WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is asking the Justice Department to address more revelations of potential conflicts in the FBI’s handling of recent politically charged investigations. Grassley’s request follows new reports that the acting director engaged in a political campaign and is the subject of an ongoing sex...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement after the Senate’s top Democrat objected to allowing a previously scheduled national security briefing hosted by the Judiciary Committee: “The federal government’s primary responsibility is to protect the American people, so...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham
requested all proposed and final applications for surveillance warrants that the FBI reportedly sought from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections. This includes...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today expressed support for the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner’s actions to help expand access to lower-cost prescription medications through improved transparency and reduced red tape. “I’m encouraged by FDA Commissioner Gottlieb’s...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers’ proposed rule to withdraw the controversial Waters of the U.S. rule. Grassley has been an ardent opponent of the rule, which would have defined 97 percent of the land in Iowa as a waterway. Among other actions, Grassley...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would review lower court decisions blocking portions of President Trump’s executive order temporarily pausing admission of refugees and halting visas issued to certain nations known to harbor...
Sen. Chuck Grassley today made the following comment on President Trump’s signing of a bill making it easier to fire poorly performing employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Grassley co-sponsored the legislation, the VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017. Grassley has long worked to improve veterans care....
Sen. Chuck Grassley continues to investigate abuses of nursing home residents by workers involving humiliating photos on social media such as Snapchat. As a result of his work, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services last year alerted 50 State Medicaid Fraud Control Units to be increasingly aware of the problem and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham and Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse sought information about alleged political interference by then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch during the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary...
Commissioner Gottlieb recently stated that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will take measures to curb anticompetitive abuses of its regulatory process for the approval of generic drugs; This goal aligns with the objectives of legislation the senators introduced earlier this year, the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples (CREATES)...
WASHINGTON – Sen Chuck Grassley’s Regional Director based in Waterloo, Jason Mohr, will hold office hours in Buchanan, Fayette, Winneshiek, Chickasaw, Bremer, Butler, Floyd, Mitchell, Worth and Cerro Gordo counties on Wednesday, June 28, and Thursday, June 29. Mohr’s schedule is as follows: Wednesday, June 28 Buchanan County8...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today released the following statement on the Minority’s obstruction of the Judiciary Committee’s work via a rarely-used procedural tool to curb committee work. “Three times this week, the Judiciary Committee has been obstructed by the Minority Leader’s refusal...
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-DE), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Jack Reed (D-RI) today introduced the Teachers Are Leaders Act, which would create partnerships between colleges and high-need schools to develop and support innovative teacher leader roles.Teachers are one of the most important factors in student achievement....
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the discussion draft of the Senate health care bill released today.
“Congress and the American people have been struggling with the problems with Obamacare since 2010. The Obamacare situation is bad for Iowans in the individual market, including farmers, small business owners,...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein and Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham and Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse today made the following statement after holding a bipartisan meeting with Special Counsel Bob Mueller regarding investigations into Russian interference...
Sen. Chuck Grassley made the following comment on a report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction that the Pentagon wasted as much as $28 million on camouflage uniforms inappropriate for the Afghan landscape. “By then, the United States already had been involved in Afghanistan for years. You’d think...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is calling on Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to examine legislative proposals and collaborate with other government agencies to increase consumer access to affordable prescription medications.
In a
letter to Gottlieb, Grassley agreed with the commissioner...
“Thumbs up to Sen. Chuck Grassley…for doubling down on his demand for transparency”“Chuck Grassley takes Congress’ oversight role seriously”Click here for Senator Grassley’s letter on the legal opinion regarding congressional inquiries.Click here for Senator Grassley’s Judiciary Committee remarks on holding a...
