| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.08.2026 | ICYMI: Grassley Op-Ed: Republicans are leading a public safety revival. Americans are better off because of it. | BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Amid a historic drop in violent crime, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) authored an op-ed in Fox News highlighting Republicans’ successful efforts to safeguard American communities, as w... |
| 28.08.2026 | Grassley’s Big Tech Investigation Yields Child Safety Results | BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) investigation into eight major tech companies has prompted “significantly improved” and “more actionable” reports of online child exploitation, accordi... |
| 21.08.2026 | Grassley, Shaheen Mark Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day | BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – On Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) are driving awareness of the dangers of fentanyl and continuing to educat... |
| 11.08.2026 | Senate Unanimously Passes Grassley-Hassan Bill to Combat Counterfeit Imports | BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) are applauding the Senate’s unanimous passage of their legislation to detect and intercept counterfeit imports. The ... |
| 08.08.2026 | SAVE Act Buried: Thune Filed Crypto Cloture Same Morning as September Deal | By William Chan
Published: Aug 08 2026, 10:57 AM EDT
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| 06.08.2026 | FBI Secretly Opened Probe Alleging Trump Fired Comey Because He Was a Russian Asset, Declassified Memos Show | By John Solomon
The FBI opened a criminal probe specifically targeting Donald Trump in May 2017, alleging the newly elected president may have been acting as a Russian asset when he fired then-Director James Comey even though the bureau’s o... |
| 06.08.2026 | Senate Unanimously Passes Grassley-Durbin Bankruptcy Legislation to Support Small Businesses and American Families | WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) are applauding the Senate’s unanimous passage of their Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment Act of 2026 to restore Americans’ access... |
| 06.08.2026 | Grassley Opens Judiciary Committee Executive Business Meeting on Todd Blanche’s Nomination to be Attorney General | Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee
Executive Business Meeting
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
On today’s agenda, we have one nomination.
We’ll vote on Todd Blanche to serve as Attorney ... |
| 04.08.2026 | ICYMI: Grassley Invites Jack Smith to Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee | Jack Smith invited to testify before Senate next month
August 3, 2026
POLITICO
Jack Smith, the former special counsel who brought criminal charges against President Donald Trump, has been invited to testify Sept. 22 before the Senate Judici... |
| 01.08.2026 | Grassley, Colleagues Grill Verizon for Failing to Disclose Arctic Frost Subpoenas to Congress | BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is leading 15 Senate colleagues in a letter pressing Verizon for details on its decision to hand over senators’ phone toll records to Special Counsel Jac... |
| 31.07.2026 | Senate Unanimously Passes Grassley-Coons Anti-Counterfeiting Month Resolution | WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), co-chairs of the Congressional Trademark Caucus, applauded the Senate’s unanimous passage of their resolution designating July as “Natio... |
| 23.07.2026 | House Republican says Smith may have lied about Trump probe and refers him for possible prosecution | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ERIC TUCKER
WASHINGTON (AP) — A key Republican lawmaker says he believes that special counsel Jack Smith may have made false statements to Congress while testifying about his investigation of Pr... |
| 23.07.2026 | Grassley Highlights Wray FBI’s Failure to Fully Investigate 2020 Election Concerns: “The Facts and Evidence Ought to Breathe” | Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee
“FBI Election Interference Investigation and More Misleading Reporting from the New York Times”
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
VIDEO
I come to the floor once aga... |
| 23.07.2026 | Grassley Probes Meta on Disclosures Alleging Company Disregarded Child Safety Risks and Retaliated Against Whistleblowers | WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is raising concerns about allegations that Meta has engaged in a longstanding campaign to discredit and malign whistleblowers as “leakers” for raising concerns about c... |
| 23.07.2026 | Meta Fired Two Researchers Who Told Congress Children Were Exploited in Its VR | By Adrian Parham
Published: Jul 23 2026, 6:46 AM EDT
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| 15.07.2026 | NEWS: Jack Smith’s Investigative Team Secretly Obtained Text Messages from 44 Members of Congress Amid Trump Probe | WASHINGTON – Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigative team obtained and reviewed text messages from 44 Members of Congress as part of the Biden Department of Justice’s (DOJ) criminal investigation into President Trump. Evidence shows the ... |
| 01.07.2026 | Bereaved Families, Law Enforcement and Veterinary Organizations Cheer Combating Illicit Xylazine Act’s Advancement in the Must-Pass NDAA | BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – A coalition of bereaved families, law enforcement organizations and veterinary associations are calling on Congress to pass the bipartisan Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, authored by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Cha... |
| 30.06.2026 | Grassley, Hagerty Call Out the Federal Judiciary’s Use of Taxpayer Dollars on Gender, Climate Initiatives | BULTER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) are pressing the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO) for answers regarding federal courts’ use of taxpayer dollars to take sides on “hotly debated... |
| 30.06.2026 | ICYMI: Des Moines Register: “Grassley is Right. Federal Courts Should Allow Cameras.” | Grassley is right. Federal courts should allow cameras.
