Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Cedar Rapids, Fred Schuster, will be holding open office hours in Linn, Jones, Dubuque, Delaware, Clayton and Allamakee counties on Wednesday, July 20, and Thursday, July 21. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express views.Schuster’s schedule...
Floor Speech of Senator Chuck GrassleyKeeping Track of the People’s Money May Not be in the Pentagon’s DNA?Delivered Thursday, July 7, 2016I come to the floor today to send a message to Secretary of Defense Carter. I wish to alert him to a problem that needs high-level attention. It is standing in the way of one of his top priority goals:...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today led the Senate delegation in a bicameral conference committee meeting to finalize the conference report for S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), legislation that addresses the growing epidemic of opioid addiction gripping the nation. Today’s...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Deb Fischer (R-NE), and Ben Sasse (R-NE), introduced Sarah’s Law, legislation to honor Sarah Root, an Iowan who was killed earlier this year by a drunk driver in the country illegally. Sarah’s Law would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is seeking further details regarding the FBI’s decision not to recommend charges in the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. The inquiry follows public records and comments by the director that appear to be inconsistent with the...
Sen. Chuck Grassley has pressed the Obama Administration to address whether patient satisfaction surveys linked to Medicare payments encourage opioid pain reliever abuse, already a national epidemic. Grassley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein initially wrote to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services with this concern in June 2014. The...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today introduced legislation to give the congressional watchdog arm complete access to Red Cross records for oversight purposes and improve the Red Cross’ internal investigative function. The American Red Cross Transparency Act follows the results of a Grassley inquiry into the Red Cross’ response to the 2010 Haiti...
Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Sioux City, Jacob Bossman, will be holding open office hours in Emmet, Palo Alto, Kossuth, Osceola and Dickinson counties on July 25 and 28. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express views.Bossman’s schedule is as follows:Monday July 25,...
Here is information about Senator Grassley's schedule this week. The Senate is in session.Senator Grassley will meet with Iowa families visiting Washington, D.C., from Bettendorf, Earlham, Harlan, Hampton, Britt, Charles City, Pleasant Hill, Le Mars, Toledo, La Motte, Des Moines, Rock Valley and Burlington.Senator Grassley will meet with Iowa students...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement after FBI Director James Comey said the FBI would not recommend criminal prosecution of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, despite finding the mishandling classified information. “While Director Comey made it clear that Secretary Clinton and...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio are urging the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to maintain current policy requiring that Medicare prescription drug plans carry six categories of prescription drugs offered to participating beneficiaries. Grassley and Brown are the sponsors of legislation...
Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Davenport, Penny Vacek, will be holding open office hours in Jefferson, Van Buren, Davis, Wapello, Cedar, Henry and Muscatine counties on July 12 and 14. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express views.Vacek’s schedule is as follows:Tuesday,...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today issued the following statement after President Obama signed into law the FOIA Improvement Act, which Grassley led through the Judiciary Committee last year.“Early in his tenure, President Obama boasted that his administration would be the most transparent in our nation’s...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today published the 2015 Open Payments (also called the “Sunshine Act”) data, along with newly submitted and updated payment records for 2013 and 2014, at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/. The Open Payments program requires that transfers of value by drug, device, biological, and...
WASHINGTON – In recognition of the role whistleblowers play in shining a light on fraud, waste and abuse, the members of the bipartisan Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus introduced a resolution to designate July, 30, 2016, as National Whistleblower Appreciation Day. The resolution encourages federal agencies to acknowledge employees who call attention...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Committee on the JudiciaryPuerto Rico LegislationWednesday, June 29, 2016Mr. President,I want to take a few minutes to share my concerns about the Puerto Rico legislation we’re considering. I’ve been involved with this issue for a while now. This past December...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pressing FBI Director James Comey to explain the agency’s policies surrounding ISIS kill lists of American citizens. The questions come after a Circa News report that many Americans weren’t even notified that they were on an ISIS kill list.
“This report is...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack asking that the Department’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) clarify the rules related to over-seeding cover crops.Grassley’s letter is in response to concerns voiced by producers that confusion exists between the Risk Management Agency and...
