WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California are exploring whether patient satisfaction surveys linked to Medicare payments encourage opioid pain reliever abuse, already a national epidemic. The senators wrote to the federal agency in charge of Medicare payments on agency practices in this area.
“There is growing...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaRanking Member, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOn the Nomination of Leon Rodriguez to be Director ofUnited States Citizenship and Immigration ServicesTuesday, June 24. 2014
Today, I’d like to discuss the nomination of Leon Rodriguez to be the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California are exploring whether patient satisfaction surveys linked to Medicare payments encourage opioid pain reliever abuse, already a national epidemic. The senators wrote to the federal agency in charge of Medicare payments on agency practices in this area.
“There is growing...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa co-sponsored legislation to prevent federal government contractors from charging the taxpayers for exorbitant employee salaries. A similar provision became law. The federal rule implementing the provision will be published in the Federal Register on June 24 and take effect right away. Grassley made the following...
WASHINGTON – More than a quarter of the members of the United States Senate have introduced legislation to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from what appears to be a bureaucratic power-play by the federal government by assuming jurisdiction over waterways that may not even have water in them.
The legislation would prevent the EPA and the...
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, sent letters to UnitedHealth Group and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) questioning the role of...
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. ...
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...
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 – 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. ...
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...
