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...
Prepared Statement of Senator Chuck GrassleyFor the Congressional RecordThe Nomination of LaShann DeArcy Hall,to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New YorkInserted into the Record on November 16, 2015Today, the Senate confirmed the 317th judicial nominee during President Obama’s presidency, so I wanted to take this opportunity to...
Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control“Drug Trafficking Across the Southwest Border and Oversight of U.S Counterdrug Assistance to Mexico”Tuesday, November 17, 2015Prepared Statement of Chairman Chuck Grassley of IowaJust over eight years ago, the United States and Mexico announced the creation of the Merida Initiative, a bilateral...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeHearing on NominationsNovember 4, 2015Good morning. I want to welcome everyone to the 10th nominations hearing this year. Today, we’ll consider the nomination of Stuart Delery to be Associate Attorney General, the third highest ranking official at the Justice...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeExecutive Business MeetingThursday, October 22, 2015Good morning. Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will markup on a historic piece of legislation, the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act. The bill is cosponsored by Senators Durbin, Cornyn, Whitehouse,...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeHearing on Judicial NominationsWednesday, October 21, 2015Good morning and welcome to the 9th nominations hearing this year. Today we will hear from four nominees to federal district courts: Gary Brown, for the Eastern District of New YorkRebecca Ebinger, for...
Prepared Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeHearing on the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015Monday, October 19, 2015Good afternoon. Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on an important bill, the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act. I was pleased to introduce this bill...
This statement was revised to better characterize recent drug-related prison admissions.Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeField Hearing on “A New Era in the Fight Against Methamphetamine in Iowa”Tuesday, October 13, 2015Welcome to everyone here this morning. Today’s Senate...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeExecutive Business MeetingOctober 8, 2015Today we have one bill and one nominee on the agenda.We’ll hold over S. 2123 the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act.This bill represents a broad bipartisan agreement that quite a few members of this Committee entered into....
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeSubcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest Hearing on“Oversight of the Administration’s FY 2016 Refugee Resettlement Program: Fiscal and Security Implications”October 1, 2015I appreciate the Chairman of this subcommittee for holding a...
Prepared Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaU.S. Senate Committee on FinanceHearing on“Financial and Economic Challenges in Puerto Rico”Tuesday, September 29, 2015Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to take a moment to say just a few things and then maybe ask some questions if there’s time.Puerto Rico’s debt crisis didn’t...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeSubcommittee Hearing on Examining Consolidation in the Health Insurance Industry and its Impact on ConsumersTuesday, September 22, 2015Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this important hearing to examine the proposed mergers in the health insurance industry....
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeExecutive Business MeetingThursday, September 17, 2015Today we have two bills and three judicial nominees on the agenda.We’ll hold over S. 1814, the Stop Sanctuary Cities Act.We also have on the agenda S. 32, the Transnational Drug Trafficking Act of 2015.This is a...
Photos of the award can be found here and here. WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa on Tuesday received the 2015 Fueling Growth Award from Growth Energy for his work to develop policies that support clean-burning, domestically produced ethanol. Grassley was presented the award at the Growth Energy Advocacy Conference in Washington,...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeHearing on “Reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act”September 16, 2015Today’s hearing is intended to help inform the Committee about the most recent views of a wide variety of stakeholders concerning the need to reform the Electronic...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has added to the number of State Department nominees on whom he intends to place a hold, citing a continued lack of responsiveness to his inquiries regarding what should be the public’s business. “I will object because, in addition to the multiple inquiries I’ve made that are still unanswered, I sent...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said he intends to object to unanimous consent to consider a State Department nominee, commonly known as placing a hold, over the agency’s poor responsiveness to questions about personnel practices and conflict of interest management and proper email use and management. Grassley said that in addition to...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeAt a Hearing Titled: “‘All’ Means ‘All’: The Justice Department’s Failure to Comply with Its Legal Obligation to Ensure Inspector General Access to All Records Needed for Independent Oversight"August 5, 2015The Inspector...
