Prepared Remarks of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary Committee In response to Democratic comments on family separationAt committee hearing on “Citizenship for Sale: Oversight of the EB-5 Investor Visa Program” June 19, 2018VIDEO I’d like to take a moment and respond to some of the comments my colleagues have...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa sent a letter to Secretary of Defense James Mattis voicing his concerns over the ongoing waste occurring at all levels of the Department of Defense. In the letter, Grassley urges Mattis to follow through on the commitment he made in a July, 2017 department-wide memo to “bring to light wasteful practices… and take...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, continues to be a leader in the fight against opioid addiction and abuse.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that two-thirds of drug overdose deaths between 2015 and 2016 were opioid-involved...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to reiterate the importance of including medical device identifiers on the updated Medicare claim form and to urge the agency to maintain its support for this change.
In its recently-released Medical...
Farm bill must have payment limit reformSen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa The farm bill is a critical piece of legislation for Iowa and the entire country. It provides a framework from which farmers can make decisions with more certainty, and serves as a necessary safety net for our farmers in the event of a natural disaster, dramatic market shifts and other...
Grassley: Tax-reform legislation proving its worthSen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa It’s been six months since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law. Since then, there have been continuous, positive economic developments in Iowa and throughout the country.Last month, the U.S. economy generated 223,000 new jobs. In fact, more than one million new...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples (CREATES) Act by a strong bipartisan vote of 16 to 5. The legislation, sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and cosponsored by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), would combat anticompetitive...
Grassley Statement on Release of Justice Department Inspector General ReportWASHINGTON – The Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General today released a report on the actions taken by the department and the FBI ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released the following statement on...
Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate Agriculture CommitteeExecutive Business Meeting on the 2018 Farm BillJune 13, 2018VIDEO Chairman Roberts, Ranking Member Stabenow, I want to commend you for getting us here today. Putting together a bill of this size and complexity is no small task. This legislation will impact every citizen...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a family farmer, issued the following statement regarding the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill out of the Senate Agriculture Committee.“Farm programs should provide temporary, limited assistance to farmers when there’s a natural disaster or an unforeseeable, sudden change in market prices. Setting...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, received confirmation that Kuauhtemoc Rodriguez, a Department of Veterans Affairs whistleblower seeking a transfer to a new VA facility after allegations of retaliation, has...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa gave remarks at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., regarding the 2018 Senate Farm Bill. He outlined some of his top legislative priorities related to agriculture policy, including payment limits and crop insurance.Video of Grassley’s remarks is available here. A full...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley urged President Trump to press for finalization of regulations that would restore integrity to the EB-5 Visa Regional Center program and constrain the rampant fraud, abuse and national security vulnerabilities it presents.In a letter sent to the President yesterday, Grassley noted that the...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced the Inspector General Access Act of 2018 today, a bill that would expand the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General to include alleged DOJ attorney misconduct.“Our federal government inspectors general do a...
NOTE: In an op-ed in the Des Moines Register today, Story County, Iowa, Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald expressed support for the bipartisan Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act authored by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa. The proposal is cosponsored by 28 senators, evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, and is supported...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today gave remarks at a panel discussion to explore how teacher leadership can improve instruction, elevate the teaching profession and raise student achievement. The bipartisan event, presented by Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, is the third in a series on innovations in education. Among the panelists at the...
Following lackluster proposals from the courts, Committee will examine harassment in the judiciaryWASHINGTON – Following the release yesterday of a report on workplace misconduct by the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts (AOUSC), Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley announced a hearing on the topic of sexual harassment and other...
