WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today released the following statement regarding a Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report publicly released March 6, 2019 that Grassley originally received on February 13, 2019 under restricted status.The report found that “NIH did not...
Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, U.S. Senate Finance CommitteeOn Tax Filing SeasonThursday, March 7, 2019 Mr. President, We are now in our sixth week of the tax filing season. Over 50 million Americans have filed their tax returns. As in previous weeks, the IRS is moving forward in the filing season at a pace...
WASHINGTON – Former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley joined Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) in reintroducing the Inspector General Access Act of 2019 to expand the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General to include alleged DOJ attorney misconduct. The bill is also cosponsored by Lisa Murkowski...
Statement by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the Green New DealWednesday, March 6, 2019VIDEO Mr. President, I appreciate Senator Ernst for organizing this opportunity to discuss the Green New Deal this week. To put it mildly the Green New Deal is ambitious. To frame it more accurately, it is an unworkable pie-in-the-sky attempt to...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, president pro tempore, and Ron Wyden of Oregon sent an informational memo to their colleagues of the new Congress regarding the Senate’s requirements for the disclosure of holds on nominations or legislation. The requirements were adopted in 2011 by a bipartisan resolution brought to the Senate floor by...
Opening Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance“Not Forgotten: Protecting Older Americans from Abuse and Neglect in Nursing Homes”Wednesday, March 6, 2019VIDEO Good morning. I want to welcome everyone to our hearing on an extremely important topic, elder abuse, and thank our witnesses for joining...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and former Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) called on the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general to investigate reports of sexual abuse against unaccompanied minors in HHS facilities. “We respectfully request that you open an investigation...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today announced that the committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, March 12, 2019 with testimony from U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer assessing the current state of the World Trade Organization (WTO) nearly 25 years after its creation and potential reforms that would...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today joined Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Member of the Senate Committee on Finance in sending a bipartisan, bicameral
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WASHINGTON – Patricia Blank of Shell Rock, Iowa, will testify Wednesday at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on protecting Americans from abuse and neglect in nursing homes. Blank’s mother, Virginia Olthoff, was allegedly left in severe pain and may not have had any water for days before her death while in the care of a nursing home. That...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is calling on the Treasury Department to explain why it omitted bank records sought in a congressional inquiry into Russian influence that were later leaked to the news media. Grassley also wants to know what steps the IRS is taking to hold accountable an employee who leaked sensitive banking...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley earned the top spot as the “most effective lawmaker” in the U.S. Senate for the 115th Congress, according to a non-partisan analysis conducted by the Center for Effective Lawmaking. “Iowans expect their elected representatives to work hard and represent the interests of our great state here in...
Q & A: Electronic Health RecordsWith U.S. Senator Chuck GrassleyQ: What are your concerns with the federal Electronic Health Records program?A: As a taxpayer watchdog, I pursue waste, fraud and abuse wherever and whenever I get a whiff of wrongdoing or mismanagement. Congress holds the power of the purse strings. It is our constitutional responsibility...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley praised the decision announced today by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide relief with respect to the March 1 deadline for farmers and fishermen who chose to forgo making quarterly estimated tax payments in 2018. After hearing from farmers, tax return preparers and the Iowa State...
WASHINGTON – Former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and others to introduce Singh’s Law, legislation that would bar foreign nationals associated with a criminal gang and convicted of a crime from entering the United States. Foreign nationals with gang associations also...
For Immediate Release
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Paul, Grassley Introduce Fuel Choice and Deregulation Act of 2019
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Chuck Grassley of Iowa introduced the Fuel Choice and Deregulation Act of 2019 (S.581), legislation that would remove burdensome regulations on domestic...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement on the Senate confirmation of Michael J. Desmond to be Chief Counsel for the IRS and Assistant General Counsel for the Treasury Department. Yesterday, 84 senators voted to invoke cloture, and Desmond was confirmed today 83 to 15.“Mr. Desmond will...
Prepared Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeOn Tax Filing SeasonWednesday, February 27, 2019VIDEO Mr. President, We’re now in the fifth week of the tax filing season. Based on all reports from the IRS, the filing season is running smoothly. All systems are operating as expected, returns are...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Maria Cantwell of Washington led a bipartisan group of 12 senators in writing to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross questioning the Administration’s changed circumstances review of antidumping and countervailing duty orders that were imposed only months prior on imports of certain...
