WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, as co-founder and co-chair of the new Senate Caucus on Cystic Fibrosis, will welcome advocates at a panel discussion this Thursday. Attending the event will be Iowans who encouraged Grassley to form the caucus: Jaclyn Strube of Waukee and Chaney Kurtz of Clive, who both have children with cystic...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, co-founder and co-chairman of the Senate Caucus on Foster Youth, has several priorities included in the bipartisan, bicameral foster care bill introduced last week, including fighting the opioid addiction crisis and easing the placement of children across state lines. The Family First Prevention Services Act is the...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week in Universal Health Services v. U.S. ex rel. Escobar that staying silent about noncompliance with government rules or agreements when billing the government for goods or services can constitute fraud under the False Claims Act. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who authored the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today released the results of his inquiry into the American Red Cross’ response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The inquiry finds that the Red Cross spent one-fourth of the $487.6 million raised for the relief effort on program management, fund-raising and other expenses. The inquiry also found that the Red Cross...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp today introduced an updated version of their bipartisan legislation allowing small businesses to resume helping their employees buy individual health insurance. Grassley and Heitkamp introduced the same version of the Small Business Health Care Relief Act approved today by the House of...
In the U.S. Senate today, in an attempt to change the subject away from the Obama Administration’s lack of a strategy to stop radical Islam and the hatred aimed at America and Americans, Minority Leader Harry Reid is leading an effort to use the Orlando terrorist attack to further his gun control agenda by filibustering the Commerce, Justice, State...
WASHINGTON – In recognition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and several Senate colleagues today introduced a bipartisan resolution to bring attention to crimes against the aging community. June 15th marks the 11th anniversary of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
An estimated six million Americans...
Washington, D.C. -- Senator Chuck Grassley joined with Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and a bipartisan group of colleagues to praise the passage of provisions in the Senate National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that will strengthen protections for military whistleblowers, including sexual assault survivors, and reform the military correction boards to...
WASHINGTON--Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is introducing new legislation to combat rising drug prices for Iowans by deterring brand-name pharmaceutical companies from blocking the entrance of more affordable generic alternatives in the marketplace. Along with Grassley, the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to...
Governor Terry Branstad announced today that the Commerce Center of Southeast Iowa is the latest industrial site to achieve certification through the Iowa Certified Site Program that is administered by the Iowa Economic Development Authority. The site, just west of Burlington, joins 11 other sites in the state that have been designated as...
WASHINGTON- Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa on Tuesday sent a letter to the Department of Justice Antitrust Division asking for a careful analysis of the Dow DuPont merger. Grassley is Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee which has jurisdiction over antitrust issues. The letter comes as several biotech and seed companies have announced...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Claire McCaskill, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Jason Chaffetz and Rep. Elijah Cummings are asking the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General to account for progress in properly investigating cases of whistleblower reprisal, a longstanding concern, despite some recent improvements. “We believe, however,...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is seeking details on what federal officials knew about the shooter at an Orlando, Fla., nightclub in the early hours of Sunday, June 12, 2016, that left 49 club goers dead and 53 injured.
The shooter, Omar Mateen, an American-born citizen whose parents emigrated from Afghanistan, reportedly...
Senate-Passed FOIA Improvement Act Clears House of Representatives WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the FOIA Improvement Act to improve government transparency. “The people ought to have a right to know what their...
Here is information about Senator Grassley's schedule this week. The Senate is in session.Senator Grassley will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the Iowa Association of School Boards, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Iowa Radio Reading Information Services, the Iowa Bankers Association, the Financial Services Institute, the...
Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Waterloo, Jason Mohr, will be holding open office hours in Howard, Winneshiek, Fayette and Buchanan counties on Friday, June 17, 2016. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express views.Mohr’s schedule is as follows:9:30 a.m.-10:30...
Please note: Sen. Chuck Grassley is pushing for the Senate to approve the Military Justice Improvement Act, which would improve the system for handling sexual assault. Sen. Grassley and his fellow supporters hope the bill will be considered as an amendment to the pending defense authorization bill. In a speech on the Senate floor, Sen....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is asking three social media companies to outline any steps they have taken to prevent the misuse of their platforms to exploit nursing home residents. Grassley wrote to Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram, the companies identified in a news media-compiled database as having had users post photos and videos of nursing home...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved legislation by Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to reduce the backlog of families awaiting approval of survivor benefits of public safety officers killed in the line of duty. The Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Improvement Act, which also increases the federal...
