WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst
received a response from Veterans Affairs Department Secretary David Shulkin regarding an
inquiry seeking information on
reported unauthorized waiting lists outside the VA patient tracking system for some mental health appointments at the VA facility in Omaha.
In his response to Grassley and Ernst,...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement regarding federal criminal charges filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller:
“As always, it’s important to let our legal system run its course. While we don’t have any more information regarding the current status of the special counsel’s...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Al Franken (D-Minn.) sponsored the Family Farmer Bankruptcy Clarification Act of 2017, which is now on its way to the President’s desk for his signature. The bipartisan bill would resolve a 2012 Supreme Court ruling on a previous bankruptcy reform law that saddled family farmers with additional...
23 Senators Join Bipartisan Letter Urging Administration to Weigh in on Supreme Court’s Review of Antiterrorism Act Case
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley led 23 Senate colleagues in calling on the administration to avoid any further, unnecessary delay in providing its views on an
Antiterrorism Act case. The case...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan measure making it easier for family farmers to reorganize debts when facing bankruptcy received final approval today in Congress and is headed to the president’s desk for signature. The Family Farmer Bankruptcy Clarification Act of 2017, sponsored by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Al Franken (D-Minn.), was...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following comment on the State of Iowa’s withdrawal of its Section 1332 waiver, also known as the Iowa Stopgap Measure. “In Iowa and across the country, Americans are witnessing the ‘death spiral’ of Obamacare. Premiums are skyrocketing, provider options are disappearing and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today encouraged the administration to take the TN visa program into account while considering any changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) during negotiations.
In a letter to United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Grassley notes that the TN visa program...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley said today that spring internships for Iowans are available. Applications are due Wednesday, November 15. These Senate internships are available in Grassley offices in Washington, D.C., Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo. The spring internship program runs from January 8...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is pressing the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to explain lapses in the screening and tracking of Afghan military trainees in the United States after an inspector general report shows a number went missing, with 13 trainees still unaccounted for.
“There are so...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and other Midwestern senators received several assurances in a letter from Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, including that the agency will not follow through on a proposal that would have undermined the integrity of the Renewable Fuel Standard and represented an abandonment of President...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa today asked the Department of Veterans Affairs for a response to a report in the Omaha World-Herald of unauthorized waiting lists outside the VA patient tracking system for some mental health appointments in Omaha. “With mental health, receiving prompt care is crucial, and in severe...
Reported Justice Department Gag Orders Prevent Accountability of Controversial Obama-Era Deal with Russian Entities
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is calling on the Justice Department to lift a reported non-disclosure agreement preventing a former FBI confidential informant from speaking to Congress about...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), the only two farmers currently serving in the United States Senate, today wrote to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue expressing their vehement disagreement with the USDA’s withdrawal of two rules related to the Packers and Stockyards Act, commonly referred to as the...
WASHINGTON –Bipartisan legislation to step up enforcement against perpetrators of crimes targeting senior citizens became law Wednesday after receiving the president’s signature. The
Elder Abuse Prevention and Protection Act of 2017, introduced by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), passed by a...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) introduced bipartisan legislation to review foreign investments in the United States to ensure they are in the long-term economic interests of the U.S.
Recent patterns of foreign investment in the U.S. have raised concerns that overseas competitors, including state-owned enterprises,...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa continues his oversight of the Hardest Hit Fund (HHF), a $9.6 billion program that began in 2010 to help homeowners who suffered during the housing crisis. Wasteful spending of these funds by state agencies persisted unchecked for many years of the Obama Administration, and the need for accountability remains. In a...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, along with several other senators from biofuels producing states, met with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt today for an hour in Grassley’s office in Washington. Grassley convened the meeting, which came after he earlier discussed the EPA’s about-face on biofuels with President Trump. Grassley made...
View remarks here.Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck GrassleyThe Goals of Tax Reform Delivered Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017 The budget we are debating this week paves the way for fundamental tax reform. For more than a decade, both sides of the aisle have talked about the need for tax reform that provides tax simplification, tax fairness, and...
