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Hatch, Grassley Request Contractors Detail Role, Work on Healthcare.gov In letter to 47 Federal Government Contractors, Senators Seek Detailed Information on Work, Cost & Deliverables Performed on Federal ObamaCare Exchange Website WASHINGTON – Today, Finance and Judiciary Committee Ranking Members Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent...

Senators: Report Confirms Financial Incentives of Physician Owned Distributorships Leads to Increased Surgeries HHS Inspector General Finds Doctors Perform More Surgeries Using Medical Devices They Have Financial Stake In, Putting Patients At Risk WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Max Baucus (D-Mont.), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said today...

False Claims Act Continues to Show Its Value Senator Chuck Grassley made the following statement after the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund released a report showing that the False Claims Act provides a 20:1 benefit to cost ratio in fighting health care fraud for the federal government.   Grassley is the author of the 1986 law updating the...

EPA Won’t Appeal Court Decision on Wastewater Treatment Rule Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) made the following statements regarding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision not to seek Supreme Court review of an...

  Grassley Letter to Comey on Boston Bombing Communication     Ranking Member Chuck Grassley's letter to FBI Director Jim Comey about the Boston bombing and communication among law enforcement agencies.  

Grassley Votes Against Continuing Appropriations Act for 2014 M E M O R A N D U M   TO:      Reporters and Editors RE:      the Continuing Appropriations Act for 2014, H.R. 2775 DA:     Wed., October 16, 2013   Below is a statement from Senator Chuck Grassley regarding his...

Grassley, Issa Question National Park Service on Poor Planning, Inconsistencies WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today questioned the National Park Service’s apparent lack of planning and inconsistent decisions that led to poor treatment of park patrons during the partial government shutdown.     “Our...

  Grassley Advises Iowans on Postal Mail Delays to Washington, D.C.     WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is advising Iowans to call or email his offices for a faster response than via postal mail to Washington during the partial government shutdown.  Senate postal operations are largely closed, so Grassley’s office in Washington...

  Grassley, Issa Letter to ATF Director Jones About Fast and Furious Whistleblower Book     Ranking Member Chuck Grassley and Chairman Darrell Issa letter to ATF Director B. Todd Jones about the ATF's denial of Whistleblower John Dodson's request to publish book about Operation Fast and Furious.  

  Grassley Releases Report Showing Continued Need for Tightening Farm Payment Loopholes     WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa today released a Government Accountability Office report showing that additional changes are needed to the eligibility requirements for being “actively involved” in farming.  The GAO also wrote in the...

Eye on the Prize: Feeding the World by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley For generations, Iowans have answered the call to feed the world.  That noble vocation continues today as farmers across the state haul in the fall harvest.  Their labor will help curb the pangs of hunger and malnutrition in poverty-stricken communities around the world. Today’s...

  Grassley Seeks Clarification of DNI Clapper Testimony Before Senate Judiciary Committee         WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pressing Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for further explanation as to why employees who are needed to ensure the national...

Congress Regularly Amends Laws, Obamacare is Not "Settled" Law Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck Grassley Delivered Friday, October 04, 2013   Mr. President, I come to the floor to take issue with a remark made by the President on Tuesday regarding Obamacare.  He said, and I quote: The Affordable Care Act is a law that passed the House, that passed...

Statement from the office of Sen. Chuck Grassley on the Capitol Hill shooting incident Statement from the office of Sen. Chuck Grassley on the Capitol Hill shooting incident: Senator Grassley was at the National World War II Memorial with veterans from the Quad Cities visiting through the Honor Flight program when the Capitol Hill shooting incident...

Grassley Comments on Director of National Intelligence Testimony before Senate Judiciary Committee Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement after the committee’s oversight hearing of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.  During the hearing Director of National Intelligence James...

Grassley Presses Park Service to Open Memorials on National Mall             WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa is questioning why open air public memorials on the National Mall are being closed to the public due to the partial government shut-down....

Grassley Weekly Schedule 10/1/13 Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week.  The Senate is in session.  Though the federal government is in a partial shutdown, Senator Grassley’s office will continue to answer calls in Iowa and Washington to receive input from Iowans and accept casework.  Incoming email and postal mail...

Judge Rejects Obama Administration Bid to Have Fast and Furious Case Dismissed, Clears Way for Case to Move Forward Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement after Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected the Obama administration’s arguments that the court had no jurisdiction to resolve the...

Grassley Seeks Top IRS Nominee’s Views on Private Debt Collection, Whistleblowers WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is asking the IRS commissioner nominee for his views on two key subjects prior to confirmation proceedings:  the use of private contractors to collect tax debts the IRS doesn’t target and problems encouraging whistleblowers to...

Grassley on Votes Against Procedural Motions, Continuing Resolution on Government Funding Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on his votes against procedural motions and the continuing resolution to fund the government.   “My votes today were based on opposition to Obamacare.  I’ve been committed to using every tool to...