News Releases

10.17.2025

Q: What is Arctic Frost? A: Under the Biden administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened an investigation in April 2022 codenamed Arctic Frost. I started my congressional oversight of Arctic Frost in July 2022 after whistleblowers approached my office. Ostensibly, the FBI investigation was opened to examine an alleged false electors...

10.16.2025

Judiciary Committee Advances Two U.S. Attorney Nominees

WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced the following nominations: Thomas Albus, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, by a vote of 12-10; and Adam Mildred, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana by a vote of 12-10. Watch the executive business meeting HERE. Read Chairman Chuck...

10.15.2025

Capitol Hill Report, 10-15-2025

Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE. Topics include: Israel-Hamas ceasefire, aid for farmers, governnment shutdown, and U.S. Supreme Court case on the Voting Rights Act.

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Remarks

10.16.2025

Grassley Opens Executive Business Meeting, Calls on Democrat Colleagues to Reopen the Government

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeExecutive Business MeetingThursday, October 16, 2025 On today’s agenda we have six nominations listed. We’ll vote on Thomas Albus and Adam Mildred to be U.S. Attorneys. Both nominees are highly qualified and I look forward to supporting them. We’ll hold over the...

10.16.2025

Grassley Praises Rural Emergency Hospital Program’s Success, Seeks More Information to Further Strengthen the Program

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“The Success of the Rural Emergency Hospital Program and Opportunities for Improvement”Thursday, October 16, 2025 VIDEO [Maintaining the] quantity and quality of health care in rural America is a constant responsibility of most senators, because every senator, even if you come from a...

10.15.2025

Grassley Calls on Pentagon to Take Corrective Action to Resolve Audit Failures

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Oversight of Department of Defense Financial Audit”Wednesday, October 15, 2025 VIDEO I come to the floor to speak about the Pentagon’s unending audit failures and to once again call for corrective action. People who have been in the Senate a while know I’ve been continually talking...

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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

10.14.2025

Grassley, Jordan, Lee, Fitzgerald to Encoura - EMS

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10.11.2025

Grassley et al to Verizon - Toll Records

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10.11.2025

Grassley et al to T-Mobile - Toll Records

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10.11.2025

Grassley et al to AT&T - Toll Records

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10.11.2025

Grassley et al to Lumen - Toll Records

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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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