Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement after a meeting at the White House on the Supreme Court vacancy. “Throughout the past year, I said that no matter who won the election, we would move the process forward with the new President’s nominee. And that’s what we’ll do. The...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is an original cosponsor of legislation reintroduced today that would permanently repeal the federal estate tax, more commonly known as the death tax. The Death Tax Repeal Act of 2017 would finally end this purely punitive tax that has the potential to hit family farms, ranches, and businesses as the result of the...
ICYMISen. Chuck Grassley was instrumental in restoring the ability of small businesses to help their employees with health insurance costs, cited in the following op-ed. The enforcement of Obamacare disrupted that longstanding, popular practice. Sen. Grassley wants to do much more to encourage the flexibility, accessibility, affordability, and choice...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley reintroduced legislation to aid businesses in complying with immigration laws by certifying the legal status of their workforce. The
Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act would permanently authorize and require employers to use the E-Verify program, an Internet-based system that...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Dianne Feinstein of Calif., Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today announced the chairmen, ranking members and members for the six subcommittees of the Senate Judiciary Committee for the 115th Congress. Below is a list of the assignments:Subcommittee on Antitrust,...
Senator Grassley today attended the inauguration of President Donald Trump and made the following comment.“Today, Americans had the opportunity to witness a hallmark of American democracy in the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next. Nobody should be surprised at the priorities laid out in President Trump’s speech. It focused...
Changes to H-1B, L-1 Programs Protect American Workers & Improve Fairness for Visa Applicants WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin this week will introduce legislation to prioritize American workers and restore fairness in visa programs for skilled foreign workers. ...
Sen. Chuck Grassley, author of the provisions improving the incentives for whistleblowers to come forward about large dollar tax fraud, today received a commitment from Treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin in support of a strong IRS whistleblower function. Their exchange came at the Finance Committee nomination hearing for Mnuchin. Grassley...
Sen. Chuck Grassley has pressed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Justice Department, and the drug company Mylan to explain the misclassification of EpiPens under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program and whether the government took any action to recover the tax dollars overpaid because of the misclassification. CMS just responded to...
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement regarding the nomination of Governor Sonny Perdue 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.“The Secretary of Agriculture oversees a broad swath of very important American...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today met with Robert Lighthizer, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as United States Trade Representative. The Finance Committee, where Grassley is a senior member and former chairman, will handle the nomination. Grassley made the following comment on the meeting.“The main point I wanted to...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today convened a meeting with several fellow senators from biofuels-producing states and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, President-elect Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of the Department of Energy. The agency conducts research on fuel optimization that is relevant to biofuels policy-making. Grassley made the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley will begin holding meetings with Iowans in every county this new year with meetings on Monday, Jan. 16, in Grundy and Black Hawk counties.With these meetings, Grassley will begin his 37th year holding meetings in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties. Grassley has held at least one meeting with Iowans in...
ICYMI: “Sessions’s Road To The Attorney General’s Office Is As Clear As Ever” “Evenhanded”; “Unflappable”; “Unscathed”; “Unflustered”; “Nothing New Came Out” Associated Press: “Sen. Jeff Sessions cast himself as a strong protector of law and order at his...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement after meeting with General John Kelly, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be Secretary of Homeland Security. The Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over immigration policy which mainly falls under the purview of the Department of Homeland Security.“I...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement after the Justice Department Inspector General announced a review of “allegations regarding various actions by the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in advance of the 2016 election.” Grassley raised concerns to the Inspector General about...
Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote the provisions improving the incentives for whistleblowers to come forward about large dollar tax fraud. The provisions were enacted in 2006, ten years ago. Grassley continuously works to make sure the IRS is welcoming to whistleblowers. The law continues to have positive results, according to the IRS’ latest...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Bob Casey (D-Penn.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and fellow senators today re-introduced their popular bipartisan legislation to encourage pharmacists to serve older Americans in communities lacking easy access to doctors or where pharmacists are more convenient to visit for certain services than...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Congressman Doug Collins (Ga-09) today introduced legislation in the Senate and House of Representatives to end the practice of creating new federal red tape outside of the public rulemaking process. The tactic, known as sue-and-settle litigation, is used by federal...
