Myth: USMCA doesn’t improve protections for working Americans or curb companies from offshoring jobs. Facts: Unlike NAFTA, USMCA has an enforceable chapter specifically dedicated to ensuring that all parties maintain high labor standards. In particular, USMCA commits all parties to:protect the right of workers to collectively bargain;prohibit...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – President Donald Trump today signed into law legislation authored by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to help family farmers who have fallen on hard times. The Family Farmer Relief Act expands access to debt reorganization procedures designed specifically to address the unique needs of family farmers. “More than 30...
Corps has yet to follow through on commitment following 2019 floods WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst sent a letter pressing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to follow through on its commitment to rebuild a levee near Hamburg, Iowa, following the floods that devastated the area earlier this year. Following previous...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and USDA Undersecretary Bill Northey will meet with Iowa agriculture stakeholders on Wednesday, August 28 at the Cedar Falls Family Restaurant located at 2627 Center St. in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The topic of discussion will be the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement and how it will benefit the Iowa...
Fair Push for USMCABy Bethany BarattaCreston News Advertiser The Iowa State Fair was created to celebrate Iowa’s agricultural heritage. It’s an event dedicated to showcasing the successes and opportunities in Iowa agriculture. This year, it was the perfect setting to reinforce the importance of passing the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a family farmer, will join former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack (D-Iowa) to discuss the benefits of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) for American agriculture.
Grassley and Vilsack will tour AE Dairy, located at 2420 E. University Ave. in Des Moines,...
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– Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pressing the internal watchdog arm of the Department of Commerce regarding recent staff departures, low morale and falling productivity after hearing from nearly a dozen whistleblowers.
“As you are aware, whistleblowers are pivotal to identifying waste, fraud, and abuse in our...
ICYMI: Grassley Puts Teeth Back Into Finance CommitteePoliticoBy Dan Diamond and Adam Cancryn Powerful health care interests are starting to once again fear the Senate Finance Committee under its chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley, who since taking the gavel in January has led investigations into high-profile targets such as drugmakers, major hospital...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will complete his annual 99 county meetings of 2019 on August 27 by holding a town meeting in Clay County. “My annual tradition of holding a question-and-answer session in each of Iowa’s 99 counties helps me better serve the people of Iowa. It gives me an opportunity to talk to Iowans face-to-face and...
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griculture and food processing in America feeds and fuels the world – and particularly North America. Over half of America’s agriculture exports are consumed by Canada and Mexico – everything from pork to powdered milk. But policies, like Canada’s discriminatory dairy supply management, have kept
U.S. farmers at a disadvantage. The USMCA reduces or...
Improving rural health careBy Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley Rural communities are struggling to keep health care services available to their residents.Like most Americans, Iowans share growing concerns about the rising cost of prescription drugs, out-of-pocket health expenses and surprise medical bills. In states such as Iowa and...
Wind powers big opportunity in rural AmericaBy Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa Iowa’s economy is witnessing incredible growth. Our state’s GDP is growing faster than the national average, outpacing neighboring states like Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas. This steady growth is good news for our state and for hardworking Iowans. It...
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– Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is raising concerns over the process by which the Obama administration’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved the acquisition of a U.S. automotive technology company, Henniges, with reported military applications. Henniges was reportedly jointly acquired...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr today asking for his commitment to publicly release the results of the FBI and inspector general investigations into...
Perception vs. Reality: What I Learned During my Summer in Washington, D.C.By Rachel Collins of West Des Moines Rachel Collins is a native of West Des Moines and is currently a senior at St. Bonaventure University. She interned in Sen. Grassley’s Washington, D.C. office during the 2019 summer session. It seems the only reachable consensus...
Environmental advocates should take another look at biofuels
By Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and former Sen. Timothy Wirth (D-Colo.)
The question of how best to address environmental challenges has increasingly become a partisan flashpoint. So, when there is a green solution on which many Republicans and Democrats see eye-to-eye, as we do, it’s...
In joint bipartisan interview, ICIG staff recount probe into alleged hack & attempts by State officials to downgrade classified email
WASHINGTON – Staff from the Intelligence Community Inspector General’s office (ICIG) witnessed efforts by senior Obama State Department officials to downplay the volume of classified emails that transited former...
Washington – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released three reports containing summaries of the work conducted by several bipartisan taskforces that examined temporary tax provisions that expired, or will expire, between December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2019 –...
