News Releases

Q&A: Border Security UpdateWith U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: What grade do you give the Biden administration for its immigration policies? A: President Biden’s promises on the campaign trail, as well as the administration’s messaging and policies enacted during his First 100 Days have created chaos, uncertainty and confusion at our southern...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led an effort to press the Justice Department and FBI for details about any investigation into the disclosure of sensitive taxpayer records to the news media.  Joining his letter to the Justice Department and FBI are Judiciary Committee colleagues Sens. John...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in a letter today to Attorney General Merrick Garland took the Justice Department to task for its continued failure to respond to congressional oversight inquiries, particularly those relating to political considerations in light of Garland’s recent statements.  “I read with interest...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statement after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report they had requested entitled, “Prescription Drugs: Medicare Spending on Drugs with Direct-to-Consumer Advertising,” which found direct-to-consumer...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement in light of the 7 to 2 Supreme Court ruling to dismiss pending lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act for lack of standing.    “Last fall when the Senate was considering Justice Barrett’s nomination...

WASHINGTON – Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today engaged in an impromptu bipartisan discussion about the Justice Department’s repeated failures to respond to congressional oversight inquiries from Republicans and Democrats alike.  The discussion was kicked off by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who called for a better flow of information...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kan.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and 13 colleagues in introducing a bipartisan resolution in support of the designation of June 2021 as “National Dairy Month.” The resolution aims to recognize the important role dairy plays in a healthy diet and the exceptional work of...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) sent a letter to U.S Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, urging the Department – which is in the midst of a comprehensive review of the federal oil and gas program – to include their bipartisan Fair Returns for Public Lands Act as a policy recommendation in their...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are today introducing the IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act, which would strengthen the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) successful Whistleblower Awards Program. That program has enabled the agency to collect over $6 billion from wealthy individuals and businesses caught dodging taxes....

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), both members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, are pressing their fellow Iowan, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, on recent actions by the Biden administration that have the potential to harm Iowa’s agriculture industry. In a letter, the Iowa senators express...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and several colleagues in a bipartisan letter to Small Business Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman urging her to disburse Shuttered Venue Operator Grant funding to struggling live entertainment venues as soon as possible. The legislation that...

WASHINGTON – Michelle Root of Modale, Iowa, today testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on policy proposals that would legalize certain illegal immigrant populations. Root, the mother of Sarah Root, who was killed in 2016 by an illegal immigrant, called on the committee to pursue policies that improve justice for victims of crimes perpetrated...

Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 06-14-21Topics include: The origins of COVID-19, the Meat Packing Special Investigator Act, cattle market transparency, the Hunger-Free Summer for Kids Act and pandemic unemployment insurance.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Tarahrick Terry v. United States, a case related to the interpretation of provisions of...

WASHINGTON –Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) in introducing the Tougher Enforcement Against Monopolies (TEAM) Act to reform our nation’s antitrust laws. “America is facing a panoply of competition concerns not just in Big Tech, but across our entire economy. We need a holistic approach that deals with all of these concerns,...

WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) to announce new, bipartisan legislation to address anticompetitive practices in the meat and poultry industries that threaten the nation’s food supply and national security following last week’s ransomware attack on JBS, the country’s largest...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the Justice Department Inspector General’s review of investigative activity, including subpoenas, targeting records of certain Members of Congress and congressional staff: “Both classified leaks and abuses of power...

Q&A: Cyberattacks in AmericaWith U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: Are recent cyberattacks on JBS and Colonial Pipeline the tip of the iceberg? A: Ransomware cyberattacks targeting critical U.S. infrastructure are cropping up with increasing frequency, delivering wake-up calls to cybersecurity vulnerabilities across the government and U.S....

WASHINGTON – The Senate last night unanimously passed bipartisan legislation authored by Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to better ensure that law enforcement and first responders who are disabled in the line of duty have prompt access to the benefits they’ve been promised. The bill is co-led in the Senate by Senator Kirsten...

WASHINGTON – Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance two bipartisan criminal justice reform bills authored by U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee —the Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act of...