Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Sioux City, Jacob Bossman, will be holding open office hours in Buena Vista, Pocahontas, Sac, Ida, Emmet, Palo Alto, Clay, Osceola, Dickinson and O’Brien counties on March 8, 14 and 20. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express...
DOJ IG report took five years to complete inquiry
WASHINGTON Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent a letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General (DOJ IG) Michael Horowitz, asking why the IG's office took nearly five years to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement after President Trump signed a bipartisan resolution to repeal an Obama-era regulation that threatened to infringe on the Second Amendment rights of Social Security Disability Beneficiaries without affording due process.
“The Obama Administration’s...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released the following statement after Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ press conference this afternoon.“First and foremost, any talk of resignation is nonsense. We all know Attorney General Sessions to be an honest and forthright public servant. When we spoke earlier this afternoon,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) today introduced legislation to give the congressional watchdog arm complete access to American Red Cross records for oversight purposes. The bipartisan, bicameral American Red Cross Transparency Act of 2017 responds to concerns that the Red Cross tried to quash a review by the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today introduced the Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act. The bill would extend the Reid vapor pressure (RVP) waiver to ethanol blends above 10 percent. This would increase market access opportunities for higher blends of ethanol. It would allow...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has a long record of seeking accountability from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and public housing authorities in fulfilling their responsibilities. He also is working toward transparency and clarity of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program. Grassley made the following comment on the confirmation...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is looking into whether the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) works as intended. He made the following comment on a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the role of syndicators. Grassley’s comment on a prior report is available here. “The fact that the GAO needed to issue a...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and nine other senators introduced bipartisan legislation to improve Medicare coverage for lymphedema patients. The Lymphedema Treatment Act would increase and improve care for Medicare beneficiaries with lymphedema by ensuring Medicare covers...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement regarding the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General’s report on the Osorio and Barba Firearms Trafficking Rings. Grassley began asking questions of the Obama administration in March 2011, soon after he began his investigation into Operation Fast and...
Sen. Chuck Grassley has pressed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to explain the flawed policy that leads to the downgrading of flood control projects in Iowa cities for funding prioritization. He has cited Cedar Rapids and Des Moines as losing priority under the broken formula. Grassley helped secure the inclusion of language stating that the Corps of...
Sen. Chuck Grassley and his staff spoke to several sources on reports of an imminent presidential executive order that would make significant changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard, specifically to the point of obligation requirement for the renewable fuel. Grassley made the following comment on what he and his staff learned.“Based on...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement in reaction to President Donald Trump’s first joint address to Congress. Video reaction from Grassley can be found...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on President Trump’s actions to begin rescinding the controversial Waters of the U.S. rule. Grassley has been an ardent opponent of the rule, which has been blocked temporarily by a federal court. The rule would have defined 97 percent of the land in Iowa as a waterway.“This is...
WASHINGTON – As President Donald Trump prepares to submit a federal budget proposal to Congress, a bipartisan group of senators, led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy, is calling for the White House to prioritize programs that assist victims of sexual and domestic...
Grassley Calls on Bureau of Prisons to Explain Why Watchdog Fixes Remain Open
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is calling on the Federal Bureau of Prisons to explain why recommendations aimed at preventing untimely release of federal inmates remain unimplemented. The recommendations followed a 2016 inspector general...
Washington – Today, U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bob Casey, Ranking Member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Susan Collins, Chair of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and Patrick Leahy today introduced the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act.The legislation is necessary following...
Grassley & Lankford Raised Concerns following Whistleblower Reports
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) today made the following statements after the Justice Department Inspector General (IG)
announced findings of reprisal, abuse and lack of candor by senior supervisors in...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Joni Ernst are asking the Justice Department to explain the penalties against an Iowa nursing home that was ordered closed and ordered to pay $100,000 to federal taxpayers over “grossly substandard care” that was essentially “without value.” Grassley and Ernst said The Abbey of Le Mars was on a federal watch...
