WASHINGTON – ?After raising questions about the FBI’s use of Loss of Effectiveness orders, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today expressed guarded support for the Bureau’s recent announcement providing notice and opportunity for response to FBI employees who faced these possible management-directed reassignments....
WASHINGTON – ?Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, requested an independent review of a personnel management practice at the Federal Bureau of Investigation that some agency whistleblowers claim is being used as a means of retaliation and gender discrimination against female employees. Whistleblowers allege that the FBI...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the leaders of the Caucus on International Narcotics Control, today announced the caucus will hold a hearing on the quota system used to manage controlled substances in medicine in light of a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) showing problems in the way the program is...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on government officials’ possible use of private email accounts for government business.
“In 2013, I began looking at federal agencies’ use of the Special Government Employee designation after news reports described the potentially questionable use of the designation for a top aide to...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today attended the joint session of Congress to hear Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Grassley made the following comment on the speech.“The speech was moving and forceful. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s candid assessment of the danger of a nuclear weapons-capable Iran needed to be...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York today re-introduced legislation to improve patient access to podiatrists in Medicaid and improve care for patients with diabetes who need therapeutic shoes via Medicare.“Foot and ankle health is important to individual health,” Grassley said. ...
Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week. The Senate is in session. Senator Grassley has met with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the Iowa State Government of the Student Body and will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the School Nutrition Association of Iowa,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. John Thune of South Dakota are pressing the Energy Department to do a better job of tracking and protecting the intellectual property of inventions developed through Energy Department funding. The senators wrote to the agency after a report from the independent Government Accountability Office (GAO)...
WASHINGTON – ?Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, expressed concerns surrounding claims of widespread fraud and failures in the Department of Justice’s Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention grant program. According to whistleblowers, the Justice Department’s mismanagement and neglect of core grant...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio are asking the Administration to account for the miscalculations that led to wrong information reportedly given to more than half of Americans who received subsidies for health care, causing tax problems for them.
“It is clear that the current methods used to calculate subsidy eligibility...
WASHINGTON—Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter Friday to 72 agencies’ office of the inspector general (OIGs) across the executive branch. The issuance follows a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee...
During a hearing last month, Sen. Chuck Grassley asked IRS Commissioner John Koskinen about the tax consequences of the President’s unilateral action that essentially grants amnesty to five million people in the country illegally, specifically as it relates to their eligibility for the earned income tax credit (EITC). Guidance issued by the IRS in 2000...
WASHINGTON – ?Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, requested an explanation from the Federal Bureau of Investigation director following three notices from the agency’s independent watchdog about being denied access to records. Section 218 of the 2015 Department of Justice Appropriations Act requires the Office of...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley will hold two town meetings in Iowa on Saturday, March 7, as part of his annual 99-county tour. Grassley has held a meeting in each of Iowa’s 99 counties at least once every year since he was first elected to the U.S. Senate. On March 7, Grassley will be in Truro and Norwalk....
WASHINGTON – ?Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today is requesting information from the Department of Homeland Security after it allegedly granted an individual with known gang affiliations deferred deportation under the President’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. That individual, Emmanuel...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that Jacob Michael Orr of Johnston has received an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., for the 2015-2016 school year.Orr is the son of Suzanne and Timothy Orr. Orr will graduate in May from Johnston High School. He participated in cross county, soccer,...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following statement regarding the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons’ recent announcement to expand a pilot program equipping staff at federal prisons with Oleoresin Capsicum spray, commonly known as pepper spray. “The...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced two bills to combat human trafficking in the United States. An amendment by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the committee, was unanimously adopted.“Human trafficking is a terrible atrocity that unfortunately happens every day in this country. It is not limited to the big...
Joined by survivors and advocates, bipartisan group of 12 Senators reintroduces strengthened version of Campus Safety and Accountability Act with added input from survivors, students, colleges and universities, law enforcement, and advocatesWASHINGTON – An expanded bipartisan coalition of 12 Senators – including two newly elected...
