News Releases

11.03.2025

Capitol Hill Report 11-03-2025

Senator Grassley’s Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE. Topics include: China and U.S. soybean trade, SNAP benefits, government shutdown, Argentina beef imports, and the Fertilizer Research Act.

10.31.2025

Q&A: Spotlight on Soaring Farm Input Costs

Q: Why did you hold a Judiciary Committee hearing to examine consolidation in the farm sector? A: As the only grain farmer in the United States Senate, I’m honored to advocate on behalf of family farmers who are wrapping up the harvest season and looking ahead to next year’s crop. Today U.S. farmers are feeling crushed with uncertainty as they make plans to...

10.30.2025

Grassley, Duckworth, Durbin, Sorensen Press Army Leadership Over Impacts of Army Transformation Initiative on Rock Island Arsenal

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), along with Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.), had a briefing with Acting Army Materiel Commander Lieutenant General (LTC) Christopher Mohan to learn more about the impacts the Army Transformation Initiative (ATI) could have on Rock Island Arsenal and the Quad Cities...

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Remarks

11.03.2025

Grassley Highlights Stark Consequences of Democrats’ Government Shutdown

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Government Shutdown and SNAP Benefits”Monday, November 3, 2025 VIDEO On Thursday, I sounded the alarm as the lapse in government funding endangered food assistance for 42 million Americans rapidly approached. That was November 1, the approach date. I called on Senator Schumer to end...

11.03.2025

Grassley Applauds Nominees for First and Ninth Circuits, Calls for Bipartisan Support

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary Committee“Nominations of Joshua Dunlap and Eric Tung to the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First and Ninth Circuits”Monday, November 3, 2025 VIDEO This week, we’ll be voting on a pair of highly qualified circuit court nominations. Despite the ongoing Democrat government shutdown, the...

10.30.2025

Grassley: Senate Democrats Are Taking Away Iowans’ Food Stamps

Statement for the Congressional Record by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa“Government Shutdown and SNAP Funding”Thursday, October 30, 2025 The federal government has a full lapse in funding and has for 30 days. This is not a new revelation. I want to alert Senator Schumer to a grave concern I have. On November 1, 42 million Americans, including 131,000 Iowa...

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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

10.29.2025

Grassley, et al. to Reynolds, Johnson - RHTP

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10.28.2025

Grassley to Ford Foundation - Foreign Funding

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10.28.2025

Grassley to Rockefeller Brothers Fund - Foreign Funding

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10.28.2025

Grassley to Gates Foundation - Foreign Funding

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10.27.2025

Britt, Grassley, et al to DOJ - Youth Sports Betting

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HIStory Series

10.30.2025

Government Shutdowns Fail the American People

This week the American people enter the fifth week of a federal government shutdown. Starting Nov. 1, more than 40 million Americans who rely on food stamp benefits will not have their debit-style cards replenished to buy groceries. That’s nearly 1 in 8 Americans, including 131,000 Iowa families. It’s shocking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said every...

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...

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