WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley is continuing his inquiry into State Department personnel practices amid newly disclosed emails showing the intersection of official actions and private business involving a top aide who was working for the State Department as a Special Government Employee, an outside firm, Teneo, and the Clinton Foundation at the same time....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is seeking better oversight from the Department of Labor to prevent violence at federally funded Job Corps centers. His inquiry comes amid two murders of Job Corps students in the last four months, one in St. Louis, another in Homestead, Fla., and long-standing disciplinary problems documented by the agency...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn are examining the impact third party litigation financing is having on civil litigation in the United States. In letters to Burford Capital, Bentham IMF and Juridica Investments Ltd., three of the largest commercial litigation financing firms, Grassley and...
WASHINGTON -- Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa today presented military medals to two Plymouth County veterans. He presented World War II victory medals to John Hart of Le Mars and Robert L. Taylor of Westfield. The medals were presented before Grassley’s town hall meeting at Floyd Valley Hospital, which both men attended unaware they were...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is continuing his efforts to learn more about the process that allowed top secret classified information to be sent on unsecure communication lines and the subsequent possession of this classified material on...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is encouraging Iowans interested in attending the outdoor simulcast of Pope Francis’ address to Congress on Thursday, Sept. 24, to contact his office for tickets. Grassley will receive 200 tickets for the simulcast on the West Front grounds of the U.S. Capitol. “It’s an historic event, and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today raised concerns that the process for vetting emails for Freedom of Information Act requests at the State Department may be compromised. In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Grassley asked about a dispute between State Department...
WASHINGTON – Reiterating concerns about national security information being properly secured from foreign governments and other entities, Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is asking Hillary Clinton’s private attorney, David Kendall, about his security...
WASHINGTON – Members of the Senate and House of Representatives are pressing the Obama administration to provide and commit to particular legislative language that would ensure that inspectors general receive unfettered access to all agency documents, as current law intends. The letter, sent to Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and Justice Department...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte today are seeking details on what federal immigration officials knew of an undocumented immigrant who recently admitted to strangling a female co-worker and burning her body.
According to media reports, Juan Jimenez-Olivera pled guilty...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the 80th anniversary of Social Security. Grassley is the former chairman and a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, which has legislative and oversight jurisdiction of Social Security.“Generations of Americans have been protected against poverty, thanks in large part to...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement after the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) announcement that it was providing more guidance for businesses under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. Section 5 provides authority for the FTC to enforce “unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or...
WASHINGTON – Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Bob Corker of Tennessee, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report highlights the lack of rigorous oversight of the EB-5 regional center program, specifically how the agency fails to analyze risks,...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today made the following statement regarding reports that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has turned over her private email server and thumb drives containing copies of emails that were stored on the server to the Justice Department:"It's a welcome development, but...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement after the Intelligence Community Inspector General delivered to Congress an update on the classified emails that were found in its limited review of the official documents provided by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after her personal analysis of the...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on China’s latest devaluation of its currency. Grassley has long supported action to address China’s long-standing currency manipulation, as the manipulation harms the ability of U.S. farmers and manufacturers to reach the Chinese market. “China has manipulated its...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is seeking details on the immigration and criminal background of an alleged murderer and why he was never deported following prior arrests or convictions.
Just five days after being released from custody following a firearm-related conviction, Victor Aureliano Martinez Ramirez allegedly raped,...
Approx. 34,000 Cubans Remain At Large in U.S. Despite Final Removal Orders
WASHINGTON – The Obama Administration failed to leverage recent negotiations with Cuba to require the regime to cooperate with U.S. deportation efforts in exchange for stronger diplomatic ties. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is calling on the administration...
