News Releases

02.12.2026

Grassley Questions Stakeholders on USMCA Benefits Ahead of Joint Review

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, questioned stakeholders about the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s (USMCA) benefits to the U.S. economy, including strengthening supply chains against unfair competition from countries like China, ahead of a joint review of the agreement later this...

02.11.2026

Grassley Joins Iowa Congressional Delegation to Introduce Legislation to Permanently Remember Fallen Iowa National Guardsmen

Click HERE for video WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), along with every member of Iowa’s congressional delegation in the House, are introducing legislation to rename two Iowa Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities in honor of Staff Sgts. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar and William Nathaniel Howard, the Iowa National Guardsmen who...

02.11.2026

Grassley Proposes Third-Party Litigation Funding Reform, Foreign Reporting Requirements

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), John Kennedy (R-La.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) today introduced the Litigation Funding Transparency Act. The legislation would require parties to publicly disclose third-party litigation funding, including foreign funding, in mass tort and class action...

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Remarks

02.12.2026

Grassley Celebrates President Lincoln’s Birthday, Champions the Historic Success of the False Claims Act

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Celebrating President Lincoln’s Birthday”Thursday, February 12, 2026 VIDEO As we celebrate the 250th birthday of this great America and our independence from Great Britain, I want to recognize the birth of our nation’s 16th president on this very day, February 12, 217 years...

02.12.2026

Grassley Mourns the Tragic Iowa Lakes Community College Bus Crash

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Iowa Lakes Community College Bus Crash”Thursday, February 12, 2026 VIDEO ...I want to start this morning by saying that my wife, Barbara, and this senator are praying for those involved in the bus crash from Iowa Lakes Community College. Just yesterday, in Calhoun County on...

02.11.2026

Grassley Celebrates Lithuanian Independence Day

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Lithuanian Independence Day”Wednesday, February 11, 2026 VIDEO I’m here to speak about a country that loves freedom, and they’re also a friend to the United States and have had a good relationship with the United States. It happens that February 16 in 1918, the Act of Independence...

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Commentary

01.30.2026

Republicans aren’t done fighting for year-round, nationwide E15

This month, Congress was set to enact permanent, year-round E15 nationwide as part of a final package of funding bills. To my disappointment, at the last minute, the deal went sideways, and E15 was dropped. This was bad news for consumers and the farm economy that is already hurting under high input costs spiked by inflationary Biden-era...

01.12.2026

Barbara Grassley: Time is Precious, so Spend It with Your Kids, Not on Your Phone

Time is Precious, so Spend It with Your Kids, Not on Your PhoneBy Barbara GrassleyJanuary 11, 2026Des Moines Register Over the holidays, Chuck and I were blessed to spend time with our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Seeing our farmhouse crawling with kids fills this grandmother’s heart to the brim. This time of year is one for reflection....

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...

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Official Correspondence

02.12.2026

Grassley, Moolenaar to FBI - Wolf Amendment

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02.12.2026

Grassley, Moolenaar to NASA - Wolf Amendment

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02.11.2026

Grassley, Collins, Risch, Crapo, Ernst to DOJ - Criminal Debt Collection

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02.10.2026

Grassley to DHS and Coast Guard - GAO Report

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02.05.2026

Grassley to CISA - ChatGPT

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HIStory Series

01.26.2026

It’s “Common Sense:” An Informed Citizenry Guides My Work

Many historical milestones will dot the calendar this year as Americans look to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation’s independence on July the Fourth. Just after the turn of the new year in 1776, a 47-page pamphlet titled “Common Sense” helped change the course of human history. The author, Thomas Paine, set foot in America just over a year before...

12.23.2025

Ringing in America250

As we wind down the year, America is winding up to celebrate an important milestone in our nation’s history. On July 4, 2026, the United States of America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding. When the clock strikes midnight on December 31, America inches closer to our Semiquincentennial – a Latin-derived term meaning 250 years –...

11.24.2025

Thanksgiving Day, A Day for Unity in America

Thanksgiving Day took root in our nation’s history as a “day of public thanksgiving and prayer” when George Washington issued a proclamation in 1789, calling upon freshly minted Americans to celebrate ratification of the Constitution and coalesce around the bounty of hard-fought freedom. Having secured the right of self-governance, our nation’s first...

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