Grassley Questions Immigration Officials’ Commitment to Cooperation with Local Police
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is asking the Obama Administration about how it’s encouraging assistance from local law enforcement to crack down on undocumented criminals. Grassley’s request comes as the administration announced the...
Photos at the event are available here. Background on wind energy in Newton is available here. NEWTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today took questions from workers at TPI Composites, a wind turbine blade maker, and marked the success of wind energy both in Iowa and nationwide. Employees of TPI Composites and Trinity Structural Towers are...
The Senate Caucus on Foster Youth today held Part Three of the Briefing Series: The Impact of Substance Abuse and Mental Disorders on Children and Families Involved in the Child Welfare System. Details about the event can be found below.Part Three: Promising Solutions for the Future What Can Be Done to Meet Child and Family Substance Abuse and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Patrick Leahy are working to help ensure that historically significant films and sound recordings are preserved for the benefit of generations of Americans. Together, they introduced legislation to reauthorize the sound recording and film preservation programs of...
WASHINGTON – The Senate last night passed a bipartisan resolution introduced by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley commemorating April as National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. The Resolution, which unanimously passed the Senate, is co-sponsored by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Joni...
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...
