WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today introduced legislation to assist states in preventing future abuses by registered sex offenders. The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act Reauthorization helps to improve tracking of sex offenders through federal support of state registries and dedicated resources to target offenders...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeSubcommittee on Immigration and the National InterestHearing on “The Impact of High-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Workers”February 25, 2016A little over a year ago, the Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on “Immigration Reforms Needed to Protect...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeHearing on “The Unaccompanied Alien Children Crisis: Does the Administration Have a Plan to Stop the Border Surge and Adequately Monitor the Children?”February 23, 2016Fiscal year 2014 saw a record number of unaccompanied minors illegally crossing the border....
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeExecutive Business MeetingFebruary 11, 2016Good morning. Today we have a number of bills and nominees on the agenda. S. 247 will be held over at the request of Senator Cruz. We’ll first take up S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeHearing titled “Breaking the Cycle: Mental Health and the Justice System”February 10, 2016Today we are here to discuss mental health and the justice system. I will open up the hearing and will later turn the gavel over to Senator Cornyn.We will hear a...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeHearing on the Need for Transparency in Asbestos TrustsFebruary 3, 2016Over 20 years ago, I was the lead Republican sponsor of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994. That legislation gave courts the power to create asbestos bankruptcy trusts. The purpose of these...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeHearing on the Failures and Future of the EB-5 Regional Center Program: Can it be Fixed?February 2, 2016In 1990, Congress created an employment preference category known as EB-5 which was “intended to create new employment for U.S. workers and to infuse new...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeExecutive Business MeetingJanuary 28, 2016Good morning. Today we have a number of bills and nominees on the agenda. Regarding the bills, S. 247 will be held over at the request of Senator Cruz and S. 483 will be held over at the request of Senator Hatch. S....
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeHearing on “Attacking America’s Epidemic ofHeroin and Prescription Drug Abuse”January 27, 2016The United States is experiencing an historic epidemic of drug overdose deaths. Over 47,000 Americans died from overdoses in 2014, an all-time high....
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeExecutive Business MeetingJanuary 21, 2016Good morning and welcome to the first markup of 2016. Today we have a number of bills and nominees on the agenda. Regarding the bills, we’re going to hold over S. 247 at the request of Senator Cruz, H.R. 1428, and S....
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeHearing on The Adequacy of Criminal Intent Standards in Federal ProsecutionsJanuary 20, 2016The American people are calling out for sentencing reform. In October, the Judiciary Committee reported a bipartisan reform bill by a vote of 15-5. That bill focuses on...
Prepared Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaFor the Congressional RecordChairman, Senate Committee on the JudiciaryJudicial Nominations, Luis RestrepoMonday, January 11, 2016 Today, the Senate will vote on the nomination of Luis Restrepo to be a circuit judge for the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. If he is confirmed, he will be the...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeExecutive Business MeetingThursday, December 10, 2015Good morning everyone. Today we have a number of bills and nominees on the agenda. We’ll consider the bills that are ripe for consideration first and then turn to nominees. We’ll hold over H.R. 1428,...
Prepared Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeHearing on Oversight of the Federal Bureau of InvestigationWednesday, December 9, 2015Director Comey, welcome and thank you for being here today. The FBI’s mission is to protect us from the most dangerous threats facing our nation. The deadly attacks in...
Prepared Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, U.S. Senate Committee on the JudiciaryHearing on Oversight of the Obama Administration’s Criminal Alien Removal PoliciesWednesday, December 2, 2015Over the last several years, the Obama administration has made many public statements about focusing immigration enforcement resources on...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeHearing on “Protecting Trade Secrets: the Impact of Trade Secret Theft on American Competitiveness and Potential Solutions to Remedy This Harm.”December 2, 2015The United States is the world’s leader in innovation, creating cutting-edge technologies and...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeHearing on “Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Problems: Examining the Source and Exploring the Solution”December 1, 2015 Good morning. The purpose of today’s hearing is to learn more about the origin of Puerto Rico’s fiscal problems, and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is escalating his holds on State Department nominees over the State Department’s continued failure to respond in a timely, reasonable manner to numerous inquiries beginning in June 2013. Grassley has added a hold on the nomination of Thomas A. Shannon, Jr., to be an Under...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeExecutive Business MeetingThursday, November 19, 2015Good morning. Today we have two bills on the agenda, they’ll both be held over if we get a quorum. Both of these bills would help strengthen our national security at a time when doing so is critically...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today received the “Honest Abe Integrity in Government” award from the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund for his work to shield taxpayers from fraud against the government.Inscribed on the award is, “Senator Chuck Grassley – the father of the modern False...
