WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa has asked the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to update the committee on its investigation into the alleged misconduct by federal judge Mark Fuller.
Fuller is a judge on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. He was arrested in August...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today welcomed confirmation from the State Department Office of Inspector General that the inspector general will review the department’s use of the Special Government Employee program.
“This program is meant to be used in a limited way to give the government special expertise it can’t get otherwise,” Grassley said. “Is...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa announced today that the committee will hold a hearing on the nation’s asset forfeiture laws. The hearing will take place on Wednesday, April 15, at 10 a.m. (ET) in room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The hearing will also be streamed live on the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is seeking answers from the Administration on why it reportedly won’t disclose documents regarding the relationship between the Treasury Department and mortgage financing firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that resulted in billions of dollars going to Treasury. News...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is seeking more details surrounding the decision to hire a U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) contractor after the Justice Department failed to dispel concerns over claims of a quid pro quo agreement.
In March, Grassley asked the Justice Department about whistleblower claims...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is asking for details of disciplinary actions taken against Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) employees who were involved in Operation Fast and Furious. While some personnel have been disciplined for misconduct, some agents have not faced...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the leaders of the Caucus on International Narcotics Control, today announced the witness list for the caucus hearing on the quota system used to manage controlled substances in medicine in light of a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) showing problems in the way the...
Grassley provision benefits 529 plansWhere we stand. Changes to the college savings plans represent a common sense approach, thanks to Iowa's senior senator.Good news for parents looking to sock something away for the kids` tuition fund: 529 college savings plans are likely to get even better.The proposed budget under consideration by the Senate this...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has a long record of protecting and encouraging whistleblowers. He is the co-author of the whistleblower provisions beefing up the federal False Claims Act against taxpayer fraud and the author of the provisions improving the whistleblower office at the Internal Revenue Service. He also contributed to the law enacting...
Sen. Chuck Grassley today made the following statement on the parameters toward a final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program.“A final agreement that would guarantee that Iran cannot develop a nuclear weapon would be cause for celebration, but we don’t have that today. We have what the White House calls parameters toward a final...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today praised a recent Office of Special Counsel (OSC) announcement that the Bureau of Prisons has reversed plans to retaliate against a whistleblower who exposed waste and wrongdoing. The bureau’s decision comes after inquiries were made by Grassley and the OSC...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee today released the following statement about the Justice Department’s new policy regarding the use of asset forfeiture in connection with structuring offenses.“I’ve long expressed concern about structuring being the basis for civil asset...
WASHINGTON – Members of the ?Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest are investigating potential workplace retaliation against Department of Homeland Security employees for faithfully discharging the duties of the office in which they serve even though they conflict with President Obama’s immigration policies. The...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last week introduced the Fuel Choice and Deregulation Act of 2015. This legislation will remove Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) impediments to market competition and innovation in America’s transportation fuel market. “The EPA’s onerous...
WASHINGTON-- Sen. Chuck Grassley today presented the Prisoner of War (POW) Medal to Mr. Raymond Pearl Cooper, of Goldfield in Wright County. Grassley will also be presenting the Silver Star to Mrs. Ruth Wunsch of Allison in Butler County on behalf of her husband, the late Mr. Walter H. Wunsch, on Saturday.Grassley presented Cooper with the POW Medal on...
WASHINGTON-- Sen. Chuck Grassley will be presenting two military medals during the week of March 29, 2015. He will present the Prisoner of War (POW) Medal to Mr. Raymond Pearl Cooper, of Goldfield in Wright County, and the Silver Star to Mrs. Ruth Wunsch on behalf of her husband, the late Mr. Walter H. Wunsch, of Allison in Butler County.Grassley will...
Congressional Record Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary Committee“Sunshine Week and Government Transparency”Mr. President, last week marked the tenth anniversary of Sunshine Week, an initiative that’s become a nation-wide effort to promote openness and transparency in government. As Justice Brandeis...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Mike Lee of Utah today called on the Justice Department to investigate allegations of misconduct by federal prosecutors in cases related to the 2007 Moonlight Fire in California. The officials in question allegedly failed to provide relevant information in the...
