Q&A: Cyberattacks in America
With 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. economy. The...
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...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. John Boozman (R-Ark.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and several colleagues to introduce the Hunger-Free Summer for Kids Act to add flexibility to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), which offers children free lunch and snacks in the summer. The bipartisan...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is seeking information from the Biden administration about announced plans to restart the Central American Minors program (CAM), through which certain minors from three countries could be considered for refugee resettlement or parole in the United States. The...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) are calling on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to ensure a timely and stakeholder-driven implementation of the new and voluntary Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) Medicare payment designation.
“The REH designation offers the flexibility to support rural hospitals...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Angus King (I-Maine) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) are introducing bipartisan legislation to reform tax laws that cover charitable donations, so that philanthropic funds are made available to working charities within a reasonable time period. The Accelerating Charitable Efforts (ACE) Act would establish a timeline for donations to...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Congressman Jim Jordan (R, Ohio-4), ranking members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees today renewed their request for the Biden Administration’s views on deadly fentanyl analogues. In a letter to the Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration, the lawmakers again called for a briefing on...
DES MOINES – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) regional director based in Des Moines will hold traveling office hours in ten counties around central Iowa throughout June. Iowans seeking assistance regarding a personal issue with a federal agency or wishing to share views on matters of federal policy may stop by during the scheduled hours.
These meetings will...
WASHINGTON – A major legislative package aimed at improving
economic competition with China and holding its communist government
accountable for predatory tactics today passed the Senate with several key
provisions authored by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The bill passed in the
Senate by a vote of 68-32. “The Chinese Communist Party has made no...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is once again pushing for answers and potential changes in the Defense Department’s approach to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) program.
In light of potentially burdensome litigation and rumors of rebidding, Grassley reiterated his longstanding concerns with the JEDI program’s contracting process...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate last night unanimously passed the Confidentiality Opportunities for Peer Support (COPS) Counseling Act. The bill, authored by Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), would encourage the adoption of law enforcement peer counseling programs across the country and ensure that the information disclosed...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 06-07-21Topics include: President Biden's budget proposal, immigration, police funding, 2022 election, mental health and recent cyber attacks.
Q&A: Biden’s Bloated Budget
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s your take on President Biden’s first budget?
A: The president is borrowing a page from the Obama administration to “never let a serious crisis go to waste.” It’s as clear as the day is long what the Biden administration set out to do since day one of his presidency: Use the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is looking for answers to the many questions raised by the Justice Department’s new strategy to combat violent crime.
“I am concerned as I review your very different answer to the problem of rising violent crime. First, I must tell you it is extremely difficult to...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pressing the Justice Department on its approach to prosecuting rioters at violent and destructive demonstrations over the summer and fall of 2020 and in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Reports indicate that many of the cases involving a...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 06-01-21Topics include: biofuels, Israel-Palestine conflict, gun violence, President Biden's budget proposal, inflation, and Senator Grassley's work calling on the U.S. Census Bureau to release data in a timely manner.
WASHINGTON – The Senate today unanimously passed bipartisan legislation authored by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to preserve a whistleblower program in danger of collapsing under its own success. The CFTC Fund Management Act (S. 409) ensures that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s whistleblower program can continue to function even when awards...
Q&A: Beefing Up Cattle Price Transparency and Local Meat Markets
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why did you resurrect your bipartisan cattle price transparency bill?
A: When independent cattle farmers are losing money on each head of cattle while packers are profiting $1,200 per head, they have every reason to be fed up with anticompetitive...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, today issued the following statement after President Biden announced his Fiscal Year 2022 budget proposal.
“It’s one of the oldest tricks in the Washington playbook: wait until Friday afternoon before a three-day holiday weekend to put out bad news, and hope the American...