June 28, 2026
By The Register’s Editorial Board
The Des Moines Register
This should be the year that Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa gets his way on allowing cameras and other devices insi... |
| 25.06.2026 | Grassley, Durbin Advance Bipartisan Packages in National Defense Authorization Act to Crack Down on Crime and Protect Kids Online | WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) are advancing two legislative packages in the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to fight crime nationw... |
| 19.06.2026 | Judiciary Committee Advances Bipartisan Legislation to Shine Light on Federal Court Proceedings | WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced two bipartisan bills by voice vote to allow television cameras in federal courtrooms. The bills are led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Di... |
| 01.05.2026 | Senators introduce AHA-supported bill granting extension of Medicare payment model for rural hospitals | Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., April 30 introduced the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Reauthorization Act, legislation that would grant a five-year extension to a Medicare payment model for rural hospital... |
| 29.03.2026 | Lost in transmission: Changes in organ donor status can fall through cracks in the system | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Céline Gounder, KFF Health News
When Raven Kinser walked into a Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles office two summers ago, she completed a driver’s license application that included the optio... |
| 04.03.2026 | DHS Secretary Noem’s second Capitol Hill grilling this week: What to know | Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee, her second consecutive day of grilling by lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Noem faced a friendlier crowd than she did in the Senate Judiciary Commit... |
| 03.03.2026 | ‘Mistakes were made,’ Grassley tells Noem about Trump’s immigration crackdown | DHS Secretary Kristi Noem testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, her first of two appearances on Capitol Hill this week.
Democrats called for Noem’s impeachment after federal officers killed two U.S. citizens during an ... |
| 10.02.2026 | Close Maduro ally pardoned by Biden once again a target of US criminal investigation | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN
MIAMI (AP) — Less than three years after President Joe Biden pardoned a close ally of Nicolás Maduro, the Justice Department is once again targeting the businessma... |
| 19.12.2025 | Senators Want To Hold The Open Internet Hostage, Demand Zuckerberg Write The Ransom Note | Not this shit again.
A bipartisan group of the most anti-internet Senators around have released their latest version of a plan to “sunset Section 230.” We went over this last year when they floated the same idea: they have no actual plan fo... |
| 11.12.2025 | Trump pushes for top prosecutor nominee Halligan after judge tosses Comey, James cases | President Donald Trump is pushing a bid to get the Senate to confirm Lindsey Halligan as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
In November, a federal judge ruled that her initial interim appointment as the district’s top prose... |
| 29.08.2025 | AHA responds to RFI on legislation covering rural maternal labor, delivery costs | The AHA Aug. 26 responded to a request for information as part of the introduction of the Healthy Moms and Babies Act, bipartisan legislation that seeks to improve maternal and child health by increasing services and support and coordinatin... |
| 05.04.2025 | The Tariff Tug-of-War: Congress Faces a Reckoning | The air is thick with tension in Washington. Tariffs, once a tool of trade, have become a battleground. The stakes are high, and the players are divided. On one side, President Trump’s “America First” strategy promises to revive U.S. manufa... |
| 04.04.2025 | Congress has the power to halt Trump’s tariffs. But Republicans aren’t ready to use it | Congress, however, was jittery.
