A decade of making a difference: Senate Caucus on Foster YouthBy Sen. Chuck Grassley Ten years ago this month, Sen. Mary Landrieu and I founded the bipartisan Senate Caucus on Foster Youth. We launched this caucus a decade ago to give voice to the thousands of young people in America who deserved a platform to break the silence on the challenges and...
The Pentagon’s Autopilot Budget Is Wasting Too Many Tax DollarsBy Sen. Chuck Grassley During this season of Thanksgiving, Americans gather with friends and family to count our blessings. Blessed to live in the land of the free and home of the brave, we give thanks to the courageous sons and daughters who put their lives on the line to secure...
How the Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act can reduce drug costsBy Sens. Chuck Grassley and Mike Braun The cost of prescription drugs is too high, plain and simple. It’s a chorus we hear repeatedly from our constituents in Indiana and Iowa. If you ask any of our colleagues in the Senate and House of Representatives, you’ll...
America will suffer if problems plaguing Midwest aren’t addressed by CongressBy Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley Members of Congress representing Middle America have been talking about the challenges facing the Midwest for years, but our warnings have largely fallen on deaf ears.Why? Because too often, Congress doesn’t...
Preserving the legacies of Iowa’s service members through the Veterans History ProjectBy Sen. Chuck Grassley Serving and honoring those who have selflessly served us and this nation through military service is important. The sacrifices our service members and their families make on our behalf is great and their efforts deserve our continuing...
A Bipartisan Way To Make Prescription Drugs AffordableBy Sens. Chuck Grassley and Bill Cassidy Americans are concerned about the high price of drugs. The pharmaceutical industry has become a system rife with gaming. Profits are regularly prioritized over patients. Laws meant to encourage innovation, recoup private investment, and ensure patient access...
How Congress Can Fix High Drug PricesBy Sens. Chuck Grassley and Kevin Cramer Washington is consumed with wall-to-wall coverage of impeachment, Ukraine, and transcripts. Every question we receive from the D.C. press corps is about that. But do you know who isn’t obsessed with this? Our constituents.Every day, we hear from people across North...
Without Retirement Reform, Too Many Americans Will Be Left BehindBy Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley Society and the way people work has undergone a significant shift over the past decade. Advances in technology and increased economic opportunity are contributors to this shift. As the economy continues to change, the...
Congress Can Act Now to Lower Drug PricesBipartisan legislation would redesign Medicare Part D to lower costs for beneficiaries and taxpayersBy Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Wyden It’s no secret that health care is a politically divisive issue. In the past decade, national elections have been decided on it, and control of Congress has changed hands...
From foster care to forever homeBy Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa When Iowa attorney Stephanie Kozlowski began representing juvenile delinquents in court, she had no idea it would lead her to become a foster parent. She saw kids were entering the criminal justice system in many cases because of the challenges they faced at home. She also saw a significant...
Farm communities need USMCABy Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa Farming is about community. It always has been. From the earliest known farming communities in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia to the modern farms punctuating the landscape of Rural America, people have worked together for centuries to cultivate the crops that feed the...
The World Trade Organization is faltering. The US can’t fix it aloneBy Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Ron Wyden With the World Trade Organization Public Forum underway in Geneva, it is time for members to confront and address the problems that are eroding the WTO's credibility and effectiveness....
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry into the president of the United States means that issue will likely dominate discussion in Washington for months. That’s a shame, because there are so many pressing matters for Congress that are much more consequential to the everyday lives of Americans. One of...
The Senate Takes on Campus CensorshipBy Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley Universities have long been centers of political correctness. But campus administrations increasingly seem to be indulging students who, when faced with uncomfortable ideas, complain of feeling “harmed” or “unsafe.” This is reaching its...
Let’s prescribe a dose of common sense: End spread-pricing in MedicaidBy Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley Americans from coast to coast disagree about plenty of issues. As a U.S. senator, I know at least one issue that unites all Americans: Drug prices are too high.The soaring cost of prescription medicine has struck a nonpartisan...
Oversight is necessary to ensure quality care in nursing homesBy Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck GrassleyOversight is often a vehicle for change in the federal government. In order to solve a problem, you need to know what it is, how bad it is and why it’s happening. Oversight is an important tool to find answers to those questions as well as...
Bill takes bipartisan approach to lowering medication costsBy Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Sen. Susan Collins We are no strangers to working across the aisle to find solutions to some of America’s most difficult problems. We have banned pharmacy gag clauses, and we are working to hold insulin...
Tick Tock. It's Time to Stop Rx Sticker ShockSens. Chuck Grassley and Steve Daines As United States Senators representing the Big Sky state and Hawkeye country, older Montanans and Iowans keep a watchful eye on spending. Like millions of Americans across the country, they are mindful that they need to stretch their savings in order to pay the bills...
Tackle student loan debt’s underlying causesSen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa Over the next few weeks, young people in Iowa and throughout the nation will head off to college for the first time. For these students, their years in college will prove to be some of the most formative of their lives. Earning a college degree is an accomplishment, and a...
Small and rural communities often depend on trade and export markets to keep the lights on and the doors open at their farms and businesses. The new North American trade deal – the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) – is a critical step to improving access to two of our most important markets: Canada and Mexico.Iowa has a particularly...
