WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today noted qualified applicants are eligible to apply for a special internship in the nation’s capital for young people who spent time in foster care. The non-profit Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute sponsors its Foster Youth Internship to place interns in congressional offices for the summer to...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today made the following statement after the media reported that the Obama administration had released perpetrators of serious crimes from immigration facilities prior to removal proceedings. Media reports also claim that the administration is bringing to the United States a...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Wyden today expressed optimism that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whistleblowers may receive better protection under new guidelines outlined in a proposal to President Barack Obama.
In August, Grassley and Wyden asked the President to release a 14-month overdue report on “Protecting Whistleblowers with...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is among a bipartisan group of 15 senators calling on the IRS to do a better job of preventing tax refund fraud using stolen identities.
“This is a chronic problem,” Grassley said. “The IRS should make fixing it a high priority. Identity theft is devastating for victims and when it comes through the IRS, it...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa today asked the federal agencies featured in a critical government audit to account for the hundreds of federal employees on paid leave for a year or more.
“Each agency handles administrative leave on its own terms in the absence of clear guidance that should apply to everyone,” Grassley said. “The...
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following comment after a World Trade Organization (WTO) compliance panel determined that the revised rule released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) violates rules under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
COOL was included in the 2002 farm bill, but was...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today expressed alarm at the findings of a new report, issued at his request, documenting that tens of thousands of federal employees were on paid leave for at least one month and several hundred employees for nine months to three years, over a recent three-year period.
“These employees should be working for...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans are asking President Barack Obama “to immediately cease issuing visas to persons of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, and to consider expanding this ban to other countries that may not have standards in place to properly screen travelers entering the United States.”
In a letter to President Obama, Judiciary...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley and Congressman Darrell Issa are again pushing the U.S. Department of Justice to be forthcoming about yet another gun found at the scene of a shooting in Arizona and connected to the ill-advised gunwalking strategy known as Operation Fast and Furious. The shooting occurred at a Phoenix apartment complex and left two...
WASHINGTON – Senate and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Members Chuck Grassley and John Conyers are raising questions about a new practice by the Justice Department denying certain records to the department’s Inspector General.
During testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, the Inspector General for the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz,...
WASHINGTON—Senator Grassley today applauded Cedar Falls for being named the 2014 Iowa “eCity” in recognition of the strength of the Cedar Falls online business community.
The award was presented by Google today at Scratch Cupcakery, a small business in Cedar Falls. The award was determined by a review of local small businesses in cities in all 50...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement after a White House official acknowledged that the President would delay announcing a replacement for Attorney General Eric Holder until after the mid-term elections. According to the AP, Senate Democrats asked the President to delay the...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today that President Barack Obama should consider the harmful effects on American workers before moving forward on executive action on immigration policy.
In a letter to the President, Grassley reiterated that circumventing Congress on immigration policy would be an...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch and Tom Coburn are asking the Government Accountability Office to review policies of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the agency charged with caring for unaccompanied minors crossing the southern U.S. border.
The senators questioned the ability of the Office of Refugee and Resettlement (ORR) to accommodate...
Senator Chuck Grassley released the following statement after the Washington Post reported that the White House was aware of evidence that its own personnel was entangled in the prostitution scandal involving several Secret Service agents in Colombia. Two years ago, Grassley questioned the White House extensively about the possibility of its own...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa was honored by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) for his support of issues that are critical to U.S. manufacturing jobs and investment. Grassley received NAM’s Award for Manufacturing Legislative Excellence based on his votes in the 113th Congress on policies that enhance U.S. manufacturers’...
In July 2013, Sen. Chuck Grassley asked the University of Michigan to account for an arrangement that allowed certain investors early access to a university-produced consumer confidence survey. The University of Michigan now will make the information more widely available upon release. Grassley made the following comment on this development.
“It...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is asking the federal government to account for an exclusive, long-time contract between Bank of America and the government to operate an expanding array of services for federal prison inmates.
“The government has competitive bidding for good reason. It’s meant to get taxpayers the most bang for the...
