WASHINGTON – In a hearing today before the Senate Agriculture Committee, Senator Chuck Grassley urged U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to use his authority to make changes to stop the abuse of the farm program which enables 10 percent of the wealthiest farmers to receive 70 percent of the benefit from the farm program.
Grassley asked Agriculture...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the House of Representatives’ creation of a select committee to look into the attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.
“I support the House of Representatives’ creation of a select committee to look into Benghazi. I’m a co-sponsor of S. Res. 225, a resolution...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaFor the RecordRanking Member, Senate Judiciary CommitteeProposed Rule Extending Employment Authorizationsto Spouses of Certain H-1B Workers
Today, the Departments of Homeland Security and Commerce announced a proposed rule change that would extend employment authorizations to spouses of certain...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today released internal Department of Homeland Security emails discussing an alleged terrorist “hands off” list allowing individuals with potential terrorist ties into the United States. The emails were attached to a letter he sent to the Department...
WASHINGTON – Members of Congress are pressing the Peace Corps to cooperate with the agency’s inspector general so the office can appropriately respond to reports of sexual assault.
The members’ concerns come from a January congressional hearing where the Peace Corps Inspector General detailed difficulties she has...
Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week. The Senate is in session. Senator Grassley will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the Iowa Hospital Association, the Iowa Library Association, the Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives, the Iowa Society of Anesthesiologists, the National Breast Cancer Coalition,...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee
Nominations of Nancy L. Moritz to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the 10th Circuit
Mr. President,
Tonight we will vote on the nomination of Justice Moritz, a nominee for the Tenth Circuit. During her legal career, Justice Moritz handled a wide variety of...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaRanking Member, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOn the nomination of Theodore David Chuang,to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Maryland
Mr. President,I’d like to speak for a few minutes on the nomination of Theodore Chuang to be District Judge in the District of Maryland.
I’ll oppose the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa continues to press Northwestern University on whether the university withheld key documents in an earlier inquiry into whether a cardiologist used an unapproved heart-valve repair device on patients without their proper consent. “Moreover, the … documents which you belatedly disclosed bear directly on...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley and Lamar Alexander today are pressing the Assistant Secretary of Labor charged with overseeing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration about reforms to the Labor Department’s whistleblower protection program.
In a letter to Assistant Secretary David Michaels, the senators are questioning why...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is asking the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to continue to explain how underage victims are treated once they are rescued from forced prostitution as he works to gauge whether additional protections are needed, including how to protect foster care minors from exploitation. ...
Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week. The Senate is in session. Senator Grassley will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, Iowa Wholesale Beer Distributors, the Family Planning Council of Iowa, the Iowa Restaurant...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte today pressed the Department of Homeland Security for additional information about El Medhi Semlali Fathi who, before his recent arrest, the FBI alleges to have been planning a bomb attack on a school and a...
WASHINGTON – In a letter to President Barack Obama, 22 United States senators questioned a new “enforcement review” ordered by President Obama after he met with advocacy groups that reportedly will further limit deportations of individuals in the country illegally. The senators said...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following comment after the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community released a report on how the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) reports crimes following polygraph examinations.
Grassley requested the NRO Inspector General look into the allegations first revealed...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is asking the IRS to account for an inadequate fraud detection system and delays in implementing a new system.
“Identity theft to commit tax fraud is already a $5 billion per year problem,” Grassley said. “The IRS puts taxpayers at risk for fraud in using...
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley made the following comment after the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Obama administration must release a redacted version of its Office of Legal Counsel analysis giving the legal authority for the targeted killing of American citizens. Grassley first asked for the legal rationale in...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy asking about the administration’s new methane reduction plan released by the President on March 28.
The plan calls on the Department of Agriculture, the EPA, and the Department of Energy to outline a biogas roadmap intended to reduce dairy...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is urging Congolese leaders to process the pending adoptions of hundreds of children to U.S. parents. The Congolese government unexpectedly suspended the exit permits needed to finalize pending adoptions, leaving many children and adoptive families in limbo.
“The families went through the proper channels, then...
