WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that spring internships for college-age Iowans are available, and applications are due November 30.
Internships are available in Grassley’s Washington, D.C., office as well as his offices in Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo. The semester-long internship will...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following statement in reaction to criticism from the Senate minority leader over Grassley’s hold on 22 State Department nominees over the State Department’s failure to respond thoroughly or at all to numerous inquiries beginning in 2013.
“My hold is on 22 nominees, not 600. I disclosed the reasons for...
Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week. The Senate will be in session Monday and Tuesday this week and will likely recess in observance of Veterans Day on Wednesday. Details of Senator Grassley’s Veterans Day event schedule will be available as they’re confirmed. Senator Grassley will meet with...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline.“It’s completely non-sensical. A lot of jobs in this country are tied to energy and construction. This was a chance to add more of those jobs. It was a chance to help meet the country’s energy needs...
Earlier this year, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa asked key government agencies what they’re doing to prevent and punish Medicaid dental fraud, including billing for unnecessary and painful treatments for children, in light of inspector general audits and related media reports documenting worrisome practices. This week, the Department of Health and Human...
DHS Considering Granting Work Permits to Illegal and Unqualified Immigrants
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee members are calling on the Department of Homeland Security to explain internal documents revealing plans to grant work permits to foreign workers in the country – potentially including illegal immigrants – who have been sponsored for a Green...
WASHINGTON – After refusing an invitation to testify before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, Chairman Chuck Grassley and subcommittee Chairman Jeff Sessions are pressing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to agree to testify before the full committee in the upcoming weeks about the...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that the committee cleared the Iowa nominees for the open judgeships in both of the state’s federal district courts.Judge Leonard Strand and Judge Rebecca Ebinger had been nominated by the President to fill federal judgeships on both the Northern and Southern District Courts of...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is urging Senate Appropriations Committee members to place firm restrictions on the expenditure of any money to resettle Syrian refugees in the United States until intelligence officials have agreed with the vetting process for these refugees.
Grassley has...
Sen. Chuck Grassley released the following statement after the Senate passed a resolution of disapproval of the Waters of the U.S. rule. Grassley is a cosponsor of the resolution, which was introduced by Sen. Joni Ernst. A resolution of disapproval is a legislative procedure used to try to overturn regulations and rules put forth by the executive...
WASHINGTON – Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are asking the Department of Homeland Security to explain its expanded use of immigration parole that reaches beyond the limits set by Congress. The Obama administration has established or plans to establish several parole programs that would allow entire groups of immigrants into the country to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement on the announced retirement of Kimberly Beal, Assistant Director for the U.S. Marshals Service Asset Forfeiture Division. Grassley has been conducting oversight of the Marshals Service as more than 70 employees have disclosed inappropriate hiring...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeInspector General Empowerment Act of 2015Wednesday, November 4, 2015Americans have a right to know when our government is misbehaving or wasting taxpayer dollars. To ensure accountability and transparency in government, Congress created Inspectors...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) led a bipartisan, bicameral letter urging conferees on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Reauthorization to maintain the gifted and talented education provisions included...
WASHINGTON— Sen. Chuck Grassley made the following statement after the Senate voted on a pair of measures to address the misguided rulemaking by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers known as the Waters of the United States (U.S.) rule. Despite receiving bipartisan support by a majority of the Senate, the Federal...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today pressed the Department of Defense to cooperate with a government watchdog by releasing all documents, names of staff involved and reasons for placing severe restrictions on information behind the construction of a $43 million natural gas filling station in Afghanistan.
“This gas station cost many more...
WASHINGTON – Senate leaders today recognized Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa for casting his 12,000th Senate vote early Friday morning. Only 17 senators in history have cast more votes than Grassley. In addition, no senator serving today has gone as long as Grassley has without missing a vote. Grassley has cast 7,474 consecutive...
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has prepared a report on a compressed natural gas filling station in Afghanistan that cost $43 million, many times more than it should have. A similar station in Pakistan cost no more than $500,000 to construct. SIGAR said the Defense Department is ill-prepared to explain...
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 Indian Hills Community College, the University of Iowa, Denison Job Corps, the Mercy Health Network and the Catholic Heart Association. Senator Grassley will meet with Iowa families from...
