News Releases

11.21.2025

Grassley, Hassan Reintroduce Legislation Targeting Illicit Drug Knockoffs

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) today reintroduced the Stop Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act. The bipartisan bill would crack down on deadly drugs that are substantially similar to controlled substances but carefully engineered to slip into the U.S....

11.21.2025

Q&A: National Adoption Month

Q: What is National Adoption Month? A: More than four decades ago, President Ronald Reagan used the power of the bully pulpit to bring attention to the tens of thousands of children in foster care awaiting a forever home. In 1984, he signed a Senate Joint Resolution to designate the week before Thanksgiving as National Adoption Week. Choosing this week...

11.21.2025

Iowa Transit to Receive Over $82 Million from Grassley-Backed Infrastructure Bill

BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) welcomed an announcement from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) that Iowa will receive $82,144,823 to support transit improvements across the state. The awards will be administered through DOT’s Buses & Bus Facilities Program and the Low- or No-Emission Program, which both received funding...

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Remarks

11.20.2025

Grassley Recognizes Lung Cancer Awareness Month

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Lung Cancer Awareness Month”Wednesday, November 19, 2025 VIDEO November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. One in 18 people receive a lung cancer diagnosis during their lifetime. Twelve percent of diagnoses have had no tobacco exposure. This disease impacts hundreds of thousands of...

11.20.2025

Grassley Opens Judiciary Committee Executive Business Meeting, Highlights Proven Quality of Trump Judges

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeExecutive Business MeetingThursday, November 20, 2025 On today’s agenda, we have eleven nominations listed. We’ll vote today on: Tysen Duva to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. William Crain and Alexander Van Hook to serve as...

11.20.2025

Grassley Speaks on CNH Burlington Facility Closure

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“CNH Burlington Facility Closure”Thursday, November 20, 2025 VIDEO CNH announced its closure of their Burlington facility in June next year. This plant has been in Burlington since the 1950s and is a mainstay of the greater Burlington area. As a result of this closure, more than 200...

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Commentary

09.18.2025

Grassley, Klobuchar Op-Ed | No Peace is Just Until the Kidnapped Ukrainian Children are Back Home

Last winter, a Ukrainian mother received the call she had been waiting for: her daughter, taken across the border to Russia months earlier, was finally coming home. When they embraced, the girl hugged tightly, afraid she might be pulled away again. She hardly spoke, afraid to use the Ukrainian language after being forced to speak only Russian. That reunion...

07.30.2025

Safeguarding lives: The urgent need for congressional action on illicit Xylazine

America’s opioid epidemic has entered a new and especially dangerous phase, as synthetic fentanyl and deadly additives devastate families and communities across the country. Congress must act now to equip law enforcement with the resources and tools they need to keep communities safe, while preventing unintended consequences on hardworking veterinarians,...

06.13.2025

How Senate Republicans are restoring the rule of law and securing the border for years to come.

America is at a crossroads. During the Biden-Harris administration, over 10 million illegal immigrants – including violent criminals and potential terrorists – poured over our nation’s border. After four years of chaos, Americans overwhelmingly elected President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a platform of securing the border, removing dangerous criminals...

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Official Correspondence

11.21.2025

Grassley, Delegation Letter of Support - RHTP Application to CMS

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11.20.2025

Grassley, Johnson, Jordan to Boasberg - Nondisclosure Orders

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11.20.2025

Schoffstall to Grassley - Reinstatement

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11.17.2025

Grassley to CMS - Medicaid Oversight

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11.14.2025

Grassley et al to Kennedy - LIHEAP Home Heating Aid

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HIStory Series

10.30.2025

Government Shutdowns Fail the American People

This week the American people enter the fifth week of a federal government shutdown. Starting Nov. 1, more than 40 million Americans who rely on food stamp benefits will not have their debit-style cards replenished to buy groceries. That’s nearly 1 in 8 Americans, including 131,000 Iowa families. It’s shocking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said every...

09.25.2025

A Turning Point in America

It was a week before Thanksgiving Day in 1963. I was halfway through my shift at the punch press at Waterloo Register. A manager came up to me on the assembly line and said, “JFK was shot.” I was 30 years old, moonlighting at the furnace factory to make ends meet between my other jobs as a state legislator and family farmer. Five years later, I was finishing...

08.11.2025

Iowa State Fair

In the mid-19th century leading up to the Westward Expansion, people traveled by covered wagon to attend the first Iowa State Fair in 1854 on a six-acre tract in Fairfield. Today, more than a million visitors stroll the historic state fairgrounds in Des Moines to soak in the sights, sounds and smells spanning 445 acres of the oldest and largest agricultural...

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