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Tag Archives: Charles Grassley
January 12, 2012, 8:32 am
Budget Cut Could Curtail Oversight of National-Service Programs
The inspector general’s office at the Corporation for National and Community Service has warned Congress it will have to lay off at least three-fourths of its 33 staff members and sharply curtail its activities because of a “severe and damaging” budget cut.
Congress cut the office’s budget from $7.7-million to $4-million in the 2012 spending bill it approved last month.
“This budget reduction caught me and my executive staff by surprise,” Kenneth C. Bach, the corporation’s deputy inspector general, wrote in a letter this week to more than a dozen House and Senate members.
He said the 48-percent cut was in “stark contrast” to the 3-percent reduction in the corporation’s overall budget—and “will substantially inhibit me from performing my duties.”
The inspector general’s office monitors federal volunteer and national-service programs, including AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and…
July 18, 2011, 5:58 pm
Proposal Takes Aim at Charities That Avoid Taxes Offshore
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has introduced legislation that would deny some federal money to charities that put money in offshore accounts to avoid paying income taxes.
The Iowa senator has proposed barring such charities from getting grants from a federal program that helps prisoners re-enter society. The proposal follows an inquiry that he and several other lawmakers conducted last year into Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
Mr. Grassley’s move—an amendment to a bill pending in the Judiciary Committee to extend the so-called Second Chance Act—takes aim at unrelated business income tax, or UBIT. Those are taxes that charities owe on income they earn from businesses that are not directly tied to their charitable missions.
While moving money offshore to avoid those taxes isn’t illegal, Mr. Grassley said in a statement…
May 11, 2011, 11:04 am
Senator Prods Medical Nonprofits to Disclose More About Industry Contributions
Sen. Charles E. Grassley has renewed his effort to get nonprofit medical groups to provide more information to the public about the money they get from pharmaceutical, medical-device, and insurance companies.
Mr. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, sent letters about the matter to all but one of the 34 organizations that he had contacted in late 2009 and early 2010, including disease advocacy groups like the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association and medical-professional groups like the American Academy of Family Physicians and North American Spine Society.
As a Chronicle investigation found, the amount of money those groups get from medical companies varies widely, as do their policies for informing the public about them.
Mr. Grassley, who has been conducting a wide-ranging investigation into financial ties between industry and the medical fields,…
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