News Releases

07.25.2025

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) and Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), reintroduced legislation to study the effectiveness of biochar, a carbon-rich material produced from biomass. The bipartisan Biochar...

07.25.2025

Q: What’s your most recent work to strengthen whistleblower protections? A: Estimates show federal contractors outnumber roughly two million civilian employees in the federal workforce. In July I introduced bipartisan legislation to address gaps in existing federal law that leave millions of people who work as federal contractors vulnerable to reprisal if...

07.24.2025

WASHINGTON – In a letter to President Donald Trump, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), co-founder and co-chair of the Whistleblower Protection Caucus, praised the president’s efforts to eliminate waste and fraud and requested that the administration ensure whistleblowers are not terminated or retaliated against after making legally protected whistleblower...

Remarks

07.24.2025

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeExecutive Business MeetingThursday, July 24, 2025 On today’s agenda, we have seven nominations. We’ll vote on Kurt Wall, Kurt Alme, Lesley Murphy, Jeanine Pirro, Erik Seibert, Nicholas Chase and Daniel Rosen to be U.S. Attorneys. These are highly qualified...

07.23.2025

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa “Live Unanimous Consent Request to Pass the Drug-price Transparency for Consumers (DTC) Act” Wednesday, July 23, 2025 VIDEO I’d like to put this in the simplest form I can – by watching television all the time, prices are showing up all the time, for this product or that product. I don’t know how many times I...

07.23.2025

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Recent Medicare Trustees Report” Wednesday, July 23, 2025   VIDEO   Every year, we get what’s called a Medicare Trustees report. I come to the floor to comment on that. We all know that Medicare is very much a part of America’s social fabric. For decades, Medicare has provided...

Commentary

06.13.2025

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...

06.13.2025

Recently, I met with leaders of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare in my office. One of the issues we discussed was Social Security, a topic that regularly comes up at my 99 county meetings. Did you know FDR signed the Social Security Act into law 90 years ago on Aug. 14, 1935? As we approach the historic anniversary of the...

03.30.2025

This month’s NBC poll finds more registered voters believe our country is on the right track than at any other point in the past two decades. But amid President Trump’s flurry of executive action, federal district judges have increasingly—and inappropriately—inserted themselves into the national policy debate. They have repeatedly chosen not only to decide...

Official Correspondence

HIStory Series

06.30.2025

On this year’s Independence Day, communities across the country are encouraged to participate in events for America250, a year-long celebration to mark our nation’s historic quarter millennial on July 4, 2026. Reflecting on American history will help us see where we’ve been, where we are today and where we’re headed.  Consider the stone-cold courage of the...

06.02.2025

Since first being sworn into the U.S. Senate during the 97th Congress on Jan. 3, 1981, I’ve entered the rectangular, two-story chamber located on the north wing of the U.S. Capitol countless times to introduce legislation, deliver a speech or cast my vote on behalf of Iowans. It’s a privilege to represent my home state in the greatest deliberative body in...

05.22.2025

After the bloodiest war in U.S. history, an enlisted soldier in the Union Army was assigned to recover war dead from Southern battlefields. Brevet Lt.-Col. Edmund B. Whitman mapped out an intricate system of “cemeterial districts” that formed the framework for our system of National Cemeteries. They provide a final resting place for fallen heroes and sacred...

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FAST FACTS

BORN

September 17, 1933 in New Hartford, Iowa

FAMILY

Married Barbara Speicher 1954

Five children: Lee, Wendy, Robin, Michele, Jay

EDUCATION

B.A. 1955, M.A. 1956 Political Science

University of Northern Iowa

Ph.D. work, University of Iowa

OCCUPATION

Farmer (son, Robin, currently helps run family farm);

Sheet metal shearer 1959-1961

Assembly line worker 1961-1971

Adjunct government professor 1960s & 1970s

Elected to Iowa Legislature 1958

Elected to U.S. House of Representatives 1974

Elected to U.S. Senate 1980

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