public guidelines for the upcoming hearing for Neil M. Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.“There is always high interest in Supreme Court hearings, and we don’t expect this one to be any different. With television and internet coverage, social...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Chuck Grassley, Senator Joni Ernst, along with the full Iowa congressional delegation, received notice from the U.S. Air National Guard that the RC-26 aircraft will remain based in Iowa at this time. The RC-26 aircraft is designed to counter drug trafficking and assist in counterterrorism efforts, and plays an important role in the...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement regarding the American Bar Association (ABA) giving a “Unanimously Well Qualified” rating, the group’s highest rating, to Judge Neil Gorsuch who has been nominated to be an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. “The ABA’s ringing endorsement is no surprise...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee today approved legislation to reduce the wait time for families of fallen officers that have applied for death benefits. The
Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Improvement Act, which was introduced by Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), was reported to the full Senate by a vote...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of Senators, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, is expressing the need to protect and encourage whistleblowers who shine light on fraud, waste and mismanagement in government. In a letter today to 18 federal agencies, 11 members of the Whistleblower Protection Caucus are calling on government leaders to...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement regarding the documents provided by the Justice Department to the committee regarding the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to be an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
On Feb. 21, Grassley and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein sent a bipartisan request to the Department...
Video of the speech is available here.Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck GrassleyObamacare’s Failures Must be AddressedDelivered Thursday, March 9, 2017Obamacare has been a case of over-promise and under-delivery. People were told their premiums would go down, and that if they liked their doctor, hospital or health care plan, they could keep all of...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement at a Judiciary Committee executive business meeting celebrating Senator Orrin Hatch’s (R-Utah) 40th anniversary of joining the committee. Hatch joined the committee on February 22, 1977. “I want to take a moment to recognize a major...
WASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today introduced the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act to require federal agencies to analyze the full impact of a proposed regulation on small businesses during the rulemaking process. The bill is co-sponsored by Senators Chuck Grassley, who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Jim...
Sen. Chuck Grassley today voted in favor of a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act of a regulation released last October requiring states to evaluate teacher preparation programs located within that state based on four federally-prescribed and defined criteria of performance. The regulation would require states to set up a...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today asked the maker of epinephrine injector Auvi-Q to explain its pricing, including which entities in the health care system will pay the cited price of $4,500 for a two-pack when consumers without insurance will pay $360 for the product. Grassley said the pricing of Auvi-Q “appears to draw parallels with concern...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the Office of Special Counsel...