A handful of Republicans have rebuked Trump’s strategy as a foolhardy path that will burden U.S. households. Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, the longtime Senate leader who was the standard-bearer for past gene... |
| 20.03.2025 | The Shifting Sands of Power: Political Turbulence in America | In the realm of American politics, the winds of change blow fiercely. Recent events have stirred the pot, revealing the intricate dance of power, accountability, and the quest for transparency. The recent promotions of IRS agents who invest... |
| 18.03.2025 | National Politics | IRS agents who investigated Hunter Biden given promotions at the Treasury Department | “We’ll learn what’s been going on at the IRS, what’s been wrong,” Bessent said. “How could this Hunter Biden nonsense have happened? And we’re going to make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone again, whether they’re Republicans, Democrats or i... |
| 07.02.2025 | Commentary | Opinion: David Mastio: After President Donald Trump’s attack on USAID, Congress has to stand up for itself | Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program after he clearly said that only Congress could do so and for him to act would be unconstitutional. When Congress decided not to create the program Obama wanted, he created it ... |
| 05.02.2025 | Bridging the Gap: Health Care Innovations for Native Americans and New Birth Center Laws in Florida | In the vast landscape of American health care, two recent developments stand out like beacons of hope. One is a program aimed at closing insurance gaps for Native Americans in Nevada. The other is a new law in Florida that allows cesarean s... |
| 04.02.2025 | Health | New Florida law allowing C-sections outside hospitals could be national model | Traditional birth centers are typically staffed by midwives who provide maternity care for low-risk pregnancies and births. Twenty-nine such centers operate in Florida, and about 400 are licensed around the country. The focus in these cente... |
| 19.11.2024 | Senate Unanimously Passes Bipartisan Bill to Crack Down on Cellphones in Federal Prisons; Legislation Stalled in House | The Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Stopping Prison Contraband Act
Senate Unanimously Passes Bipartisan Bill to Crack Down on Contraband Cellphones in Federal Prisons; Legislation Stalled in House THOMSON, IL, UNITED STATES, November 19, 2024 /... |
| 21.08.2024 | National Politics | New lines of attack form against the Affordable Care Act | The enhanced subsidies are set to expire in late 2025. Without them, millions of Americans would likely see their premiums go up.
But the debate will also likely draw in other issues, including Trump-era tax cuts, which also must be address... |
| 09.05.2024 | Senate GOP pushes bill to provide support to pregnant women, moms | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and 10 other Senate Republicans are introducing legislation Thursday providing various prenatal and postpartum support for women, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The legis... |
| 10.04.2024 | Private equity in health care becomes a bigger Washington target | Congress is ramping up oversight of private equity's influence in health care, though lawmakers don't appear ready to give government more power to halt deals.
Why it matters: Health care has been a magnet for private equity deals, even as ... |
| 21.03.2024 | How To Misrepresent A Supreme Court Hearing: National Review Edition | I wrote a long post on Monday about the oral arguments in the Murthy v. Missouri case. I highlighted how skeptical most of the Justices seemed regarding the arguments from the states, especially given the extensive problems in the record, w... |
| 06.02.2024 | Business | More FAFSA delays likely to slow aid and college decisions | By Eliza Haverstock | NerdWallet
If you’ll be in college next year, don’t expect financial aid offers anytime soon. Colleges won’t begin receiving processed FAFSAs — Free Applications for Federal Student Aid — until mid-March, the U.S. Educ... |
| 23.01.2024 | Health | ‘Shell game’: When private equity comes to town, hospitals can see cutbacks, closures | Anna Claire Vollers | (TNS) Stateline.org
Peggy Malone walks the quiet halls of Crozer-Chester Medical Center, the Pennsylvania hospital where she’s worked as a registered nurse for the past 35 years, with the feeling she’s drifting through... |
| 03.01.2024 | Health | Deep flaws in FDA oversight of medical devices, and patient harm, exposed in lawsuits and records | Fred Schulte, Holly K. Hacker | (TNS) KFF Health News
Living with diabetes, Carlton “PeeWee” Gautney Jr. relied on a digital device about the size of a deck of playing cards to pump insulin into his bloodstream.
