Prepared Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeSeptember 5, 2017 I’m pleased today to support the nomination of Tim Kelly to be a Judge on the D.C. District Court. Tim serves as my Chief Counsel for National Security, Senior Crime Counsel, and Majority Staff Director for the Caucus on...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, co-chairman, will hold a hearing of the Caucus on International Narcotics Control to examine U.S. counternarcotics efforts in Colombia and how these efforts should be adapted in light of the staggering increases in coca production in the country. Hearing: “Adapting U.S....
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement regarding President Trump’s announced plans to suspend the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order, or DACA. “However well-intentioned DACA may have been, the program was created by executive edict rather than by...
AUDIO AVAILABLE: Click here for Grassley comment. NEW HARTFORD – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley issued the following comment about the nomination today by President Trump of Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey to be Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This position was established in May as...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today pressed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on why it has failed to ensure that nursing home abuse and neglect cases are reported to law enforcement, as required. Grassley also pressed the agency for its lack of urgency in responding to an early alert from the agency watchdog on this problem....
WASHINGTON – Preliminary data provided by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in response to recent inquiries from the House and Senate Judiciary Committees indicate that the Obama administration allowed thousands of DACA recipients to exploit an immigration law loophole to obtain green cards. The data also show that more than a thousand DACA...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is the co-sponsor of the American Red Cross Transparency Act, introduced in March, to give the Government Accountability Office access to Red Cross records for oversight purposes. The Red Cross is congressionally chartered and considered a federal instrumentality. It also receives tax benefits including tax-deductible...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Des Moines, Alec Kennedy, will hold office hours in Monroe and Appanoose counties on Thursday, September 7. Kennedy’s schedule is as follows: Thursday, September 7 Monroe County2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Chariton Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc.Small Conference...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein yesterday made the following statement regarding the committee’s scheduled interview with Donald Trump, Jr. “In late July, Donald Trump Jr. agreed to provide the Judiciary Committee with documents and a transcribed interview prior to a...
Sen. Chuck Grassley has a long record of nursing home oversight and ensuring quality of care for nursing home residents. He made the following comment on an early alert from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General finding that 28 percent of 134 potential incidents of abuse or neglect in 33 states may not have been...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Senator Mike Lee of Utah are again inquiring about the abuse of an immigration law loophole that allows unauthorized immigrants to obtain a green card and, eventually, U.S. citizenship. The two senators previously wrote to the Obama administration on this issue in March...
Sen. Chuck Grassley has pressed for better oversight of a $9.6 billion program meant to help homeowners who suffered during the housing crisis. Amid the poor federal oversight, a Nevada state agency engaged in “widespread waste and abuse in spending” and “abused the Hardest Hit Fund with, seemingly, a sense of entitlement and no appreciation for the...
In May, Sen. Chuck Grassley asked Energy Secretary Rick Perry a series of questions about a study Perry directed that appeared geared to undermine the wind energy industry. As the father of the wind energy production tax credit, Grassley was concerned that the report would criticize the reliability of energy from renewable sources alongside fossil...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley welcomes the signing of the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act into law. Grassley was the lead co-sponsor of the bipartisan measure, which will make certain types of hearing aids available over the counter to Americans with mild to moderate hearing impairment.“I’ve heard from Iowans and others around the...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has been investigating the cost increases for EpiPen to consumers and whether the taxpayers have been shortchanged under EpiPen’s misclassification under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program. He made the following comment today on a settlement announced between the Justice Department and EpiPen maker Mylan over the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold six town meetings in Iowa August 23, August 24, August 29, August 30 and August 31 as part of his annual 99 county meetings. These six open town meetings are in addition to question-and-answer sessions at local businesses, high schools and service clubs in two dozen...
