WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee today sent a letter to Acting Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Christopher Giancarlo, requesting a formal briefing of CFTC’s efforts to address the systemic...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland today re-introduced their bipartisan legislation allowing older Americans to receive individualized care that would help them continue to stay in their own homes rather than nursing homes.
“I’ve never met anyone who can’t wait to move into a nursing home,” Grassley said....
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today re-introduced their legislation to apply the disclosure of drug company and medical device maker payments to nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
“There ought to be a complete record for consumer benefit,” Grassley said. “The goal of sunshine for payments to...
Washington, DC -- United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today responded to yesterday's announcement by the Accredited Standards Committee X12 (X12) that a draft update to health insurance claims forms includes medical devices' unique device identifier (UDI). The Senators wrote to X12 chair Gary Beatty in August to urge...
WASHINGTON – Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have introduced legislation to eliminate the EB-5 visa program. The program, which has been replete with fraud and abuse, allows foreign investors to obtain a green card and eventually citizenship in...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today called on the Trump administration to make public the details of a secret agreement between the Obama administration and Australia to transfer to the United States foreign nationals who attempted to enter Australia as refugees. These foreign nationals have instead been held by the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley introduced a
joint resolution of disapproval to begin the process of reversing an Obama administration regulation that allows the Social Security Administration to report citizens receiving disability benefits to the national gun ban list without due process. The House of Representatives...
"Protecting whistleblowers is crucial to your success and the oversight process."
WASHINGTON – Today, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), and Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) sent a
bicameral letter to White House...
WASHINGTON – Following a thorough review and lengthy debate, the Senate Judiciary Committee today approved the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General of the United States. Sessions, a longtime member of the committee, took questions from his fellow senators for more than 10 hours in a marathon hearing and responded to more than 700...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley shares his thoughts about President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, in a video address below.Grassley’s full statement on the nomination can be found here.-30-
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement after President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch to be the next Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. The Senate Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over the federal courts and will vet and...
Sen. Chuck Grassley, a senior member and former chairman and ranking member of the Finance Committee, today made the following comment on the Democrats’ decision to boycott a committee meeting today to consider President Trump’s nominees to lead the Treasury Department and Department of Health and Human Services. “I’m...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeProtecting the Second Amendment Right of Social Security BeneficiariesJanuary 30, 2017 Mr. President, The resolution of disapproval I am introducing today via the Congressional Review Act repeals a Social Security regulation that unfairly stigmatizes...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas, the former Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation today to reduce frivolous lawsuits that bog down the United States legal system and cost businesses billions of dollars every year.
The
Lawsuit Abuse...
Senator Chuck Grassley made the following comment regarding President Trump’s Executive Order on “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States.”"National security is the number one responsibility of the federal government, and keeping terrorists out of the United States must be a top priority. ...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today released the following statement regarding President Trump’s executive orders on immigration. “We’ve seen the consequences of neglecting to enforce our immigration laws both at the border and in communities across the country. The tragic death of Sarah Root,...
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), John Cornyn (R-TX), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Mark Warner (D-VA) have introduced bipartisan legislation to help fight synthetic drugs. The Synthetic Abuse and Labeling of Toxic...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley joined Senator Mike Lee in introducing an amendment to the United States Constitution that would require the federal government to balance its budget each year. This amendment would put a stop to the current “status quo” of Congress spending far more money than it the federal government takes...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley reiterated his request for answers on whether the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) took any action to recover the tax dollars overpaid because of EpiPen’s misclassification under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program. Last week, Grassley criticized the agency for a “lackluster and very disappointing response”...
