Q: How would President Biden’s budget impact the U.S. economy?
A: The president’s budget blueprint shows how unserious the Biden administration is about restoring fiscal sanity to the federal government. It was delivered to Congress 31 days late and falls trillions of dollars short of balance. As the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee in the...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today introduced the Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2023 to allow the public further transparency into the judicial system by allowing television cameras in federal courtrooms. Grassley also joined Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in introducing...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, today questioned Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about Social Security sustainability and inflation at a Finance Committee hearing on President Biden’s FY2024 budget.
Grassley’s Questions follow:
Social...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today questioned U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack about farm payment limitations, the administration’s misuse of the Commodity Credit Corporation and Congress’s Farm Bill reauthorization process at a hearing on USDA...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) reintroduced legislation to strengthen whistleblower protections at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The bipartisan SEC Whistleblower Reform Act of 2023 would ensure timely processing of whistleblower claims and protect whistleblowers from retaliation. The bill’s...
Senator
Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here.Topics
discussed include: Farm Bill update and what more could be included, bank
collapse and the federal government role, train derailment and disaster
prevention, FY2024 POTUS’s budget, debt ceiling, and southern border security.
Q: What is Sunshine Week?
A: Sunshine Week celebrates the public’s right to know what its government is doing. As a watchdog for good government, I put a high priority on strengthening sunshine laws to hold the government accountable to the American people. Transparency brings accountability. Too often, the federal bureaucracy forgets that government...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) are raising the alarm that changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) could reduce or even eliminate farm families’ access to need-based student aid that they are currently eligible to receive. The longstanding FAFSA...
WASHINGTON – The 118th Senate, which first convened more than two months ago, has passed a sum total of six bills that carry the force of law. All six pieces of legislation were led and introduced by Republican senators, three of which were spearheaded by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). “When we do come into session, the Senate only works...
WASHINGTON – On March 9, 2023, President Biden released an overview of his fiscal
year (FY) 2024 budget request. The Biden Budget attempts to build on the
Administration’s false claims of deficit reduction by repackaging unpopular
proposals to raise trillions in taxes to cover its continued reckless spending
binge. Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) welcomed the unanimous Senate passage of their legislation to improve justice for young survivors of sex crimes. The Preventing Child Sex Abuse Act strengthens a federal sex tourism prevention law that prosecutors feared was too vague to convict former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, was joined by Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) in reintroducing legislation to study the effectiveness of biochar, a carbon-rich material produced from biomass. The bipartisan Biochar Research Network...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of Senate Judiciary Committee members are reintroducing legislation to improve fairness and stability in the global oil market by allowing the federal government to take action against price fixing by OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act, or NOPEC, is led by...
WASHINGTON – Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report, “DOD Needs to Improve System Oversight,” commissioned by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
The Department of Defense (DOD) spends billions each year to improve its accounting systems, but this investment has failed to produce better...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 03-06-2023Topics include: the Iowa Legislature Senate File 167 on rewriting Iowa’s child
labor laws, student loan forgiveness and Understanding the True Cost of
College Act, Iowa education and the Students First Act, the IRS
Whistleblower Program Improvement...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, welcomed the Office of the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) announcement that USTR will initiate a technical consultation to dispute Mexico’s proposed ban on the importation of genetically-modified corn from the United States. The proposed ban lacks...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it would extend an expiring pork production line speed program until November 30, 2023, following petitions from a group of lawmakers, led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Rep. Brad Finstad (R-Minn.). The lawmakers urged USDA to take immediate...
Q: What’s your opposition to the Biden administration’s student debt forgiveness policy?
A: For starters, the Biden administration’s nearly $1 trillion plan is fiscally irresponsible and follows a trail of partisan binge spending that will make it even harder for the Federal Reserve to rein in inflation. The price tag is particularly reckless when taking...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) today led their colleagues in applauding the unanimous Senate passage of their bipartisan legislation to establish mental health programs for America’s first responders. The Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act of 2023 would help police, fire, emergency medical and 911 personnel who...
