Grassley Secures Funding for Bill to Help Special Needs Children
? The budget blueprint that the Senate passed today contains a reserve fund to pay for the Family Opportunity Act (S. 321), the legislation from Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley to improve health coverage for children with special needs. Grassley and the bill's other lead sponsor,...
Grassley Works to Prevent Livestock Diseases
Senator Co-sponsors Legislation to Control Threat of Foot and Mouth, Mad Cow
? Sen. Chuck Grassley has joined his colleagues in introducing bipartisan legislation that would help the federal government step up its efforts in the fight against Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopahty...
Grassley Leads Effort to Help Workers Save More for Retirement
? Sens. Chuck Grassley and Max Baucus introduced a bill today to reward families who save and plan for retirement, enhance opportunities for small businesses to provide employer-sponsored retirement packages, and make it easier for workers to transfer retirement plan savings from one employer to...
Grassley Lauds Bipartisan Vote for Budget Resolution
? Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, issued the following comment regarding the bipartisan budget resolution approved today with a Senate vote of 65 to 35. The plan includes $85 billion for an immediate tax refund to help stimulate the ailing economy.
"The bipartisan vote today is...
Grassley Works for Energy-Efficient Home Appliances
? Sen. Chuck Grassley has joined his colleagues Sens. Wayne Allard of Colorado and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas to introduce bipartisan legislation that would encourage production and use of super energy-efficient washing machines and refrigerators.
The Resource Efficient Appliance Incentives Act would...
Grassley Warns of Internet-based Tax Avoidance Scams
? At the height of tax filing season and all year, taxpayers should steer clear of hundreds of web sites promoting illegal schemes to avoid paying taxes, Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the tax-writing Committee on Finance, said today.
"Tax scams are as old as the tax code. The...
Statement of Sen. Chuck Grassley, of Iowa
I'd like to start off with the big picture. The Senate finds itself in an unusual situation.It's split right down the middle at 50-50. Republicans have control because of Vice President Cheney's authority to break a tie.
In this historic 50-50 Senate, there is supposed to be an understanding of shared power and,...
Grassley Secures Additional Funds for Agriculture
Iowa Senator Advances Amendment to Help Farmers in This Crop Year
? Sen. Chuck Grassley today won approval of his amendment to significantly increase spending for agriculture in the budget under consideration by the U.S. Senate.
Grassley's proposal would provide an additional $5 billion for farmers before...
Grassley Releases Witness List for Tax Schemes Hearing
Description:Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, released the following witness list for a hearing on Internet-based or -augmented schemes promoting tax avoidance.
Witness List
A panel consisting of:
Aaron Bazar, former seller of tax scams for the Institute for Global Prosperity...
Grassley Secures Funds to Strengthen Medicare, Add Prescription Drug Benefit
? Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, won passage of an amendment to the budget resolution this afternoon to provide funding and maximum flexibility for lawmakers to craft a responsible Medicare reform and prescription drug proposal.
The Senate voted 51 to 50...
Grassley Works to Improve Health Options for Older Americans
? Medicare's managed care option requires significant reforms to provide desired access to more older Americans, Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, said today.
"Congress introduced managed care to Medicare to give older Americans more health care options," Grassley said....
Presidential Appointment of Jim Moseley
Sen. Chuck Grassley issued the following comment regarding President Bush's appointment today of Indiana farmer Jim Moseley to serve as the Deputy Secretary of USDA.
"I'm glad to see a farmer and Midwesterner nominated by the Bush Administration for deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It was...
Grassley Comments on The Tax Executives Institute
This is my first opportunity as chairman of the Finance Committee to directly address the tax concerns of the corporate business community.
As I'm sure you have observed, the primary focus of the President's tax proposal is tax relief for individual taxpayers. As individual taxpayers, most of you should be...
Grassley Works for Action Against Price Fixing by OPEC
? Sen. Chuck Grassley supports congressional action on a bill that would let the federal government take action against price fixing by OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The 11-member organization supplies 77 percent of the world's crude oil reserves.
"The protected price-fixing...
GAO report on Free Trade Area of the Americas
Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, today released a General Accounting Office report,
"Free Trade Area of the Americas/Negotiations at Key Juncture on Eve of April Meetings" and made the following comment on the report. Note: The report will also be available at
http://finance.senate.gov/...
Word On: Long Term Care
Q: How do you propose to mobilize more Americans to prepare for their long-term care needs?
A: Unless you have faced a family situation where a loved one requires hands-on care around-the-clock, it’s more than likely you have not given long-term care a second thought. And if you’re under age 30 or married with young children,...
Weeding the Tax Code
By Sen. Chuck Grassley, of Iowa
As the nation at large keeps a collective eye upon falling stock prices on Wall Street, merchants on Main Street are taking stock of consumer confidence and spending behavior. As Iowa’s senior U.S. senator, I make it my job to keep tabs on the public’s pulse as closely as I watch over the public’s...
Grassley Announces Hearing on Medicare and Managed Care
Dr. Murray N. Ross, Executive Director, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Washington, D.C
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Victor E. Turvey, Regional CEO, United Healthcare of the Midwest, Maryland Heights, Mo.
Kevin W. McCarthy, Health and Welfare Benefits Consultant, Towers Perrin, Pittsburgh, Penn.
Dr. Thomas C. Buchmueller,...
Grassley Announces Hearing on Medicare and Managed Care
Dr. Murray N. Ross, Executive Director, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Washington, D.C
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Victor E. Turvey, Regional CEO, United Healthcare of the Midwest, Maryland Heights, Mo.
Kevin W. McCarthy, Health and Welfare Benefits Consultant, Towers Perrin, Pittsburgh, Penn.
Dr. Thomas C. Buchmueller,...
Grassley Announces Hearing on Tax Schemes, Scams and Cons
Hearing:"Taxpayer Beware: Schemes, Scams and Cons"
Date/time:Thursday, April 5, 2001, at 10 a.m.
Location:215 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingDescription:The Internet provides an ideal venue for con artists to promote schemes aimed at tax avoidance. Both tax practitioners and the Internal Revenue...
