WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Tuesday asked Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald for more information following reports that veterans at the Tomah (Wis.) Veterans...
Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, as a long-time advocate for whistleblowers, wrote to the Department of Veterans Affairs twice about VA retaliation against Brandon Coleman for pointing out poor treatment of suicidal veterans where he worked in Arizona. Eventually, the Office of Special Counsel helped restore Coleman in a VA...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, along with Senators Patrick Leahy, Mike Lee and Amy Klobuchar, is pushing to include legislation that would combat rising drug prices for Iowans by deterring brand-name pharmaceutical companies from blocking the entrance of more affordable generic alternatives in the marketplace in the...
WASHINGTON – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today called on the Obama Administration to declassify its plan to admit into the United States potentially over 2,400 refugees who Australia has refused to admit.
Last month, Chairmen Goodlatte and Grassley expressed...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is part of a request to the United States International Trade Commission that it consider specially outlined factors in a trade case involving steel producers, including SSAB Iowa Inc. with a facility in Montpelier in Muscatine County.
“We write to express our concern about unfairly dumped and subsidized carbon and alloy...
The Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2016 from Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Elizabeth Warren is drawing strong support.
The bipartisan legislation would make certain types of hearing aids available over the counter and remove unnecessary and burdensome requirements that currently create barriers for consumers who could benefit from hearing...
Washington, DC -- U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Thursday introduced the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2016. The bipartisan legislation would make certain types of hearing aids available over the counter (OTC) and remove unnecessary and burdensome requirements that currently create barriers for consumers who...
The Senate voted 99-0 today to approve the Iran Sanctions Extension Act (H.R. 6297). The vote follows House passage of counterpart legislation by a vote of 419-1. The legislation extends the Iran Sanctions Act through 2026. The act is designed to prevent the Iranian regime from obtaining resources to support terrorism and develop weapons of...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and watchdog of the federal bureaucracy, is working to ensure that inspectors general, the public’s eyes and ears for rooting out waste, fraud and abuse within the executive branch, have access to all necessary documents to conduct an investigation.“Inspectors...
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) requested that the Senate pass bipartisan legislation to protect and improve the lives of young people involved with our juvenile and criminal justice systems. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) objected to the request, blocking passage of the bill. Grassley and...
As the co-author of the successful Physician Payments Sunshine Act on drug and device company payments to doctors, Sen. Chuck Grassley was concerned by an attempt to strip part of the law. Ultimately, Sen. Grassley prevailed. The controversial provision is gone.From a Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial:“Grassley was one of the Sunshine...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is seeking the immigration and criminal history of the man who launched an attack on Ohio State University’s campus Monday, leaving 11 people injured. Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the student at the university who crashed his vehicle into a crowd before getting out and slashing people with a...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate today unanimously passed legislation authored by Senators Chuck Grassley and Kirsten Gillibrand to reduce the backlog of families awaiting approval of survivor benefits of public safety officers killed in the line of duty. The Senate’s action on the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Improvement Act comes...
Sen. Chuck Grassley expressed concern on Monday that the proposed 21st Century CURES Act from the House of Representatives weakens drug and device company reporting requirements under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Grassley co-authored the bipartisan sunshine provisions, enacted in 2010. Today, the House of Representatives CURES Act...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today released the findings of an extensive investigation into allegations of misconduct at the U.S. Marshals Service, including misuse of funds, quid pro quos and mistreatment of whistleblowers. The majority staff report recommends that the Justice Department improves oversight of the...
Sen. Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, in July introduced legislation to give the congressional watchdog arm complete access to American Red Cross records for oversight purposes and improve the Red Cross’ internal investigative function. The American Red Cross Transparency Act followed the results of a Grassley inquiry into the...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement after meeting with Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions. The meeting focused on a number of issues important to Grassley, such as congressional oversight, the False Claims Act, and criminal justice reform. Grassley has indicated that Sessions is currently completing...
Sen. Chuck Grassley co-authored the Physician Payments Sunshine Act creating the Open Payments database for drug and device company payments to doctors. Grassley worked on the measure after his oversight and news stories explored payments from the industry to doctors. The Sunshine Act is successful. In program year 2015, health care...
Sen. Chuck Grassley made the following statement for Thanksgiving Day, 2016. Audio of the statement can be found here.“As we gather with friends, family and loved ones on Thanksgiving Day, we give thanks to the brave men and women who keep our country and our communities safe, both at home and abroad, many who cannot be with their families today. Their...
Judiciary Committee Postpones EpiPen Hearing; Considers Tools to Compel Participation WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee is postponing a hearing on the potential settlement agreement between EpiPen maker Mylan and the Obama Administration as it considers other avenues to ensure government and company witnesses participate....
