WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is requesting an update on the ongoing investigation into the drowning death of a 20-year-old Iowan while in police custody more than a year ago.
Brandon Ellingson of Clive, Iowa, drowned on the Lake of the Ozarks while in the custody of the Missouri Highway Patrol on May 31, 2014....
Senator Chuck Grassley’s Regional Director based in Davenport, Penny Vacek, will be holding open office hours in Jefferson, Wapello, Van Buren and Davis counties on Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express views. ...
WASHINGTON – State Department ethics officials were not included on recently-released emails in which top Clinton aides debated potential conflicts that former President Bill Clinton’s speaking engagements may have posed for Hillary Clinton in her role as the nation’s top diplomat. In some emails, Bill Clinton aides and State Department officials agree...
Sen. Chuck Grassley today made the following comment on the passing of David Stanley, a former member of the Iowa House of Representatives and the founder of Iowans for Tax Relief. “Dave and I served together in the state House. He was a close ally on the issues and a good friend. He was a prominent leader on fiscal concerns and had a...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today asked the State Department and a lead agency watchdog group to provide all records that would document how and why the State Department went more than five years without a permanent inspector general. Grassley cited several examples in which a later, permanent inspector general found the lapse compromised agency...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley is continuing his inquiry into State Department personnel practices amid newly disclosed emails showing the intersection of official actions and private business involving a top aide who was working for the State Department as a Special Government Employee, an outside firm, Teneo, and the Clinton Foundation at the same time....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is seeking better oversight from the Department of Labor to prevent violence at federally funded Job Corps centers. His inquiry comes amid two murders of Job Corps students in the last four months, one in St. Louis, another in Homestead, Fla., and long-standing disciplinary problems documented by the agency...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn are examining the impact third party litigation financing is having on civil litigation in the United States. In letters to Burford Capital, Bentham IMF and Juridica Investments Ltd., three of the largest commercial litigation financing firms, Grassley and...
WASHINGTON -- Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa today presented military medals to two Plymouth County veterans. He presented World War II victory medals to John Hart of Le Mars and Robert L. Taylor of Westfield. The medals were presented before Grassley’s town hall meeting at Floyd Valley Hospital, which both men attended unaware they were...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is continuing his efforts to learn more about the process that allowed top secret classified information to be sent on unsecure communication lines and the subsequent possession of this classified material on...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is encouraging Iowans interested in attending the outdoor simulcast of Pope Francis’ address to Congress on Thursday, Sept. 24, to contact his office for tickets. Grassley will receive 200 tickets for the simulcast on the West Front grounds of the U.S. Capitol. “It’s an historic event, and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today raised concerns that the process for vetting emails for Freedom of Information Act requests at the State Department may be compromised. In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Grassley asked about a dispute between State Department...
WASHINGTON – Reiterating concerns about national security information being properly secured from foreign governments and other entities, Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is asking Hillary Clinton’s private attorney, David Kendall, about his security...
WASHINGTON – Members of the Senate and House of Representatives are pressing the Obama administration to provide and commit to particular legislative language that would ensure that inspectors general receive unfettered access to all agency documents, as current law intends. The letter, sent to Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and Justice Department...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte today are seeking details on what federal immigration officials knew of an undocumented immigrant who recently admitted to strangling a female co-worker and burning her body.
According to media reports, Juan Jimenez-Olivera pled guilty...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the 80th anniversary of Social Security. Grassley is the former chairman and a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, which has legislative and oversight jurisdiction of Social Security.“Generations of Americans have been protected against poverty, thanks in large part to...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement after the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) announcement that it was providing more guidance for businesses under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. Section 5 provides authority for the FTC to enforce “unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or...
WASHINGTON – Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Bob Corker of Tennessee, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report highlights the lack of rigorous oversight of the EB-5 regional center program, specifically how the agency fails to analyze risks,...
