Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the importance of federal agency oversight of research dollars in light of the former Iowa State University researcher in the news today over an indictment.
“I started looking at the government’s response to federal research money lost to fraud after the Iowa State case. It was alarming to...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Former Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued a joint minority report today entitled, Red Flags: How Politics and Poor Management Led to the Meltdown of...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Wyden are pressing the Director of National Intelligence to explain in detail how the intelligence community plans to implement continuous monitoring of security clearance holders without undermining legal protections for whistleblowers or constitutional protections for the separation of powers between the...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley will hold three town meetings in Iowa during the week of June 30 as part of his annual 99-county tour.
Grassley has held a meeting in each of Iowa’s 99 counties at least once every year since he was first elected to the U.S. Senate.
On July 1 and 2 Grassley will be in Mediapolis, Columbus Junction and Muscatine....
Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week. The Senate is in session. Senator Grassley will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, Iowa’s...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that fall internships for college-age Iowans are available, and applications are due July 15.
Internships are available in Grassley’s Washington, D.C., office as well as his offices in Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo. The semester-long internship will run...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today welcomed an Iowan and others who shared their experiences on the critical need to help foster youth learn financial literacy.
Eddye Vanderkwaak of Ankeny, a Jim Casey Young Fellow, spoke at a roundtable sponsored by the Senate Caucus on Foster Youth and the Senate Caucus on Financial and Economic Literacy. ...
Floor Statement of Senator Chuck GrassleyOn Tax ExtendersDelivered June 12, 2014
Mr. President, just last week Majority Leader Reid gave his view that tax extenders is dead in the Senate until the lame duck session. The Majority Leader blames this on the Minority, but it is the Majority Leader that is uniquely situated under Senate rules to determine...
WASHINGTON – Several senators are pressing Defense Department leaders to end the practice known as “plugging.” “Plugging” is the use of false numbers in financial ledgers that forces balances and effectively masks accounting errors and control deficiencies.
Senators Chuck Grassley, Tom Coburn, Tom Carper and Ron Johnson wrote Defense Department...
WASHINGTON – Building on their work to make Medicare cost and quality data more transparent, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and senior Finance Committee member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, are asking providers, patients, advocates, insurers, entrepreneurs and others for new ideas for improving overall transparency in health care.
“Health...
Floor Speech by Senator Chuck Grassley onThe Know Before You Owe Federal Student Loan Act of 2014Delivered Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Mr. President, in fiscal year 2014, the U.S. Department of Education will make about $112 billion in Federal Direct Loans to students. The federal government already holds more than $1 Trillion in student loan debt. ...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement after Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Defense Department General Counsel Stephen Preston testified before the House Armed Services Committee about the recent transfer of five senior-level Taliban commanders from Guantanamo Bay. Last week Grassley...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on Senate passage of a bipartisan bill to improve conditions for veterans health care. The Senate-passed bill makes it easier for veterans who have been delayed in getting initial appointments at a federal Department of Veterans Affairs facility to receive treatment from private doctors...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley joined 11 colleagues led by Senator Rob Portman to introduce a Senate resolution calling for an investigation into the release of five high-level Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay.
The resolution states that President Obama violated the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 when he transferred the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation Tuesday to reauthorize the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act, a law known as “STELA” that provides certain consumers access to distant broadcast television content by...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today introduced legislation to increase the amount of information students receive about federal student loans, including their potential ability to repay, before rather than after signing onto tens of thousands of dollars in debt to Uncle Sam.
“The federal government is good at giving out student loans but poor at...
Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week. The Senate is in session. Senator Grassley will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the National Institute for Excellence in, Bread for the World, the American Medical Group Association, the International Justice Mission, the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association,...
WASHINGTON – A new report requested by Sen. Chuck Grassley on a tip from an Iowa whistleblower confirms the U.S. Postal Service mishandled $18.4 million in contract payments to maintain and change the locks on Postal Service-owned mailboxes in the Western Area including Iowa. “The whistleblower came forward with his concerns, I asked for an...
