Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics discussed: the organized retail crime and the illicit drug trade public roundtable hosted by Sen. Grassley in Cedar Rapids, Administrative False Claims Act of 2023, Senate Agriculture Subcommittee Hearing on, “SNAP and Other Nutrition Assistance in the Farm...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE. Topics discussed include: Sen.
Boozman joining Sen. Grassley and Sen. Ernst in Iowa to discuss the 2023 Farm Bill priorities, pain at the
pump with high gas prices, fossil fuel production, E-15 year round
availability, Iowa Caucus, Rural Emergency Hospital program, the NRA...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and a bipartisan group of 14 colleagues urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to strengthen the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Specifically, the senators are calling on EPA to maintain the blending requirements for 2023, deny all pending Small Refinery Exemptions (SREs),...
Q: What is the Cooper Davis Act?
A: Counterfeit pills laced with illicit fentanyl are driving overdose deaths among our youngest generations. In addition to better public awareness, law enforcement needs more tools. On behalf of Iowans, I’m working in the U.S. Senate to strengthen policies at the federal level to help save precious lives from overdose...
RED OAK, IOWA – On Wednesday, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) hosted Senator John Boozman (R-Ark.) – ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee – for Farm Bill discussions in Story, Greene and Guthrie Counties.
“Senator Boozman will be a leading voice for Senate Republicans while writing this year’s Farm Bill, and I’m...
RED OAK, IOWA – On Wednesday, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) hosted Senator John Boozman (R-Ark.) – ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee – for Farm Bill discussions in Story, Greene and Guthrie Counties.
“Senator Boozman will be a leading voice for Senate Republicans while writing this year’s Farm Bill, and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is today calling on the Biden administration to once again issue an emergency extension of the Reid vapor pressure waiver for this summer, which would allow the sale of higher ethanol blend fuels between June 1 and September 15. Grassley’s letter to the president comes on the anniversary of President Biden’s visit to...
WASHINGTON – Following the release of a final rule forcing small businesses to comply with burdensome social reporting requirements, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joins Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.) in the fight against the Biden administration's overreaching small business rule.
The Small LENDER Act would block the Consumer Financial Protection...
Q: What steps should Iowans take to prepare for severe weather?A: Iowans are no strangers to severe weather, from the historic derecho in 2020 to deadly tornados, damaging hail, thunderstorms that produce lightning and flash flooding, blizzards and more. With the volatile severe weather season underway, it’s important to have a family emergency...
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA – A group of local, state and federal officials explored the shadowy ties between a spike in organized retail crime and the illicit drug trade at a public roundtable today. The event, hosted by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), fostered dialogue between retail leaders, who are increasingly targeted by organized retail crime rings, and law...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) are continuing their support for rural health care by introducing the Rural Hospital Support Act. Their bipartisan proposal seeks to permanently extend two key Medicare rural hospital programs and establish a new rebasing year – preventing closures that would disrupt access to care for...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) bipartisan Administrative False Claims Act has been unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate.
“The False Claims Act has clearly been the best tool to fight fraud against the government and recover lost taxpayer dollars. Tens of billions of dollars have been returned to the federal treasury since my updates 37...
Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here.Topics discussed include: the Define WOTUS Act, E-15 year round sales, an update on Mexico's ban on GMO corn, indictment of Donald Trump and protection of U.S. intellectual property.
Q: How are you working to improve the nation’s organ procurement system?
A: Nearly two decades ago, I started looking under the hood of the system Congress created in 1984 to regulate the nation’s organ procurement system with passage of the National Organ Transplant Act. That federal law provided the framework for the national organ donation, recovery and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) in reintroducing bipartisan legislation to provide U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) civil servants with the same due process rights as are available to corporate employees...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in introducing the Define WOTUS Act, which will codify a congressionally-mandated definition of what constitutes “waters of the United States” (WOTUS). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) are granted regulatory...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this week joined Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Shelly Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) in introducing the Find and Protect Foster Youth Act. The bill would create a feedback loop between states and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration of Children and Families (ACF) to...
WASHINGTON would end the purely punitive tax that has the potential to hit family-run farms, ranches and businesses as the result of the owner’s death.
“Family farms are how many Iowans leave their mark on our world by passing their legacy on to their children. With the death tax, these vital legacies face undue financial burdens, especially small and...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), along with 18 Senate colleagues, reintroduced the Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act. The bill would allow local law enforcement in sanctuary cities to cooperate with federal immigration authorities and would block sanctuary cities from receiving taxpayer-funded grants. For a full list of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today reintroduced legislation to require greater transparency of think tanks and other non-profit entities that inform and influence American public policy. Companion legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Jack Bergman (R-Mich.).
“We can’t allow for think tanks and nonprofits to...
