WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reintroduced legislation aimed at cracking down on foreign adversaries’ efforts to secretly influence U.S. policy. The Disclosing Foreign Influence in Lobbying Act closes a loophole, frequently exploited by the Chinese Communist Party, which allows some entities to conceal their...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators, led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), re-introduced legislation to help police, fire, emergency medical and 911 personnel cope with the stresses of responding to crisis situations. The Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act of 2023 would establish mental health programs for America’s first responders who often...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the senior
Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.)
reintroduced legislation to improve justice for young survivors of sex crimes.
The Preventing Child
Sex Abuse Act strengthens a federal sex tourism law
that prosecutors feared was too vague to convict former USA Gymnastics...
WASHINGTON – On Monday, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), senior member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to Debra Steidel Wall, Acting Archivist at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), requesting information related to the...
WASHINGTON - On Monday, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), senior member of the Committee on the Judiciary and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle requesting a complete list of all individuals who entered locations where classified...
Q&A: Veterans in Crisis
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s the new benefit now available to veterans in crisis?
A: In 2020, the Senate unanimously passed the Veterans Comprehensive Prevention, Access to Care and Treatment (COMPACT) Act to expand access to mental health services for veterans experiencing acute suicidal crisis. Signed by...
DES MOINES, IOWA – Two Iowa hospitals will be able to recruit and train additional doctors thanks to a 2020 law championed by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines and MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center have received additional Medicare funds to cover nearly six additional graduate medical education (GME) residency...
Q&A: Foreign Ownership of U.S. Farmland
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s new with your efforts to boost transparency in foreign investment of farmland?
A: Last year, Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and I teamed up and introduced the Farmland Security Act to shine a spotlight on foreign investment of U.S. farmland. Our bill requires the USDA...
WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to Richard Sauber, Special Counsel to the President, regarding Joe Biden’s compliance with federals records storage and archival...
WASHINGTON –Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today hurt his hip and will have surgery this week. He is otherwise in good spirits and is expected to make a full recovery.
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WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), presumptive ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, is seeking information from a broad set of federal government agencies about their use of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Mobility Program, which allows agencies to utilize non-federal employees to serve in temporary roles in the federal government...
WASHINGTON
– Legislation expanding rights for survivors of crimes of sexual violence
throughout the nation has become law as a part of Congress’ annual defense
funding package. The Survivors’ Bill of Rights in the States Act, bipartisan
legislation introduced by Sens. Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), builds on the senators’ prior
work to...
Q&A:
118th CongressWith U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: What are your committee assignments in the 118th Congress? A: On Jan. 3,
I was honored to take the constitutional oath of office to represent Iowans for
an 8th term in the U.S. Senate. It is a solemn oath I take
to heart and strive every day to uphold the blessings of...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R- Iowa) will begin holding meetings with Iowans in every county this year starting on Monday, January 9, in Dallas County. Grassley will hold a Q&A with students at Dallas Center-Grimes High School.
Grassley will begin his 43rd year holding meetings in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties. He’s held at least one...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today took the oath of office to begin his eighth term in the Senate. Grassley will also become the dean of the Senate, or longest serving member, with the beginning of the 118th Congress, which convenes today for the first time.
Vice President Kamala Harris administers oath of office to Sen. Grassley as Barbara...
Q&A: New Year’s Resolution: Border Security
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why are you calling on the Biden administration to make border security its New Year’s resolution?
A: President Biden is putting the sovereignty of the United States of America in peril by refusing to enforce our nation’s immigration laws and failing to...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – As 2022 comes to a close, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released an overview of his legislative and oversight work for Iowans over the past 12 months.
“Serving the people of Iowa as their United States Senator is my first priority and it's an honor that I take seriously. As ranking member of the Senate Judiciary...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
nominated 32 Iowa students to be considered for appointments to the U.S.
service academies. “These young Iowans who want to enter the
academies and serve our country are a remarkable reflection of our state. Their
accomplishments, leadership and desire to serve are exceptional and signal
continued excellence in the...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) applauded House passage of their Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act, a day after it received broad support in the Senate. The legislation updates current war crimes statute to enable prosecution of war criminals in the United States –...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the incoming ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, voted against a massive $1.7 trillion government funding package that included excessive spending, earmarks and special projects with little review or oversight. Grassley released the following statement.
“Americans are rightly disgusted with...
