WASHINGTON – Following a thorough review and lengthy debate, the Senate Judiciary Committee today approved the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General of the United States. Sessions, a longtime member of the committee, took questions from his fellow senators for more than 10 hours in a marathon hearing and responded to more than 700...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley shares his thoughts about President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, in a video address below.Grassley’s full statement on the nomination can be found here.-30-
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement after President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch to be the next Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. The Senate Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over the federal courts and will vet and...
Sen. Chuck Grassley, a senior member and former chairman and ranking member of the Finance Committee, today made the following comment on the Democrats’ decision to boycott a committee meeting today to consider President Trump’s nominees to lead the Treasury Department and Department of Health and Human Services. “I’m...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeProtecting the Second Amendment Right of Social Security BeneficiariesJanuary 30, 2017 Mr. President, The resolution of disapproval I am introducing today via the Congressional Review Act repeals a Social Security regulation that unfairly stigmatizes...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas, the former Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation today to reduce frivolous lawsuits that bog down the United States legal system and cost businesses billions of dollars every year.
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Senator Chuck Grassley made the following comment regarding President Trump’s Executive Order on “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States.”"National security is the number one responsibility of the federal government, and keeping terrorists out of the United States must be a top priority. ...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today released the following statement regarding President Trump’s executive orders on immigration. “We’ve seen the consequences of neglecting to enforce our immigration laws both at the border and in communities across the country. The tragic death of Sarah Root,...
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), John Cornyn (R-TX), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Mark Warner (D-VA) have introduced bipartisan legislation to help fight synthetic drugs. The Synthetic Abuse and Labeling of Toxic...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley joined Senator Mike Lee in introducing an amendment to the United States Constitution that would require the federal government to balance its budget each year. This amendment would put a stop to the current “status quo” of Congress spending far more money than it the federal government takes...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley reiterated his request for answers on whether the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) took any action to recover the tax dollars overpaid because of EpiPen’s misclassification under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program. Last week, Grassley criticized the agency for a “lackluster and very disappointing response”...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is asking the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to explain $24.2 million in excessive costs for the consolidation and relocation of Fannie Mae’s offices in the Dallas metro area. The costs were the subject of a management alert from the agency’s internal watchdog. “It is inexcusable that neither Fannie...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, along with Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein and Senate Leaders Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, met with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to discuss the Supreme Court vacancy. Grassley shares his thoughts about the Oval Office meeting and what's ahead as the...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement after a meeting at the White House on the Supreme Court vacancy. “Throughout the past year, I said that no matter who won the election, we would move the process forward with the new President’s nominee. And that’s what we’ll do. The...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is an original cosponsor of legislation reintroduced today that would permanently repeal the federal estate tax, more commonly known as the death tax. The Death Tax Repeal Act of 2017 would finally end this purely punitive tax that has the potential to hit family farms, ranches, and businesses as the result of the...
ICYMISen. Chuck Grassley was instrumental in restoring the ability of small businesses to help their employees with health insurance costs, cited in the following op-ed. The enforcement of Obamacare disrupted that longstanding, popular practice. Sen. Grassley wants to do much more to encourage the flexibility, accessibility, affordability, and choice...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley reintroduced legislation to aid businesses in complying with immigration laws by certifying the legal status of their workforce. The
Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act would permanently authorize and require employers to use the E-Verify program, an Internet-based system that...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Dianne Feinstein of Calif., Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today announced the chairmen, ranking members and members for the six subcommittees of the Senate Judiciary Committee for the 115th Congress. Below is a list of the assignments:Subcommittee on Antitrust,...
Senator Grassley today attended the inauguration of President Donald Trump and made the following comment.“Today, Americans had the opportunity to witness a hallmark of American democracy in the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next. Nobody should be surprised at the priorities laid out in President Trump’s speech. It focused...
