News Releases

10.06.2025

Grassley Scrutinizes Federal Judges’ Apparent AI Use in Drafting Error-Ridden Rulings

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote to two federal judges regarding their alleged use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to draft court orders with little to no human verification. Grassley’s oversight inquiry follows public reporting that U.S. District of Mississippi Judge Henry T. Wingate and U.S. District...

10.06.2025

Capitol Hill Report, 10-06-2025

Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE. Topics include: government shutdown, China and U.S. soybean trade, federal judges AI oversight, Epstein files, prevention of shutdowns.

10.06.2025

Biden FBI Spied on Eight Republican Senators as Part of Arctic Frost Investigation, Grassley Oversight Reveals

WASHINGTON – An explosive FBI document obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reveals the FBI targeted eight Republican senators’ personal cell phones for “tolling data” as part of its Arctic Frost investigation. One Republican member of the House of Representatives was also impacted. The Arctic Frost investigation formed the...

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Remarks

10.06.2025

Grassley Highlights Challenges Facing Family Farmers, Including Decreasing Land Values

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore "The Agricultural Economy: Congress Can’t Wait” Monday, October 6, 2025 VIDEO There is a not-so-perfect storm brewing for farmers in my state of Iowa and in agricultural states generally. Many factors are coming together and all at once, like low grain prices, high input costs,...

10.03.2025

Grassley: Any Legislation with Ad Hoc Payments to Farmers Should Include Year-Round, Nationwide E15

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “The Agricultural Economy: Year-Round, Nationwide E15” Wednesday, October 1, 2025 VIDEO So again, for the third time this week, I want to talk about the agricultural situation. This week, I’ve been talking much about the dire situation in real America where corn farmers are facing...

10.01.2025

Grassley Opens Executive Business Meeting on Circuit, District and U.S. Attorney Nominees, Calls Out Democrats’ Double Standard of Justice

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeExecutive Business MeetingWednesday, October 1, 2025 Before we begin, I’ll note that the government is now shut down. This is unfortunate and unnecessary. Republicans in the House and Senate have tried to pass a simple, nonpartisan resolution to keep the...

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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

10.06.2025

Grassley to the Honorable Julien Xavier Neals - AI Oversight

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10.06.2025

Grassley to the Honorable Henry T. Wingate - AI Oversight

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10.03.2025

Grassley to DHA - TRICARE PBM

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10.02.2025

Grassley to DHS - Parole Expiration

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10.01.2025

CEG et al to EPA - Half RINs

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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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