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Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified last week in Congress. While the overarching media narrative focused on former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s potential compromise by Russia, there are other important facts.

Federal immigration officials say they will no longer halt deportations for illegal immigrants based on the prospect that pending legislation could grant them amnesty.

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) is looking to expand the number of wealthy foreign nationals who can pay their way to permanent legal residency in the U.S. under the EB-5 visa.

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” co-host Steve Doocy asked Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to weigh in on critics of President Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey. Doocy pointed out that some had called it

The chairman and ranking Democrat of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), respectively, issued a joint statement criticizing the lack of “transparency” in the authorization of additional H-2B visas in Monday’s House funding resolution.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is pressing FBI Director James Comey for more information on the bureau’s relationship with the man who produced a dossier on then-candidate Donald Trump, citing “material inconsistencies” in information the FBI has provided so far.

The controversial, partially discredited 35-page dossier on President Donald Trump compiled by a former British intelligence officer reportedly served as the basis for the FBI’s justification to secure court approval to clandestinely monitor Carter Page, who has been identified as a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump.

The Center for American Progress Action Fund, the sister advocacy organization of the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP), has launched a project seeking to raise money to investigate alleged collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” network correspondent Ed Henry reported Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) had revealed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the 2016 presidential nominee for the Democratic Party, and six of her aides retained their

Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley fired off letters to two Cabinet agencies on Thursday, demanding information about the two illegal alien suspects who are accused of raping and sodomizing a 14-year-old freshman during school hours at Rockville High School.

Senate Judicial Committee members will decide this week whether to propel Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, in what would be a lasting and major victory for President Donald Trump.

Notwithstanding its leftist political leanings, the American Bar Association (ABA) on Thursday gave Judge Neil Gorsuch a “well qualified” rating to serve as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

On Monday, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to FBI Director James Comey asking for details about a reported FBI plan to pay Christopher Steele for information on the Trump campaign.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) took on a high school senior’s challenge to see who can do the most push-ups when he visited a school.

Employees of a hedge fund founded by the king of the Institutional Left, billionaire and Democratic Party mega-donor George Soros, donated tens of thousands of dollars to top Republicans who fought against President Donald Trump in 2016, donation records compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics show.

Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats forced debate on the confirmation of Jeff Sessions for the position of Attorney General into Wednesday with belabored speeches over Sessions’ qualifications and President Donald Trump’s firing of Obama Administration holdover, acting Attorney General Sally Yates, the night before.

In the final week of the Obama Administration, the outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) extended the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somali nationals and others for an additional 18 months. The program was not scheduled to expire until March 2017.

“I’ve given that thought. I believe the proper thing to do would be to recuse myself from any questions involving those kind of investigations that involved Secretary Clinton and that were raised during the campaign, or could be otherwise connected to it,” Sessions said.

Key members of the Senate are speaking highly of President-elect Trump’s choice for Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, even as many analysts anticipate a difficult confirmation hearing.

The GOP-controlled Congress has quietly renewed the EB-5 visa program which allows foreigners to effectively buy U.S. citizenship.

“According to sources, Abdul Razak Ali Artan was a lawful permanent resident who originally came to the United States from Mogadishu, Somalia after spending time in a Pakastani refugee camp with his mother, Fatima Abdullahi, and six sibling,” Sen. Charles Grassley wrote on behalf of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which he chairs.

In his referral letter to the FBI and Justice Department, Grassley notes, “[T]he facts uncovered raise a reasonable suspicion that these organizations, and/or individuals employed by them, may have engaged in a conspiracy to violate the fetal tissue law.”

Senate Democrats are making it clear that Sen. Jeff Sessions will not have an easy time being confirmed as President-elect Donald J. Trump’s first attorney general.

Republican nominee Donald Trump is projected to win Iowa’s 6 electoral votes.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa is pressing FBI director James Comey for details on the agency’s decision not to recommend charges against Hillary Clinton in its email investigation.

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, while campaigning in Iowa with GOP Sen. Charles Grassley and Gov. Terry Branstad, told Breitbart News the momentum is with Donald J. Trump in Iowa.

The illegal alien had been arrested in 2012 near the Southern California border for breaking into the country, but released a week later they released him, even though he lied to them about his age so he could be processed as an “unaccompanied minor.” He stopped checking in with ICE in 2014.

A deputy sheriff in Kansas was allegedly killed by an illegal alien with a criminal history of drunk driving. Now, two Congressional leaders are demanding to know why the illegal alien was not reported to U.S. Immigration Enforcement (ICE) following his two prior arrests.

The latest Monmouth University poll of Iowa has Donald Trump surging to a remarkable 8-point lead over Hillary Clinton… in a state Barack Obama won by 6 points in 2012.

On August 29, Senators Steve Daines (R-Montana), Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), and others sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry intended to block current backdoor gun control efforts by the State Department.

A decision handed down recently from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erodes the government’s ability to detain criminal aliens and must be challenged, according to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).

During Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) argued the Senate has undergone a “dramatic change” in the way it does business. Transcript (via ABC Radio) as Follows:  “Hi, I’m Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa. Now consider this. On

The federal watchdog Judicial Watch on Wednesday released 10 pages of State Department records betraying efforts by employees at State to give personal aides to former secretary of state Hillary R. Clinton the heads-up regarding Freedom of Information Act requests that would have revealed Clinton’s extraordinary private email scheme.

While normally parole is an immigration benefit selectively offered to largely inadmissible aliens for only “urgent humanitarian reasons” or in cases of “significant public benefit,” the Obama Administration has been allowing DACA recipients to seek advance parole — allowing re-entry to the U.S. after traveling abroad — for “educational purposes, employment purposes, or humanitarian purposes.”

Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Chuck Grassley of Iowa made a last-ditch plea for sentencing reductions for federal prisoners amid high-profile cop massacres, a heroin epidemic, and a national crime wave on Wednesday evening.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Top Republican leaders in the House and Senate are talking about next steps in the Hillary Clinton email investigation — namely, making sure that all of the information comes out in the open.