On Friday, the Supreme Court will meet to decide
whether to hear a case (NPPC & AFBF v. Ross, et al) that farmers in Iowa
and nationwide will watch very closely. The case relates to California’s
Proposition 12, a law that imposes stricter housing rules for food animals sold
into the state. This includes chickens, the eggs they lay, and
other...
ICYMI:
Chuck Grassley: Boosting Small Businesses on Big TechBy Sen. Chuck Grassley of IowaDes
Moines Register Today there are only a handful of dominant
companies that control what Americans can buy, hear and say online. Big Tech
has power over the economy that we haven’t seen in generations, perhaps ever,
and it grows even larger, taking over yet more...
ICYMI: Chuck Grassley: This National Adoption Month, consider foster care By Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa Ames Tribune I encourage Iowans who are in a position to do so, to consider becoming foster parents to help kids in their community. “What would happen if we said no?” Chris and Emily Norton asked themselves when they considered accepting their first...
ICYMI: Iowa Youth Summit Fosters Civic Engagement By Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa Des Moines Register Blue skies and blustery winds greeted 75 high school students representing 19 schools from central Iowa last week as they entered the federal courthouse in downtown Des Moines. They weren’t on trial or reporting for jury...
The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee came to
Iowa recently to pitch the Democrats’ partisan $4.2 trillion budget blueprint.
Senate Democrats passed the plan in a party line vote during a marathon session
that stretched into the wee hours of August 11. When college students pull all-nighters, they’re
cramming to pass a test. When Majority Leader...
As former chairman and taxpayer watchdog serving on
the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, I’m girding for my next dogfight.
President Biden has set his sights on enacting a new death tax on top of the
existing estate tax. Yes, it’s as unfair as it sounds. The Democrats want to
reach into the grave and tax Americans’ lifelong savings to pay...
ICYMI: 2020 Saw a Scary Increase in U.S. Drug Overdoses. We Must Take National Action to Help Communities at Risk By Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Dianne Feinstein of CaliforniaTIME The rate of drug overdoses in the U.S. accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, worsening an existing public health crisis, and the numbers are staggering. The Centers for...
When
COVID-19 sent the world into a global public health emergency, fall-out from
the pandemic turned daily life upside down. Many people lost their jobs through
no fault of their own, creating financial hardship for families to put food on
the table and pay their bills. On top of that, school closures and isolation
protocols in nursing homes added more...
By Sen. Chuck Grassley of IowaThe Quad City Times This year, the Children’s Bureau’s National Foster Care Month initiative is focused on bringing to light ways that organizations can authentically engage youth in decision-making about their own future. When I first founded the Senate Caucus on Foster Youth in 2009 with then-Senator Landrieu, one of the...
A
recent Register editorial backed President Joe Biden’s plan
to throw an additional $80 billion in taxpayer money back at the IRS to recoup
unpaid taxes. These pages said I “should be leading the charge to ensure tax
scofflaws are pursued.” The Register failed to recognize that I’ve been leading
this charge for years. As a
taxpayer...
America’s application of jurisprudence – our court and trial system – was arguably on trial this month for all the world to see from the Hennepin County Courthouse in America’s heartland. Former police officer Derek Chauvin’s televised murder trial pulled back the curtain for anyone to watch our justice system at work during one of the most tumultuous times...
Op-Ed: Packing the court strikes out independent judiciaryBy Sen. Chuck GrassleyWashington Examiner Former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used his bully pulpit to try to pack the Supreme Court. He struck out, and in the 1938 midterm elections, his party lost 72 seats in the House of Representatives and seven seats in the Senate. As they say, history...
A recent misleading Register editorial praised the
Senate’s approval of additional coronavirus aid, and claimed that we opposed a
litany of coronavirus policies included in the package. The
board argued that because a $1.9 trillion spending bill, filled with unrelated
and wasteful provisions, passed on a party-line basis, we turned our backs...
For nearly 12 months and counting, COVID-19 has disrupted lives and livelihoods across America and the entire world. Here in Iowa, the breadbasket to the world, hardworking Iowans continue to do what we do best: get food from farm to fork, from one generation to the next. As I continue my annual 99 county meetings, I’ve witnessed that no matter the setting...
For generations, school kids went to bed dreaming about the possibility of a snow day. No one would have imagined today’s scenario. When winter storms blanketed the Midwest and moved to the East Coast, the bedtime prayers for millions of students asked higher powers that be to let them return to the classroom. When the coronavirus pandemic first reached our...
Don’t Exploit Pandemic to Enact Liberal Laundry ListBy U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa In my final hearing chairing the Senate Finance Committee, President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as the 78th U.S Treasury secretary told lawmakers we must “act big” to restore the economy capsized by COVID-19. At her confirmation hearing held the day...
by Sen. Chuck Grassley
Quad-Cities Times & The Courier
As Iowa turned the page on a year brimming with hardship,
from a deadly pandemic and economic fallout, to civic unrest, a derecho and
divisive presidential election, the New Year got off on the wrong foot.
Forty-six years ago this month, I swore an oath to the
Constitution as a newly elected...
2020 gave us silver linings and lessons to be learnedBy Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa It’s been a rough year. We started 2020 with all eyes on Iowa for the first-in-the-nation presidential nominating contest. The Iowa caucuses took place under the cloud of a presidential impeachment. That surreal moment in history was eclipsed by a deadly virus that...
End the Taxpayer Giveaway to Big Oil and GasCongress should raise the royalty rates on federal lands.By Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Tom Udall of New Mexico One hundred years ago, Congress passed the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, setting up a system in which companies lease public lands to wrest valuable oil and gas from the ground. In the century...
Clear Out Unused Medicines on National Take-Back DayBy U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst Do you have unused medication from last year’s harvest prescribed to treat back pain still in the medicine cabinet? Or, perhaps diabetic test strips piling up or pain pills prescribed months ago for your teen’s wisdom teeth...
