GREENFIELD, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) today held his 99th county meeting in Iowa for the 41st consecutive
year as part of his annual 99 county meetings with an hour-long public town meeting
in Adair County.
With this meeting, Grassley marks the
conclusion of another year in his 41-year practice of holding at least one
question-and-answer session with Iowans in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties.
Grassley has done so every year since he was first elected to serve in the U.S.
Senate in 1980. The hallmark of his meetings are the open-topic
question-and-answer sessions where Grassley invites and responds to questions
and comments on any subject. Grassley’s efforts to go to Iowans where they
work, study and live set a standard for representative government. Grassley
also makes himself available for 15 minutes after each meeting to answer
questions from local news media.
“Representative government is a two-way
street. I’m one half of the process and the people of Iowa are the other half.
You can’t have representative government without dialogue between elected
officials and the people we represent. I appreciate the opportunity to hold
these meetings, answer questions and listen to comments on any subject from
Iowans. The cross-section of people I get to meet with during town meetings and
in their workplaces, offices and factory floors, in schools and at service
organizations, helps me keep in touch and take the common sense of Iowans from
all perspectives to work in Washington.
“In 41 years, our state has changed and
grown a lot. But the common sense and pragmatism of Iowans has endured, and
helps me do a better job representing our home in the nation’s capital. I’m
grateful this year and every year to hear from Iowans this way. I look forward
to my annual 99 county meetings next year and every year I have the honor to
serve Iowans in the U.S. Senate,” Grassley said.
Topics frequently raised at this year’s
meetings included COVID-19
economic relief, infrastructure, prescription drug pricing, transparency in the cattle industry, bipartisanship, derecho
disaster aid, rural health care and telehealth, wind and solar energy,
immigration, congressional oversight and investigations, rural broadband, the
national debt, the Renewable Fuel Standard, international trade and federal
regulations.
Grassley
kicked off this
year’s meetings in Jasper and Poweshiek counties.
To view the full list of meetings so far
this year, check out Grassley’s 99 County Meetings page on his website
HERE.
To view Grassley’s photos and tweets from the meetings, search
#99CountyMeetings on
Twitter and
Instagram.