Stop kicking Medicaid’s safety net hospital payments down the roadBy U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Budget scorekeepers tell us that taxpayers spent at least $600 billion in 2017 to pay for health care services for low-income Americans covered by Medicaid. This public health insurance program is a federal-state partnership that pays...
Prepared Remarks by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, U.S. Senate Finance CommitteeOn the Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2019Wednesday, April 3, 2019VIDEO Mr. President, earlier this week I introduced the bipartisan Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2019 – or the RESA bill as we call it in the Finance Committee....
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, issued the following statement after North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivered remarks to a joint session of Congress earlier today.“It was a privilege to welcome NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to a joint session...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today released the following statement regarding an announcement from Cigna (Express Scripts) to cap out-of-pocket costs for insulin prescriptions for some patients.“Any time out-of-pocket prescription drug costs are lowered, that’s good news for patients. But...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Jeff Merkley of Oregon are leading a bipartisan push for “robust” wind energy funding in the 2020 funding bills, touting the benefits of the wind industry in American innovation and job growth.“This funding is necessary in order to continue supporting rural communities, advance...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon are calling on the IRS to fully enforce the tax laws against those involved in the recent college admissions scandal. Based on information in Department of Justice documents, parents of prospective students appear to have made purported...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon are requesting information from two companies affiliated with The MENTOR Network (Mentor) after recent news reports in Iowa and Oregon revealed multiple instances of abuse and neglect, and in one case, an apparent death. Mentor contracts...
WASHINGTON – Bipartisan legislation to improve health outcomes and care coordination for children with complex medical conditions in Medicaid, led by U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, unanimously passed in the Senate after passing the House of Representatives last week.“Since the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon, today celebrated congressional passage of their bill to prevent drug makers from manipulating Medicaid to gouge taxpayers and increase profits by misclassifying their drugs. The legislation was included in a broader package of Medicaid policies,...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today released the following statement on calls from Democrats to abolish the Electoral College.“The U.S. system of government is based on the idea of creating checks and balances so that no one person, branch of government, political party or geographic region of the country gets too powerful,...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, along with Sens. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Marco Rubio of Florida, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Jack Reed of Rhode Island, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Mark Warner of Virginia reintroduced the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon today sent letters to Cigna Corporation (Express Scripts), CVS Health Corporation and Optum, the three leading pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), regarding their role in the skyrocketing cost of insulin in the United States.
Last month, the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley continued and expanded his inquiry into foreign threats to taxpayer-funded research by seeking information from the Department of Defense, which plays a significant role in commissioning and funding research and development.
“Our government must take all reasonable and necessary steps...
Prepared Remarks by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Ending Democratic Obstruction of NominationsTuesday, April 2, 2019VIDEO Over the past two years, some in this body have decided that they will oppose any nominee suggested by President Trump. There isn’t a senator in this room who serves their state’s interest when qualified,...
WASHINGTON – This morning, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley discussed on the Senate floor the disaster relief bill that Senate Democrats blocked yesterday that would help Iowa recover from recent devastating floods. Video can be found here and text can be found below. Senate Democrats yesterday blocked a bill that provides much-needed funds for...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa issued the following statement after Democrats blocked the Senate’s consideration of a disaster aid appropriations package that would have provided relief following the devastating floods in the Midwest, including southwest Iowa.“I’m disappointed in my colleagues who decry Washington...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa joined Sens. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, Roy Blunt of Missouri and a group of bipartisan colleagues in writing a bipartisan letter urging Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to prioritize the implementation of the dairy provisions in the 2018 Farm Bill.As dairy farmers across the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon today introduced the Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2019 (RESA). The legislation would encourage employers to adopt new retirement plans and reduce the cost of operating retirement plans for their employees. The bill also includes new...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa issued the following statement today after touring flood-devastated areas of southwest Iowa and three meetings with community leaders, emergency managers, small business owners, farmers and other Iowans affected by flooding in the region “I saw destruction and loss in the flooded parts of...
