WASHINGTON – After introducing their bipartisan bill back in January to increase oversight and eliminate wasteful federal spending, Senators Jon Tester and Chuck Grassley today celebrated the passage of their Administrative Leave Act, which will now head to the President’s desk for signature.
“I came to Washington to clean this place up and this bill...
In September, Sen. Chuck Grassley and fellow senators asked the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services to examine the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) oversight of the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program. After the letter, Grassley continued to push for OIG involvement. Grassley learned that CMS knew...
Sen. Chuck Grassley today met with Rep. Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Grassley is a senior member and former chairman of the Finance Committee, which will consider the nomination. Grassley made the following comment on the meeting.“I...
Washington, D.C. -- Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) applauded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcement that it will take steps to improve consumer access to hearing aids, including by not enforcing the requirement for a medical evaluation or waiver in order to acquire hearing aids. Earlier this month, Warren...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is the co-author of legislation that would reduce the excessive use of paid leave by federal agencies. Grassley developed the legislation after an in-depth investigation finding that agencies sometimes put employees on paid leave for years, either to avoid making tough management decisions or to sideline whistleblowers. The...
Comment of Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.),on the House Judiciary Proposal to Reform the Copyright Office “We have been working together for the last year on a legislative proposal to modernize the U.S. Copyright Office in order to better fulfill its mission in a rapidly changing digital environment. Based on our...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today met with President-elect Trump’s Treasury secretary nominee, Steven Mnuchin. Grassley is a senior member and former chairman of the Finance Committee, which will consider the nomination. Grassley made the following comment on the meeting.“It was our first time meeting, so Mr. Mnuchin and I spent a few...
Floor Statement of Senator Chuck GrassleyMore Slipping and Sliding on Pentagon Audit DeadlineDelivered Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016I come to the floor today to alert the Trump Administration to a problem. There’s a festering sore needing high-level attention. I am talking about a formidable barrier. It stands in the way of an important goal: auditing the...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the news that Gov. Terry Branstad has been named the U.S. ambassador to China nominee by President-elect Trump. “Governor Branstad is a friend and colleague and someone I know very well. As the long-time governor of Iowa, he understands the global nature of the state and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today welcomed Senate passage on a 94 to 5 vote of the 21st Century Cures Act, citing the benefits to find effective medical treatments for chronic and terminal illnesses and the inclusion of his measures to help rural “tweener” hospitals and to restore the ability of small businesses to help their employees...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today met with Seema Verma, the nominee of President-elect Donald Trump to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). As a senior member of the Finance Committee, Grassley will be involved in considering the nomination. He is reviewing drug price increases, especially involving...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Tuesday asked Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald for more information following reports that veterans at the Tomah (Wis.) Veterans...
Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, as a long-time advocate for whistleblowers, wrote to the Department of Veterans Affairs twice about VA retaliation against Brandon Coleman for pointing out poor treatment of suicidal veterans where he worked in Arizona. Eventually, the Office of Special Counsel helped restore Coleman in a VA...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, along with Senators Patrick Leahy, Mike Lee and Amy Klobuchar, is pushing to include legislation that would combat rising drug prices for Iowans by deterring brand-name pharmaceutical companies from blocking the entrance of more affordable generic alternatives in the marketplace in the...
WASHINGTON – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today called on the Obama Administration to declassify its plan to admit into the United States potentially over 2,400 refugees who Australia has refused to admit.
Last month, Chairmen Goodlatte and Grassley expressed...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is part of a request to the United States International Trade Commission that it consider specially outlined factors in a trade case involving steel producers, including SSAB Iowa Inc. with a facility in Montpelier in Muscatine County.
“We write to express our concern about unfairly dumped and subsidized carbon and alloy...
The Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2016 from Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Elizabeth Warren is drawing strong support.
The bipartisan legislation would make certain types of hearing aids available over the counter and remove unnecessary and burdensome requirements that currently create barriers for consumers who could benefit from hearing...
Washington, DC -- U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Thursday introduced the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2016. The bipartisan legislation would make certain types of hearing aids available over the counter (OTC) and remove unnecessary and burdensome requirements that currently create barriers for consumers who...
The Senate voted 99-0 today to approve the Iran Sanctions Extension Act (H.R. 6297). The vote follows House passage of counterpart legislation by a vote of 419-1. The legislation extends the Iran Sanctions Act through 2026. The act is designed to prevent the Iranian regime from obtaining resources to support terrorism and develop weapons of...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and watchdog of the federal bureaucracy, is working to ensure that inspectors general, the public’s eyes and ears for rooting out waste, fraud and abuse within the executive branch, have access to all necessary documents to conduct an investigation.“Inspectors...