The pump, manufactured by de... |
| 08.12.2023 | Data Integrity and the Zolgensma FDA Approval Counter-Intelligence Conspiracy Coverup at AveXis, Inc. | AveXis executives fabricated crucial data in critical regulatory filings following a covert conspiracy to subvert and disinform the FDA until post-approval.
...AveXis became aware of the data manipulation before the FDA approved Zolgensma b... |
| 07.12.2023 | Senate committee launches bipartisan investigation into private equity ownership of hospitals | The two leaders of the Senate Budget Committee on Thursday launched a bipartisan investigation into private equity ownership of hospitals in the United States, citing concerns that such arrangements are bad for both health care providers an... |
| 06.12.2023 | Senators probe private equity hospital deals following CBS News investigation | The top Democrat and Republican on a powerful Senate committee launched a wide-ranging investigation into private equity's impact on the U.S. health care system on Wednesday. Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Republican... |
| 08.08.2023 | Senators push IRS to launch nonprofit hospital probe | WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators wants federal tax regulators to probe nonprofit hospitals’ compliance with community benefit requirements, ratcheting up a longtime campaign to hold the tax-exempt providers accountable.
Nonprofit... |
| 03.08.2023 | National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day August 21 : Combating the Fentanyl Crisis Together | Facing Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness
Fentanyl is a silent killer
Think Again Fentanyl Kills
Facing Fentanyl
Our mission is not only to increase awareness but also to instigate real change by promoting prevention,”
— Andrea ThomasWASHING... |
| 21.06.2023 | Sen. Grassley calls on GOP leaders to rally support for PBM reforms | WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley wants to see his party’s leadership turn up the pressure on pharmacy benefit managers.
“They talk in such generalities on this subject that it’s difficult for me to tell where they’re coming from,... |
| 30.05.2023 | Whistleblower disclosures allege FBI procedures not followed in Hunter Biden investigation, sources say | Multiple Justice Department whistleblowers have come forward to Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley as part of his ongoing investigation into the Biden family business practices, according to three sources familiar with the matter, including a f... |
| 02.05.2023 | Senators Ask IRS About AI-Generated Scams Targeting Taxpayers And Tax Pros | Text message phone fraud or scam.getty |
| 15.03.2023 | Senate confirms Eric Garcetti as next ambassador to India | Washington — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to serve as U.S. ambassador to India, with Republican senators helping President Biden reward a political ally and early campaign supporter after a bruisi... |
| 09.03.2023 | National Archives says it retrieved nine boxes of Biden records from ex-personal attorney's Boston office | Washington — The National Archives and Records Administration retrieved nine boxes from a Boston law office belonging to President Joe Biden's former personal attorney in early November. The number of boxes was previously unknown.
The boxes... |
| 20.01.2023 | Why Now Is the Time for Health Plans to Take Control of Pharmacy Benefits | Public outcries and federal scrutiny over high and opaque prescription drug pricing are fueling exciting new opportunities for health plans. After several decades of stable, steady outsourcing to pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs), payers ar... |
| 27.12.2022 | FISA Section 702 (2008-2023?) | More than 200,000 foreign targets a year. “Irreplaceable” insight. The National Security Agency’s “most significant tool” for disrupting terrorist threats. All achieved at low cost and with virtually no operational risk.
