The statement came less than three weeks after a Justice Department inspector general review revealed that DEA agents had "sex parties" with prostitutes hired by drug cartels.
Grassley is pushing to reform federal civil-asset forfeiture laws that allow police to take billions of dollars from people without filing charges or warrants.
A federal court determined that the VA discharged the patient without appropriate care after he showed up with symptoms of a stroke. He became paralyzed after a second stroke.
Josh Hicks is a Washington Post reporter covering the federal government. He reported for newspapers in the Detroit and Seattle suburbs before joining the Post as a contributor to Glenn Kessler’s Fact Checker blog in 2011. Josh graduated from Albion College and Stanford. He also lived in New Zealand for eight months working as a commercial fisherman and fruit picker. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.