WASHINGTON – The Obama Administration is placing some unaccompanied children who arrived in the United States with sponsors before completing necessary background checks intended to prevent children from being placed with child abusers. In the six months following September 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services approved 730 waivers for...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and senior committee member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, today released comments from the health care and patient community in response to the policy questions raised in their report, “The Price of Sovaldi and Its Impact on the U.S. Health Care System,” released on December 1, 2015. The...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley marshaled the bipartisan Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act to final passage today. The bill, which combats the rising heroin and opioid epidemic, passed in the Judiciary Committee without opposition in February. The bill passed the full Senate today by a vote of 94-1....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley has co-sponsored two bipartisan bills to improve services to veterans, one to reduce the appeals backlog for services through the Veterans Benefits Administration and another to help with suicide prevention among female veterans. “When it comes to services for veterans, there are always ways to do things...
WASHINGTON—Senator Chuck Grassley on Friday will present a certificate to Garrett Dunn of State Center who received and accepted a nomination to the United States Military Academy at West Point for the 2016-2017 school year.Dunn is the son of Annette Bachman-Dunn and Mark Dunn of State Center. He will graduate in May from West Marshall High...
WASHINGTON – United States Senators Ron Johnson, Claire McCaskill, Chuck Grassley, Joni Ernst, Tammy Baldwin, Tom Carper, John Cornyn, James Lankford, Susan Collins, Kelly Ayotte, Mark Kirk, and Barbara Mikulski filed a bipartisan
substitute amendment to S. 579, the Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2015. The new language includes a provision addressing...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have asked top Department of Health and Human Services officials for a progress report on their work to add the unique device identifier (UDI) for medical devices to medical claims forms. The senators noted that Congress has supported establishing the UDI system...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley ranks fifth in the Senate in a new bipartisan index of how much senators work across party lines on bill sponsorship and co-sponsorship. The rankings for 2015 are from the Lugar Center, led by former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.“Controversy gets...
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 Cedar Rapids City Council; the Congressional Leadership Conference; Iowa TRiO; the International Women’s Day Conference; the Educational Theater Association; the Iowa Talented...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has joined the Senate Career and Technical Education Caucus, focused on making sure students have the technical skills needed to succeed in highly specialized workplaces.“I met with several Iowa students who asked me to join the caucus,” Grassley said. “They emphasized the important point...
The following is a list of 36 significant Supreme Court and Court of Appeals rulings rejecting legal positions of the Obama Administration that sought to advance the President’s power or the power of federal agencies or departments. 1) NLRB v. Noel Canning -- Supreme Court ruled that because under the Recess Appointments...
Senator Chuck Grassley issued the following comment today regarding Nancy Reagan. "Nancy Reagan championed families, faith and America. She helped make President Reagan successful, and her crusade to 'Just Say No' to illicit drugs and all the devastation they brought to families triggered a very important national discussion. ...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today praised recent progress from the Congolese government in processing the legal adoptions of children by American families and asked for continued review of the remaining adoptions that remain in limbo.
“But while Members of Congress are greatly encouraged and grateful for the progress made, we cannot forget about...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that summer internships for college-age Iowans are available, and applications are due March 18. Internships are available in Grassley’s Washington, D.C., office as well as his offices in Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo. During the summer there are...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that Sidney Jo Alsager of Jewell has received an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., for the 2016-2017 school year. Alsager is the daughter of Stacy and Jerry Alsager. She will graduate in May from South Hamilton High School in Jewell. Alsager has...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley has asked the head of the U.S. Army Medical Command to address the alleged reprisal against a whistleblower suspected of raising concerns about the safety of laboratory employees working with pathogens such as anthrax, plague and Ebola. Grassley also sought a description of the steps the Army Medical Command (MEDCOM)...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement on the Supreme Court vacancy, the Nuclear Option and the Bork/Kennedy episode in response to the Democrats’ attempt to hijack the bipartisan Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act with political maneuvering on the Supreme Court vacancy.“We’ve...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson are asking for details of the reported immunity agreement reached between the Justice Department and former State Department employee Bryan Pagliano, who managed then-Secretary Clinton’s personal email server.
“From the...
Grassley, Lee: Abuse of Authority Creates Pathway to U.S. Citizenship
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Senator Mike Lee of Utah are seeking details on an Obama Administration practice that puts individuals in the country illegally on a pathway to citizenship. The scheme allows those granted deferred...
