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 Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, Iowa Wholesale Beer Distributors, the Family Planning Council of Iowa, the Iowa Restaurant...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte today pressed the Department of Homeland Security for additional information about El Medhi Semlali Fathi who, before his recent arrest, the FBI alleges to have been planning a bomb attack on a school and a...
WASHINGTON – In a letter to President Barack Obama, 22 United States senators questioned a new “enforcement review” ordered by President Obama after he met with advocacy groups that reportedly will further limit deportations of individuals in the country illegally. The senators said...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following comment after the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community released a report on how the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) reports crimes following polygraph examinations.
Grassley requested the NRO Inspector General look into the allegations first revealed...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is asking the IRS to account for an inadequate fraud detection system and delays in implementing a new system.
“Identity theft to commit tax fraud is already a $5 billion per year problem,” Grassley said. “The IRS puts taxpayers at risk for fraud in using...
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley made the following comment after the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Obama administration must release a redacted version of its Office of Legal Counsel analysis giving the legal authority for the targeted killing of American citizens. Grassley first asked for the legal rationale in...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy asking about the administration’s new methane reduction plan released by the President on March 28.
The plan calls on the Department of Agriculture, the EPA, and the Department of Energy to outline a biogas roadmap intended to reduce dairy...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is urging Congolese leaders to process the pending adoptions of hundreds of children to U.S. parents. The Congolese government unexpectedly suspended the exit permits needed to finalize pending adoptions, leaving many children and adoptive families in limbo.
“The families went through the proper channels, then...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley has asked the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to declassify two Congressional Notifications to allow a full public debate regarding the...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the announcement from the Social Security Administration that it will suspend debt collection of payments more than 10 years old. The announcement came after The Washington Post reported on agency debt collection efforts on survivor benefits paid to now-deceased beneficiaries. Just...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today said the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has agreed to his request to release public housing authority salary data, prompting him to release his hold on an agency nominee.
“Transparency changes behavior,” Grassley said. “HUD needs...
Video of Senator Grassley's floor speech can be found here.
Floor Statement of Ranking Member Grassley of Iowa
U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Anniversary of the Whistleblower Protection Act
Thursday, April 10, 2014
25 years ago today, the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 was signed into law. To mark that anniversary, I wanted to come...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the reported resignation of Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
“Anybody put in charge of Obamacare would be set up to fail. Secretary Sebelius was asked to promote something unready, poorly...
WASHINGTON – On the 25th anniversary of the Whistleblower Protection Act, Senator Chuck Grassley is announcing his plans to create a Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus.
Grassley said he’s creating the caucus to build a coalition of like-minded Senators who can help bring attention to the need for ongoing whistleblower protections. Over the...
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley made the following statement about the status of patent legislation in the committee.
“Judiciary Committee members on both sides of the aisle have been working in good faith to reach an agreement. It’s a time-consuming and challenging process that will result in a much better...
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley made the following statement after the mark-up of the patent bill was delayed until Thursday.
“Judiciary Committee members are working in good faith to reach an agreement that addresses concerns from the many sides of the issues. We’re not there yet. Sometimes, it takes more time...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah are seeking details of the federal government’s role in overseeing and offering help to troubled state health care exchanges.
“While HHS's decision to extend the open enrollment period allows states extra time to fix technical glitches, it is...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee
The Smarter Sentencing Act
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Mr/Mm President, there are reports that after we return, either from this break or the next, the Senate may take up the so-called Smarter Sentencing Act. I rise today to start discussing this bill with...
