WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold town meetings in Shelby, Harrison and Guthrie counties on August 10-11, 2016, 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 every year. Grassley has held a meeting in...
Senator Chuck Grassley made the following comment regarding the Khan family and the sacrifices of Gold Star families.“We ought to honor anybody who fought to maintain our freedoms, no matter what race, religion or background. We owe them and their families the utmost respect. I’m proud to be friends with a family of Muslim faith from...
On July 8, Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote to two federal agencies, seeking answers on why they have been slow to distribute $589 million to fight Zika. They identified the funding as available on April 6 but the money was still largely unspent as of the time of his letter. Grassley asked for a response from the Centers for Disease Control and...
DEBUNKING SCOTUS MYTHS o MYTH: As the duly elected President of the United States, President Obama has the constitutional right to appoint judges.? TRUTH: There are three steps for a new Supreme Court justice to be seated:1. “[The president] shall nominate [a prospective...
In April, Sen. Chuck Grassley convened a hearing to explore whether the Justice Department is effectively gathering data to evaluate how state recreational marijuana legalization is impacting its federal enforcement priorities. These priorities include protecting minors from harm and preventing other adverse public health consequences. The...
WASHINGTON—Sen. Chuck Grassley will host a Purple Heart medal ceremony at his Des Moines office for two Iowa war veterans on Tuesday, August 2, 2016, at 1:30 p.m.Don Coderre of West Des Moines and Frank Hawk of Norwalk will each receive a Purple Heart medal. Grassley helped both veterans provide documentation to the Army Review Board to receive their...
Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Sioux City, Jacob Bossman, will be holding open office hours in Emmet, Palo Alto, Kossuth and Dickinson counties on Monday, August 8. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express views.Bossman’s schedule is as follows:Monday, August 8, 201610:00...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley has introduced bipartisan legislation that would produce high quality data on where general surgeons are in short supply around the country. The need for general surgeons is especially high in rural or other under-served communities. “If you fall from the barn or are injured in an tractor accident on the farm in...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Grassley is asking the top administrator of Medicare for insight into an alarming increase in spending under the Medicare catastrophic prescription drug program, including whether drug companies might be exploiting the benefit.
“Overall, these escalating expenditures are cause for serious concern and should prompt questions regarding...
Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Cedar Rapids, Fred Schuster, will be holding open office hours in Benton, Tama, Poweshiek and Mahaska counties on Monday, August 15. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express views.Schuster’s schedule is as follows:Monday, August 15, 20169:00...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold a town meeting in Allamakee County on Thursday, August 4, 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 every year. Grassley has held a meeting in every county, every year...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy are seeking more information on the government’s response to cyberattacks targeting American political organizations. The inquiry follows a reported data breach at the Democratic National Committee and the selective publishing of stolen documents and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today urged the secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor to provide any relevant help to the people of Lansing in light of the closure of the Blumenthal Lansing Company, a longtime button-maker. “Lansing is a town of just 1,000 people, so a job loss of this magnitude will hit the community and workers hard,” Grassley...
The following release contains the revised street address for the Louisa County Town Meeting.WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold town meetings in Washington and Louisa Counties on Thursday, July 28, and Friday, July 29, as part of his annual 99 county meetings.With these meetings, Grassley will continue his long-standing practice of holding...
WASHINGTON – A sweeping addiction recovery bill aimed at addressing the nation’s growing heroin and opioid addiction epidemic led through the Senate by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa has been signed into law. The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) also includes a number of provisions crafted by Grassley to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today issued the following statement after President Obama signed the Protecting Our Lives by Initiating COPS Expansion (POLICE) Act into law.“Our brave men and women of law enforcement put themselves in harm’s way every day to keep us safe, as we’ve seen in their valiant...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is pressing the Defense Department to clarify and respond to potentially misleading statements about the true cost of a compressed natural gas station in Afghanistan. In a four-page-plus letter to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, Grassley outlined questionable statements by a top defense official, who asserted that the...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.), Patty Murray (Wash.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), and Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) led a bipartisan letter, signed by 36 of their Senate colleagues, urging the Obama administration to increase its proposed 2018 Renewable Volume Obligations for biodiesel to encourage continued growth in the industry and diversity in the...
