Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following comment on the resignation of Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. Earlier this week, Grassley urged President Trump to reiterate the importance of top officials’ holding down travel costs. “Those who work for the taxpayers...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today urged President Trump to curb cabinet secretaries’ expensive travel amid news reports of such travel by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Grassley also asked for details of the steps the Administration is taking to...
As chairman of the Finance Committee, with exclusive Senate jurisdiction over taxes, Sen. Chuck Grassley led through Congress $2 trillion in bipartisan tax relief, leaving more money in workers’ pockets, reducing tax rates across the board, and spurring economic growth and activity. Congress later made permanent the vast majority of the...
WASHINGTON – Leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee today expressed frustration with the little notice and lack of engagement from the State Department ahead of a legally-required annual consultation with Congress on the number of refugees to be admitted in the upcoming year. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and the leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), have introduced a bill empowering whistleblower protection coordinators in federal inspector general...
Video of Sen. Grassley’s floor speech delivery is available here.Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck GrassleyEPA Disappoints in Fulfilling Promises on BiofuelsMr. President, as my colleagues know well, I’ve championed renewable energy and biofuels for a long time. I’ve worked hard to enact policies to encourage the growth of renewable...
Sen. Chuck Grassley today made the following comment on the EPA’s Notice of Data Availability (NODA) to provide public notice and an opportunity to comment on potential reductions in the 2018 biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel volumes, and/or the 2019 biomass-based diesel volume under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is urging Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis to review which employees were responsible for wasting at least $64.8 million on a plane intended for counter-narcotics work in Afghanistan that never flew a single such mission and now is to be sold at auction. Grassley called the plane a “hangar queen” and a prime example of...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has asked the FBI whether it ever briefed or warned Trump campaign officials about alleged attempts by the Russian government to infiltrate the campaign.The FBI has reportedly given “defensive briefings” during previous presidential campaigns to warn candidates and campaign...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is pressing the federal agency that oversees health accrediting organizations to describe all statutory and other barriers that prevent the public release of hospital inspection reports. Grassley’s inquiry comes after investigative news reports concluded that the top accrediting organization, the Joint Commission,...
WASHINGTON – The bipartisan authors of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act are preparing to reintroduce their comprehensive legislation to review prison sentences for certain nonviolent drug offenders, reduce recidivism, and save taxpayer dollars. The legislation, led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Democratic...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio today introduced bipartisan legislation to re-authorize the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program. The...
The bipartisan amendment will help protect more than 6,000 jobs at the Rock Island ArsenalWASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), along with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), filed a bipartisan amendment, which was included in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA),...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today led a bipartisan group of senators, including Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.),...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate today confirmed by a unanimous, bipartisan voice vote the nominations of Peter Deegan, Jr. and Marc Krickbaum to be U.S. Attorneys for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa, respectively, the final step in the confirmation process before being sworn into office. The nominations were previously reported out of the...
Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck GrassleyDelivered Tuesday, September 12, 2017Mr. President, I come to the floor today to question the plan for auditing the Department of Defense (DoD).The new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Mr. David Norquist, presented a plan to the Armed Services Committee on May 9th. It appears flawed like all the others.The department may be...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today is seeking answers about the wasteful and potentially unlawful spending by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) of money recovered from criminal investigations or civil asset forfeitures. He is also inquiring about misleading representations provided to Congress regarding that spending based...
