Tighter Lid on Records Threatens to Weaken Government Watchdogs

Justice Department watchdogs ran into an unexpected roadblock last year when they began examining the role of federal drug agents in the fatal shootings of unarmed civilians during raids in Honduras. The Drug Enforcement Administration balked at turning over emails from senior officials tied to the raids, according to the department’s inspector general. It took nearly a year of wrangling before the D.E.A. was willing to turn over all its records in a case that the inspector general said raised “serious questions” about agents’ use of deadly force. Read More

The GOP’s Submission Hold

The Wall Street Journal November 26, 2015 By  KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL When… Read More

Grassley turns up heat on Clinton, State

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley is amping up his investigation into Hillary Clinton's email setup and the special work status of one of her top confidantes — just as the Democratic presidential front-runner's allies are accusing Grassley of using his oversight authority to hurt her campaign. Grassley (R-Iowa) took two new steps last week. On Wednesday, he issued a letter to former Clinton aide Heather Samuelson, who screened Clinton's emails as secretary of state to initially determine which ones would be turned over to the government and made available publicly, and which ones were deemed private and would later be deleted. Among other things, the missive, obtained by POLITICO, asked what level of security clearance Samuelson had at State; several hundred of Clinton's emails, which she routed through a private server, have since been deemed classified. Read More

Midlands lawmakers wary of importing terrorism

President Barack Obama says American values mean not slamming the door on the thousands fleeing Syria’s violence and devastation, but Sen. Chuck Grassley sees it differently. “He’s in denial,” Grassley said of Obama, speaking with The World-Herald on Tuesday. Read More

Grassley’s milestone

Senator Grassley runs laps across, around, and up and down Iowa every year. He visits each of the 99 Iowa counties during recesses from the Senate. When Congress is in session, Grassley has been there for 4 decades voting for what he feels will best serve Iowa. Senator Grassley runs laps across, around, and up and down Iowa every year. He visits each of the 99 Iowa counties during recesses from the Senate. When Congress is in session, Grassley has been there for 4 decades voting for what he feels will best serve Iowa. He's in the top one-tenth of 1 percent of U.S. Senators for vote casting. Of the 2,000 men and women who have been senators in U.S. history, only 17 of them have cast more votes than Senator Grassley (and only 3 of the 100 serving today: Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Orrin Hatch of Utah and Patrick Leahy of Vermont). No senator now serving has had as many consecutive votes (never missing one) as Grassley's 7,474. Read More

Court Rules Against Obama Immigration Executive Order

Once again, President Obama, the self-professed professor of constitutional… Read More

Grassley records remarkable achievement

In our nation's history, nearly 2,000 men and women have served in the United States Senate. Only 17 of them have cast more votes than Iowa Republican Charles Grassley. No senator serving today has gone as long as Grassley without missing a vote. Our state's senior senator has cast 7,474 consecutive votes. Read More

Gas station costing $43 million gets Grassley’s anger running

Charles Grassley’s long-standing dismay of government waste is now fueled by a natural gas filling station in Afghanistan that cost $43 million. What’s more, the flow of details on this isn’t coming out, the Iowa’s senior senator added during his weekly press call Wednesday. “I don’t know if any laws were broken, but $43 million spent on a gas station? In Iraq, a similar one was built for a half-million dollars, so where did the other $42.5 million go? That’s what my question is to the Defense Department,” he said on the call. Read More

Senators praise Grassley’s voting record

"I think of Senator Grassley's 12,000 votes, hundreds of hearings, countless numbers of tweets. Probably four-dozen sweater vests later, he's still the same down-to-earth Iowa farmer who visits every one of the state's 99 counties every year," Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said from the Senate floor. Read More

Sen. Grassley Works to Curb Meth Use

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA -- Meth has been called one of the most dangerous drugs, and with 1.2 million admitted users in the United States, experts believe the danger is real. Here in Iowa, the numbers are down, but experts said the drug still poses a real danger, so much so that one senator said something has to be done to keep our citizens safe. People who have been involved with the drug, like Stephanie Beliel, said it was one of the strongest drugs she’d tried. "I've tried numerous times to quit meth and for some reason it just kept pulling me back,” Beliel said. Right now, she’s 76 days sober, but she said it’s been a long journey. Read More

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