WASHINGTON—Sen. Chuck Grassley will host a Purple Heart medal ceremony at his Des Moines office for two Iowa war veterans on Tuesday, August 2, 2016, at 1:30 p.m.Don Coderre of West Des Moines and Frank Hawk of Norwalk will each receive a Purple Heart medal. Grassley helped both veterans provide documentation to the Army Review Board to receive their...
Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Sioux City, Jacob Bossman, will be holding open office hours in Emmet, Palo Alto, Kossuth and Dickinson counties on Monday, August 8. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express views.Bossman’s schedule is as follows:Monday, August 8, 201610:00...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley has introduced bipartisan legislation that would produce high quality data on where general surgeons are in short supply around the country. The need for general surgeons is especially high in rural or other under-served communities. “If you fall from the barn or are injured in an tractor accident on the farm in...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Grassley is asking the top administrator of Medicare for insight into an alarming increase in spending under the Medicare catastrophic prescription drug program, including whether drug companies might be exploiting the benefit.
“Overall, these escalating expenditures are cause for serious concern and should prompt questions regarding...
Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Cedar Rapids, Fred Schuster, will be holding open office hours in Benton, Tama, Poweshiek and Mahaska counties on Monday, August 15. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express views.Schuster’s schedule is as follows:Monday, August 15, 20169:00...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold a town meeting in Allamakee County on Thursday, August 4, as part of his annual 99 county meetings.With these meetings, Grassley will continue his long-standing practice of holding meetings with Iowans in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties every year. Grassley has held a meeting in every county, every year...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy are seeking more information on the government’s response to cyberattacks targeting American political organizations. The inquiry follows a reported data breach at the Democratic National Committee and the selective publishing of stolen documents and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today urged the secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor to provide any relevant help to the people of Lansing in light of the closure of the Blumenthal Lansing Company, a longtime button-maker. “Lansing is a town of just 1,000 people, so a job loss of this magnitude will hit the community and workers hard,” Grassley...
The following release contains the revised street address for the Louisa County Town Meeting.WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold town meetings in Washington and Louisa Counties on Thursday, July 28, and Friday, July 29, as part of his annual 99 county meetings.With these meetings, Grassley will continue his long-standing practice of holding...
WASHINGTON – A sweeping addiction recovery bill aimed at addressing the nation’s growing heroin and opioid addiction epidemic led through the Senate by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa has been signed into law. The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) also includes a number of provisions crafted by Grassley to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today issued the following statement after President Obama signed the Protecting Our Lives by Initiating COPS Expansion (POLICE) Act into law.“Our brave men and women of law enforcement put themselves in harm’s way every day to keep us safe, as we’ve seen in their valiant...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is pressing the Defense Department to clarify and respond to potentially misleading statements about the true cost of a compressed natural gas station in Afghanistan. In a four-page-plus letter to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, Grassley outlined questionable statements by a top defense official, who asserted that the...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.), Patty Murray (Wash.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), and Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) led a bipartisan letter, signed by 36 of their Senate colleagues, urging the Obama administration to increase its proposed 2018 Renewable Volume Obligations for biodiesel to encourage continued growth in the industry and diversity in the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today urged the U.S. Department of Labor to help as much as possible if the state of Iowa seeks federal assistance for the 175 employees at Terex Cranes in Waverly who were told this week that the plant is ceasing operations. “If the state requests federal assistance, it is my hope that the Department of Labor...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold town meetings in Washington and Louisa Counties on Thursday, July 28, and Friday, July 29, as part of his annual 99 county meetings.With these meetings, Grassley will continue his long-standing practice of holding meetings with Iowans in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties every year. Grassley has held a...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley continues to pursue solutions to the problem of social media posts of nursing home residents by nursing home workers, most recently writing a follow-up letter to Snapchat and receiving a response. The news outlet ProPublica has documented 44 incidents across the country since 2012 in which nursing home workers posted...
TO: Iowa MediaFR: Beth LevineRE: Grassley 99 county meetingsDA: July 14, 2016Assertions have been once again been raised by political operatives about Sen. Grassley’s long tradition of county meetings with Iowans. I’m writing with information about these meetings, which...
There’s REID, and then there’s REALITY.REID: Senator Grassley's commitment to transparency is as shallow as the shallowest puddle you can find.REALITY: Senator Grassley holds five conference calls with Iowa reporters every week. He reserves time in his schedule every day he’s in Washington for eight, 15-minute...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Chuck Schumer led a bipartisan group of senators in introducing legislation aimed at controlling dangerous synthetic substances marketed as alternatives to illicit drugs. The Dangerous Synthetic Drug Control Act bans 22 synthetic chemicals including 11 used to create...
