WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) are again
calling on the Trump administration to finalize regulations reforming the EB-5 investor visa program, which has long been riddled with fraud and abuse. Grassley and Leahy have
previously called for the administration to approve regulations addressing the program’s...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold town meetings in Clinton County on March 20 and Cedar County on March 21 as a part of his annual 99 county meetings.“Representative government is a two-way street. I’m one half of the process and the people of Iowa are the other half. You can’t have representative government without dialogue...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Finance Subcommittee on Health Care Chairman Pat Toomey are pushing to boost the oversight and integrity of Medicaid eligibility-related payments, nearly ten percent of which have been improper in recent years. The entire budget for the National Institutes of Health is smaller than the amount...
Q&A: Sunshine WeekWith U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: What is Sunshine Week? A: Sunshine Week celebrates open government and freedom of information. It coincides with the anniversary of James Madison’s birth on March 16. As the Founding Father wrote in Federalist 51: “If men were angels, no government would be...
WASHINGTON – The former and current chairmen of the Senate Judiciary Committee are calling on the newly-confirmed Attorney General to review source records and committee oversight work product regarding investigations stemming from Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) shared material...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined a bipartisan group of Senate colleagues to introduce the Honoring American Veterans in Extreme Need (HAVEN) Act (S. 679) to protect the economic security and well-being of veterans and their families who rely on disability benefits and may...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today released the following statement regarding a Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report publicly released March 6, 2019 that Grassley originally received on February 13, 2019 under restricted status.The report found that “NIH did not...
Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, U.S. Senate Finance CommitteeOn Tax Filing SeasonThursday, March 7, 2019 Mr. President, We are now in our sixth week of the tax filing season. Over 50 million Americans have filed their tax returns. As in previous weeks, the IRS is moving forward in the filing season at a pace...
WASHINGTON – Former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley joined Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) in reintroducing the Inspector General Access Act of 2019 to expand the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General to include alleged DOJ attorney misconduct. The bill is also cosponsored by Lisa Murkowski...
Statement by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the Green New DealWednesday, March 6, 2019VIDEO Mr. President, I appreciate Senator Ernst for organizing this opportunity to discuss the Green New Deal this week. To put it mildly the Green New Deal is ambitious. To frame it more accurately, it is an unworkable pie-in-the-sky attempt to...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, president pro tempore, and Ron Wyden of Oregon sent an informational memo to their colleagues of the new Congress regarding the Senate’s requirements for the disclosure of holds on nominations or legislation. The requirements were adopted in 2011 by a bipartisan resolution brought to the Senate floor by...
Opening Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance“Not Forgotten: Protecting Older Americans from Abuse and Neglect in Nursing Homes”Wednesday, March 6, 2019VIDEO Good morning. I want to welcome everyone to our hearing on an extremely important topic, elder abuse, and thank our witnesses for joining...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and former Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) called on the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general to investigate reports of sexual abuse against unaccompanied minors in HHS facilities. “We respectfully request that you open an investigation...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today announced that the committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, March 12, 2019 with testimony from U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer assessing the current state of the World Trade Organization (WTO) nearly 25 years after its creation and potential reforms that would...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today joined Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Member of the Senate Committee on Finance in sending a bipartisan, bicameral
letter to...
WASHINGTON – Patricia Blank of Shell Rock, Iowa, will testify Wednesday at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on protecting Americans from abuse and neglect in nursing homes. Blank’s mother, Virginia Olthoff, was allegedly left in severe pain and may not have had any water for days before her death while in the care of a nursing home. That...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is calling on the Treasury Department to explain why it omitted bank records sought in a congressional inquiry into Russian influence that were later leaked to the news media. Grassley also wants to know what steps the IRS is taking to hold accountable an employee who leaked sensitive banking...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley earned the top spot as the “most effective lawmaker” in the U.S. Senate for the 115th Congress, according to a non-partisan analysis conducted by the Center for Effective Lawmaking. “Iowans expect their elected representatives to work hard and represent the interests of our great state here in...
