Prepared Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOn the upcoming hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett KavanaughAugust 15, 2018VIDEOLast week, I announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court starting on September 4. The hearing...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today wrote to Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Makan Delrahim requesting that the Department of Justice conduct a vigorous review of the proposed mergers of Cigna Corp. with Express Scripts Holding Co., and CVS Health Corp. with Aetna Inc., each of which play significant roles in...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen seeking details on a man and 13 year-old girl who were apprehended by Customs and Border Patrol after illegally crossing the southern border. After the man fraudulently claimed the young girl as his daughter, both were released under...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee released another batch of records from Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s service as a lawyer in the George W. Bush White House. More than 103,000 pages of material from Judge Kavanaugh’s Executive Branch service is now public. That’s in addition to nearly 17,500 pages of material Judge Kavanaugh...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today announced that the hearing for Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States will begin on September 4. Today’s announcement follows the largest cumulative production of Executive Branch material ever received in the course of...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa joined Sen. Joe Donnelly of Indiana and a bipartisan group of 14 other senators to express concern over potential bailout requests to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by countries that have accepted predatory Chinese infrastructure financing. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is releasing five videos, one every day this week, looking back at memorable moments from his annual 99 county meetings and how they have helped inform his work for Iowans. Grassley holds at least one question-and-answer session with Iowans in each of Iowa’s 99 counties annually, and has done so every year...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee last night received another production of documents in the course of its consideration of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. This latest production from the Office of President George W. Bush totals more than 49,000 pages of records relating to Judge...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today began the release of the first production of Judge Kavanaugh’s records from his time as a lawyer in the George W. Bush White House. The rolling production over the next several days is expected to total more than 125,000 pages.The documents were initially produced to the Committee on a...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is releasing five videos, one every day this week, looking back at memorable moments from his annual 99 county meetings and how they have helped inform his work for Iowans. Grassley holds at least one question-and-answer session with Iowans in each of Iowa’s 99 counties annually, and has done so every year...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today released the following statement on the recent report issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) regarding open payments reporting.“Oversight is an essential function of Congress. It promotes transparency and accountability in our federal...
Congressional oversight of health care is essential for a healthy AmericaBy Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa Diligent oversight of the federal government is a priority of mine. It’s imperative that legislators root out waste, fraud, and abuse while holding bureaucrats responsible for the decisions they make when they think no one is watching.At its...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed administration officials on their plan to engage in the statutorily required consultation with Congress on refugee policy. Under current federal law, the administration is required to consult annually...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is releasing five videos, one every day this week, looking back at memorable moments from his annual 99 county meetings and how they have helped inform his work for Iowans. Grassley holds at least one question-and-answer session with Iowans in each of Iowa’s 99 counties annually, and has done so every year...
*Note: Below are excerpts from an op-ed written by Drew Klein in the Des Moines Register.Grassley Stands Up to Obstruction of Kavanaugh’s NominationThe Des Moines RegisterBy Drew KleinIn nominating Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, President Donald Trump could have hardly picked a better nominee. With more than 12 years...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is releasing five videos, one every day this week, looking back at memorable moments from his annual 99 county meetings and how they have helped inform his work for Iowans. Grassley holds at least one question-and-answer session with Iowans in each of Iowa’s 99 counties annually, and has done so every year...
A Moment of Honesty From Chuck SchumerThe Wall Street JournalBy Senator Chuck GrassleyAmericans trust politicians about as much as they trust used-car salesmen, and it’s understandable that voters view what my colleagues and I say and do through a skeptical lens. But elected officials can also exhibit moments of exceeding honesty.On July 10, the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is releasing five videos, one every day this week, looking back at memorable moments from his annual 99 county meetings and how they have helped inform his work for Iowans. Grassley holds at least one question-and-answer session with Iowans in each of Iowa’s 99 counties annually, and has done so every...
Today, Sen. Grassley was presented with the American Wind Energy Association’s “U.S. Wind Champion Award” while holding a Q&A in Everly. You can find the link to his tweet about the event here, his Instagram here, and AWEA’s press release below. Monday, August 6, 2018Contact: Evan Vaughanevaughan@awea.org,...
