WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today scheduled a hearing titled “Oversight of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and Attempts to Influence U.S. Elections: Lessons Learned from Current and Prior Administrations.” The Committee has formally invited the following witnesses to provide testimony at the hearing: Panel...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today released the following statement regarding an announced Justice Department directive to reinstate a previously-discontinued piece of the civil asset forfeiture program. “Asset forfeiture can be a useful tool in preventing future crimes and helping to make victims whole,...
WASHINGTON – A group of lawmakers, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), introduced legislation to restore checks and balances in the federal government by curbing the spread of executive branch power grabs made through agencies’ broad interpretation of congressional intent. The Separation of Powers...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley wrote to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly raising concerns about the O visa program, which is intended for use by those who have extraordinary abilities or a demonstrated record of extraordinary achievement. Unlike most other visa categories, the O visa program has no numeric...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley wrote to Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson requesting further information on Rinat Akhmetshin, the Russian-American lobbyist who was present at the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump, Jr.
Akhmetshin built a reputation for his pro-Russia...
Sen. Chuck Grassley today made the following comment on the health care debate and next steps to repair the damage done by Obamacare.“I’ve heard from many Iowans about how Obamacare has failed them. I’ll continue to work with my fellow senators on repairing the damage done by Obamacare. I’ll look at what options for votes...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Dick Durbin today made the following statement regarding the announced rule providing for 15,000 additional H-2B visas for temporary seasonal work during the remainder of fiscal year 2017. “While there may be legitimate needs among employers who rely on H-2B...
Prepared Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaFamily Leadership SummitDes Moines, IowaJuly 15, 2017 Good morning. It’s so good to be here with all of you this morning to share in our Worship, Fellowship, and Leadership. There’s no better way to start out my day. To give praise for our Lord and Savior. Every morning, I give thanks...
Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Richard Blumenthal are the co-sponsors of legislation to apply Physician Payments Sunshine Act disclosure requirements of drug company payments to doctors to nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Their bill came after a number of incidents involving questionable, dangerous prescribing practices by several such...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Chuck Grassley of Iowa are calling for answers from the Missouri National Guard on what it will do to address findings that one of its contractors retaliated against contractor employee Michael Sandknop after he made disclosures that were protected under whistleblower statutes. “We depend...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, senior member of the Finance Committee, and Sen. Orrin Hatch, chairman, today urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to recover as much as possible of more than $729.4 million in reported inappropriate Obama-era electronic health records incentive payments. A Department of Health and Human Services...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today wrote to Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in order to ask how the Russian attorney who met with Donald Trump, Jr. at Trump Tower in June of 2016 was allowed to enter the United States.
According to her sworn declaration, former Russian...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Sen. Tom Cotton, Sen. Tom Udall, Sen. Martin Heinrich and Sen. Sherrod Brown today introduced bipartisan legislation to improve patient access to podiatrists in Medicaid and improve care for patients with diabetes who need therapeutic shoes via Medicare. “Foot and ankle health is important to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley said today that fall internships for college-aged Iowans are available. Applications are due Friday, July 21.
These Senate internships are available in Grassley offices in Washington, D.C., Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo. The fall internship program runs from August 21 to December...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Waterloo, Jason Mohr, will hold office hours in Franklin, Wright, Hancock, Winnebago and Hardin counties on Monday, July 17. Mohr’s schedule is as follows:Monday, July 17 Franklin County8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.Franklin County Courthouse12 1st Avenue NWHampton Wright...
Video of the floor speech is available here.Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck GrassleyObamacare is Unaffordable for Too Many Americans; Medicaid Emphasizes Spending Over QualityDelivered Tuesday, July 11, 2017I rise today to share real stories of real hardship from hard-working families in my home state of Iowa.Seven years ago, Americans were promised that the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Joni Ernst today invited Iowa lawyers who would like to be recommended for a judicial appointment by President Donald Trump to serve as a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Iowa to submit applications by August 11. The senators intend to make recommendations to fill the federal judgeship that...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and committee member Chris Coons (D-Del.) sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross questioning the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s participation in the Department of Commerce’s initiative to develop shared services for all of the Department’s bureaus, called “Enterprise...
Leadership was reportedly warned about need to follow through on safety measures, yet failed to adequately fund equipment or implement programs
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Body armor with 13 percent failure rate still worn by more than 1,000 agents
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Weakened criteria for training officers tied to flawed safety instructions
WASHINGTON – Thousands of U.S. Marshals...
