WASHINGTON – Several senators are pressing Defense Department leaders to end the practice known as “plugging.” “Plugging” is the use of false numbers in financial ledgers that forces balances and effectively masks accounting errors and control deficiencies.
Senators Chuck Grassley, Tom Coburn, Tom Carper and Ron Johnson wrote Defense Department...
WASHINGTON – Building on their work to make Medicare cost and quality data more transparent, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and senior Finance Committee member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, are asking providers, patients, advocates, insurers, entrepreneurs and others for new ideas for improving overall transparency in health care.
“Health...
Floor Speech by Senator Chuck Grassley onThe Know Before You Owe Federal Student Loan Act of 2014Delivered Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Mr. President, in fiscal year 2014, the U.S. Department of Education will make about $112 billion in Federal Direct Loans to students. The federal government already holds more than $1 Trillion in student loan debt. ...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement after Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Defense Department General Counsel Stephen Preston testified before the House Armed Services Committee about the recent transfer of five senior-level Taliban commanders from Guantanamo Bay. Last week Grassley...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on Senate passage of a bipartisan bill to improve conditions for veterans health care. The Senate-passed bill makes it easier for veterans who have been delayed in getting initial appointments at a federal Department of Veterans Affairs facility to receive treatment from private doctors...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley joined 11 colleagues led by Senator Rob Portman to introduce a Senate resolution calling for an investigation into the release of five high-level Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay.
The resolution states that President Obama violated the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 when he transferred the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation Tuesday to reauthorize the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act, a law known as “STELA” that provides certain consumers access to distant broadcast television content by...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today introduced legislation to increase the amount of information students receive about federal student loans, including their potential ability to repay, before rather than after signing onto tens of thousands of dollars in debt to Uncle Sam.
“The federal government is good at giving out student loans but poor at...
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 Institute for Excellence in, Bread for the World, the American Medical Group Association, the International Justice Mission, the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association,...
WASHINGTON – A new report requested by Sen. Chuck Grassley on a tip from an Iowa whistleblower confirms the U.S. Postal Service mishandled $18.4 million in contract payments to maintain and change the locks on Postal Service-owned mailboxes in the Western Area including Iowa. “The whistleblower came forward with his concerns, I asked for an...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaRanking Member, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOn the Nomination of Peter Kadzikto be Assistant Attorney General,Department of Justice Legislative Affairs Office
I’d like to address the nomination of Peter Kadzik to be the Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs at the Justice...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pressing for details about the release of 116 individuals who had been convicted of a homicide and were awaiting deportation...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the announcement that the U.S. Office of Special Counsel is investigating allegations of whistleblower reprisal from 37 Department of Veterans Affairs employees over disclosing improper scheduling practices and other threats to patient care. Grassley is a long-time advocate for...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following comment after the Obama administration released its revised application for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
“The Obama administration has never been totally forthcoming about the DACA program. The administration has failed to work with Congress, and refuses...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today he welcomes the reported ongoing negotiations toward a bipartisan bill to increase timely health care for veterans and improve accountability at the federal Department of Veterans...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today is pressing the Obama administration to release the legal analysis for disregarding the legislation the President signed into law that required a 30 day congressional notification before release or transfer of any detainee at Guantanamo Bay.
Grassley previously asked the Obama administration to release the Justice...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is an original co-sponsor of legislation introduced today to give veterans more choice and flexibility in health care and increase accountability and transparency at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
“No veteran should have to wait for weeks and months for care,” Grassley said. “This legislation would give...
Fourth and Final Report in Series on Self-Referrals
WASHINGTON – The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released its fourth and final report on medical self-referrals at the request of Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-Mich.) and House Energy and Commerce...