The law that makes ... |
| 15.12.2022 | 2023 Likely To Be a Crucial Year for Pharma—and Insurers | Change is in the air, and people can sense it; the recent midterm elections saw one of the biggest turnouts ever, and as always, the rising cost of health care was a major issue for voters. But unlike in the past, there is a chance that leg... |
| 05.11.2022 | From “Who Cares Wins” To Pernicious Progressivism: 18 Years Of ESG | ESG never had it so good! For starters, notice how I didn’t feel like I had to spell out the acronym. Until recently that was hardly the case. Gloriously, what the letters stand for is now known across the political spectrum. Not surprising... |
| 20.10.2022 | How states can act to limit drug price increases, saving employers and workers billions | The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 mandates that Medicare-covered drug sales will be protected from price increases that exceed inflation, but the mechanics of this “inflation penalty” have generated some confusion.
A top Medicare official... |
| 14.10.2022 | Hundreds Of FBI Employees Are Simply Walking Away From Misconduct Charges | The FBI has a long history of misconduct, dating back to the J. Edgar Hoover years when agents were writing letters to civil rights leaders encouraging them to kill themselves. |
| 21.09.2022 | Finally, a Better U.S. War Crimes Bill. Now What? | Justice is having a moment. Ongoing atrocities in Ukraine have put accountability for serious international crimes in the spotlight in ways not seen for decades. That’s especially true in the United States, where legislators usually skeptic... |
| 30.08.2022 | Top-level FBI agent under fire for role in Hunter Biden investigation resigns | Timothy Thibault, a top-level FBI agent who had been under fire for his role in investigations regarding President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, resigned late last week and was walked out of the FBI, two U.S. officials confirmed. But these... |
| 07.07.2022 | Hospitals and for-profit PBMs are diverting billions in 340B savings from patients in need | America’s economically disadvantaged patients can point in two directions when talking about what is wrong with the 340B Drug Pricing Program, which is designed to help hospitals caring for underserved communities — and the patients they tr... |
| 01.07.2022 | Lower insulin co-pays, list prices targeted in new bipartisan U.S. Senate bill | WASHINGTON — Two key senators have unveiled the details of a bipartisan plan to lower costs for insulin, a lifesaving drug that some Americans have struggled to afford in recent years as prices have skyrocketed.
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, a New ... |
| 10.06.2022 | Pursuit of profits is driving drug companies to break the 340B law | Seventeen drug companies, including some of the world’s largest, are flouting a 30-year-old federal program that supports hospitals serving patients with low incomes and those who live in rural communities. Both the Trump and Biden administ... |
| 26.05.2022 | Pile-on over PBMs continues with FTC comments and a new bipartisan Senate bill | More than 500 stakeholders sent comments to the FTC on whether the commission should look further into pharma middlemen, known as PBMs, with many of the commenters calling for more federal oversight.
Similar to the critic... |
| 20.05.2022 | Bipartisan trio of senators ask FTC to look at PBMs and tactics to keep insulin prices high | Just this week, the Senate voted 51-50 along party lines (with tie breaker from VP Kamala Harris) to make President Biden appointee Alvaro Bedoya the deciding vote on a split 2-2 Federal Trade Commission. And now that it is ... |
| 17.05.2022 | What Might a Congressional Counterpart to the Office of Legal Counsel Look Like? | In 1908, when Woodrow Wilson made the case for the vigorous exercise of presidential authority to lead the nation in “times of stress and change,” he sought to calm fears that doing so would upset the Constitution’s careful balancing of pow... |
| 11.03.2022 | Senators call on CMS to finalize pharmacy fee reforms to save seniors $21B in out-of-pocket expenses | A bipartisan group of 30 US senators from both sides of the aisle sent a letter earlier this week to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, urging her to finalize certain pharmacy fee reforms that co... |
| 15.02.2022 | Some Senators Are Freaking Out Because The White House Is Pitching Some Extremely Minor Police Reforms | Some senators are getting all angried up about proposed police reforms President Biden possibly might deliver as an executive order. Reporting earlier this month indicated Biden had something planned, but no one involved in breaking the new... |
| 24.01.2022 | How much? Pfizer leads top pharma companies' ramped up lobby spending on Congress | K Street saw another record year in 2021 for lobbying expenditures, and some of the biggest biopharma companies in the world shelled out millions to sway Congress, revealing some of their key priorities along the way.
