Sen. Chuck Grassley has received hundreds of letters and calls from Iowans, the majority from patients, with concerns about the Obama Administration’s proposed rule to test new models on how Medicare Part B pays for prescription drugs. The number of letters and calls is expected to increase as more people learn of this policy. This is an...
Statement for the Record by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeAt a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the constitution and Civil Justice Hearing on“Oversight of the False Claims Act”April 28, 2016 Two years ago, I testified at a hearing before this subcommittee, also entitled “Oversight of the False Claims...
This Saturday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., is the latest National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Local collections sites are available here. A photo of the Drug Take Back site in the Hart Senate Office Building this week is available here. Floor Statement of Sen. Chuck GrassleyNational Prescription Drug Take Back DaySubmitted to the...
Washington, D.C. – In a letter to Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Rand Paul (R-KY), Dean Heller (R-NV) and Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) today requested a meeting to discuss new reports that allege...
WASHINGTON – The bipartisan authors of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act (S. 2123) today announced revisions to the legislation to broaden bipartisan support for criminal justice reform. The bill is led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin, Assistant Majority Leader John Cornyn, Judiciary...
In February, Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote to Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter about Carter’s use of personal email for official business. Grassley has been looking into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a non-government server for personal email and official business, including whether the arrangement interfered with Freedom of...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley will hold three town meetings in southwest and south central Iowa on May 5 and May 6 as part of his annual 99-county meetings.With these meetings, Grassley will continue his long-standing practice of 36th year holding constituent meetings in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties. Grassley has held a...
WASHINGTON – The House today passed the bipartisan Senate bill, the Defend Trade Secrets Act by a vote of 410-2. Chairman Chuck Grassley shepherded the legislation through the Senate Judiciary Committee on its way to Senate passage by a vote of 87-0. Authored by Senators Orrin Hatch and Chris Coons, the Defend Trade Secrets Act is aimed at...
Fugitive Charged in Death of Sarah Root was placed under Brother’s Supervision
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate delegations from Iowa and Nebraska are seeking details on the Obama Administration’s decision to place an unaccompanied minor immigrant in the care of his older brother, who was illegally residing in the United States. Edwin Mejia entered the...
Click here for a hi-res photo.WASHINGTON – Marking Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Sen. Chuck Grassley today joined a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers and survivors of sexual assault urging the Senate to pass the Campus Accountability and Safety Act. This bipartisan legislation would protect students, professionalize the response to and reporting of...
WASHINGTON – The Senate today passed a bipartisan amendment offered by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon to restore wind energy research funding for fiscal year 2017 to the level provided for the current fiscal year. The measure allocates an additional $15.4 million to wind energy research from within existing research...
Senate Floor Speech by Senator Chuck Grassley regarding speech to Midwest Political Science Undergraduate Research Conference at Wartburg CollegeDelivered Monday, April 25, 2016I recently gave a speech to the Midwest Political Science Undergraduate Research Conference, which was held at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. It dealt with the current state...
Please note: The amendment is scheduled for a Senate vote at 11 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, April 26.Floor Statement of Sen. Chuck GrassleyAmendment on Funding for Wind Energy ResearchDelivered Monday, April 25, 2016I’m pleased to join Senator Merkley in offering amendment #3812 regarding funding for wind energy research. This is a...
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 Community Bankers of Iowa, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, the Iowa State Education Association and the Iowa Funeral Directors Association.Senator Grassley met with...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will join National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson for a public forum in Iowa to discuss what taxpayers want and need from the IRS to comply with their tax obligations. The public forum will be held Thursday, May 5, at 8:30 a.m. Central at the Montgomery County Family YMCA, 101 E Cherry St, Red Oak. Members of the...
The Senate Appropriations Committee this week approved language championed by Sen. Chuck Grassley that will ensure transparency and promote accountability in public housing authorities’ use of more than $350 million in federal tax dollars. The Grassley language, which was incorporated into a committee report that accompanies an annual spending bill,...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Al Franken (D-MN), Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Chris Coons (D-DE) issued the following statements after introducing the Protecting Our Lives by Initiating COPS Expansion (POLICE) Act of 2016, which will allow law enforcement and medical personnel across the country...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaResponse to Senator Reid’s Political Attack on Judiciary InvestigationsThursday, April 21, 2016Mr. President, I’d like to take this time to respond to the Minority Leader’s juvenile attacks on my Judiciary Committee investigations and his frequent crying about my previous State...
Sen. Chuck Grassley has fought the ill-conceived Waters of the U.S. rule at every opportunity. The Environmental Protection Agency has lost in the courts over overstepping its bounds on the rule. The rule is stayed until a final court ruling, creating uncertainty. Grassley today voted in favor of an amendment from Sen. John Hoeven of North...
WASHINGTON – The Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT), as well as the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), sent a letter today to Government...
