WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Ron Wyden are asking the Trump administration to add the topic of individuals with disabilities to discussions on promoting apprenticeships.  The president in June established a task force on apprenticeship expansion to “identify and provide a report on strategies and proposals to promote apprenticeships.”

Invites bipartisan cooperation on oversight; suits against the president implicate former Secretary of State

                                                                                           

Sen. Chuck Grassley is the co-author of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act disclosure requirements for drug company payments to doctors.  He is also the co-sponsor of pending bipartisan legislation to apply the disclosure requirements to nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Two recent inspector general reports have called for more transparency of scientific research involving human subjects.  The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General found that the Office for Human Research Protections needs to improve transparency with public availability of its compliance activities.  The Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General, responding to a re

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is welcoming news from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that it has fixed an extension of a Medicare payment designation program that is critical to small, often rural hospitals.

WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, today approved two nominees to serve as Iowa’s U.S. attorneys. Both Peter Deegan, Jr. and Marc Krickbaum, nominees to be U.S. Attorneys for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa respectively, were reported to the full Senate by a unanimous, bipartisan voice vote of committee members.

Q: Are the stars aligned in Washington to enact comprehensive tax reform this year?

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley joined bipartisan legislation introduced today to create a temporary transitional reimbursement structure for Medicare home infusion services.

Legislation Included in FDA Reauthorization Act Could Impact Millions of Americans with Hearing Loss

Thursday, August 03, 2017

The Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA OIG) today released the results of its review of the circumstances of veteran Brandon Ketchum’s suicide and whether Ketchum received adequate mental health treatment at the Iowa City VA Health Care System. Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Joni Ernst, Sen. Ron Johnson, and Rep. Dave Loebsack sought the review. They made the following comment.

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