Sen. Chuck Grassley today made the following comment on the EPA’s Notice of Data Availability (NODA) to provide public notice and an opportunity to comment on potential reductions in the 2018 biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel volumes, and/or the 2019 biomass-based diesel volume under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is urging Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis to review which employees were responsible for wasting at least $64.8 million on a plane intended for counter-narcotics work in Afghanistan that never flew a single such mission and now is to be sold at auction. Grassley called the plane a “hangar queen” and a prime example of...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has asked the FBI whether it ever briefed or warned Trump campaign officials about alleged attempts by the Russian government to infiltrate the campaign.The FBI has reportedly given “defensive briefings” during previous presidential campaigns to warn candidates and campaign...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is pressing the federal agency that oversees health accrediting organizations to describe all statutory and other barriers that prevent the public release of hospital inspection reports. Grassley’s inquiry comes after investigative news reports concluded that the top accrediting organization, the Joint Commission,...
WASHINGTON – The bipartisan authors of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act are preparing to reintroduce their comprehensive legislation to review prison sentences for certain nonviolent drug offenders, reduce recidivism, and save taxpayer dollars. The legislation, led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Democratic...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio today introduced bipartisan legislation to re-authorize the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program. The...
The bipartisan amendment will help protect more than 6,000 jobs at the Rock Island ArsenalWASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), along with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), filed a bipartisan amendment, which was included in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA),...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today led a bipartisan group of senators, including Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.),...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate today confirmed by a unanimous, bipartisan voice vote the nominations of Peter Deegan, Jr. and Marc Krickbaum to be U.S. Attorneys for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa, respectively, the final step in the confirmation process before being sworn into office. The nominations were previously reported out of the...
Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck GrassleyDelivered Tuesday, September 12, 2017Mr. President, I come to the floor today to question the plan for auditing the Department of Defense (DoD).The new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Mr. David Norquist, presented a plan to the Armed Services Committee on May 9th. It appears flawed like all the others.The department may be...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today is seeking answers about the wasteful and potentially unlawful spending by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) of money recovered from criminal investigations or civil asset forfeitures. He is also inquiring about misleading representations provided to Congress regarding that spending based...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate last night unanimously passed a bipartisan bill to aid in the fight against human trafficking. The
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2017, authored by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and cosponsored by Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), would renew existing programs that make federal...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. John Thune of South Dakota today re-introduced comprehensive legislation to improve customer service at the IRS, create new taxpayer protections, and update and strengthen existing taxpayer protections. The Taxpayer Bill of Rights Enhancement Act of 2017, S. 1793, updates the senators’ prior version of...
WASHINGTON – The Senate this week unanimously approved legislation by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) clarifying Congress’ intent to allow family farmers to more easily reorganize their finances when they fall on hard times. As a part of a 2005 bankruptcy reform bill, Congress passed a...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa today urged the Office of National Drug Control Policy to include an evaluation of drug take back programs in the final report of the President’s Commission on Combatting Opioid Abuse, correcting a shortcoming in the interim report.
“Unfortunately, the interim report did not include any reference...
“However challenging these issues may be, the American people rightfully expect us to follow through on the commitments that we have made, and we believe it is critical that we devote the necessary time to accomplishing these tasks.”WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Iowa’s U.S. Senators Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley sent a letterto...
