Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOn the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery ActThursday, March 03, 2016I come to the floor this morning because of the important subject that's before us. The bill that deals with the opioid epidemic and the follow-on heroin problem. A bill that was reported out of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today introduced legislation that would make sure Medicaid programs give beneficiaries an updated list of participating doctors.“In some states, there are no directories of participating doctors at all. In others, there are out of date directories that include deceased doctors and doctors who aren’t...
WASHINGTON – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today pressed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson on his department’s policy that allowed three unlawful, criminal immigrants charged with drunk driving go free.
On February 24, 2016, Esmid Valentine...
Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteePoliticizing the CourtWednesday, March 2, 2016Mr. President, by now everyone is pretty familiar with the Biden Rules. I won’t take the time to go over all of them again, but they boil down to a couple basic points.First, the President should exercise restraint, and...
The Senate tonight passed a resolution from Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Joni Ernst “congratulating the community colleges of Iowa for 50 years of outstanding service to the State of Iowa, the United States, and the world.” Grassley made the following comment on the resolution, which lists each community college, dating from 1966.
“Iowa’s...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that Emma Lauren Baller of Sioux City has received an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., for the 2016-2017 school year. Baller is the daughter of Gretchen and Ryan Baller. Baller will graduate in May from Sioux City North High School. She has...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is voicing concerns that new, brazen attempts to circumvent the H-1B laws seem to have the unofficial blessing of the Obama administration. According to recent press reports, there is a growing movement by some U.S. employers and institutions to “hack” the H-1B visa program in order to open...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today said he welcomes a Government Accountability Office (GAO) review of the Department of Labor’s oversight of the financially troubled Central States pension fund. The GAO agreed to conduct the review at Grassley’s request. The Finance Committee, where Grassley is a senior member and former chairman,...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement after a meeting with President Obama about the Supreme Court vacancy and other issues before the Senate, including the opioid epidemic that is devastating communities across the country, criminal justice reform and Puerto Rico. “The American people deserve the right to...
Video can be found here. Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeThe Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery ActMonday, February 29, 2016Mr. President, an historic epidemic of drug overdose deaths is gripping our country. Over 47,000 Americans died from overdoses in 2014, an all-time high....
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 City, Coralville, North Liberty Chamber of Commerce; the Iowa Food Bank Association; Iowa Veterans of Foreign Wars; the Shot@Life Campaign; the American Academy of Neurology;...
Prepared Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeThe Supreme Court: What’s at Stake in this Presidential Election?February 29, 2016Mr. President, it’s another day, and another tantrum from the Minority Leader. But it doesn’t matter how much he jumps up and down, and stomps his feet, we...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today welcomed the latest support for his bipartisan, bicameral bill to give small businesses relief from onerous penalties under the President’s health care law if they continue to help their employees with health care costs. The number of organizations and small businesses that support his Small Business...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus, now approaching its second year, is adding two new members: Senators Joni Ernst of Iowa and Gary Peters of Michigan. The bipartisan caucus focuses on raising awareness of the important role whistleblowers play in bringing about accountability in government and the workplace, and the need to...
Video can be found here. Floor Statement of Senator Chuck GrassleyCan Farmers Trust the EPA with Even More Power?Delivered Thursday, February 25, 2016Mr. President, I rise for the purpose of showing how one bureaucracy, the Corp of Engineers, and to some extent the EPA working with them has already made farming very difficult, and how if the Waters of...
‘We look forward to reiterating to him directly that the American people will be heard and the next Supreme Court justice will be determined once the elections are complete’WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Chuck Grassley, released the following statement...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary Committee“Biden Malarkey”Thursday, February 25, 2016 Mr. President, yesterday the minority leader came to the floor to disparage the work of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate as a whole. And of course, as he does from time to time, he...
WASHINGTON — As child-welfare agencies across the country are overwhelmed with children in need of services due to increased opiate abuse, Congressman Todd Young (R-IN) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the Modernizing the Interstate Placement of Children in Foster Care Act to address this nationwide crisis:“Thousands of children in my...
