WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is shining a light on widespread abuse in the Obamacare program and proposing legislation to stop fraud in its tracks. Grassley’s Fraud Risk Assessment of Obamacare Subsidies Accountability Act would require the Centers for Medicare and Medicare...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today chaired a hearing to examine emerging online threats against children and proposed legislative solutions. Grassley and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced three bipartisan bills to update federal sentencing guidelines, target violent online criminal networks and crack...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today are introducing three bipartisan bills to hold violent criminals accountable and combat the disturbing rise in online child exploitation. The Committee will also convene this morning for a hearing on child safety.
The Sentencing...
Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report is available HERE.
Topics include: farmer aid package, tariffs, Venezuela boat strikes, student loans and birthright citizenship.
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is placing Arctic Frost at the top of the committee’s oversight agenda in 2026. Under Grassley’s leadership, the committee plans to hold a series of hearings examining the constitutional and legal implications of the weaponized election case against President Donald Trump, which began...
Q: What prompted your oversight of Afghan evacuees paroled into the United States since 2021?
A: Following the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, 13 American families will mourn forever the loss of their loved one when a suicide bomber attacked the airport in Kabul on Aug. 26, 2021, killing 13 U.S. service members, including a 23-year-old...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) introduced the Medical Foods and Formulas Access Act to help Americans with digestive or inherited metabolic disorders access the nourishment they need.
The legislation would require Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is cosponsoring legislation alongside Finance Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and 18 senators to improve accountability and oversight of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and bring down the price of prescription...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) reintroduced the bipartisan Inspector General Access Act to allow the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (DOJ OIG) to investigate alleged DOJ attorney misconduct.
“Federal prosecutors have significant...
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Topics include: the D.C. National Guard shooting, Arctic Frost, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, the National Defense Authorization Act and staff traveling office hours.
Q: What is the Rural Health Transformation program?
A: Congress beefed up federal dollars to expand access to health care services in rural communities in the health and tax law signed in July by President Trump. The Rural Health Transformation program was designed to improve access to care, improve health outcomes, prioritize new and emergency technologies,...
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Topics include: Thanksgiving, federal judge’s dismissal of indictments against Letitia James and James Comey, the Senate’s focus since the government shutdown, confirming nominations, passing the remaining spending bills and rolling back Biden administration rules through the Congressional Review Act,...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) staff will hold traveling office hours in 28 Iowa counties next month, from December 1 to December 17. Iowans seeking assistance with a federal agency or wishing to share their views may stop by during the scheduled hours listed below.
NOTE: Senator Grassley will not be in attendance. He will be...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – The Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI) is applauding U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) Combating Organized Retail Crime Act (CORCA). The bipartisan bill, cosponsored by U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), would establish a multi-agency response to tackle evolving trends in retail...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) today reintroduced the Stop Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act. The bipartisan bill would crack down on deadly drugs that are substantially similar to controlled substances but carefully engineered to slip into the U.S....
Q: What is National Adoption Month?
A: More than four decades ago, President Ronald Reagan used the power of the bully pulpit to bring attention to the tens of thousands of children in foster care awaiting a forever home. In 1984, he signed a Senate Joint Resolution to designate the week before Thanksgiving as National Adoption Week. Choosing this week...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) welcomed an announcement from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) that Iowa will receive $82,144,823 to support transit improvements across the state. The awards will be administered through DOT’s Buses & Bus Facilities Program and the Low- or No-Emission Program, which both received funding...
WASHINGTON – Seven major whistleblower groups told Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) his whistleblower advocacy “has changed the course of history for freedom of speech and government accountability to taxpayers.”
This year alone, Grassley has helped secure reinstatement and restitution for at least 15 whistleblowers at three separate government agencies. One of...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced the following nominations:
Tysen Duva, to be Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, by a vote of 12-10;
Robert P. Chamberlin, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi, by a vote of 12-10;
William J. Crain, to be United States District Judge for the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement:
“After 43 long days, the government shutdown is finally over. Dysfunction in Washington does not serve Iowans. Iowans deserve common sense, not partisan nonsense. As we approach the holiday season, I hope my colleagues are inspired to bring more bipartisanship and cooperation to the...
