WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined a letter led by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and also signed by Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), and John Thune (R-S.D.) to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt asking him to examine a burdensome regulation that makes it more difficult to sell gasoline with ethanol content...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on his vote to confirm Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. In January, Grassley convened a meeting among Pruitt and several senators from biofuels-producing states to convey their views on the importance of biofuels to job creation, energy security, the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Rob Portman (R-OH), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Bill Nelson (D-FL), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Patty Murray (D-WA) this week reintroduced their bipartisan bill to improve health outcomes and care coordination for children with complex medical...
Boston Herald: “No Credible Case To Make That President Trump’s Nominee Is Insufficiently Qualified Or Unreasonably Out Of The Judicial Mainstream” “Any senator who votes to oppose the nomination of Neil M. Gorsuch to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court will have done so motivated by blind partisanship — or revenge. There...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand are reintroducing legislation to hold accountable the Justice Department for its handling of the benefits claims of fallen public safety officers.
The Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Act was signed into law in 1976 to provide death benefits to survivors of...
WASHINGTON – Iowan Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst reintroduced legislation to grant the Meskwaki Settlement power to enforce laws for certain crimes committed on its land, bringing its authority in line with that of the vast majority of Indian country.“Our legislation kicks off the final step in a coordinated process to ensure the...
Trade deals remain vital for agriculture; Grassley wise to push for farmers’ access to overseas marketsCouncil Bluffs Daily NonpareilEditorialAs protectionism and the perception of bad trade deals permeated last year’s presidential campaign, the impact on Midwestern agriculture was largely overlooked.…Sen. Chuck Grassley, however, has...
Sen. Chuck Grassley today welcomed an expression of concern and a commitment to produce records on the misclassification of EpiPen under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program from Seema Verma, nominee to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Grassley has pressed CMS for documentation and answers on why EpiPen was...
WASHINGTON – After consulting with the Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said today that the hearing for Judge Neil Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court will begin on March 20. Grassley expects the hearing to last 3-4 days. Opening statements by Judiciary Committee...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today requested a Justice Department briefing and documents related to the circumstances leading up to the resignation of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. In a
letter today to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director James...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Jon Tester, D-Mont., Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., were joined by 37 Senators in sending a letter today to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price regarding health care in rural America. The letter emphasizes the importance of rural health-care...
Resolution would block Social Security reg to unlawfully add names to gun ban list
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate today approved a measure to roll back a misguided Obama-era regulation that would jeopardize the Second Amendment rights of Social Security beneficiaries. The bipartisan resolution of disapproval, authored by Senate Judiciary...
Sen. Chuck Grassley, a senior member and former chairman of the Finance Committee and a member of the Agriculture Committee, today met with Peter Navarro, a top trade advisor for President Trump, and several fellow committee members, to discuss the Administration’s priorities on trade. The Finance Committee has jurisdiction over trade....
Introduce legislation to force transparency on organizations using taxpayer money to fund political agendas
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced the
Open Book on Equal Access to Justice Act. The
legislation prevents abuse of the
Equal Access to Justice Act...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is the author of the Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act, enacted in 2012, that imposed new requirements to improve internal controls in the widely used government purchase card program. Grassley continues to conduct oversight to make sure the new controls are implemented properly, including seeking reviews from the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Amy Klobuchar are urging new Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to use his statutory authority to fast track the importation of prescription drugs from Canada under certain circumstances as a remedy to recent drastic drug price increases in the United States. “Where...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is a senior member and former chairman of the Finance Committee, with jurisdiction over the Treasury Department and the IRS. Grassley made the following comment on his vote to confirm Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary. “As the author of the provisions improving the incentives for whistleblowers to come...
Last evening Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch returned the bipartisan Judiciary Committee questionnaire Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein sent to him on Feb. 3. The questionnaire can be found here. Here’s a comment from Grassley. “I appreciate Judge Gorsuch working diligently to return his...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement regarding the new and ever changing standards Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is placing on Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. “The problem Democrats are running into is that Judge Gorsuch clears every hurdle they place in front of him. First, the Minority...
