Senator Chuck GrassleyFloor Statement on Rural HealthDelivered Thursday, November 20, 2014
Today I rise to recognize National Rural Health Day. I would like to take a moment to recognize our rural healthcare providers and all that they do for this country.
Approximately 62 million Americans live in rural areas, and they depend on an ever shrinking...
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement after President Barack Obama’s announcement tonight that he will make a series of executive actions thwarting the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Grassley has sent letters questioning the President’s planned executive action, and his actions to enforce current...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaRanking Member, Senate Judiciary CommitteePresident Obama’s Abuse of Executive Action and Mass AmnestyWednesday, November 19, 2014
In his State of the Union address last January, President Obama announced what he called a year of action. Armed with a pen and a phone, he promised to take action...
Floor Statement of Senator Chuck GrassleyNational Adoption Day on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014Delivered Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014
On Saturday, many children and families around the country will celebrate National Adoption Day. It’s a day that many adoptions are finalized and youth find their forever families.
It’s very comforting and fitting that this day...
Video of the floor statement can be viewed here.
Floor StatementTribute to U.S. Senator Tom Harkinby U.S. Senator Chuck GrassleyNovember 19, 2014
Mr. President, I rise today to celebrate the 75th birthday of my friend and long-time colleague from our home state of Iowa, Tom Harkin. As you know, Mr. President, Senator Harkin will be retiring from...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today that executive action taken by President Barack Obama may continue to allow thousands of undocumented criminals to remain in the country even though they have been identified as a priority for deportation by his own administration. ...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on his vote in favor of the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
“We need an all-of-the-above approach to meet the country’s energy needs and give consumers choice. That means oil, ethanol, electricity from wind, and nuclear power. The State Department this year released its fifth...
Senator Grassley points out that a tax code that’s uncompetitive and federal regulation that’s heavy handed and overly aggressive has been a wet blanket on America’s economic recovery in recent years, hurting American workers. Washington needs to focus on an environment for job creation and economic opportunity. In that debate, distortions of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and the group Voice for Adoption are highlighting an Iowa family that expanded through adopting four children from foster care. The Grise family of Bettendorf has a portrait on display in Grassley’s office for this month, National Adoption Month.
“Children in foster care deserve a permanent family,” Grassley said. ...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today said he intends to object to Senate consideration of a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) nominee over the agency’s apparent rush to negotiate new contracts with local housing authorities participating in the Moving to Work demonstration program. Grassley announced his hold on the nomination...
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley made the following statement on the White House’s intent to nominate U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch to be the next Attorney General.
“I congratulate Ms. Lynch on her nomination. Being selected to serve as our nation’s top law enforcement officer is both a tremendous honor and responsibility. As we...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) today called on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to make all possible effort to ensure that Iowa absentee ballots are counted. Specifically, the senators issued a letter to the district managers of the Hawkeye District USPS and the Central Plains District USPS urging them to ensure...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley said today that a contract signed by the federal government during the influx of unaccompanied minors crossing the United States’ southern border raises more questions about the Obama administration’s stewardship of taxpayer dollars.
In a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that spring internships for college-age Iowans are available, and applications are due November 15. 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...
WASHINGTON –House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, R-IA, today made the following statement after the Department of Justice’s Inspector General released a report on the conduct of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms...
In a letter to FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, the senators requested the prompt release of the agency’s annual report summarizing agreements where brand-name drug companies pay generic drug companies to delay marketing lower cost generic drugs
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today urged the Federal Trade...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, today made the following comment on a New York Times story describing the IRS’ use of civil asset forfeiture laws to seize the assets of small business owners without suspicion of a crime. A senior member and former chairman and ranking member of the Finance Committee, with...
