WASHINGTON--Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is introducing new legislation to combat rising drug prices for Iowans by deterring brand-name pharmaceutical companies from blocking the entrance of more affordable generic alternatives in the marketplace. Along with Grassley, the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to...
Governor Terry Branstad announced today that the Commerce Center of Southeast Iowa is the latest industrial site to achieve certification through the Iowa Certified Site Program that is administered by the Iowa Economic Development Authority. The site, just west of Burlington, joins 11 other sites in the state that have been designated as...
WASHINGTON- Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa on Tuesday sent a letter to the Department of Justice Antitrust Division asking for a careful analysis of the Dow DuPont merger. Grassley is Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee which has jurisdiction over antitrust issues. The letter comes as several biotech and seed companies have announced...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Claire McCaskill, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Jason Chaffetz and Rep. Elijah Cummings are asking the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General to account for progress in properly investigating cases of whistleblower reprisal, a longstanding concern, despite some recent improvements. “We believe, however,...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is seeking details on what federal officials knew about the shooter at an Orlando, Fla., nightclub in the early hours of Sunday, June 12, 2016, that left 49 club goers dead and 53 injured.
The shooter, Omar Mateen, an American-born citizen whose parents emigrated from Afghanistan, reportedly...
Senate-Passed FOIA Improvement Act Clears House of Representatives WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the FOIA Improvement Act to improve government transparency. “The people ought to have a right to know what their...
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 Association of School Boards, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Iowa Radio Reading Information Services, the Iowa Bankers Association, the Financial Services Institute, the...
Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Waterloo, Jason Mohr, will be holding open office hours in Howard, Winneshiek, Fayette and Buchanan counties on Friday, June 17, 2016. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express views.Mohr’s schedule is as follows:9:30 a.m.-10:30...
Please note: Sen. Chuck Grassley is pushing for the Senate to approve the Military Justice Improvement Act, which would improve the system for handling sexual assault. Sen. Grassley and his fellow supporters hope the bill will be considered as an amendment to the pending defense authorization bill. In a speech on the Senate floor, Sen....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is asking three social media companies to outline any steps they have taken to prevent the misuse of their platforms to exploit nursing home residents. Grassley wrote to Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram, the companies identified in a news media-compiled database as having had users post photos and videos of nursing home...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved legislation by Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to reduce the backlog of families awaiting approval of survivor benefits of public safety officers killed in the line of duty. The Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Improvement Act, which also increases the federal...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Patrick Leahy are working to enhance procedural protections for property owners whose assets are seized by the federal government. The DUE PROCESS Act is the result of several months of bipartisan, bicameral discussions. The bill has already...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is seeking answers from several federal departments following reports that some U.S. companies and foreign contractors are abusing tourism visas to sidestep worker protections and visa requirements.
Recent media reports revealed that a foreign company contracting with an American...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today asked the IRS for updates on implementing tax-exempt hospital accountability measures, citing two instances of non-profit hospitals in the news for aggressively suing patients.
“As Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), you should be made aware of problematic activity within the charitable hospital...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana on Tuesday sent a letter to China’s Ambassador to the United States to ask the Chinese government to prioritize the approval of eight biotech traits that have been pending in the Chinese regulatory system for years. The letter comes after the good faith...
Statement for the Record by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeSubcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest“The H-2B Temporary Foreign Worker Program: Examining the Effects on Americans’ Job Opportunities and Wages”June 8, 2016 I want to thank Chairman Sessions for having this hearing today....
In response to a request by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released its second of three reports that review various aspects of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, including federal oversight of the program, to see whether the program is working as intended to help develop affordable rental housing....
The Senate last night gave final passage to the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. The legislation now goes to the President, who has said he plans to sign it into law. Sen. Chuck Grassley made the following comment on the bill.“This is a good example of where the business community and many members of the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa today announced the appointment of 21 high school students whom he nominated to the United States service academies earlier this year. “Students work very hard to earn this kind of opportunity,” Grassley said. “Admission to the service academies is highly competitive and a great...
