Senators Ask EPA To Reconsider FOIA Rule Or Provide Sufficient Opportunity For Public Comment And Transition Period
WASHINGTON – Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and John Cornyn (R-Texas) – all senior members of the Senate Judiciary Committee with exclusive jurisdiction over the Freedom of Information...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today released the following statement on the Justice Department’s progress toward implementing the landmark criminal justice reforms in the First Step Act. Grassley and Durbin coauthored the First Step Act and led the charge to pass it last year with a broad bipartisan vote of...
Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) continued the bipartisan committee investigation into syndicated conservation easements by seeking information about Claud Clark III, an alleged participant in possibly overvalued appraisals that may have led to unjustified tax breaks for...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is seeking details on the immigration history of Marvin Oswaldo Esquivel Lopez, who allegedly murdered Rossibeth Flores Rodriguez and her two children in Des Moines, Iowa on Tuesday. Esquivel Lopez was previously deported from the United States in 2010 and 2011, according to Immigration and Customs...
Legislation targets terrorists, tax cheats, cartels & crooks
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today passed bipartisan legislation led by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) modernizing and strengthening criminal laws against money laundering – a critical source of funding for terrorist organizations, drug cartels and other organized crime...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) and a bipartisan group of senators in calling on the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to make a list of all federal programs publicly available on a central government-wide website in order to...
Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) creates a partnership between Congress and the administration to ensure that trade deals prioritize American interests. When a trade agreement meets U.S. objectives and Congress is sufficiently consulted, the administration can submit a bill to implement the agreement to Congress for an up-or-down vote or “fast...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Passing USMCA and Iowa AgricultureThursday, July 18, 2019VIDEO With record rainfalls and Chinese tariffs, our farmers are hurting, but we can give them some certainty by passing USMCA. In my home state, 86,500 Iowans depend on agricultural exports to Canada and Mexico, adding 10.3...
Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeAt the Washington International Trade Association Awards DinnerWednesday, July 17, 2019 I am truly honored to be recognized by WITA. Thank you. This is my second time being honored. I hope though that I don’t have to wait another 18 years to make an...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Senators James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) to introduce the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, which seeks to provide justice for US victims of international terrorism while promoting the important security cooperation among US, Israeli, and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with several committee Republicans, sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar seeking information on how much Puerto Rico receives in Medicaid funding, what processes, if any, are in place to reduce waste, fraud and abuse of federal dollars...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Anti-Counterfeiting Consumer Education and Awareness MonthWednesday, July 17, 2019VIDEO In honor of Anti-Counterfeiting Consumer Education and Awareness Month, I would like to highlight the problem of counterfeits sold online. Counterfeiters are increasingly turning to e-commerce to...
Prepared Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeOn the Importance of Passing USMCATuesday, July 16, 2019VIDEO American farmers, workers and businesses stand to benefit greatly from the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. This successor trade agreement to NAFTA will allow for more market access for...
Grassley Statement on Withdrawal of HHS Rebate Rule“It’s Time for Congress to Legislate” Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statement regarding the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) withdrawal of its proposed “rebate...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman of the Senate Finance CommitteeOn Tax Treaties and ProtocolsTuesday, July 16, 2019VIDEO I rise today to express my support for passage of the resolutions of advice and consent that the Senate is considering this week with respect to the protocols to our tax treaties with Spain,...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenior Member and Former Chairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOn Critical Regulatory Reforms to the EB-5 Investor Visa ProgramTuesday, July 16, 2019VIDEO I want to talk today about the deeply flawed EB-5 green card program. Several weeks ago, we learned that the Office of Management and Budget...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 MissionTuesday, July 16, 2019VIDEO July 20th marks 50 years since Neil Armstrong took, “one small step for man” and for the first time in human history, walked on the moon. The Apollo missions should be remembered for generations to...
Opening Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeHearing on the President’s 2019 Trade Policy Agenda and the United States-Mexico-Canada AgreementTuesday, June 18, 2019VIDEO I am pleased to welcome our witness, Ambassador Lighthizer, and thank him for being here. We have been eager to have you before the committee...
Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman of the Senate Finance CommitteeSwearing-In Ceremony for the Honorable Andrew Saul, Commissioner of Social SecurityMonday, July 15, 2019 The first Commissioner of Social Security began his tenure on July 16, 1946. Today, a day shy of 73 years later, I’d like to introduce...
