WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today introduced legislation to expand manufacturing opportunities for Army arsenals. The Army Arsenal Revitalization Act, S. 2516, would provide Army arsenals, such as Rock Island Arsenal, the tools they needed to be more competitive,...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andrew Slavitt requesting information on why the agency failed to fully implement two key recommendations made by an internal...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley said today that the nomination of Judge Rebecca Ebinger to be a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa was passed by the Senate tonight by a vote of 83-0. Ebinger’s nomination will now be sent to President Barack Obama who nominated her on Sept. 15, 2015.“Judge Ebinger is high quality...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, the lead co-sponsors of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, released the following statement.“Over the course of the last year in putting together this bill, we listened to a diverse set of views and came up with a consensus piece that passed the committee...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley continues to drill down on wasteful spending and poor accountability by a task force meant to help develop business in Afghanistan, following up on testimony from a Defense Department official at a recent hearing and seeking answers on whether the Defense Department retaliated against a colonel who spoke out about task force...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeClarifying Certain Myths Regarding the Gun Control Debateand Discussion of Proposed LegislationWednesday, February 3, 2016Mr. President, the problem of gun violence is real, but too many of the proposed responses to this problem would not only represent unwise...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is seeking details on how the Federal Bureau of Prisons reviews the backgrounds of organizations it relies upon to contract with chaplains and instructors for its religious programs. The request follows revelations that the bureau enlisted an organization previously found to have ties to...
Remarks of Sen. Chuck GrassleyNational Rural Health AssociationWednesday, February 3, 2016I want to thank you, the National Rural Health Association, for inviting me to speak with you. Hospital closures and payment issues impact Iowans and the nation at large. As a senator from a rural state, I have been a long-time advocate of rural...
Remarks of Sen. Chuck GrassleyCommunity Anti-Drug Coalitions of America Visit to Capitol HillWednesday, Feb. 3, 2016Thank you, General Dean, for your kind introduction and for inviting me back to speak with all of you again.It’s always a pleasure to have a chance to speak with passionate and dedicated people. I want to extend a warm welcome to all...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is seeking answers on why an investigative report of serious misconduct by a Department of Veterans Affairs deputy inspector general – who at one time served as acting inspector general -- never became public.
“I’m concerned that agencies are fighting each other over the release of reports like this and that they’re...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is seeking a Government Accountability Office (GAO) review of the Department of Labor’s oversight of the financially troubled Central States pension fund.
“The Department of Labor has considerable oversight over the Central States pension fund,” Grassley said. “It appears that the department hasn’t done...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold six town meetings in eastern Iowa Feb. 16 through Feb. 18 as part of his annual 99-county meetings. “Representative government is a two-way street. I’m one half of the process and the people of Iowa are the other half. You can’t have representative government without dialogue...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is asking Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to account for using personal email for government business, including whether anyone has reviewed whether classified information was involved. Grassley said the personal email use is against various government laws and rules, including those maintained by the National Archives...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is one of two senators who asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the actions Colorado and Washington have taken to implement their recreational marijuana laws and the mechanisms the Department of Justice and its components have established to monitor the effects of legalization. The GAO report finds the Obama...
Senior Officials Gave Misleading Response to 2012 Request for Clinton E-mail Addresses
WASHINGTON – A 2012 Freedom of Information Act request for all of the email addresses associated with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made its way to senior staff before the State Department asserted that no records of her email address could be found. In fact,...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee chaired by Senator Chuck Grassley reported several bills to improve data sharing agreements with other nations, protect intellectual property and hold accountable sponsors of terrorism. The Committee also reported three judicial nominations to the full Senate for further consideration."This...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday unanimously approved an amendment coauthored by Ranking Member Patrick Leahy and Chairman Chuck Grassley to ensure that companies cannot intimidate whistleblowers by threatening them with lawsuits for trade secret theft. Leahy and Grassley have long worked together to strengthen whistleblower...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today praised unanimous committee passage of a bill substantially similar to a bill he co-sponsored to restrict the ability of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to profit from the sale of looted antiquities. “We need to destroy ISIS rather than support its funding,” Grassley said....
