WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today introduced legislation to combat tax return theft by perpetrators who steal the identities of innocent Americans. The Tax Return Identity Theft Protection Act of 2016 strengthens penalties for identity thieves, establishes enhanced sentences for crimes against vulnerable and frequently...
Sen. Chuck Grassley, as then-chairman of the Committee on Finance, with jurisdiction over taxes, played a large role in drafting the Pension Protection Act of 2006. That bill became law and contained the most sweeping reforms of pension funding rules since 1974, helping to guarantee that companies uphold their pension promises to workers. The...
Video of the speech is available here. Floor Speech of Senator Chuck Grassley on Admiral Losey Whistleblower InvestigationDelivered April 6, 2016Mr. President, I come to the floor today to tell a story about how a distinguished naval career was ruined by abuse of suspected whistleblowers. The end-result is a mixed bag of good and bad. In...
The pro-marijuana lobby claims today’s hearing on the Justice Department’s enforcement priorities on marijuana lacked data and relied on anecdotes. But there was a lot of data. In Colorado, from 2012 to 2014, the number of hospitalizations related to marijuana increased 70%, the number of traffic deaths related to marijuana rose 20%, and...
WASHINGTON - Senator Chuck Grassley, one of the only working family farmers in the United States Senate, is continuing his work to ensure the farm program returns to its original intent to help small- and medium-sized farms weather the highs and lows of farming that are out of a farmer’s control.
Grassley is introducing the Farm Payment Loophole...
WASHINGTON – The Senate today passed the bipartisan Defend Trade Secrets Act to shield American innovators against growing instances of intellectual property theft involving valuable proprietary information. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley convened a hearing on trade secrets theft last December and steered the bill to committee...
Prepared Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeInspector General Empowerment Act (S.579)April 4, 2016Mr. President, this body was last in session during Sunshine Week, but the principle of government transparency is one that does not expire. So, I’d like to take a few moments now to reiterate my...
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 American Physical Therapy Association, Iowa Association of Nurse Anesthetists, Iowa Professional Fire Fighters, Iowa Rural Water, Iowa Citizen Action Network, Iowa Association of Regional...
Ernst, Grassley Call for Review of Regulatory Barriers Iowa Pharmacies Face in Federal Drug Take Back Program
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to request that the agency provide Congress with a report on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA)...
Senator Grassley's 99 county meetingsQuestions have been raised by political entities about Sen. Grassley’s meetings with Iowans during the on-going Senate recess. I’m writing with information about these meetings, which are structured as they have been for years, despite partisan assertions to the contrary.Sen. Grassley’s had at...
Earlier this month, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, asked the Department of Justice to weigh in on the newly emerging problem of the exploitation of nursing home residents on social media. Today, the Department of Justice announced the launch of 10 regional Elder Justice Task Forces to “bring together federal, state and...
Under pressure from Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released updated salary data for the top executives at public housing authorities nationwide. The state and local housing authority executives are prohibited from exceeding a congressionally imposed cap on the amount of federal money that can be used for...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Caucus on International Narcotics Control, earlier this month led the Senate to overwhelming passage of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act on opioid addiction. Prior to that, he led the bill through the Judiciary Committee. The Community Anti-Drug Coalitions...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and the Caucus on International Narcotics Control, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Co-chairman of the Caucus on International Narcotics Control, will hold a hearing entitled, “Is the Department of Justice Adequately Protecting the Public from the Impact of State Recreational...
Iowa, Nebraska Senators Seek Clarification on Administration’s Failure to Act
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators from Iowa and Nebraska are demanding an explanation for why the Obama Administration didn’t detain an undocumented immigrant charged in an Omaha drunk driving incident that led to the death of a young Iowan. Senators Chuck Grassley, Deb...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley, Debbie Stabenow, Joni Ernst and Sherrod Brown are calling on the U.S. Department of the Treasury to review China National Chemical Corporation’s (ChemChina) proposed acquisition of Syngenta for any potential effects on U.S. national security and the American food system.
“The food and agriculture sectors are part of...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee made the following statement in response to a speech given by Vice President Joe Biden regarding his tenure as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. As Chairman, Biden refused to consider 44 judicial nominees.
“No matter how hard the White House tries to rewrite history, it...
