WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania today introduced bipartisan legislation that would create a demonstration project to encourage states to improve opportunities for individuals with disabilities to obtain employment in the community, gaining self-determination, independence, productivity,...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Patrick Leahy today introduced legislation to extend whistleblower protection for employees who provide information to the Department of Justice related to criminal antitrust violations. The Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act seeks to protect whistleblowers in...
Report Found Billions Doled Out With No Confirmation for AccuracyWASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andrew Slavitt raising a number questions about how the agency...
156 Criminals were Released Twice Instead of Deported Following Convictions
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Immigration and the National Interest Subcommittee Chairman Jeff Sessions and Judiciary Committee member Jeff Flake are asking for more information surrounding cases in which foreign nationals with criminal records...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa today is sending a letter to the Food and Drug Administration to gather information and gain a better understanding about how the United States treats biotechnology imports from other countries.
After contacting five different federal agencies and several trade groups to get more information about U.S. policy...
Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week. The Senate is in session. Senator Grassley met with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies and the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce. Senator Grassley will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the Lupus Foundation;...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. John Thune of South Dakota today introduced comprehensive legislation to improve customer service at the IRS, create new taxpayer protections, and update and strengthen existing taxpayer protections. The Taxpayer Bill of Rights Enhancement Act of 2015 comes amid gross mismanagement and inappropriate...
Please note: Sen. Grassley plans to join Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and fellow senators for a news conference in the Radio and TV Gallery, S-325, immediately after the vote on the Military Justice Improvement Act, an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would establish an independent military justice system to address the crisis of...
Video of Sen. Grassley’s delivery is available here. On the 800th Anniversary of the Magna CartaFloor Speech of Sen. Chuck GrassleyDelivered Monday, June 15, 2015Eight hundred years ago to this very day, at the field of Runnymede alongside the River Thames in England, King John granted the document that came to be known as the Magna Carta,...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Chuck Grassley today led a bipartisan group of senators pushing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ensure the avian flu outbreak receives the highest prioritization for the department. In a letter, Klobuchar, Grassley, and 13 other senators pressed leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee to...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a letter sent today, U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst urged Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee Chairman Sen. Pat Roberts to hold a hearing on the federal government’s response to the ongoing outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Senators Grassley and Ernst stressed the critical, timely nature of...
Senator Chuck Grassley’s Regional Director based in Cedar Rapids, Fred Schuster, will be holding open office hours in Johnson, Washington, Keokuk, and Mahaska counties on Thursday, July 9, 2015. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express views. ...
Senator Chuck Grassley’s Regional Director based in Des Moines, Aaron McKay, will be holding open office hours in Greene, Guthrie, Adair, Dallas, Marshall, Story, Polk, Lucas, Marion, and Jasper counties during the days of June 23-25, 2015. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express views. ...
Grassley, Sessions Call for Multi-Department Response to Failed Removals
WASHINGTON – One hundred twenty-one convicted criminals who faced deportation orders between 2010 and 2014 were never removed from the country and now face murder charges, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Of them, 33 were released on bond following their...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley will hold three town meetings in Eastern Iowa during the week of June 29 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 July 2 Grassley will be in Washington, Wilton,...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the House of Representatives’ votes on Trade Adjustment Assistance and Trade Promotion Authority. The House voted in favor of Trade Promotion Authority and against Trade Adjustment Assistance. Procedurally, the provisions were linked, so Trade Promotion Authority did not...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pressing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for more information on its spyware program.
The request comes amid the Justice Department’s push to amend Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure in order to allow judges to grant warrants for remote searches of...
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 –Members of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committees are questioning the Obama Administration’s unilateral decision to continue leasing a Northern Virginia building that was originally intended to process applications for one of President Obama’s most controversial executive actions that has now been halted by...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst’s request, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry today announced it will hold a hearing on July 7th entitled “Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: The Impact of the U.S. Poultry Sector and Protecting U.S. Poultry Flocks.” The announcement follows a letter sent by the two...
