Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement regarding the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General’s report on the Osorio and Barba Firearms Trafficking Rings. Grassley began asking questions of the Obama administration in March 2011, soon after he began his investigation into Operation Fast and...
Sen. Chuck Grassley has pressed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to explain the flawed policy that leads to the downgrading of flood control projects in Iowa cities for funding prioritization. He has cited Cedar Rapids and Des Moines as losing priority under the broken formula. Grassley helped secure the inclusion of language stating that the Corps of...
Sen. Chuck Grassley and his staff spoke to several sources on reports of an imminent presidential executive order that would make significant changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard, specifically to the point of obligation requirement for the renewable fuel. Grassley made the following comment on what he and his staff learned.“Based on...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement in reaction to President Donald Trump’s first joint address to Congress. Video reaction from Grassley can be found...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on President Trump’s actions to begin rescinding the controversial Waters of the U.S. rule. Grassley has been an ardent opponent of the rule, which has been blocked temporarily by a federal court. The rule would have defined 97 percent of the land in Iowa as a waterway.“This is...
WASHINGTON – As President Donald Trump prepares to submit a federal budget proposal to Congress, a bipartisan group of senators, led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy, is calling for the White House to prioritize programs that assist victims of sexual and domestic...
Grassley Calls on Bureau of Prisons to Explain Why Watchdog Fixes Remain Open
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is calling on the Federal Bureau of Prisons to explain why recommendations aimed at preventing untimely release of federal inmates remain unimplemented. The recommendations followed a 2016 inspector general...
Washington – Today, U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bob Casey, Ranking Member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Susan Collins, Chair of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and Patrick Leahy today introduced the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act.The legislation is necessary following...
Grassley & Lankford Raised Concerns following Whistleblower Reports
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) today made the following statements after the Justice Department Inspector General (IG)
announced findings of reprisal, abuse and lack of candor by senior supervisors in...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Joni Ernst are asking the Justice Department to explain the penalties against an Iowa nursing home that was ordered closed and ordered to pay $100,000 to federal taxpayers over “grossly substandard care” that was essentially “without value.” Grassley and Ernst said The Abbey of Le Mars was on a federal watch...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined a letter led by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and also signed by Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), and John Thune (R-S.D.) to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt asking him to examine a burdensome regulation that makes it more difficult to sell gasoline with ethanol content...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on his vote to confirm Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. In January, Grassley convened a meeting among Pruitt and several senators from biofuels-producing states to convey their views on the importance of biofuels to job creation, energy security, the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Rob Portman (R-OH), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Bill Nelson (D-FL), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Patty Murray (D-WA) this week reintroduced their bipartisan bill to improve health outcomes and care coordination for children with complex medical...
Boston Herald: “No Credible Case To Make That President Trump’s Nominee Is Insufficiently Qualified Or Unreasonably Out Of The Judicial Mainstream” “Any senator who votes to oppose the nomination of Neil M. Gorsuch to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court will have done so motivated by blind partisanship — or revenge. There...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand are reintroducing legislation to hold accountable the Justice Department for its handling of the benefits claims of fallen public safety officers.
The Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Act was signed into law in 1976 to provide death benefits to survivors of...
WASHINGTON – Iowan Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst reintroduced legislation to grant the Meskwaki Settlement power to enforce laws for certain crimes committed on its land, bringing its authority in line with that of the vast majority of Indian country.“Our legislation kicks off the final step in a coordinated process to ensure the...
Trade deals remain vital for agriculture; Grassley wise to push for farmers’ access to overseas marketsCouncil Bluffs Daily NonpareilEditorialAs protectionism and the perception of bad trade deals permeated last year’s presidential campaign, the impact on Midwestern agriculture was largely overlooked.…Sen. Chuck Grassley, however, has...
Sen. Chuck Grassley today welcomed an expression of concern and a commitment to produce records on the misclassification of EpiPen under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program from Seema Verma, nominee to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Grassley has pressed CMS for documentation and answers on why EpiPen was...
