Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after an Office of Inspector General report was made public on the conduct of Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The report focuses on Mayorkas’ alleged special treatment given to certain petitioners of EB-5 regional...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa today congratulated Christopher Self, a senior at Aplington-Parkersburg High School, for winning third prize in C-SPAN’s 2015 StudentCam competition. In this national competition, over 2,000 videos were submitted from almost 5,000 students across 45 states and Washington, D.C.“It’s...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today encouraged state treasurers to explain the merits of the Section 529 college savings plans that are so popular nationwide. State treasurers generally administer the plans. Grassley has a pending bipartisan bill that would add flexibility to these college spending plans. “I encourage...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has been named a member of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, joining other members of Congress and child welfare advocates to advise the institute on policy efforts to help children.“I’m glad to work with an organization that does so much to help children...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is a long-time watchdog of Defense Department spending, including fixing the broken accounting system within the agency. He released a report on the accounting problems in November 2013. When he met with now-confirmed Defense Secretary Ashton Carter as a nominee, Grassley emphasized the need to fix the accounting...
WASHINGTON—Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa intends to submit questions to the panelists who testified in front of a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing today regarding the Waters of the United States Rule (WOTUS.) The hearing included ten witnesses who testified about the proposed rule and its potential effects on them. Particularly, he plans to ask...
WASHINGTON – ?Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is calling on the FBI to disclose how it spends fees collected from fingerprint based Criminal History Record Information checks. The FBI currently does not report which portion of the fee is used to cover the program’s expenses, and which portion is used for other...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today filed an amendment to the budget legislation under consideration by the full Senate that would disallow the Earned Income Tax Credit for those made newly eligible for past benefits under the President’s executive actions on immigration. The amendment tracks Grassley’s legislation...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) proposed changes to the “actively engaged” provision of the 2014 Farm Bill.“The rule proposed by USDA today regarding who can qualify as ‘actively engaged’ in farming to make them eligible for farm subsidies is...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today announced an extended deadline, now April 15, for a new fellowship program in his state offices for Iowans with recent military service. Grassley encourages these veterans to consider and apply for the program. “This program will help these veterans gain experience working with the public...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia today introduced legislation to apply accreditation and other standards for orthotics and prosthetics, such as prosthetic limbs, under Medicare, helping to guarantee product quality for beneficiaries and reducing fraud.
“Orthotics and prosthetics, like other medical equipment, is an...
WASHINGTON – ?Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, questioned the Justice Department about reports that federal law enforcement agencies have deployed cell phone tracking technology on behalf of federal intelligence agencies. In a letter to Attorney General Eric...
WASHINGTON – ?A Government Accountability Office report released today identified improvements needed to better manage the Justice Department’s unobligated funds, which can be used to offset the agency’s reported budgetary authority. The report, requested by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, recommended regular...
Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week. The Senate is in session. Senator Grassley will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the Iowa Department of Education, the Hungry Canyons Alliance, Black Hawk Economic Development, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of Greater Iowa, Iowa Baptists for Biblical...
WASHINGTON – The proposed budget outline under consideration by the Senate this week includes language from Sen. Chuck Grassley to continue and offer more flexibility for the Section 529 college savings plans that are popular nationwide. Grassley, a senior member of the Budget Committee, succeeded in including his proposal in the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is ramping up his inquiry into whether the State Department misused the Special Government Employee (SGE) designation for outside expertise in light of revelations of private email use at the State Department. Grassley reiterated his unanswered request from 2013 that the State Department provide all communications between...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley will hold four town meetings in Iowa during the week of Monday, March 30, as part of his annual 99-county tour. Grassley has held a meeting in each of Iowa’s 99 counties at least once every year since he was first elected to the U.S. Senate. On March 30 and 31 and April 1, Grassley will be in Webster...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that Mark Henry Farlinger of Cresco, Jean Elizabeth Etnyre of Pella, and Yair Soewondo Abramoff of Iowa City have received appointments to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., for the 2015-2016 school year.Farlinger is the son of Amy and Clint Farlinger. He will graduate in May...
Senators Request DACA Policy for Applicants with Criminal Histories
WASHINGTON – ?Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina released evidence received by the Judiciary Committee confirming that murder suspect Emmanuel Jesus Rangel-Hernandez avoided deportation through President Obama’s Deferred...
WASHINGTON – Responding to a question from Sen. Chuck Grassley, a representative of a major association for small businesses confirmed that a number of small businesses continue to be unaware that they are no longer permitted under the President’s health care law to provide a benefit to their employees that many have provided for years–...
