Grassley: Blue Dog’s Comment on Ending Pay-go Raises Questions of Intellectual Honesty
Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member and former chairman of the Committee on Finance, which writes tax policy in the Senate, has long called for intellectually honest budgeting and uniform pay-go rule application from the House Blue Dog Democrats. He’s made a series...
AARP suspends marketing and sales of limited coverage health plan in response to Grassley questions
Senator Chuck Grassley commented on the announcement made today by the AARP (copied below) that it will suspend marketing and sales of fixed indemnity products for a comprehensive review of the questions raised by Senator Grassley in a letter...
Senator Grassley says SEC refuses to hold anyone accountable for misconduct exposed by two independent inquiries
Senator Chuck Grassley issued the comment below about the decision made today by an administrative law judge for the Securities and Exchange Commission to effectively disregard recommendations made last month by the Inspector General...
Senator Grassley comments on the health care reform debate expected in 2009
Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Committee on Finance, issued the comment below about the health care reform efforts expected in 2009.
Senator Grassley has been a leading senator on health policy, including...
Grassley: $25,000 to Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today announced that the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $25,000 grant to Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services in West Des...
Grassley: More Than $5.3 Million to Iowa for Head Start Projects
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today announced that the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded three grants totaling $5,344,621 to Iowa. The funds will be used by the recipients to fund head start...
Grassley: $25,000 to Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today announced that the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $25,000 grant to Iowa Protection and Advocacy Services in West Des...
Grassley: $300,063 to Iowa from the U.S. Department of Commerce
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley announced today that the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, has awarded two grants totaling $300,063 to Iowa for disaster...
Grassley: More Than $11.6 Million to Iowa from FEMA
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley announced today that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be releasing federal grant dollars totaling $11,673,927 to Iowa in 2009....
Grassley asks AARP about misleading marketing of product called health insurance
WASHINGTON -- Senator Chuck Grassley is asking the AARP to account for the way its marketing materials for a product it calls health insurance fails to limit policy holders' exposure to the potentially high cost of a serious illness. Grassley said the AARP...
Grassley says final letter from Postal Service is a “big relief”
WASHINGTON --- Senator Chuck Grassley today said that a final, formal letter from the U.S. Postal Service means the threat to move a mail processing center out of Sioux City is gone for the foreseeable...
Grassley seeks transparency with Fed loan dollars
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley has asked American International Group, Inc., AIG, to disclose its expenditures so far of the $123 billion lent by the Federal Reserve Bank in order to prevent the company from filing for bankruptcy.
Grassley based his inquiry on an October 30 New York...
Grassley Q & A: Veterans Day
Q: What is Veterans Day?
A: Veterans Day is a day to honor the brave men and women who have worn the uniforms of America’s armed services. Veterans Day is held on the 11th of November of each year because in 1918, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, an armistice was reached between the Allied...
Grassley asks the Grocery Manufacturers Association for lower food prices given lower input costs
Senator Chuck Grassley sent a letter to the Grocery Manufacturers Association asking for lower food prices given lower input costs.
Click Here to see the letter.
Grassley works to protect distressed homeowners
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley has asked the Treasury Department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for an accounting of how it is determining eligibility among the mortgages is selects to guarantee as part of the federal...
Grassley: More Than $1.9 Million to Iowa from the U.S. Department of Commerce
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley announced today that the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, has awarded five grants totaling $1,952,773 to Iowa for disaster...
Senators protest presidential signing statement on Inspector General Reform Act
WASHINGTON --- A bipartisan group of senators says the presidential signing statement accompanying the Inspector General Reform Act passed by Congress this fall needlessly challenges two important elements of the new law. The senators have called on the President to...
Grassley: More Than $1.3 Million to Iowa from the U.S. Department of Transportation
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has awarded a $1,337,184 grant to Iowa through the...
Grassley: $428,138 for Workforce Development from U.S. Department of Labor
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today announced that the Department of Labor has awarded $428,138 to Iowa Workforce Development through Workforce Investment Act National Emergency grant funds.
“These funds will help the workers who lost jobs at Northern...
Grassley: More Than $1.6 Million to Iowa Department of Public Health
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today announced that the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded a $1,628,026 grant to Iowa Department of Public...
