Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics discussed include: Sen. Grassley's fourth Federal Judiciary Youth Summit, border security following the expiration of Title 42, debt ceiling negotiations and federal spending, the congressional subpoena of a FBI document, the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Reform Act, the...
COUNCIL BLUFFS – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a former chairman and senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today welcomed juniors and seniors from southwestern Iowa high schools to his fourth annual Federal Judiciary Youth Summit in Council Bluffs. This year’s summit is part of Grassley’s longstanding efforts to engage Iowans in our system of...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) in introducing a bill to require the U.S. State Department to release a public, unclassified version of the July 13, 2021, internal dissent channel cable that reportedly warned of the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan and the Taliban’s...
Q: What is Title 42?
A: Title 42 refers to a section of U.S. immigration law that enables the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a public health order regulating the entry of people coming into the United States. During the previous administration, Title 42 was put in place on March 21, 2020 to help curb the spread of COVID-19. This...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) are urging President Joe Biden to swiftly nominate qualified individuals to fill critical Inspector General (IG) vacancies. In a letter to Biden, the senators note that IGs play a vital role in stewarding American taxpayer dollars and rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer issued the following statements on the FBI failing to comply with Chairman Comer’s subpoena seeking an unclassified FBI generated FD 1023 form that allegedly details a bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today reintroduced bipartisan legislation encouraging pharmacists to serve older Americans in communities that lack easy access to doctors or where pharmacists are able to provide certain basic medical...
WASHINGTON – Upon invitation from Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former Iowa governor and former U.S. ambassador to China Terry Branstad testified today at a hearing on climate change.
“Former Governor Branstad and I worked together during his time as Iowa’s governor to advocate for renewable and alternative energy...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics discussed include: the expiration of Title 42 and the introduction of the BUILD IT Act, state auditing and checks and balances within government, Congressional subpoena of FBI document, Ottumwa Regional Health Center correspondence, negotiating the debt limit and minimizing spending and...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), both members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today introduced the bipartisan Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Reform Act, which would prioritize enrolling marginal farmland in the CRP, rather than prime farmland. This change would generate more durable wildlife and environmental...
WASHINGTON – On National Fentanyl Awareness Day, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), co-chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, and Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) are reintroducing bipartisan legislation targeting a surge in counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl, methamphetamine and related substances leading to...
DES MOINES – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Jesse Watters Primetime to discuss his efforts to obtain from the FBI an unclassified record alleging a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national. The subpoena, which comes as a result of credible whistleblower reports and was submitted by Grassley and House Committee on...
WASHINGTON – Title 42, which allows for the expedited removal of migrants who have illegally entered the country, is set to expire this week. As a result, illegal immigration is expected to skyrocket and border communities are already bracing for impact.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in proposing a straightforward solution:...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, joined Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and 42 Republican senators in committing to oppose increasing the debt ceiling without substantive spending and budget reforms. The notice came in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
The letter to Schumer is also...
Q: What can be done to address the mental health crisis among America’s youth?
A: Even before the pandemic led to school closures and months of isolation away from their classmates, warning signs flagged a mental health crisis among America’s adolescents. Study after study shows that mental health issues among children and teens are on the rise. According to...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) yesterday reintroduced the bipartisan Invest to Protect Act to increase access to funding for small law enforcement agencies in Iowa and across the country. The bipartisan legislation would set aside $250 million to help local police invest in training, mental health support,...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the Co-Chairman and Chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, yesterday urged China to take strong and decisive action to better control the flow of precursor chemicals that Mexican cartels use to manufacture illicit fentanyl.
The Co-Chairmen sent a letter...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Co-Chairs of the Senate Baltic Freedom Caucus, introduced the Baltic Security Initiative Act, bipartisan and bicameral legislation to effectively codify the Baltic Security Initiative. The bill would enhance and strengthen U.S. security cooperation with the Baltics amid Russia’s unprovoked...
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member and long-time whistleblower advocate Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today are demanding the FBI produce an unclassified record alleging a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national. The document, an...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) in sounding the alarm on the potential use of artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT, to generate persuasive, tailored scams intended to rob Americans by accessing their personal financial information. In a letter to IRS...
