Grassley Applauds $800,000 for Silos and Smokestacks
? Sen. Chuck Grassley today said the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Sen. Conrad Burns of Montana, confirmed that $800,000 in funding for the Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area will be included as part of the fiscal 2003 appropriations bill for the...
Grassley Expresses Concern Over Health Care Fraud Enforcement
? Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, today expressed concern to the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services over whether the government is softening its approach to prosecuting health care kickback and bribery cases under the False...
Grassley Works to Increase Funding for Children's Literacy
Senator Seeks Appropriations for Reach Out and Read Program
? Sen. Chuck Grassley today joined with Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts to build Senate support for a program aimed at increasing childhood literacy.
The senators are seeking $5 million in fiscal 2003 funding for Reach Out and Read. The...
Grassley Keeps in Touch With Iowans During Congressional Recess
Senator Holds Town Meetings Northwest Iowa
? Sen. Chuck Grassley will visit 14 Iowa communities during the congressional recess next week. The visits are part of his long-time commitment to visit each of Iowa's 99 counties at least once every year.
"I look forward to talking with as many...
new tax avoidance schemes
An article in last Thursday's New York Times described a major accounting firm that has developed several new methods to help wealthy individuals and corporations dramatically reduce their tax burden by hiding income through complex layers of tax avoidance devices. Last week, the Committee on Finance passed the Tax Shelter...
Grassley Works to Liberate U.S. Service Women from Discriminatory Policy
? Sen. Chuck Grassley today joined others to advance legislation that would end a discriminatory policy requiring women in the U.S. military to wear an abaya when they venture off the U.S. base in Saudi Arabia.
"It's absurd for the U.S. military to back this kind of a policy at the...
Breaux, Grassley, McCain Introduce Trade Bill for Turkey
-- Democratic Sen. John Breaux and Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and John McCain today introduced bipartisan legislation to enhance economic growth and opportunity for the Republic of Turkey.
"Turkey is essential for regional stability in the Middle East, and has contributed to the war efforts in...
Grassley Introduces Legislation to Crack Down on Drug-Abundant Raves
? Sen. Chuck Grassley has joined with his colleague Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware to introduce legislation to crack down on the widespread use of illegal drugs at all-night dance parties, or raves.
"Drug dealers have discovered that all-night raves are just the place to push their poison,"...
Grassley Urges Good Oversight, Fiscal Management of New Security Agency
? Sen. Chuck Grassley, a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today offered comments and concerns about the creation of a new Department of Homeland Security. He urged strong internal oversight provisions, whistleblower protections, and cost-efficient, non-duplicative...
Committee Passes Grassley Bill Reining in Corporate Expatriation
? The Committee on Finance today passed bipartisan legislation from Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member, to prevent corporations from nominally moving overseas to avoid taxes.
"Recent corporate actions, such as Enron and its financial dealings, show the need for greater congressional oversight...
Word On: Methamphetamine
Q: How is Iowa faring in its struggle against methamphetamine?
A: For most of the last decade, Iowa authorities have struggled to stay on top of the devastating consequences wrought by the dangerous, addictive stimulant called methamphetamine. The illegal drug, which can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected, is easy to...
Grassley on Charitable Giving, Tax Shelters, Corporate Inversions
Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this markup on the President's charitable proposal as well as legislation that addresses corporate tax shelters and inversions. I also want to say how pleased I am that we have worked closely on a bipartisan basis on all three of these proposals. The...
Grassley Applauds Bush Selection of Iowan for Farm Credit Administration Board
Nancy Pellett, of Atlantic, Tapped Today
? President Bush intends to nominate another influential Iowan to a key administration post, Sen. Chuck Grassley said today.
Nancy C. Pellett, of Atlantic, has been selected to serve on the three-member Farm Credit Administration...
Grassley Advances Priorities on Charities, Corporate Expatriation
? Proposals from Sen. Chuck Grassley on giving more tax incentives to encourage charitable giving and preventing corporations from nominally moving overseas to avoid taxes, among others, are scheduled for Committee on Finance consideration this week. Grassley, ranking...
Most Wanted: Fixing the FBI
by Sen. Chuck Grassley, of Iowa
The clean-up and recovery effort at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan ended nearly nine months after suicide hijackers crashed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. The terrorist attacks stunned America and the rest of the world, killing almost 2,800 people in New York City and hundreds...
Word On: FBI
Q: What is the "Phoenix memo?"
A: The controversial memorandum was written last summer in advance of Sept. 11 by an FBI field agent based in the Phoenix, Arizona office. The field agent wrote to his superiors warning them Middle Eastern men that were associated with a radical Islamic group and tied to Osama Bin Laden were taking aviation...
Anniversary of bipartisan tax relief
On June 7, 2001, President Bush signed the bipartisan tax relief package passed by Congress under the leadership of members including Sen. Chuck Grassley, who was chairman of the Committee on Finance when the legislation passed. Grassley, now ranking member of the committee, made the following comment on the...
Department of Homeland Security
Sen. Chuck Grassley today made the following statement about President Bush's proposal to create a new Department of Homeland Security. If approved by Congress, the new agency would be organized with four divisions: Border and Transportation Security; Emergency Preparedness and Response; Chemical, Biological, Radiological and...
Grassley Conducts Oversight of FBI's Operations Prior to September 11
Senator questions Mueller, Rowley about bureau's problems, reorganization
? Sen. Chuck Grassley today asked FBI Director Mueller to personally guarantee that FBI Special Agent Coleen Rowley would not suffer from retaliation for blowing the whistle on how cultural problems at the FBI...
Red Cross announcement
Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, on May 7 wrote to the American National Red Cross to better understand how it intends to deliver disaster relief, particularly "9-11" monetary relief, judiciously and with due speed to qualified recipients. Grassley asked for a response by June 14. Grassley made the...
