WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley will hold three town meetings in southwest and south central Iowa on May 5 and May 6 as part of his annual 99-county meetings.With these meetings, Grassley will continue his long-standing practice of 36th year holding constituent meetings in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties. Grassley has held a...
WASHINGTON – The House today passed the bipartisan Senate bill, the Defend Trade Secrets Act by a vote of 410-2. Chairman Chuck Grassley shepherded the legislation through the Senate Judiciary Committee on its way to Senate passage by a vote of 87-0. Authored by Senators Orrin Hatch and Chris Coons, the Defend Trade Secrets Act is aimed at...
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate delegations from Iowa and Nebraska are seeking details on the Obama Administration’s decision to place an unaccompanied minor immigrant in the care of his older brother, who was illegally residing in the United States. Edwin Mejia entered the...
Click here for a hi-res photo.WASHINGTON – Marking Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Sen. Chuck Grassley today joined a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers and survivors of sexual assault urging the Senate to pass the Campus Accountability and Safety Act. This bipartisan legislation would protect students, professionalize the response to and reporting of...
WASHINGTON – The Senate today passed a bipartisan amendment offered by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon to restore wind energy research funding for fiscal year 2017 to the level provided for the current fiscal year. The measure allocates an additional $15.4 million to wind energy research from within existing research...
Senate Floor Speech by Senator Chuck Grassley regarding speech to Midwest Political Science Undergraduate Research Conference at Wartburg CollegeDelivered Monday, April 25, 2016I recently gave a speech to the Midwest Political Science Undergraduate Research Conference, which was held at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. It dealt with the current state...
Please note: The amendment is scheduled for a Senate vote at 11 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, April 26.Floor Statement of Sen. Chuck GrassleyAmendment on Funding for Wind Energy ResearchDelivered Monday, April 25, 2016I’m pleased to join Senator Merkley in offering amendment #3812 regarding funding for wind energy research. This is a...
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 Community Bankers of Iowa, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, the Iowa State Education Association and the Iowa Funeral Directors Association.Senator Grassley met with...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will join National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson for a public forum in Iowa to discuss what taxpayers want and need from the IRS to comply with their tax obligations. The public forum will be held Thursday, May 5, at 8:30 a.m. Central at the Montgomery County Family YMCA, 101 E Cherry St, Red Oak. Members of the...
The Senate Appropriations Committee this week approved language championed by Sen. Chuck Grassley that will ensure transparency and promote accountability in public housing authorities’ use of more than $350 million in federal tax dollars. The Grassley language, which was incorporated into a committee report that accompanies an annual spending bill,...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Al Franken (D-MN), Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Chris Coons (D-DE) issued the following statements after introducing the Protecting Our Lives by Initiating COPS Expansion (POLICE) Act of 2016, which will allow law enforcement and medical personnel across the country...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaResponse to Senator Reid’s Political Attack on Judiciary InvestigationsThursday, April 21, 2016Mr. President, I’d like to take this time to respond to the Minority Leader’s juvenile attacks on my Judiciary Committee investigations and his frequent crying about my previous State...
Sen. Chuck Grassley has fought the ill-conceived Waters of the U.S. rule at every opportunity. The Environmental Protection Agency has lost in the courts over overstepping its bounds on the rule. The rule is stayed until a final court ruling, creating uncertainty. Grassley today voted in favor of an amendment from Sen. John Hoeven of North...
WASHINGTON – The Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT), as well as the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), sent a letter today to Government...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today received key committee approval of his provisions including better IRS treatment of tax fraud whistleblowers, enhanced rights of taxpayers whose personal information is improperly accessed by IRS employees, extended time for taxpayers to contest an IRS levy, greater protections for taxpayers where the IRS...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is calling on the U.S. Sentencing Commission to explain why current Sentencing Guidelines do not permit certain increases to the recommended prison terms for criminals convicted of fraud against a large number of vulnerable people, such as senior citizens. Seniors are often the target of fraud,...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley last night received the prestigious Justice Award from the American Bar Association (ABA). According to the ABA, the award is for his “support on a variety of issues of importance to the legal profession and the administration of justice.” ...
Joint Statement by Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of IowaHouse of RepresentativesCommittee on the Judiciary Hearing: “The Real Victims of a Reckless and Lawless Immigration Policy: Families and Survivors Speak Out on the Real Cost of This Administration’s Policies.”April 19, 2016Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, and Members of the...
Washington, D.C. – In a letter to President Obama, U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today called for an investigation into Pentagon testimony before Congress after a report released yesterday revealed that Pentagon officials misled Congress about sexual assault cases in an effort to curb efforts to enact legislation to...
Please note: Photos of Drew, Jaclyn and Major Strube of Waukee and Matt, Chaney, McKayla and Asher Kurtz of Clive are available here. Major, age 21 months, and McKayla, age 12, have cystic fibrosis. Advocacy is a family affair for both families. McKayla is pictured with her brother, Asher, age eight. Washington (April 19, 2016)...
