Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has pressed federal and state agencies on their extremely poor performance of managing the Hardest Hit Fund (HHF), a $9.6 billion program that began in 2010 to help homeowners who suffered during the housing crisis. The problems persisted for many years of the Obama Administration, and the need for accountability...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst today forwarded to the President recommendations of four highly qualified Iowa lawyers to fill a federal district court vacancy in the Northern District of Iowa in Cedar Rapids.The Iowans recommended are Lisa A. Stephenson, a corporate legal officer in Cedar Rapids; Ian K. Thornhill, a state...
WASHINGTON – In light of revelations that Christopher Steele pushed dossier allegations to British intelligence last year, in addition to working with Fusion GPS, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley pressed the FBI to explain what steps it took to determine whether the underlying source of any foreign intelligence used in the FBI’s Russia...
WASHINGTON -- In a report earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recommended that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) work to add device identifiers (DIs) to Medicare claims in order to better track faulty devices. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chuck Grassley...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and a bipartisan group of 35 other senators, sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt calling for a strong Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) as the agency works toward finalizing its rule on biofuels volume...
Statement of U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaNomination Hearing for the Honorable William M. Northey, Iowa Secretary of AgricultureUnder Secretary of Agriculture for Farm Production and ConservationU.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and ForestryThursday, October 5, 2017VIDEO Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is my honor to introduce Bill...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) penned an op-ed as a bipartisan coalition of senators reintroduced the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act. The bill, which received broad bipartisan support last Congress, gives judges greater sentencing flexibility for nonviolent...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators today reintroduced the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2017 to recalibrate prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, target violent and career criminals and save taxpayer dollars. The legislation permits more judicial discretion at sentencing for offenders with minimal criminal histories and...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is a senior member of the Finance Committee, which today voted to re-authorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for five years. The committee approved the Keep Kids’ Insurance Dependable and Secure (KIDS) Act of 2017 on a bipartisan voice vote. Grassley made the following comment on the...
WASHINGTON – Bipartisan
legislation stepping up enforcement against perpetrators of crimes targeting senior citizens is headed to the President’s desk to be signed into law. The
Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017, originally introduced and championed by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Richard...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte urged the administration to put American victims of terrorism first by securing a binding commitment from Sudan to compensate for its historical support of international terrorism that has killed and injured Americans serving...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will complete his annual 99 county meetings in Iowa on October 9 by holding a town meeting in Boone County. “Representative government is a two-way street. I’m one half of the process and the people of Iowa are the other half. You can’t have representative government without...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today pressed the Treasury Department on why it has recovered only one percent -- $113,592 of $11 million – wasted on restaurant meals, employee gifts and a $500 per month company Mercedes from the Hardest Hit Fund (HHF), a program meant to help homeowners who suffered during the housing crisis. ...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following comment on the resignation of Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. Earlier this week, Grassley urged President Trump to reiterate the importance of top officials’ holding down travel costs. “Those who work for the taxpayers...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today urged President Trump to curb cabinet secretaries’ expensive travel amid news reports of such travel by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Grassley also asked for details of the steps the Administration is taking to...
As chairman of the Finance Committee, with exclusive Senate jurisdiction over taxes, Sen. Chuck Grassley led through Congress $2 trillion in bipartisan tax relief, leaving more money in workers’ pockets, reducing tax rates across the board, and spurring economic growth and activity. Congress later made permanent the vast majority of the...
WASHINGTON – Leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee today expressed frustration with the little notice and lack of engagement from the State Department ahead of a legally-required annual consultation with Congress on the number of refugees to be admitted in the upcoming year. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and the leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), have introduced a bill empowering whistleblower protection coordinators in federal inspector general...
Video of Sen. Grassley’s floor speech delivery is available here.Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck GrassleyEPA Disappoints in Fulfilling Promises on BiofuelsMr. President, as my colleagues know well, I’ve championed renewable energy and biofuels for a long time. I’ve worked hard to enact policies to encourage the growth of renewable...
