WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today reinforced important protections for federal workers who call attention to failures or wrongdoing in the government. The Court ruled in a 7-2 decision in Department of Homeland Security v. MacLean that disclosures by federal whistleblowers are protected under the Whistleblower Protection Act unless the...
Statement for the Record of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Committee on the JudiciaryHearing on the Nominations of: Michelle K. Lee, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark OfficeDaniel Henry Marti, to be Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator,...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa tonight made the following statement in reaction to the President’s State of the Union address and Sen. Joni Ernst’s response. Grassley is chairman of the Judiciary Committee and a senior member and former chairman and ranking member of the Finance Committee, with jurisdiction over taxes. “The...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Al Franken of Minnesota have introduced legislation that would reverse a Supreme Court ruling (Hall v. United States) that makes it harder for family farmers to reorganize their finances when they fall on hard times.The bill is expected to be referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee where Grassley is...
Washington – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa announced today that the hearing for Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch will be held on Jan. 28 and 29. The first day will consist...
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today announced it would be largely ending the practice of adoption and equitable sharing of assets seized by state and local law enforcement following concerns recently raised by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and three other members of Congress.“While asset...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today asked CoOportunity Health and state officials to retain all relevant records as he works to understand the federal government’s role in the co-op’s collapse.
“CoOportunity’s failure affects thousands of Iowans and Nebraskans,” Grassley said. “It’s unclear why the federal government didn’t appear to...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today expressed concern and requested information about impending changes to the federal government’s No Fly List. “All Americans...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has been named a co-chair of a bipartisan tax reform working group that will focus on individual taxes. The working group is one of five such groups named by the leaders of the committee with jurisdiction over taxes.“The tax code is too complex,” Grassley said. “Taxpayers...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs regarding a string of allegations that its Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention knowingly awarded federal grants to states that incarcerated runaway youth, foster youth, and other...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is asking the federal agency responsible for implementing the health care co-ops created under the President’s health care law to explain its role in the collapse of Iowa’s co-op, CoOportunity.
“I am extremely concerned about the thousands of Iowans who are impacted by CoOportunity’s failure, in particular CMS’s role...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a senior member of the Budget Committee, is an original co-sponsor of legislation introduced today to reform Congress’ broken budgeting process. The bipartisan Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act would convert Congress’ annual appropriations process to a two-year budget cycle, with one year for...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is expressing concern that a core presidential power is reportedly being “outsourced” to four advocacy organizations that are reviewing clemency applications....
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the Proposed Waters of the United States RuleTuesday, January 13, 2015Video can be found here.Last Spring, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers published a proposed rule to define the “Waters of the United States”. This is part of a long history of attempts to determine the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Mike Lee, along with House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers and Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner, today raised concerns that the federal government is not fairly using the process for seizing assets through the Civil Asset Forfeiture Program. The members...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is again pressing for public disclosure of Department of Justice documents analyzing the constitutionality and lawfulness of President Obama’s executive actions. Grassley wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder that unilateral executive action threatens the Constitution’s separation of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein are expressing concern that the Obama Administration’s approaches on illicit drug control might damage U.S. standing worldwide and undermine U.S. international obligations.
“These approaches threaten to weaken U.S. standing as an international leader on drug control issues and may undermine the...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is an original co-sponsor of legislation introduced this week to provide an incentive for employers to hire long-term unemployed Americans by permanently exempting those employees from the government-mandated Obamacare employee count.“The number of people who are unemployed and have stopped looking for...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley today officially became the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee for the 114th Congress. Grassley, Iowa’s senior U.S. Senator, is the first non-lawyer to head the panel. Judiciary Committee Republicans voted yesterday for Chairman. The results were then ratified today during a...
