Sen. Chuck Grassley expressed concern on Monday that the proposed 21st Century CURES Act from the House of Representatives weakens drug and device company reporting requirements under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Grassley co-authored the bipartisan sunshine provisions, enacted in 2010. Today, the House of Representatives CURES Act...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today released the findings of an extensive investigation into allegations of misconduct at the U.S. Marshals Service, including misuse of funds, quid pro quos and mistreatment of whistleblowers. The majority staff report recommends that the Justice Department improves oversight of the...
Sen. Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, in July introduced legislation to give the congressional watchdog arm complete access to American Red Cross records for oversight purposes and improve the Red Cross’ internal investigative function. The American Red Cross Transparency Act followed the results of a Grassley inquiry into the...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement after meeting with Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions. The meeting focused on a number of issues important to Grassley, such as congressional oversight, the False Claims Act, and criminal justice reform. Grassley has indicated that Sessions is currently completing...
Sen. Chuck Grassley co-authored the Physician Payments Sunshine Act creating the Open Payments database for drug and device company payments to doctors. Grassley worked on the measure after his oversight and news stories explored payments from the industry to doctors. The Sunshine Act is successful. In program year 2015, health care...
Sen. Chuck Grassley made the following statement for Thanksgiving Day, 2016. Audio of the statement can be found here.“As we gather with friends, family and loved ones on Thanksgiving Day, we give thanks to the brave men and women who keep our country and our communities safe, both at home and abroad, many who cannot be with their families today. Their...
Judiciary Committee Postpones EpiPen Hearing; Considers Tools to Compel Participation WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee is postponing a hearing on the potential settlement agreement between EpiPen maker Mylan and the Obama Administration as it considers other avenues to ensure government and company witnesses participate....
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its final Renewable Fuel Standard renewable volume obligations for 2017 and biomass-based diesel volume for 2018. In a significant achievement, the EPA reached the 15 billion gallon level required by statute for conventional biofuels, a victory for corn ethanol producers in Iowa. For biodiesel, the...
WASHINGTON – Senate and House Judiciary Committee Chairmen Chuck Grassley and Bob Goodlatte are requesting the immigration and criminal histories of a man charged in the brutal roadside rape near Fredericksburg, Va., in October.
Roberto Carlos Flores Sibrian was arrested November 17 and charged with rape and aggravated sexual battery after he allegedly...
WASHINGTON – Congressional Judiciary Committee leaders are expressing frustration and concern with an Obama Administration plan to admit into the United States an unknown number of refugees who Australia has refused to admit. The Administration never disclosed to Congress that it was negotiating a deal with Australia, even though it was apparently in...
WASHINGTON – Congressional Judiciary Committee leaders are expressing frustration and concern with an Obama Administration plan to admit into the United States an unknown number of refugees who Australia has refused to admit. The Administration never disclosed to Congress that it was negotiating a deal with Australia, even though it was apparently in...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Iowa's U.S. Senators Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley and Representatives Rod Blum (R-01), David Young (R-03) and Steve King (R-04) sent President-elect Donald J. Trump a letter urging him to scrap the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule in the first few days of his presidency.
In the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to inform the Judiciary Committee on whether the commission is looking into whether Mylan misled investors in announcing a settlement on overcharging the taxpayers for EpiPens under Medicaid. “If Mylan’s purpose of the press...
Following the poor lead of the Department of Justice and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, EpiPen maker Mylan is declining to testify at a Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled for Nov. 30 on the potential settlement between Mylan and the Justice Department over reportedly hundreds of millions of dollars in overpayments by the taxpayers for...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today released the following statement on the death of Patrick Carothers, the Deputy Commander for the U.S. Marshals Service’s Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force. Carothers was killed in the line of duty this morning near Ludowici, Ga., while executing an arrest warrant for...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today welcomed a commitment from the Federal Trade Commission to protect consumers from anticompetitive behavior in the pharmaceutical sector. The statement from the commission chairwoman came in response to a request from Grassley and Ranking Member Patrick Leahy to review Mylan’s...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement regarding President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Senator Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General."Senator Sessions is a respected member and former Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee who has worked across the aisle on major legislation. He knows the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today released the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) announcement that it will begin implementing a key provision in the landmark law addressing the nation’s opioid epidemic. The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, which...
WASHINGTON – Today Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley joined a bipartisan coalition of senators, led by John Cornyn (R-Texas), in introducing the American Law Enforcement Heroes Act, legislation that will prioritize the U.S. Department of Justice COPS grant applications of law enforcement agencies that use that funding to hire veterans....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today praised Senate passage of a bill he co-sponsored that will improve the responsiveness and performance of the Veterans Crisis Line, the confidential, toll-free hotline for veterans seeking suicide prevention and crisis resources help from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) responders.“We’ve seen...
