Senator Chuck Grassley made the following statement after the Supreme Court ruled on Burwell v. Hobby Lobby.
"The Supreme Court made a decision on the side of religious freedom. The Obamacare mandate that forced closely held, family companies to pay for abortion-related contraceptive coverage contrary to their religious views was a striking overreach...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after President Obama spoke this afternoon about immigration matters. The Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over immigration policy in the United States Senate.
“There’s already a great deal of concern about the President’s executive...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaRanking Member, Senate Judiciary CommitteeThe Supreme Court’s Recess Appointments DecisionThursday, June 26, 2014
Mr/Mm President, I rise today to praise the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down President Obama’s illegal recess appointments.
Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution...
Below is a comment from Sen. Chuck Grassley. Sen. Grassley learned of the emails from the Ways and Means Committee. Sen. Grassley did not accept the invitation referred to in the emails. He did not receive Lois Lerner’s invitation.
Comment from Sen. Grassley:
“This kind of thing fuels the deep concerns many people have about political...
Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week. The Senate is in session. Senator Grassley has met or will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the Iowa Pork Producers, the United Spinal Association, the Citizen’s Climate Lobby, RESULTS, the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Alliance for Childhood Cancer,...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaRanking Member, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOn the Nomination of Leon Rodriguez to be Director ofUnited States Citizenship and Immigration ServicesTuesday, June 24. 2014
Today, I’d like to discuss the nomination of Leon Rodriguez to be the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California are exploring whether patient satisfaction surveys linked to Medicare payments encourage opioid pain reliever abuse, already a national epidemic. The senators wrote to the federal agency in charge of Medicare payments on agency practices in this area.
“There is growing...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California are exploring whether patient satisfaction surveys linked to Medicare payments encourage opioid pain reliever abuse, already a national epidemic. The senators wrote to the federal agency in charge of Medicare payments on agency practices in this area.
“There is growing...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa co-sponsored legislation to prevent federal government contractors from charging the taxpayers for exorbitant employee salaries. A similar provision became law. The federal rule implementing the provision will be published in the Federal Register on June 24 and take effect right away. Grassley made the following...
WASHINGTON – More than a quarter of the members of the United States Senate have introduced legislation to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from what appears to be a bureaucratic power-play by the federal government by assuming jurisdiction over waterways that may not even have water in them.
The legislation would prevent the EPA and the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Former Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent letters to UnitedHealth Group and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) questioning the role of...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the importance of federal agency oversight of research dollars in light of the former Iowa State University researcher in the news today over an indictment.
“I started looking at the government’s response to federal research money lost to fraud after the Iowa State case. It was alarming to...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Former Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued a joint minority report today entitled, Red Flags: How Politics and Poor Management Led to the Meltdown of...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Wyden are pressing the Director of National Intelligence to explain in detail how the intelligence community plans to implement continuous monitoring of security clearance holders without undermining legal protections for whistleblowers or constitutional protections for the separation of powers between the...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley will hold three town meetings in Iowa during the week of June 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 July 1 and 2 Grassley will be in Mediapolis, Columbus Junction and Muscatine....
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 National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, Iowa’s...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that fall internships for college-age Iowans are available, and applications are due July 15.
Internships are available in Grassley’s Washington, D.C., office as well as his offices in Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo. The semester-long internship will run...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today welcomed an Iowan and others who shared their experiences on the critical need to help foster youth learn financial literacy.
Eddye Vanderkwaak of Ankeny, a Jim Casey Young Fellow, spoke at a roundtable sponsored by the Senate Caucus on Foster Youth and the Senate Caucus on Financial and Economic Literacy. ...
