WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Amy Klobuchar are urging new Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to use his statutory authority to fast track the importation of prescription drugs from Canada under certain circumstances as a remedy to recent drastic drug price increases in the United States. “Where...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is a senior member and former chairman of the Finance Committee, with jurisdiction over the Treasury Department and the IRS. Grassley made the following comment on his vote to confirm Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary. “As the author of the provisions improving the incentives for whistleblowers to come...
Last evening Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch returned the bipartisan Judiciary Committee questionnaire Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein sent to him on Feb. 3. The questionnaire can be found here. Here’s a comment from Grassley. “I appreciate Judge Gorsuch working diligently to return his...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement regarding the new and ever changing standards Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is placing on Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. “The problem Democrats are running into is that Judge Gorsuch clears every hurdle they place in front of him. First, the Minority...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is gathering information on possible misuses of the orphan drug program and how that might affect drug prices. Here’s his comment: “Based on the reporting from Kaiser Health News about how the orphan drug provisions appear to be stretched beyond their original intent, and the strong consumer concern about high drug...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold four town meetings in northeastern and north central Iowa Feb. 21 through Feb. 24 as part of his annual 99-county meetings. With these meetings, Grassley will continue his long-standing practice of holding meetings with Iowans in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties at least once every year....
Sen. Chuck Grassley voted early this morning to confirm Rep. Tom Price as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Grassley is a senior member and former chairman of the Finance Committee, with jurisdiction over Medicare and Medicaid. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Grassley works toward fair competition among drug makers...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved legislation to step up penalties against perpetrators of crimes against vulnerable senior citizens. The Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017, which was introduced by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), cleared the...
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement after his meeting with Governor Sonny Perdue, the nominee to be the next Secretary of Agriculture. Grassley is a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and is the only working family farmer on the committee. “I appreciate Governor Perdue meeting with me. We had a...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following comment after the Senate voted to confirm Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama to be the U.S. Attorney General by a vote of 52-47 with one Senator voting present “There is no one more qualified than Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General. As colleagues, we all...
In Letter to President, Grassley Seeks Ceremony Honoring Whistleblowers
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley
is calling on President Donald Trump to empower whistleblowers who bring attention to fraud, waste and misconduct in government. In a letter today to Trump, Grassley noted that whistleblowers can be...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today voted in favor of President Trump’s nomination of Betsy DeVos to be U.S. Secretary of Education. He made the following comment on the vote.“I believe Betsy DeVos will perform the job of U.S. Secretary of Education faithfully and well. There’s been a lot of misinformation that Mrs. DeVos opposes...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee today sent a letter to Acting Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Christopher Giancarlo, requesting a formal briefing of CFTC’s efforts to address the systemic...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland today re-introduced their bipartisan legislation allowing older Americans to receive individualized care that would help them continue to stay in their own homes rather than nursing homes.
“I’ve never met anyone who can’t wait to move into a nursing home,” Grassley said....
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today re-introduced their legislation to apply the disclosure of drug company and medical device maker payments to nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
“There ought to be a complete record for consumer benefit,” Grassley said. “The goal of sunshine for payments to...
Washington, DC -- United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today responded to yesterday's announcement by the Accredited Standards Committee X12 (X12) that a draft update to health insurance claims forms includes medical devices' unique device identifier (UDI). The Senators wrote to X12 chair Gary Beatty in August to urge...
WASHINGTON – Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have introduced legislation to eliminate the EB-5 visa program. The program, which has been replete with fraud and abuse, allows foreign investors to obtain a green card and eventually citizenship in...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today called on the Trump administration to make public the details of a secret agreement between the Obama administration and Australia to transfer to the United States foreign nationals who attempted to enter Australia as refugees. These foreign nationals have instead been held by the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley introduced a
joint resolution of disapproval to begin the process of reversing an Obama administration regulation that allows the Social Security Administration to report citizens receiving disability benefits to the national gun ban list without due process. The House of Representatives...
