Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the interim report from the Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general on medical care wait times at veterans facilities. Grassley has co-sponsored legislation that would make it easier to fire senior employees at the department for poor performance. He also urged the Veterans...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa looks at the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s oversight of how local housing authorities around the country spend billions of taxpayer dollars. Grassley has found HUD’s oversight sorely lacking, leading to significant misspent funding, uncovered in large part by diligent local news reporters across the...
WASHINGTON – In an effort to begin a dialogue about important concerns of the agriculture community about EPA regulations, Senator Chuck Grassley joined Republican members of the Senate Agriculture Committee to request a meeting with EPA Director Gina McCarthy.
The senators wrote to McCarthy that they had heard concerns...
The White House has taken an irresponsible detour from the important fight against illicit drugs. In a stark departure from efforts such as the “Just Say No” campaign that raised awareness among youth about the dangers of drug use, substance abuse and addiction, the Obama administration is blowing smoke through the nation’s criminal justice and...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley was part of a bipartisan group of senators who sent a letter today to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asking for a 120-day public comment period for the federal government’s proposed regulation of greenhouse gases from existing coal-fired power...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is among senators seeking an independent investigation of problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs from a respected Senate subcommittee. Grassley also co-sponsored legislation that would make it easier to fire senior employees at the veterans agency over poor performance. This is in addition...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley has asked the Inspector General for the Justice Department to investigate allegations of gender discrimination and retaliation within the FBI.
Grassley was recently alerted by three...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa asked the Veterans Affairs secretary for details of the number of employees on administrative leave over the veterans treatment scandal and policies on the length of paid administrative leave.
“The government is notoriously slow in resolving investigative matters,” Grassley said. “That means a number of Veterans...
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Statement for the Record of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaRanking Member, Senate Committee on the JudiciaryHearing on Oversight of the FBI
Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding today’s oversight hearing. I welcome Director Comey for his first hearing as Director of the Federal...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is among 57 U.S. senators urging the Administration to give full consideration to the domestic steel industry’s concerns about unfairly priced imports in a case that the manufacturer says caused reduced operating hours at a facility in Camanche in Clinton County.
“We write to express our concerns with the...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following comment after Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy removed the patent bill from the tomorrow’s business meeting.
“I am surprised and disappointed that the Senate Democrat leadership is not willing to move forward on a bill that we've worked on so hard and were...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley is asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to clarify for producers the eligibility requirements for application to the Livestock Forage Disaster Program.
Grassley wrote in a letter to Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack that he had heard from concerned farmers who were...
Senator Chuck Grassley made the following comment after the White House spokesperson again wouldn’t answer a question from a reporter in the White House Press Corps about the drone documents the Obama Administration has provided senators who will be voting on the nomination of David Barron for the 1st...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassey of IowaRanking Member, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOn the Nomination of David J. Barron to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals
Mr. President:
I’d like to spend a few minutes to speak about Harvard Law Professor David Barron’s nomination to the 1st Circuit.
I’d like to address some aspects of Professor...
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 Dental Association, the National Air Traffic Controller Association, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Association of Crop Insurers, the National...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley will hold six town meetings in Iowa during the week of May 26 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 May 28, 29 and...
The Washington Post quotes Nina Olson, the national taxpayer advocate, as saying the IRS does a good job collecting back taxes that are due and owed, so the use of private contractors to collect those debts is unnecessary. However, the non-partisan congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, the official estimator of tax provisions, says the current...
Floor Statement by Senator Charles E. Grassley
National Foster Care Month
May 14, 2014
Mr. President, I come to the floor to speak today about the foster care system and the impact the system has on the lives of far too many children, young adults, and families.
Currently, more than 400,000 children across the United States are in the foster care...
