WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), John McCain (R-AZ), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have urged Office of Management (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney to use existing executive authority to bring down prescription drug costs, including by certifying importation of prescription drugs from Canada. According to media reports, Mulvaney said last...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley pressed for answers on how an FBI translator was reportedly able to travel to Syria and marry the ISIS operative who she was supposed to be investigating.
In a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Grassley sought information about how the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein today requested follow-up briefings from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe on matters the former Director committed the FBI to providing the committee.
Grassley and Feinstein also requested that Rosenstein,...
Sen. Chuck Grassley made the following comment on the news that the United States and China are making progress toward China’s allowing imports of U.S. beef by July 16, 2017.“The United States is right to hold U.S. trading partners accountable and to the standards advanced economies should follow in the global economy. These standards...
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) introduced the Saving Federal Dollars Through Better Use of Government Purchase and Travel Cards Act, legislation to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse in federal agency travel and purchase cards spending.“This bill is a great example of Democrats...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a lifelong family farmer, a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, made the following comment on the creation of a new congressionally-mandated Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs at the Department of...
Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) today applauded the inclusion of their bipartisan Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017 in the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee markup of the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017.Their legislation, the...
Washington—Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), leaders of the International Narcotics Control Caucus, Tuesday led a group of Senators in a call on the Trump Administration to prioritize the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Fiscal Year 2018 budget. The letter cited the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley called on the Homeland Security Secretary to expedite proposed regulations targeting abuse and national security concerns in the EB-5 investor visa program, and to clarify that the department is processing EB-5 applications in a fair and transparent manner. The request follows a...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement regarding the termination of FBI Director James Comey:“Over the course of the last several months, Director Comey's decisions on controversial matters have prompted concern from across the political spectrum and from career law enforcement...
WASHINGTON – The Federal Bureau of Investigation today provided a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee to supplement the testimony of Director James Comey before the committee at an FBI oversight hearing last week.
The FBI’s letter to the committee is available HERE.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement on Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad’s unanimous approval by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee to be the U.S. ambassador to China. Grassley, along with Sen. Joni Ernst, introduced Branstad at his nomination hearing last week.“Governor Branstad’s...
Internal memo will expose whistleblowers to retaliation and is potentially illegal and unconstitutionalWASHINGTON – After obtaining an internal memo sent from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) instructing employees to inform the agency before communicating independently with Congress, congressional leaders sent a letter to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and 14 fellow senators are urging the IRS and Treasury Department to make technical clarifications to rules on refinancing options for student debt amid the ongoing student debt problem. In a bipartisan letter to the agencies, the senators wrote that prior agency guidance on using non-profit bonds for...
In response to Senators’ letter, Department says it is reviewing existing authority to initiate investigations
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) released the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Labor’s response to a request by the senators to investigate the harm done to American workers by the rising...
Sen. Chuck Grassley made the following comment on the health care bill passed by the House of Representatives today and the process going forward. “Under the process, the House had to act first. House passage gives the Senate the opportunity to write a bill. Obamacare isn’t working for people, as the developments in Iowa...
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today announced they are reintroducing bipartisan legislation to help states identify and meet the needs of children who come into contact with both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, also known as dual status youth. The Childhood Outcomes Need New Efficient...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, co-founder and co-chair of the Senate Caucus on Foster Youth, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, co-chair of the Senate Caucus on Foster Youth, and a bipartisan group of colleagues today introduced legislation recognizing May as National Foster Care Month. The legislation is a resolution describing the multiple challenges facing...
