WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee and the Caucus on International Narcotics Control, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, co-chairman of the Caucus on International Narcotics Control and a member of the Judiciary Committee, today asked the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice for an update on their...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that Riley Jacob Lowe has received a fully qualified offer of appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Spring, Colo., for the 2016-2017 school year.Lowe is the son of Stacy and Curt Lowe of Swisher. He will graduate this month from College Community High School. Lowe is a member of the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today said that the General Services Administration (GSA) will begin posting on its website the reports it compiles on the travel of senior federal officials who use government aircraft. Grassley was notified of the change yesterday. The policy change is in response to recent...
Year After Officer’s Death in the Line of Duty, Fischer-Sasse-Grassley-Ernst Resolution Passes Senate
WASHINGTON – This evening, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution honoring the life and legacy of Officer Kerrie Orozco of the Omaha Police Department. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Joni Ernst...
Sen. Chuck Grassley today made the following comment on a U.S. district court judge ruling that the Obama Administration is unconstitutionally spending federal money on Obamacare without approval from Congress.“The Constitution provides for three co-equal branches of government. The court decision affirms the role of the legislative branch....
WASHINGTON – The Senate today passed a bipartisan provision from Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Jeff Merkley to restore funding for wind energy research for fiscal year 2017 to the level provided for the current fiscal year. The measure allocates an additional $15.4 million to wind energy research from within existing research programs at the...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Chuck Grassley, today reported to the full Senate three bipartisan bills to support law enforcement’s use of forensic evidence and expand training for active shooter scenarios.The Rapid DNA Act, S. 2348, would allow law enforcement to utilize new technology to process and index DNA...
Support for the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act continues to grow. Today, during National Police Week, the bill gained endorsements from the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the Major County Sheriffs' Association (MCSA), two of the most influential law-enforcement organizations in the country. IACP is the world’s...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley has introduced legislation to ban packer ownership of livestock after seeing continued consolidation within the livestock industry. “An effective and efficient marketplace is one where packers that control all harvest capacity of the industry do not also own a majority of the animals to be processed,” Grassley...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement after President Obama signed into law the Defend Trade Secrets Act, which Grassley led out of the Judiciary Committee:“Trade Secrets are an increasingly important form of Intellectual Property and play a significant role in driving American innovation....
Progress ReportSenate Judiciary CommitteeChairman Chuck Grassley SummaryUpon becoming Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the start of the 114th Congress, Senator Chuck Grassley pledged that he would strive to be fair while restoring the committee’s role as a “true check on the massive and powerful federal bureaucracy.” In...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and the Caucus on International Narcotics Control, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Co-chairman of the Caucus on International Narcotics Control and a member of the Judiciary Committee, today praised House passage of their bill to help combat transnational drug trafficking. The...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Judiciary Committee and Caucus on International Narcotics Control, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota today introduced a bill that would close a loophole that is jeopardizing U.S. ability to designate individuals as international narcotics traffickers and impose sanctions on...
WASHINGTON – As financial crimes against seniors are on the rise, and America’s senior population continues to grow, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is seeking details on the Justice Department’s efforts to prevent the financial exploitation of America’s elders.
Financial crimes against America’s elders strip them of $2.9 billion per year,...
Here is information about Senator Grassley's schedule this week. The Senate is in session.Senator Grassley will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the Iowa ALS Association; United Egg Producers; Iowa Sister States; the Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association; One Voice Against Cancer; the Iowa Association of Realtors; the Iowa Motor...
WASHINGTON – In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst requested more information from the United States Department of Agriculture regarding the methodology for determining county yields for the Agriculture Risk Coverage or ARC County program.The majority of Iowa corn and soybean farmers signed up for...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Rep. Todd Young (R-Ind.), Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) are leading a bipartisan, bicameral group in urging the IRS and Treasury Department to lift barriers preventing nonprofit student lenders from offering refinancing options for student debt amid the growing student debt problem....
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. Grassley made the following comment on the announcement of a settlement...
Photos from the forum are available here. RED OAK -- Sen. Chuck Grassley today took part in a public forum with National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson including a panel of Iowans advising what taxpayers want and need from the IRS to comply with their tax obligations. “Taxpayers work hard to fulfill their tax obligations,”...
