{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/icymi-columnist-praises-grassleys-oversight-wasteful-tarp-spending", "ICYMI: Columnist Praises Grassley's Oversight of Wasteful TARP Spending", "2017-12-19", "2017", "2017-12", "Republican", "House", "IA", "Charles Grassley", "G000386", "www.grassley.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "ICYMI: A Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist praised Senator Grassleys oversight of wasteful spending of the Troubled Asset Relief Programs (TARP) Hardest Hit Fund, a $9.6 billion program meant to help homeowners who suffered during the housing crisis. Grassley has pressed for better management of the program amid reports that the Nevada state agency engaged in widespread waste and abuse in spending. Earlier, Grassley said, Treasurys explanation of the significant discrepancy between the $8 million that TARPs watchdog said was misspent and the $82,172 [or one percent] recovered from Nevada HFA is inadequate and unconvincing. Grassley has been conducting a review since October 2016. His most recent remarks are here. You can read the column here or excerpts from the column below. Program to help the needy squandered federal dollars in Nevada Las Vegas Review-Journal Jane Ann Morrison December 16, 2017  When bureaucrats waste federal dollars meant to help people save their homes, it makes me crazy. And Im not alone. U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, for one, also is upset. Case in point: the Hardest Hit Fund. ... Management of the program was handed to a nonprofit  the Nevada Affordable Housing Assistance Corp.  with less than stellar results. Employees were living high on the hog, a clearly irritated Grassley wrote in one letter to the Treasury Department.... No matter what the costs, Grassley wanted the wasted dollars returned to the Treasury Department....   -30-", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/icymi-columnist-praises-grassleys-oversight-wasteful-tarp-spending"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.3554370272904634, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}