WASHINGTON – After consulting with the Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said today that the hearing for Judge Neil Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court will begin on March 20. Grassley expects the hearing to last 3-4 days. Opening statements by Judiciary Committee...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today requested a Justice Department briefing and documents related to the circumstances leading up to the resignation of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. In a
letter today to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director James...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Jon Tester, D-Mont., Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., were joined by 37 Senators in sending a letter today to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price regarding health care in rural America. The letter emphasizes the importance of rural health-care...
Resolution would block Social Security reg to unlawfully add names to gun ban list
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate today approved a measure to roll back a misguided Obama-era regulation that would jeopardize the Second Amendment rights of Social Security beneficiaries. The bipartisan resolution of disapproval, authored by Senate Judiciary...
Sen. Chuck Grassley, a senior member and former chairman of the Finance Committee and a member of the Agriculture Committee, today met with Peter Navarro, a top trade advisor for President Trump, and several fellow committee members, to discuss the Administration’s priorities on trade. The Finance Committee has jurisdiction over trade....
Introduce legislation to force transparency on organizations using taxpayer money to fund political agendas
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced the
Open Book on Equal Access to Justice Act. The
legislation prevents abuse of the
Equal Access to Justice Act...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is the author of the Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act, enacted in 2012, that imposed new requirements to improve internal controls in the widely used government purchase card program. Grassley continues to conduct oversight to make sure the new controls are implemented properly, including seeking reviews from the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Amy Klobuchar are urging new Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to use his statutory authority to fast track the importation of prescription drugs from Canada under certain circumstances as a remedy to recent drastic drug price increases in the United States. “Where...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is a senior member and former chairman of the Finance Committee, with jurisdiction over the Treasury Department and the IRS. Grassley made the following comment on his vote to confirm Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary. “As the author of the provisions improving the incentives for whistleblowers to come...
Last evening Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch returned the bipartisan Judiciary Committee questionnaire Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein sent to him on Feb. 3. The questionnaire can be found here. Here’s a comment from Grassley. “I appreciate Judge Gorsuch working diligently to return his...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement regarding the new and ever changing standards Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is placing on Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. “The problem Democrats are running into is that Judge Gorsuch clears every hurdle they place in front of him. First, the Minority...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is gathering information on possible misuses of the orphan drug program and how that might affect drug prices. Here’s his comment: “Based on the reporting from Kaiser Health News about how the orphan drug provisions appear to be stretched beyond their original intent, and the strong consumer concern about high drug...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold four town meetings in northeastern and north central Iowa Feb. 21 through Feb. 24 as part of his annual 99-county meetings. With these meetings, Grassley will continue his long-standing practice of holding meetings with Iowans in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties at least once every year....
Sen. Chuck Grassley voted early this morning to confirm Rep. Tom Price as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Grassley is a senior member and former chairman of the Finance Committee, with jurisdiction over Medicare and Medicaid. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Grassley works toward fair competition among drug makers...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved legislation to step up penalties against perpetrators of crimes against vulnerable senior citizens. The Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017, which was introduced by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), cleared the...
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement after his meeting with Governor Sonny Perdue, the nominee to be the next Secretary of Agriculture. Grassley is a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and is the only working family farmer on the committee. “I appreciate Governor Perdue meeting with me. We had a...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following comment after the Senate voted to confirm Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama to be the U.S. Attorney General by a vote of 52-47 with one Senator voting present “There is no one more qualified than Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General. As colleagues, we all...
In Letter to President, Grassley Seeks Ceremony Honoring Whistleblowers
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley
is calling on President Donald Trump to empower whistleblowers who bring attention to fraud, waste and misconduct in government. In a letter today to Trump, Grassley noted that whistleblowers can be...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today voted in favor of President Trump’s nomination of Betsy DeVos to be U.S. Secretary of Education. He made the following comment on the vote.“I believe Betsy DeVos will perform the job of U.S. Secretary of Education faithfully and well. There’s been a lot of misinformation that Mrs. DeVos opposes...
