WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and the group Voice for Adoption are highlighting an Iowa family that expanded through adopting four children from foster care. The Grise family of Bettendorf has a portrait on display in Grassley’s office for this month, National Adoption Month.
“Children in foster care deserve a permanent family,” Grassley said. ...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today said he intends to object to Senate consideration of a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) nominee over the agency’s apparent rush to negotiate new contracts with local housing authorities participating in the Moving to Work demonstration program. Grassley announced his hold on the nomination...
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley made the following statement on the White House’s intent to nominate U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch to be the next Attorney General.
“I congratulate Ms. Lynch on her nomination. Being selected to serve as our nation’s top law enforcement officer is both a tremendous honor and responsibility. As we...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) today called on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to make all possible effort to ensure that Iowa absentee ballots are counted. Specifically, the senators issued a letter to the district managers of the Hawkeye District USPS and the Central Plains District USPS urging them to ensure...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley said today that a contract signed by the federal government during the influx of unaccompanied minors crossing the United States’ southern border raises more questions about the Obama administration’s stewardship of taxpayer dollars.
In a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that spring internships for college-age Iowans are available, and applications are due November 15. 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. The semester-long internship...
WASHINGTON –House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, R-IA, today made the following statement after the Department of Justice’s Inspector General released a report on the conduct of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms...
In a letter to FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, the senators requested the prompt release of the agency’s annual report summarizing agreements where brand-name drug companies pay generic drug companies to delay marketing lower cost generic drugs
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today urged the Federal Trade...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, today made the following comment on a New York Times story describing the IRS’ use of civil asset forfeiture laws to seize the assets of small business owners without suspicion of a crime. A senior member and former chairman and ranking member of the Finance Committee, with...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today noted qualified applicants are eligible to apply for a special internship in the nation’s capital for young people who spent time in foster care. The non-profit Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute sponsors its Foster Youth Internship to place interns in congressional offices for the summer to...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today made the following statement after the media reported that the Obama administration had released perpetrators of serious crimes from immigration facilities prior to removal proceedings. Media reports also claim that the administration is bringing to the United States a...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Wyden today expressed optimism that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whistleblowers may receive better protection under new guidelines outlined in a proposal to President Barack Obama.
In August, Grassley and Wyden asked the President to release a 14-month overdue report on “Protecting Whistleblowers with...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is among a bipartisan group of 15 senators calling on the IRS to do a better job of preventing tax refund fraud using stolen identities.
“This is a chronic problem,” Grassley said. “The IRS should make fixing it a high priority. Identity theft is devastating for victims and when it comes through the IRS, it...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa today asked the federal agencies featured in a critical government audit to account for the hundreds of federal employees on paid leave for a year or more.
“Each agency handles administrative leave on its own terms in the absence of clear guidance that should apply to everyone,” Grassley said. “The...
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following comment after a World Trade Organization (WTO) compliance panel determined that the revised rule released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) violates rules under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
COOL was included in the 2002 farm bill, but was...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today expressed alarm at the findings of a new report, issued at his request, documenting that tens of thousands of federal employees were on paid leave for at least one month and several hundred employees for nine months to three years, over a recent three-year period.
“These employees should be working for...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans are asking President Barack Obama “to immediately cease issuing visas to persons of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, and to consider expanding this ban to other countries that may not have standards in place to properly screen travelers entering the United States.”
In a letter to President Obama, Judiciary...
