WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today welcomed the latest support for his bipartisan, bicameral bill to give small businesses relief from onerous penalties under the President’s health care law if they continue to help their employees with health care costs. The number of organizations and small businesses that support his Small Business...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus, now approaching its second year, is adding two new members: Senators Joni Ernst of Iowa and Gary Peters of Michigan. The bipartisan caucus focuses on raising awareness of the important role whistleblowers play in bringing about accountability in government and the workplace, and the need to...
Video can be found here. Floor Statement of Senator Chuck GrassleyCan Farmers Trust the EPA with Even More Power?Delivered Thursday, February 25, 2016Mr. President, I rise for the purpose of showing how one bureaucracy, the Corp of Engineers, and to some extent the EPA working with them has already made farming very difficult, and how if the Waters of...
‘We look forward to reiterating to him directly that the American people will be heard and the next Supreme Court justice will be determined once the elections are complete’WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Chuck Grassley, released the following statement...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary Committee“Biden Malarkey”Thursday, February 25, 2016 Mr. President, yesterday the minority leader came to the floor to disparage the work of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate as a whole. And of course, as he does from time to time, he...
WASHINGTON — As child-welfare agencies across the country are overwhelmed with children in need of services due to increased opiate abuse, Congressman Todd Young (R-IN) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the Modernizing the Interstate Placement of Children in Foster Care Act to address this nationwide crisis:“Thousands of children in my...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s announced plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility for terrorists and enemy combatants:“The facility at Guantanamo Bay houses terrorists and enemy combatants, many of whom are the ‘worst of the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans today sent a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell indicating that they will exercise their constitutional authority to withhold consent of a Supreme Court nomination and will not hold hearings on a Supreme Court nominee until the next President is sworn in. The letter, signed by all...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General today issued a report on HHS and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ mismanagement of the launch of HealthCare.gov. Sen. Chuck Grassley made the following comment on the report.“There’s been wide agreement that the launch was disastrous....
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky today introduced legislation to re-authorize a program to help children who are in foster care or at risk of such placement because of parental abuse of methamphetamine or another substance. The new bill ensures that opioid abuse is also a key focus...
NEW HARTFORD – Senator Chuck Grassley today said that some families who have faced roadblocks to bringing home children they adopted from the Democratic Republic of the Congo are now receiving the proper immigration travel documents that will allow them to take their children home. “Through no fault of their own, these families have been...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck GrassleyChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeJustice Antonin Scalia and His Role in Protecting Individual LibertiesMonday, February 22, 2016Mr. President, we are all saddened by the recent death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. I extend my sympathies to his family. His death is a great loss to the...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman Senate Judiciary CommitteeSupreme Court Vacancies In Presidential Election Years:“The Biden Rules”Monday, February 22, 2016Mr. President, we find ourselves in a very unusual situation. We are in a presidential election year. The campaign for our next commander-in-chief is in full...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch and Ron Johnson today released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the steps the Department of Health and Human Services can take to monitor unaccompanied minors in the United States who illegally crossed the southern border.The report showed that the Obama administration isn’t...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today asked Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter to explain why the Director of Naval Intelligence, Vice Admiral Ted N. Branch, remains at his post even though he has not possessed the required security clearances for more than two years. The military leadership reportedly pulled Branch’s security clearance over a...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and member of the Agriculture Committee, made the following statement after DuPont and Dow announced the structure of the merged independent agriculture company. DuPont’s agriculture business had been headquartered in Johnston, Iowa.“The proposed DuPont-Dow merger left...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is tracking how well scientific researchers report clinical trial results to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in light of an investigative report showing lagging reporting. Researchers are required to report results to an NIH database, clinicaltrials.gov, for the benefit of patients and doctors. The news outlet STAT...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) earlier this week sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell seeking more information about the current screening processes for potential...
