WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) today reintroduced the Gang Activity Reporting Act to confront violent crime. The bipartisan bill would require the Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to resume annual reports to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today made public responses from U.S. Southern District of Mississippi Judge Henry T. Wingate, U.S. District of New Jersey Judge Julien Xavier Neals and the Administrative Office of the Courts (AO) Director Robert Conrad regarding Wingate and Neals’ use of generative artificial...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate allegations of fraudulent and deceptive business practices at The Knot, a wedding planning website, after receiving hundreds of reports from whistleblowers, including Iowans. In a follow up letter to FTC Chairman Andrew...
Senator Grassley’s Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: government shutdown, health care subsidies, Arctic Frost oversight, China and U.S. soybean trade, the Rural Emergency Hospital Program and the “No Kings” protests.
Q: What is Arctic Frost?
A: Under the Biden administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened an investigation in April 2022 codenamed Arctic Frost. I started my congressional oversight of Arctic Frost in July 2022 after whistleblowers approached my office. Ostensibly, the FBI investigation was opened to examine an alleged false electors...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced the following nominations:
Thomas Albus, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, by a vote of 12-10; and
Adam Mildred, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana by a vote of 12-10.
Watch the executive business meeting HERE. Read Chairman Chuck...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: Israel-Hamas ceasefire, aid for farmers, governnment shutdown, and U.S. Supreme Court case on the Voting Rights Act.
WASHINGTON – As part of his ongoing Arctic Frost oversight, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent letters to four telecommunications companies and five federal entities requesting they provide to Congress all records that were handed over to former Special Counsel Jack Smith as part of his elector case against President Trump....
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this week released a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) document revealing Jack Smith and the Biden FBI sought and obtained the cell phone tolling data of eight Republican senators and one Congressman as part of its sweeping Arctic Frost investigation into President Donald Trump.
The...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), along with 16 bicameral colleagues, are demanding the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) produce all records relating to the Biden FBI’s successful efforts to secretly...
Q: Why did you write U.S. tech companies about their employment practices?
A: I chair the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over federal immigration laws, including temporary visa programs that govern nonimmigrant visitors. A citizen of a foreign country who comes to the United States to study or obtain employment must obtain permission...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) welcomed Senate passage of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to support critical national security priorities. The legislation, which passed 77-20, includes multiple Grassley-backed provisions and a 3.8 percent pay raise for military service members. The House and Senate will now work together to...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced the following nominations:
Rebecca L. Taibleson, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, by a vote of 12-10;
David A. Bragdon, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, by a vote of 12-10;
Lindsey Ann Freeman, to be United States District Judge...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) reintroduced the Campus Accountability and Safety Act (CASA) to help combat sexual assault on college and university campuses. The bipartisan legislation would improve the way institutions of higher education address and report incidents of sexual assault that take place on their...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today endorsed Iowan Robert Rotter’s nomination to serve as the U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Iowa.
“I’m proud to endorse Robert Rotter to be U.S. Marshal for Iowa’s Northern District,” Grassley said. “I was glad to join Senator Ernst in...
WASHINGTON – Two years after Hamas terrorists carried out a brutal attack against Israel, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and all Senate Republicans in a bipartisan resolution condemning Iran-backed Hamas terrorists and supporting an outcome to the war that ensures the forever survival of Israel.
The...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today welcomed the confirmation of David Waterman to be the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa and Leif Olson to be the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa. As Judiciary Chairman, Grassley successfully shepherded Waterman and Olson’s...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined “America Reports” on Fox News to discuss news he brought to light this week that the Biden administration’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spied on eight Republican senators as part of its Arctic Frost investigation.
Watch the full interview HERE and below. Excerpts...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) questioned Department of Justice (DOJ) Attorney General Pam Bondi at today’s DOJ oversight hearing.
Grassley urged Bondi to secure accountability for the Biden administration’s weaponization of government, including addressing the targeting of eight Republican senators as part of its...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote to two federal judges regarding their alleged use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to draft court orders with little to no human verification. Grassley’s oversight inquiry follows public reporting that U.S. District of Mississippi Judge Henry T. Wingate and U.S. District...
