Changes to H-1B, L-1 Programs Protect American Workers & Improve Fairness for Visa Applicants WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin this week will introduce legislation to prioritize American workers and restore fairness in visa programs for skilled foreign workers. ...
Sen. Chuck Grassley, author of the provisions improving the incentives for whistleblowers to come forward about large dollar tax fraud, today received a commitment from Treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin in support of a strong IRS whistleblower function. Their exchange came at the Finance Committee nomination hearing for Mnuchin. Grassley...
Sen. Chuck Grassley has pressed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Justice Department, and the drug company Mylan to explain the misclassification of EpiPens under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program and whether the government took any action to recover the tax dollars overpaid because of the misclassification. CMS just responded to...
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement regarding the nomination of Governor Sonny Perdue to be the next Secretary of Agriculture. Grassley is a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and is the only working family farmer on the committee.“The Secretary of Agriculture oversees a broad swath of very important American...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today met with Robert Lighthizer, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as United States Trade Representative. The Finance Committee, where Grassley is a senior member and former chairman, will handle the nomination. Grassley made the following comment on the meeting.“The main point I wanted to...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today convened a meeting with several fellow senators from biofuels-producing states and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, President-elect Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of the Department of Energy. The agency conducts research on fuel optimization that is relevant to biofuels policy-making. Grassley made the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley will begin holding meetings with Iowans in every county this new year with meetings on Monday, Jan. 16, in Grundy and Black Hawk counties.With these meetings, Grassley will begin his 37th year holding meetings in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties. Grassley has held at least one meeting with Iowans in...
ICYMI: “Sessions’s Road To The Attorney General’s Office Is As Clear As Ever” “Evenhanded”; “Unflappable”; “Unscathed”; “Unflustered”; “Nothing New Came Out” Associated Press: “Sen. Jeff Sessions cast himself as a strong protector of law and order at his...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement after meeting with General John Kelly, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be Secretary of Homeland Security. The Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over immigration policy which mainly falls under the purview of the Department of Homeland Security.“I...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement after the Justice Department Inspector General announced a review of “allegations regarding various actions by the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in advance of the 2016 election.” Grassley raised concerns to the Inspector General about...
Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote the provisions improving the incentives for whistleblowers to come forward about large dollar tax fraud. The provisions were enacted in 2006, ten years ago. Grassley continuously works to make sure the IRS is welcoming to whistleblowers. The law continues to have positive results, according to the IRS’ latest...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Bob Casey (D-Penn.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and fellow senators today re-introduced their popular bipartisan legislation to encourage pharmacists to serve older Americans in communities lacking easy access to doctors or where pharmacists are more convenient to visit for certain services than...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Congressman Doug Collins (Ga-09) today introduced legislation in the Senate and House of Representatives to end the practice of creating new federal red tape outside of the public rulemaking process. The tactic, known as sue-and-settle litigation, is used by federal...
The Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act would increase consumers’ access to cost-saving generic drugs by helping put an end to pay-offs by brand-name drug manufacturers that keep cheaper generic equivalents off the market WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today introduced bipartisan...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is a long-time advocate for renewable fuels. Last week he convened a meeting among several senators from biofuels-producing states and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, President-elect Trump’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, to convey the importance of biofuels to job creation, energy...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is a long-time whistleblower advocate. Grassley made the following comment on the findings of the independent Office of Special Counsel that a Department of Veterans Affairs whistleblower exposed significant and continued patient wait times at the Phoenix VA. “Sometimes whistleblowers expose matters of life and death, other...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is concerned about high prescription drug costs and is looking into the misclassification of certain drugs under the Medicaid Prescription Drug Program. He made the following comment on the Justice Department’s prosecution of the price fixing of generic drugs and the lack of responsiveness from the Obama Administration on...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today met with Rep. Mick Mulvaney, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget. Grassley is a senior member of the Budget Committee, which will consider the nomination. Grassley made the following comment on the meeting. “The Office of Management...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today introduced and cosponsored a package of bills aimed at protecting Americans by improving the nation’s immigration laws. Grassley introduced two bills to deny entry or allow removal of immigrants who are affiliated with criminal gangs and to require immigration officials to take...
