WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that Hannah Morgan Fairfield of Coralville has received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., for the 2014-2015 school year.
Fairfield is the daughter of Cathy and Clare John Fairfield of Coralville. She will graduate in May...
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 NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association, the National Sleep Foundation, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Iowa Association of Nurse Anesthetists, Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the Internal Revenue Service’s annual whistleblower report to Congress about agency progress in implementing and using new incentives for whistleblowers to come forward on tax fraud. Grassley authored the 2006 whistleblower improvements.
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WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley will hold five town hall meetings in Iowa during the week of April 14 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 April...
WASHINGTON – Eleven U.S. senators signed a letter led by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today asking Senate appropriators to block the use of funding to the Education Department to promote the Common Core education standards. The senators wrote a letter asking for appropriations legislative language “to restore state...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., are long-time advocates for transparency in medicine and co-authors of the Medicare Data Access for Transparency and Accountability Act (Medicare DATA Act).
Grassley and Wyden made the following comments on the announcement today from...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today advanced a provision to help small businesses access a tax benefit usually associated with large companies.
“The research and development tax credit is popular with established companies that use it to innovate and create jobs,” Grassley said. “It’s only...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa secured renewal of expired wind energy tax provisions in a tax measure passed out of a key committee today. The tax package also includes a reinstatement of a tax incentive for domestic biodiesel, another long-time Grassley priority.
“Renewable energy...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein are pressing the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to answer questions about the guidance it offered financial institutions on providing services to illegal drug traffickers....
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is forcing employees to sign written pledges of secrecy, known as a nondisclosure agreements, without including the whistleblower exceptions mandated by law, according to a congressional review by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. These non-disclosure agreements restrict...
WASHINGTON – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) questioned Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) Director B. Todd Jones about the apparent lack of disciplinary actions taken against key players in the Operation Fast and Furious scandal,...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the Finance Committee chairman’s proposed package of tax extender provisions released today. The committee is expected to take up the measure on Thursday. Grassley is a senior member and former chairman and ranking member of the committee. Grassley is...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is asking the U.S. attorney general whether the Justice Department is planning any action on NASA inspector general findings on lax screening and control of foreign nationals’ access to U.S. technology at the NASA Ames Research Center in California. The inspector general report covers...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Iowa Senators Chuck Grassley and Tom Harkin today issued the following statements in response to the findings of a Veterans Affairs (VA) Inspector General Report on the Central Iowa Health Care facility in Des Moines. Grassley and Harkin requested that the Department investigate the facility after hearing...
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 Window and Door Manufacturers Association, the Iowa Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the Iowa Section of the American Water...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley welcomed Dr. Daniel McClure of Washington, Iowa, as the Senate Guest Chaplain today as McClure opened the Senate with a morning prayer.
Based in Iowa, McClure currently serves as the National Chaplain of the American Legion. He was appointed in August 2013 at the Legion’s...
Prepared Remarks of U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaUnveiling of the Dr. Norman Borlaug StatueU.S. Capitol, Statuary HallTuesday, March 25, 2014
There are very few people of such stature who could warrant two ceremonies in their honor in the United States Capitol. Just a few years ago we were presenting Dr. Borlaug with the Congressional Gold...
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 Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, the Hungry Canyons Alliance, Conservation Districts of Iowa, the Pella Chamber of...
