Leahy, Grassley Introduce Legislation to Implement Patent Law Treaties That Will Help U.S. Businesses Obtain Patent Protections Overseas
WASHINGTON (Thursday, August 2, 2012) – U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced legislation today to implement two patent law treaties that will help American businesses expand into...
Gershwin Drain nomination to be District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan
Mr. President,
I rise in opposition to the nomination of Gershwin A. Drain, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan. Judge Drain, currently serving as a Michigan state court judge, was reported out of committee on a 10 to eight...
Support for the wind-energy production tax credit
M E M O R A N D U M
TO: Reporters and Editors
RE: Support for the wind-energy production tax credit
DA: Thursday, August 2, 2012
Senator Chuck Grassley issued the following comment about the inclusion today of a one-year extension of the wind-energy tax...
Grassley Outlines Problems With Cybersecurity Bill, Process
Over the last few days, we’ve been lectured numerous times that we must protect cyber critical infrastructure, otherwise the country is in jeopardy. Who doesn’t agree with that statement? Enhancing cybersecurity is important to our national security. I support efforts to...
Grassley Addresses Revisionist History on Tax Increases, Economic Success
Over the past few years, my colleagues on the other side have come to the floor repeatedly to present a revisionist story regarding the fiscal history of the last two decades. On several occasions, I have come to the floor to refute this history. Yet, again and again, the...
The Renewable Fuels Standard, Ethanol, and the U.S. Corn Crop
Mr. President,
The President and CEO of Smithfield Foods, Larry Pope, took to the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal again to blame all that ails him on the Renewable Fuels Standard.
Some may recall that he did the same thing back in April of 2010 when commodity prices were...
Grassley Files Wind Energy Tax Credit Amendments
M E M O R A N D U M
TO: Reporters and Editors
RE: Tax extenders and the wind-energy production tax credit
DA: Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Senator...
Grassley, Issa Release First Part of Final Joint Report on Operation Fast and Furious
Report Focuses on Role of ATF and Arizona U.S. Attorney’s Office
WASHINGTON, DC –House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Senator Chuck Grassley today released the first part of the final report on...
Leahy, Grassley Introduce Legislation To Protect Whistleblowers In Criminal Antitrust Cases
WASHINGTON (Tuesday, July 31, 2012) –U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation today to extend whistleblower protection for employees who provide information...
Q&A on Taxes and Debt, Deficit Reduction
Q: Why not raise taxes on the high income to pay down the deficit and debt?
A: Professor Richard Vedder of Ohio University has studied tax increases and spending for more than two decades. His research has found that over the entire post World War II era through 2009,...
Cornyn, Grassley Celebrate ‘Meat Monday’
WASHINGTON – The offices of U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today celebrated ‘Meat Monday’ with barbeque beef brisket, ribs, and sausage from Hill Country BBQ restaurant. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which oversees our nation’s ranchers and...
Grassley Releases Hold on Treasury Nominees After Receiving Agency Responses on Whistleblower Office
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has released his objection to proceeding to the nominations of two Treasury nominees after receiving responses to his inquiries urging action to correct slow progress on whistleblower claim processing and the issuance...
Grassley Floor Statement on the Nomination of Robert E. Bacharach To be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit
Mr. President,
For the last few weeks, it has been routine practice in the Senate that we vote on consensus district court nominees on Monday evenings. We have done so quite a number of times this Congress. And we could have...
Grassley Releases Hold on Treasury Nominees After Receiving Agency Responses on Whistleblower Office
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has released his objection to proceeding to the nominations of two Treasury nominees after receiving responses to his inquiries urging action to correct slow progress on whistleblower claim processing and the issuance...
Grassley Asks Special Counsel, Inspector General to Investigate FDA’s Retaliatory Spying
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is asking the U.S. Office of Special Counsel and the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate the Food and Drug Administration’s extensive email monitoring and retaliation of a group of...
Grassley plans additional August meetings in Iowa
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley will hold town meetings with Iowans in Atlantic, Villisca, Bedford, Clarinda, Percival, Glenwood, Logan, Harlan, Audubon, and Carroll, speak with a service club in Corning and tour a business in Council Bluffs during the third week of the Senate’s August recess.
“I look...
Grassley Floor Statement - Attacks on the First Amendment Freedom of Speech
Mr. President, I rise to discuss a very disturbing trend that is occurring in this country. A vicious attack is underway on the right to freedom of speech that is protected by the First Amendment. It needs to be highlighted and stopped.
Free speech is one of the...
Grassley Statement at Senate Committee on the Judiciary Executive Meeting
Mr. Chairman,
Before we get to the agenda, I’d like to say a few words about the report issued by Former FBI Director William Webster regarding the FBI’s investigation of the attack at Ft. Hood by Major Nidal Hasan.
Major Hasan’s attack killed 12 U.S. soldiers, a Defense...
National crackdown on synthetic drugs
M E M O R A N D U M
To: Reporters and Editors
Re: National crackdown on synthetic drugs
Da: Thursday, July 26, 2012
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is the sponsor of legislation enacted earlier this month that bans the chemicals used to make a dangerous synthetic drug...
Grassley: Education Tax Incentives Should Give Students, Families, Taxpayers Most Bang for the Buck
As we consider how tax incentives help students and families pay for college, we should consider whether and how these incentives also increase costs. A 2010 study by Nicholas Turner at the University of California-San Diego suggests that schools are...