Pfiz... |
| 18.11.2021 | Daines Helps Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Improve Fairness in Cattle Market | 11.17.21
U.S. SENATE - U.S. Senator Steve Daines today helped introduce the "Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act." The bill is part of Daines' efforts to return fairness to the cattle marketplace dominated by four major me... |
| 18.11.2021 | Iowa Senators, Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Support Independent Cattle Producers, Improve Market Transparency | WASHINGTON - Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and several colleagues today introduced legislation to return fairness to the cattle marketplace dominated by four major meat packers. Last week, the authors announced the fra... |
| 27.10.2021 | Fischer Renews Request to Meet with White House to Discuss Biofuels Agenda | WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) today joined a group of her Republican colleagues in requesting a meeting with President Biden and his cabinet to discuss the Renewable Fuel Standard and the essential role biofuels play ... |
| 02.08.2021 | How the biopharma industry is helping to pay for the bipartisan infrastructure bill | Senators on Sunday finalized the text of a massive, bipartisan infrastructure bill that contains little that might impact the biopharma industry other than two ways the legislators are planning to pay for the $1.2 tr... |
| 15.07.2021 | Republican Senator Highlights Bitcoin's Battle in Shedding Criminal Baggage | A senior Republican U.S. senator’s characterization of bitcoin in illicit transactions highlights the uphill battle crypto faces in breaking the seedier assumptions of its Silk Road past.
Last Thursday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the Sen... |
| 01.07.2021 | Can Amazon change how the PBM and pharmacy worlds operate? | CVS Health recently won a reprieve from a federal jury clearing the pharmacy from claims that it systematically overcharged insured customers buying prescription drugs from its retail pharmacies by $121 million. However, the industry remain... |
| 18.06.2021 | As drugmakers spend $6B annually on DTC ads, senators revive bill to include list prices in ads | Dick Durbin
A new GAO report on biopharma companies’ $6 billion annual spending on direct-to-consumer advertising is pushing US Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to reintroduce leg... |
| 17.06.2021 | USDA Announces $700 Million in COVID-Relief for Biofuels Producers | WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following urging from U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced $700 million in aid for biofuels producers who were hurt by ... |
| 18.03.2021 | CanAm Urges Lawmakers to Pass the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act | “It is in everyone’s interests for Congress to pass this legislation. Now is the time to highlight the great many benefits of the EB-5 Program to the U.S. when it is facing unprecedented challenges," said Tom Rosenfeld, President and C... |
| 28.02.2021 | U.S. EB-5 Investor Immigration Needs Renewal And Overhaul | One of the key problems with the EB-5 investor immigration program is the long backlog of applicants ... [+] waiting for their cases to be approved. There are proposals in Congress now that will substantially address this problem as well as... |
| 25.02.2021 | Discarded drugs: a wasteful and costly problem that requires whole-of-government approaches | Controlling the rising costs of pharmaceuticals, particularly those administered by physicians, has been a top health care priority for policymakers, with recent actions in both Congress and the executive branch. Reducing the waste from dis... |
| 23.02.2021 | The Trump Impeachment as Precedent for Future Late Impeachments | During former President Trump’s second impeachment episode, precedents—especially the impeachment trials of former Sen. William Blount in 1798 and former Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876—featured prominently in the discussion. The q... |
| 09.02.2021 | The Covid Spend-O-Rama’s Multiemployer Pension Bailouts: Some Disappointed First Impressions | getty |
| 28.01.2021 | 4 vital health issues — not tied to Covid — that Congress addressed in massive spending bill | The bundle included a ban on surprise medical bills, for example — a problem that key lawmakers had been wrestling with for two years. Starting in 2022, because of the new law, patients generally will not pay more for out-of-network care in... |
