Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pushing for answers after the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has stonewalled on questions related to allegations of ethics and conflicts of interest violations at the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA).

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today praised the Senate’s passage of a bill he cosponsored to aid organizations that provide services for victims of crime. The bill unanimously passed the Senate this evening.

Capitol Hill Report 07-19-21

Q&A: Drug Advertising Needs More Daylight With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley

Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pushing for corrective action in the wake of a recently-released Justice Department Inspector General (OIG) report regarding the FBI’s mishandling of the investigation into Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of young athletes

As overdose deaths surge, fueled by synthetic opioids, lawmakers from both houses of Congress today reintroduced a framework to fight the rapid spread of deadly synthetic drugs, which can quickly be re-engineered to circumvent federal laws designed to outlaw them.

U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee; Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee; and Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold an oversight hearing on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) dereliction of duty in the Larry Nassar case, which enabled the continued abuse of dozens of victims.

U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today announced that on July 27, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the growing wave of ransomware attacks affecting businesses, non-profits, and local governments across the nation. Durbin and Grassley have asked the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to testify before the Committee to provide guidance and best practices on how businesses and organizations can protect themselves against ransomware attacks, how they should respond if they become victims, and what the Administration is doing to investigate and prosecute those responsible for these attacks.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement regarding the recently announced draft legislation titled Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act.

Sen. Chuck Grassley today joined Sens. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and a group of colleagues in reintroducing the Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act.

Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are asking the Justice Department for more information and records after learning that the department could not locate 59 of the 96 phones used by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team.

Multiple FBI field offices failed to promptly and properly respond to repeated allegations of sexual abuse of Olympic gymnasts and other young athletes by Olympic Physician Larry Nassar, according to a Justice Department Inspector General report released today.

Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) today introduced the Assisting Broadband Connectivity Act.

Next Tuesday, Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Co-Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and members of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control will hold a hearing entitled, “The Federal Response to the Drug Overdose Epidemic.”

Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) today sent a letter to President Biden urging the administration to promptly appoint a qualified individual as the Acting Inspector General to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and quickly nominate a permanent successor for the Senate’s consideration.

Capitol Hill Report 07-12-21

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pushing for information about whether non-partisan, career officials were consulted in the creation of recent Biden administration policy pushes that appear to ignore important context about domestic terrorism and gun crime in the United States.

Q&A: Veterans Fellow With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley

Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) regional director based in Council Bluffs will hold traveling office hours in seven counties around Western Iowa throughout July.

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) today released a report requested by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) showing that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) does no national security risk assessment when engaging the services of genetic testing and analysis firms that may have connections or partnerships with foreign governments, including the Chinese government.