WASHINGTON – Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the Office of Special Counsel...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Joni Ernst will host a reception to meet Iowans visiting the nation’s capital during many Iowa schools’ spring break the week of March 13 through March 17. The open door reception will be held on Wednesday, March 15.What: ...
ICYMI Senator Grassley is credited with preserving an anti-corporate tax shelter provision that he worked to make part of current law. The economic substance doctrine says transactions generating a tax benefit have to have a legitimate business purpose besides a reduction in tax liability. Senator Grassley weighed in to keep the provision...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released the following statement after Attorney General Jeff Sessions supplemented the testimony he provided to the committee on Jan. 11. There are no plans to ask Sessions to come before the committee before an annual oversight hearing, as is customary.
The document from Sessions...
WASHINGTON – According to a new study, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa ranks fourth of the more than five hundred current members of Congress by number of town hall meetings held since 2015. By this measure, Grassley is one of the most accessible members of either party or chamber of Congress.“Representative government is a two-way street....
JAMA Internal Medicine Viewpoint: Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids — The Path ForwardBy Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Grassley March 3, 2017Untreated hearing loss is a major health problem in the United States, particularly for older Americans. Approximately 48 million Americans, including half of those in their 70s, have hearing loss in at...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today issued the following statement after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on border security. “The federal government has a solemn responsibility to protect our people and our way of life from those wishing to do us harm. The President’s executive order...
Author of unsubstantiated dossier was also researching Trump for Clinton campaign associates when FBI sought to hire him
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today is seeking details on the
FBI’s reported plans to hire former British spy Christopher Steele to investigate Donald Trump during the presidential campaign, even...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released the following statement after receiving a letter asking for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to return to the committee for a hearing to supplement the testimony he provided to the committee on Jan. 11. There are no plans to ask Sessions to come before the committee before an...
Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Sioux City, Jacob Bossman, will be holding open office hours in Buena Vista, Pocahontas, Sac, Ida, Emmet, Palo Alto, Clay, Osceola, Dickinson and O’Brien counties on March 8, 14 and 20. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express...
DOJ IG report took five years to complete inquiry
WASHINGTON Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent a letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General (DOJ IG) Michael Horowitz, asking why the IG's office took nearly five years to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement after President Trump signed a bipartisan resolution to repeal an Obama-era regulation that threatened to infringe on the Second Amendment rights of Social Security Disability Beneficiaries without affording due process.
“The Obama Administration’s...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released the following statement after Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ press conference this afternoon.“First and foremost, any talk of resignation is nonsense. We all know Attorney General Sessions to be an honest and forthright public servant. When we spoke earlier this afternoon,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) today introduced legislation to give the congressional watchdog arm complete access to American Red Cross records for oversight purposes. The bipartisan, bicameral American Red Cross Transparency Act of 2017 responds to concerns that the Red Cross tried to quash a review by the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today introduced the Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act. The bill would extend the Reid vapor pressure (RVP) waiver to ethanol blends above 10 percent. This would increase market access opportunities for higher blends of ethanol. It would allow...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has a long record of seeking accountability from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and public housing authorities in fulfilling their responsibilities. He also is working toward transparency and clarity of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program. Grassley made the following comment on the confirmation...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is looking into whether the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) works as intended. He made the following comment on a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the role of syndicators. Grassley’s comment on a prior report is available here. “The fact that the GAO needed to issue a...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and nine other senators introduced bipartisan legislation to improve Medicare coverage for lymphedema patients. The Lymphedema Treatment Act would increase and improve care for Medicare beneficiaries with lymphedema by ensuring Medicare covers...