| 27.01.2021 | Will The EB5 Investor Immigration Program Survive Beyond June 2021? | President Biden's immigration reforms are welcome. But the EB5 program also needs to be renewed. ... [+] (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images |
| 27.12.2020 | Why Is Solar Energy Getting 250 Times More In Federal Tax Credits Than Nuclear? | In 2015, Senator Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican, said, “As the father of the first ... [+] wind-energy tax credit in 1992, I can say that the tax credit was never meant to be permanent.” But the government funding bill passed last we... |
| 08.12.2020 | You May Still Get A December Stimulus Check; Here’s Why And From Whom | Some Americans may still receive a government issued stimulus check present this December; except ... [+] the amount may not be $1,200 and the check will most likely not be from the federal government. getty |
| 22.11.2020 | PPP IRS And Tax Deductions - Is Resistance Futile? | |
| 14.10.2020 | In a blow to Trump, AG Barr's investigation into Flynn's 'unmasking' ended without criminal charges or a public report | Donald J. Trump arrives to speak to supporters from the Blue Room balcony during an event at the White House on Saturday, Oct 10, 2020 in Washington, DC.
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images
An investigation into whether Obam... |
| 07.10.2020 | Proposed Bill Will Not End Conservation Easement Tax Abuse | WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 30: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), speaks during a hearing on Wednesday, ... [+] September 30, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee is exploring the FBI's investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign and... |
| 24.08.2020 | Trump’s Trade Strategy Points the Way to a U.S. Carbon Tariff | Over the past two decades, governments around the world have adopted mechanisms that combat climate change by putting a price on carbon emissions. Today, approximately 40 governments worldwide—including Japan, the European Union, Canada and... |
| 29.07.2020 | $600 Federal Unemployment Benefit At Risk: Here’s Where The Negotiations Stand | The $600 weekly federal unemployment benefit has effectively expired. Now Republicans, Democrats and the White House are in negotiations over an extension of these benefits. Democrats want to extend the $600 benefit into next year. Senate R... |
| 09.07.2020 | The Durham Investigation: What We Know and What It Means | In May 2019, Attorney General William Barr tapped Connecticut’s U.S. Attorney John Durham to look into issues related to the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation. Durham is a longtime federal prosecutor in Connecticut known for l... |
| 15.05.2020 | Syndicated Conservation Easements- An Industry Based On Nonsense | |
| 24.04.2020 | What Is and Isn’t New in the Unredacted Footnotes From the Inspector General’s Russia Report | At the request of Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, the Trump administration recently declassified portions of footnotes in the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the early stages of the FBI’s Trump-Russia inves... |
| 22.04.2020 | How to Legally—and Illegally—Fire Inspectors General | In the span of just four days, President Trump removed two inspectors general from their posts. First, on April 3, Trump fired Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, who had notified Congress of the whistleblower complai... |
| 04.04.2020 | The 5 Most Important Changes For Retirees From Coronavirus-Related Laws And Executive Orders | You’ve probably heard by now that last week President Trump signed into law The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020, a $2 trillion stimulus package intended to stave off some of the economic impact of the COVI... |
| 11.02.2020 | The Legal Limits on Trump’s Reprisals Against Impeachment Witnesses | This past Friday, Feb. 7, just days after his acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial, President Trump launched what some fear may become a campaign of reprisal against those federal employees who testified against him in the House’s impe... |
| 13.10.2019 | GAO Reports On Charity Tax Abuse | The recent GAO report IRS Could Better Leverage Existing Data to Identify Abusive Schemes Involving Tax-Exempt Entities is not nearly as boring as the title makes it sound. In order to get to its recommendations the report authors had to de... |
