WASHINGTON — Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today re-introduced the Saving Kids from Candy-Flavored Drugs Act to increase the criminal penalties for marketing candy-flavored drugs to appeal to children. Coincidentally, the issue of stronger penalties for distributing candy-flavored drugs is before the United...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland today introduced bipartisan legislation allowing older Americans to receive individualized care that would help them continue to stay in their own homes rather than nursing homes.“I’ve never met anyone who can’t wait to move into a nursing home,” Grassley...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Mike Enzi of Wyoming, Mike Crapo of Idaho, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, David Perdue of Georgia, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Pat Roberts of Kansas, Johnny Isakson of Georgia, Jim Risch of Idaho, John Boozman of Arkansas and John Cornyn of Texas today introduced legislation to disallow the Earned Income Tax Credit...
WASHINGTON – One day after Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led 52 Republican colleagues in condemning a proposal limiting access to rifle ammunition, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) today announced it would not finalize the plan. All senators were invited to join the...
WASHINGTON – ?The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs allegedly made personnel decisions in an attempt to discourage cooperation with ongoing inquiries from Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, regarding claims that the office awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to states that incarcerated youth in violation of...
Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week. The Senate is in session. Senator Grassley has met with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the First Citizens Heritage Club and will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Urological Association, Missouri...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, expressed support for a pair of nominees who were confirmed by the Senate for two executive branch intellectual property positions today. Daniel Marti was confirmed to be the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator in the Executive Office of the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today led 52 colleagues in expressing concern for a new proposal that would severely limit access to rifle ammunition primarily used for sporting purposes. This class of ammunition is protected from prohibition under a 1986 Law Enforcement Officer Protection Act exemption....
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the Weekly Republican Address, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa previews legislation the Senate will consider next week that targets human traffickers who force children and teenagers into servitude for cheap labor and as sex workers. “Too often we hear that this sort of thing just ‘doesn’t happen where I...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio have introduced legislation to require that Medicare prescription drug plans carry six categories of prescription drugs offered to participating beneficiaries. The legislation comes after the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services tried to limit the categories by...
WASHINGTON – ?After raising questions about the FBI’s use of Loss of Effectiveness orders, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today expressed guarded support for the Bureau’s recent announcement providing notice and opportunity for response to FBI employees who faced these possible management-directed reassignments....
WASHINGTON – ?Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, requested an independent review of a personnel management practice at the Federal Bureau of Investigation that some agency whistleblowers claim is being used as a means of retaliation and gender discrimination against female employees. Whistleblowers allege that the FBI...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the leaders of the Caucus on International Narcotics Control, today announced the caucus will hold a hearing on the quota system used to manage controlled substances in medicine in light of a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) showing problems in the way the program is...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on government officials’ possible use of private email accounts for government business.
“In 2013, I began looking at federal agencies’ use of the Special Government Employee designation after news reports described the potentially questionable use of the designation for a top aide to...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today attended the joint session of Congress to hear Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Grassley made the following comment on the speech.“The speech was moving and forceful. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s candid assessment of the danger of a nuclear weapons-capable Iran needed to be...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York today re-introduced legislation to improve patient access to podiatrists in Medicaid and improve care for patients with diabetes who need therapeutic shoes via Medicare.“Foot and ankle health is important to individual health,” Grassley said. ...
Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week. The Senate is in session. Senator Grassley has met with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the Iowa State Government of the Student Body and will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the School Nutrition Association of Iowa,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. John Thune of South Dakota are pressing the Energy Department to do a better job of tracking and protecting the intellectual property of inventions developed through Energy Department funding. The senators wrote to the agency after a report from the independent Government Accountability Office (GAO)...
WASHINGTON – ?Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, expressed concerns surrounding claims of widespread fraud and failures in the Department of Justice’s Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention grant program. According to whistleblowers, the Justice Department’s mismanagement and neglect of core grant...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio are asking the Administration to account for the miscalculations that led to wrong information reportedly given to more than half of Americans who received subsidies for health care, causing tax problems for them.
“It is clear that the current methods used to calculate subsidy eligibility...
