Sen. Chuck Grassley today made the following statement on the parameters toward a final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program.“A final agreement that would guarantee that Iran cannot develop a nuclear weapon would be cause for celebration, but we don’t have that today. We have what the White House calls parameters toward a final...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today praised a recent Office of Special Counsel (OSC) announcement that the Bureau of Prisons has reversed plans to retaliate against a whistleblower who exposed waste and wrongdoing. The bureau’s decision comes after inquiries were made by Grassley and the OSC...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee today released the following statement about the Justice Department’s new policy regarding the use of asset forfeiture in connection with structuring offenses.“I’ve long expressed concern about structuring being the basis for civil asset...
WASHINGTON – Members of the ?Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest are investigating potential workplace retaliation against Department of Homeland Security employees for faithfully discharging the duties of the office in which they serve even though they conflict with President Obama’s immigration policies. The...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last week introduced the Fuel Choice and Deregulation Act of 2015. This legislation will remove Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) impediments to market competition and innovation in America’s transportation fuel market. “The EPA’s onerous...
WASHINGTON-- Sen. Chuck Grassley today presented the Prisoner of War (POW) Medal to Mr. Raymond Pearl Cooper, of Goldfield in Wright County. Grassley will also be presenting the Silver Star to Mrs. Ruth Wunsch of Allison in Butler County on behalf of her husband, the late Mr. Walter H. Wunsch, on Saturday.Grassley presented Cooper with the POW Medal on...
WASHINGTON-- Sen. Chuck Grassley will be presenting two military medals during the week of March 29, 2015. He will present the Prisoner of War (POW) Medal to Mr. Raymond Pearl Cooper, of Goldfield in Wright County, and the Silver Star to Mrs. Ruth Wunsch on behalf of her husband, the late Mr. Walter H. Wunsch, of Allison in Butler County.Grassley will...
Congressional Record Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary Committee“Sunshine Week and Government Transparency”Mr. President, last week marked the tenth anniversary of Sunshine Week, an initiative that’s become a nation-wide effort to promote openness and transparency in government. As Justice Brandeis...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Mike Lee of Utah today called on the Justice Department to investigate allegations of misconduct by federal prosecutors in cases related to the 2007 Moonlight Fire in California. The officials in question allegedly failed to provide relevant information in the...
WASHINGTON – Following the 9/11 Review Commission’s findings of inadequacies in the intelligence operations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and related whistleblower complaints, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is asking the Justice Department’s Inspector General (IG) to investigate claims of nepotism...
WASHINGTON – ?Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today called on the Justice Department to adopt a zero-tolerance policy for employees who purchase sex following an Inspector General report revealing that Drug Enforcement Administration employees attended “sex parties” with prostitutes while abroad.
In a...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Judiciary Committee and the Caucus on International Narcotics Control, today made the following comment on the new initiative from Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell on opioid abuse.
“The agency’s approach shares some of the best practices that have come forward to...
WASHINGTON – ?Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today called on Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to hold the department’s deputy secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, accountable for granting favoritism to politically connected parties. Grassley’s comments follow an Inspector General report indicating that Mayorkas...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after an Office of Inspector General report was made public on the conduct of Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The report focuses on Mayorkas’ alleged special treatment given to certain petitioners of EB-5 regional...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa today congratulated Christopher Self, a senior at Aplington-Parkersburg High School, for winning third prize in C-SPAN’s 2015 StudentCam competition. In this national competition, over 2,000 videos were submitted from almost 5,000 students across 45 states and Washington, D.C.“It’s...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today encouraged state treasurers to explain the merits of the Section 529 college savings plans that are so popular nationwide. State treasurers generally administer the plans. Grassley has a pending bipartisan bill that would add flexibility to these college spending plans. “I encourage...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has been named a member of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, joining other members of Congress and child welfare advocates to advise the institute on policy efforts to help children.“I’m glad to work with an organization that does so much to help children...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is a long-time watchdog of Defense Department spending, including fixing the broken accounting system within the agency. He released a report on the accounting problems in November 2013. When he met with now-confirmed Defense Secretary Ashton Carter as a nominee, Grassley emphasized the need to fix the accounting...
WASHINGTON—Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa intends to submit questions to the panelists who testified in front of a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing today regarding the Waters of the United States Rule (WOTUS.) The hearing included ten witnesses who testified about the proposed rule and its potential effects on them. Particularly, he plans to ask...
WASHINGTON – ?Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is calling on the FBI to disclose how it spends fees collected from fingerprint based Criminal History Record Information checks. The FBI currently does not report which portion of the fee is used to cover the program’s expenses, and which portion is used for other...
