WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans are asking President Barack Obama “to immediately cease issuing visas to persons of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, and to consider expanding this ban to other countries that may not have standards in place to properly screen travelers entering the United States.”
In a letter to President Obama, Judiciary...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley and Congressman Darrell Issa are again pushing the U.S. Department of Justice to be forthcoming about yet another gun found at the scene of a shooting in Arizona and connected to the ill-advised gunwalking strategy known as Operation Fast and Furious. The shooting occurred at a Phoenix apartment complex and left two...
WASHINGTON – Senate and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Members Chuck Grassley and John Conyers are raising questions about a new practice by the Justice Department denying certain records to the department’s Inspector General.
During testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, the Inspector General for the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz,...
WASHINGTON—Senator Grassley today applauded Cedar Falls for being named the 2014 Iowa “eCity” in recognition of the strength of the Cedar Falls online business community.
The award was presented by Google today at Scratch Cupcakery, a small business in Cedar Falls. The award was determined by a review of local small businesses in cities in all 50...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement after a White House official acknowledged that the President would delay announcing a replacement for Attorney General Eric Holder until after the mid-term elections. According to the AP, Senate Democrats asked the President to delay the...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today that President Barack Obama should consider the harmful effects on American workers before moving forward on executive action on immigration policy.
In a letter to the President, Grassley reiterated that circumventing Congress on immigration policy would be an...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch and Tom Coburn are asking the Government Accountability Office to review policies of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the agency charged with caring for unaccompanied minors crossing the southern U.S. border.
The senators questioned the ability of the Office of Refugee and Resettlement (ORR) to accommodate...
Senator Chuck Grassley released the following statement after the Washington Post reported that the White House was aware of evidence that its own personnel was entangled in the prostitution scandal involving several Secret Service agents in Colombia. Two years ago, Grassley questioned the White House extensively about the possibility of its own...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa was honored by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) for his support of issues that are critical to U.S. manufacturing jobs and investment. Grassley received NAM’s Award for Manufacturing Legislative Excellence based on his votes in the 113th Congress on policies that enhance U.S. manufacturers’...
In July 2013, Sen. Chuck Grassley asked the University of Michigan to account for an arrangement that allowed certain investors early access to a university-produced consumer confidence survey. The University of Michigan now will make the information more widely available upon release. Grassley made the following comment on this development.
“It...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is asking the federal government to account for an exclusive, long-time contract between Bank of America and the government to operate an expanding array of services for federal prison inmates.
“The government has competitive bidding for good reason. It’s meant to get taxpayers the most bang for the...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today said that 11 whistleblowers have now come forward telling their stories of FBI managers using Loss of Effectiveness orders to retaliate for speaking up about wrongdoing in the agency. The whistleblowers allege that the FBI uses Loss of...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement regarding the resignation of United States Secret Service Director Julia Pierson.
“Over the last several years, we’ve seen the sterling reputation of the Secret Service shattered by missteps around the world and here at home. When Director Pierson...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has been named a “Defender of Children” by the First Focus Campaign for Children, a well-respected, national bipartisan advocacy group, for leadership on children’s issues during the current congressional session.
“I appreciate the work of the First Focus Campaign for Children,” Grassley said. “This organization...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after the Department of Homeland Security settled a case with the Washington Times regarding documents of a Washington Times reporter that it had seized during execution of a search warrant to allegedly seize weapons and firearms belonging to the...
WASHINGTON – In an Amicus brief submitted to the United States Supreme Court, a bipartisan group of senators and congressmen argued that Congress intended for whistleblowers who are federal government employees to be protected under the Whistleblower Protection Act for making disclosures, unless explicitly prohibited by statute.
Senators Chuck Grassley and...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is the co-author of the bipartisan Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Enacted in 2010, the law requires drug and medical device companies to disclose the payments they make to doctors for speaking fees, research grants, trips, and other items of value. The information will be included in a publicly available database...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following comment on Japan’s continued resistance to trade liberalization through the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
“The Trans-Pacific Partnership has great potential to help create jobs in the United States and abroad. The purpose of the agreement is to promote trade liberalization in the Asia-Pacific region. ...
