Grassley Initiates GAO Review of Key Anti-health Care Fraud Shop
-- Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, today announced he has initiated an outside review of whether changes at the Health and Human Services Inspector General's Office will result in weaker policing of health care fraud.
"The taxpayers fund billions of dollars of...
Money Laundering: A War Industry
By Senator Chuck Grassley, of Iowa
For several years I have led the charge in Congress to take international drug traffickers and their sophisticated money laundering schemes to the cleaners. For too long they’ve rinsed their tainted money through the U.S. banking system. But drug dealers and mafia leaders aren’t the...
Word On: Ballot Box
Q: Under proposed election reforms, what changes are in store for voters at the polls?
A: Voters will recall the unbelievable disarray and voting irregularities in Florida following the 2000 presidential election. The mass confusion, hanging chads and court battles definitely will go down in the history books. Most Americans got a...
Grassley Works to Improve Voting Systems
Senator's Legislation Would Help Clean-up Voter Lists and Protect Military Ballots
? Election reform legislation passed today by the U.S. Senate contains two initiatives championed by Sen. Chuck Grassley to improve voter registration lists and make sure ballots cast by U.S. service men and women stationed overseas...
Grassley Bill Stops Government Contracts for Expatriated Companies
-- Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, today introduced legislation to bar the award of federal contracts to companies that create phony foreign "headquarters" to escape U.S. taxes.
"These corporations flee the United States to save millions in taxes, and then...
Grassley: Latest Cost Estimate of Capitol Hill Anthrax Clean-up is $41.7 Million
-- Sen. Chuck Grassley today said the latest estimate of the clean-up of last year's anthrax attack on Capitol Hill is $41.7 million, including the Environmental Protection Agency's internal expenses. At Grassley's request, the General Accounting Office is auditing the EPA's...
National Guard Pivotal to U.S. Military
Since Sept. 11, 2001, about 3,000 of Iowa's 9,600 members of the National Guard have been called to active duty at some point during the last year. In the last decade, members of Iowa's National Guard have been deployed to Bosnia, trained in Germany and patrolled the no-fly zone in Iraq. The Iowa Air Guard has...
Word On: Child Tax Credit
Q: Why did so many families fail to take advantage of the newly expanded federal child tax credit that was part of President Bush’s historic tax cut enacted last year?
A: The problem is lack of awareness. And sadly, the Internal Revenue Service has failed to ensure eligible taxpayers claim the new tax breaks according to an...
Accountability at the FBI, Stolen Item from Ground Zero
Mr. President, I rise today to speak about my oversight efforts with the FBI. As many of my colleagues know, I have been trying to improve the FBI for years. Sometimes that means investigating problems that some people would rather coverup. But there is nothing like sunshine to fix what's wrong. I do...
Grassley: More Than $22 Million for Iowa Air and Army National Guard Facilities
Funding Approved in House/Senate Conference Committee
? Sen. Chuck Grassley today said that a House/Senate Conference Committee has included $22,052,000 for Air and Army National Guard facilities in the Military Construction appropriations bill.
Grassley said $11.8 million will...
Grassley: Reade Nomination Passes Committee, Sent to Senate Floor for Confirmation
? Sen. Chuck Grassley today said that President Bush's nominee for U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Iowa, Judge Linda R. Reade, of Urbandale, has passed out of the Judiciary Committee.
"Judge Reade's past experience and strong track record of public...
Grassley: Military Must Stop Abuses on Taxpayers' Dime
? Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, today urged military leaders to stop employees from using their government credit cards for personal items including jewelry, ball game tickets, and visits to Nevada houses of prostitution. Grassley's comments came after new revelations...
Grassley Calls on INS to Fill Positions in Iowa
Senator Says Vacancies Inexcusable Given Terrorist Threat
? With terrorist cells recently uncovered in Detroit, Buffalo and Portland, Sen. Chuck Grassley is riding herd on the Immigration and Naturalization Service for leaving vacant numerous federal law enforcement positions in Iowa.
Pressure from Grassley...
Fugitive Felon Report
Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, last year asked the General Accounting Office (GAO) to review a program to prevent fugitive felons from improperly receiving federal dollars. The program is administered by the Social Security Administration. As Finance Committee chairman in April 2001, Grassley held a...
Grassley Calls on Interior Department to Reorganize Law Enforcement Function
Agency Maintains Third Largest Force in Federal Government
? Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is raising questions about the Interior Department's sluggish response to a January report of the inspector general which found fundamental problems with the agency's law enforcement...
Keep Medicare Payment Fix Out of the Graveyard
Few issues hit so many voters so close to home. Access to quality, affordable health care is one of them. And for the swelling population of Medicare beneficiaries, the taxpayer-financed health insurance program plays a central role in how, when, where and from whom they receive basic medical attention and...
Word On: Military Academies
Q: How can Iowa high school students and their parents find out more about a U.S. Military Academy?
A: Military academies offer a wonderful option for outstanding students who are making a decision about their future and higher education needs. Each year my Senate office sponsors an informational event to help families and...
Grassley Asks Vilsack to Support Medicare Fairness Drive
Iowa Senator Cites High Stakes for Iowa, Urges Unified Front
? Sen. Chuck Grassley is urging Gov. Tom Vilsack to support legislation Grassley sponsored that would deliver an additional $560 million in Medicare funds to Iowa health care providers and, in turn, improve access to affordable health care...
Grassley: Low-income Child Tax Credit Eluded Too Many
-- Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, today said hundreds of thousands of eligible families didn't claim a valuable new child tax credit last year, a situation he is working to rectify for the past tax year and in the future.
"Congress and the President developed tax cuts to...
Senate Passes Tax Relief for U.S. Service Men and Women
? Sen. Chuck Grassley today applauded unanimous Senate approval of legislation he co-authored to ensure fair tax treatment for men and women serving in the U.S. military and foreign service.
"With the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks just behind us, and the prospect of war with...
