WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency today announced its support for a recent appeals court decision supporting biofuels producers. The move is a departure from the EPA’s previous position, and follows Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) long-running campaign to restore integrity in the implementation of the law setting minimum benchmarks for the...
WASHINGTON –
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined U.S.
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chair of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, and U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) in
submitting an Amicus Brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Tarahrick Terry v.
United States, a case related to the...
Q&A: Iowa-Grown Energy is Good for America
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why did you invite the Biden administration’s climate advisor to Iowa?
A: When President Biden took office, I reassured Iowans I’ve been able to work with every president throughout my years representing Iowa. When an administration’s agenda is good for Iowa, I’m all in to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is seeking explanations from Ambassador Samantha Power, who is nominated to head the U.S. Agency for International Development, for her previous office’s effort to remove the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA) from the Treasury Department’s sanctions list. ISRA was placed on that list, maintained by the Office of Foreign...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today praised the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) announcement that it is awarding a $2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Des Moines University Osteopathic Medicine. The university will use this grant to purchase equipment for its planned state-of-the-art...
WASHINGTON – In light of new reports alleging New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and his staff engaged in a cover-up of New York’s nursing home COVID-19 death toll, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and others on a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), calling for the Committee to...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Following
testimony that New York state officials intentionally withheld data on
COVID-19-related deaths in the state’s nursing homes, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is again urging the
Biden administration to take care not to disrupt sensitive ongoing
investigations by terminating...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a family farmer and strong advocate for renewable energy, today sent a letter to White House Climate Czar, Gina McCarthy, inviting her to visit Iowa and learn about the state’s continued leadership in renewable fuel production and overall sustainable energy strategy. Grassley’s request comes after McCarthy...
WASHINGTON –
U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee today announced the establishment of the Subcommittees of
the Senate Judiciary Committee for the 117th Congress, and the assignment of
Chairs and Ranking Members to these...
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today detailed the constitutional, precedential, factual and legal analyses supporting his vote to find former President Donald Trump not guilty of the House of Representatives’ article of impeachment.
In his statement for the Senate record, Grassley reiterated that the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was an assault...
Q&A: What’s Ahead in 2021
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s on the agenda in the new Congress?
A: The leadership landscape shifted in January with the inauguration of a new president and a new majority in the U.S. Senate. That means for the next two years, one party will control the political branches of government, from the White House...
WASHINGTON – Sen.
Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is calling on
the Biden Administration to explain its plans to cancel new transparency
measures related to Confucius Institutes, which the U.S. intelligence community
asserts is a part of the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda arm. In a letter
today to Homeland Security...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is echoing concerns raised by Democratic colleagues that President Biden’s action to fire 56 U.S. attorneys could impede ongoing investigations. In a letter to President Biden, Grassley urged the administration to consider the impacts of removing each U.S. attorney on their...
WASHINGTON – Amid
the COVID-19 public health pandemic, U.S. Senate Democratic 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, authors of
the bipartisan First Step Act, landmark criminal justice reform legislation,
introduced bipartisan legislation...
WASHINGTON – U.S.
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are calling on the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to publicly release its weekly
formula for allocating vaccines to states and other jurisdictions. The push for
greater transparency comes as news reports suggest Iowa is lagging behind other
states in vaccines delivered...
WASHINGTON – U.S.
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, today announced that the Committee will hold a nomination
hearing for Judge Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be U.S.
Attorney General, on Monday, February...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), leaders of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Roy Blunt (R-MO), leaders of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration; Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), leaders of the Judiciary Committee; Mark Warner (D-VA) and Marco Rubio...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and 46 other pro-life senators in sending a unified message to Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) pledging that they will vote to block any bill that would undermine the Hyde Amendment or any other pro-life protections.
“We are united in our resolve to guard against any...
