WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following comment after the Department of Homeland Security launched the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) office.“I am heartened that the President is making good on his commitment to those who have been victimized by crimes committed by undocumented...
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, including the first-ever 10 percent lowest bracket, and spurring economic growth and activity. Congress...
Bill Would Improve Biodiesel Incentive to Benefit American Producers, Advance Energy Independence
WASHINGTON – United States Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and 14 other senators today introduced bipartisan legislation to reform the biodiesel tax credit and...
Senate confirms Justice Department’s top deputy by vote of 94-6WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today released the following statement after the Senate confirmed Rod Rosenstein of Maryland to be the Deputy Attorney General by a vote of 94-6.“Rod Rosenstein’s well-earned reputation for independence...
WASHINGTON – Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Tuesday reintroduced bipartisan legislation to encourage and reward the use of patented technology to address humanitarian needs. The bipartisan introduction comes on the eve of World Intellectual Property Day on Wednesday, a day to celebrate and learn about the role of...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has called on the United States Marshals Service (USMS) to hold employees accountable for misconduct and answer serious questions about costly, yet questionable contracts. Grassley’s questions follow reports that Marshals employees routinely direct subordinates to draft their personal...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a member of the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, made the following statement after the confirmation of former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to be U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.“I’m glad a broad, bipartisan majority of the United States Senate voted to confirm Gov....
WASHINGTON – In an effort to support the vital role trademarks play in the U.S. economy, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Senator Chris Coons, Congressman John Ratcliffe and Congressman Ted Deutch have relaunched the Congressional Trademark Caucus.“Purchasing fake and potentially unsafe products can be dangerous to consumers...
Member of ‘China’s Most Wanted’ among more than 100 granted visas in scheme
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Millions in investor funds spent on cars and homes; EB-5 projects never emerged
WASHINGTON – Recent news reports of an
elaborate EB-5 investor visa scheme are raising fresh concerns of the program’s national security vulnerabilities as a bipartisan, bicameral coalition...
Washington, D.C. -- In a signal of growing support for the bipartisan Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017, Consumers Union, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare, and the Academy of Doctors of Audiology have released letters endorsing the legislation. These three groups joined a number of other leading organizations...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley continues his oversight of whether the taxpayers are overpaying insurers in Medicare Advantage, seeking updates and answers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on what the agency is doing to prevent insurance company risk score gaming to get higher payments.
“By all accounts, risk score gaming is...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is asking a health insurer to explain an apparent practice of charging customers more for receiving a brand name prescription drug than a generic drug when the insurer’s own doctors explicitly prescribed the brand name drug for medical reasons. This “brand penalty” reportedly is the difference between the price of the...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley is evaluating the response he received from a Florida assisted living facility in response to his questions following criminal charges filed against an employee alleging she violated the privacy of two residents using Snapchat. The case is the latest example of exploitive videos or photos involving elder care...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, an author of legislation to reform the H-1B and L-1 skilled work visa programs, made the following statement regarding President Trump’s executive order to protect American workers and prioritize H-1B visas for the most-skilled applicants: “The H-1B program was designed...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is seeking answers from a government watchdog and an accrediting organization over investigative news reports of troubling conduct by Universal Health Services (UHS), the country’s largest psychiatric hospital chain.
The news reports “portray a pattern of conduct that is extremely concerning and cast a dark cloud over UHS’...
FBI continues to provide erroneous information about employees’ statutory rights championed by Grassley
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today called on the FBI to explain why it has failed to update its...
ICYMI: Today’s Des Moines Register editorial praises bipartisan legislation to combat campus sexual assault that Senator Grassley is helping lead through the United States Senate. Senator Grassley is an original cosponsor of the “Campus Accountability and Safety Act,” which would reform the way colleges and universities address and report...
Reports: Amid public scrutiny, Manafort, Podesta Group finally file as foreign agents; Justice Dept. lax on enforcement of Foreign Agents Registration Act
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement regarding reports that Paul Manafort and the Podesta Group are voluntarily registering as U.S....
