News Releases

10.29.2025

NEW: Jack Smith Subpoenaed Records for Over 400 Republican Targets As Part of Arctic Frost

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today made public 197 subpoenas former Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team issued as part of the indiscriminate election case against President Trump. Smith’s case began at the Biden Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the codename “Arctic Frost.” The subpoenas, which were...

10.29.2025

Grassley Questions Trade Representative Nominees on Need to End the Biden Phosphate Duties, Push China to Drop Non-Tariff Barriers

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee as well as a lifelong family farmer, questioned two nominees for the U.S. Trade Representative’s office about the need to support Iowa farmers, including by restoring rules-based trade with China and ending the Biden Phosphate Duties that removed...

10.28.2025

Iowa Farmers and Hearing Witnesses Endorse Grassley Fertilizer Bill, Discuss Need for Transparency in Seed and Fertilizer Industries

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate’s only grain farmer, led a committee hearing this morning to examine how market consolidation drives up production costs for family farmers. The hearing also touched on the high cost of fertilizer and efforts to fill in reporting gaps after the Obama...

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Remarks

10.28.2025

Grassley Marks National Audiology Awareness Month, Discusses Benefits of His Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Law

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act”Tuesday, October 28, 2025 VIDEO October is National Audiology Awareness Month. It also happens to be the three-year anniversary of the bipartisan Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act regulations going into effect. You see this on television now,...

10.27.2025

Grassley Calls on the Federal Judiciary to Formally Regulate AI Use

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today spoke on the Senate floor to discuss his oversight of federal judges’ Artificial Intelligence (AI) use. Grassley recently exposed two federal judges whose court staff used AI to draft inaccurate court orders that the judges approved. During his floor speech, Grassley called on...

10.23.2025

Grassley Highlights Republicans’ Commonsense Medicaid Reforms in the 2025 Tax Bill

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“2025 Tax Bill and Medicaid”Thursday, October 23, 2025 VIDEO First of all, I want to compliment the chaplain. [In] each one of his prayers this week, he’s [discussed]...the importance of opening up the government and ending the Schumer Shutdown. I come to the floor today to speak...

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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

10.28.2025

Grassley to Ford Foundation - Foreign Funding

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10.28.2025

Grassley to Rockefeller Brothers Fund - Foreign Funding

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10.28.2025

Grassley to Gates Foundation - Foreign Funding

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10.23.2025

Grassley to Jack Smith - Hearing

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10.23.2025

Jack Smith to Jordan and Grassley - Hearing

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HIStory Series

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...

07.28.2025

Cinching the Purse Strings

My predecessor in Iowa’s Third Congressional District was known as “a watchdog to the Treasury.” During 13 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Harold Royce (H.R.) Gross kept a tight-fisted grip on the federal purse strings, pulling no punches on pork-barrel spending. Just three months before I was elected to Congress in 1974, President...

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