WASHINGTON – Five Republican senators are pressing for information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the removal of information related to the defensive use of firearms from the CDC’s website after officials were lobbied by activist gun control organizations.
“Lobbying groups should not be able to influence...
The Senate unanimously passed
legislation backed by Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) to reauthorize a nationwide law enforcement program aimed at reducing
violent crime. The bipartisan Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program
Authorization Act was introduced by Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), and
includes a provision...
WASHINGTON – Alexis Taylor, an Iowa State
University graduate who grew up on a family farm near Holy Cross, Iowa, has
been confirmed by the Senate to serve as Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign
Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Sen. Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Agriculture Committee, issued the
following...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip
Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the
lead sponsors of the landmark First Step Act (FSA), today released the
following statement on the fourth anniversary of the FSA—bipartisan
criminal justice reform...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee
Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) are
applauding the Senate passage of their Justice
for Victims of War Crimes Act, legislation that updates the current war crimes statute to enable
prosecution of war criminals in the United States – regardless of the location
or targets of their...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan bill led by
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen.
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that supports victims of human trafficking passed
the Senate with broad bipartisan support last night. The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPA) will
establish and reauthorize critical programs to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today introduced legislation to restore integrity to the immigration parole statute and bring it back into line with congressional intent after decades of misuse by multiple presidents.
Immigration parole, first established in 1952, allows the executive...
WASHINGTON – A bill led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Iowa) to prevent opioid addiction, overdoses and deaths in rural communities has been signed into law. The Rural Opioid Abuse Prevention Act, introduced by Grassley and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) in the U.S. Senate, along with Feenstra and Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.) in the...
WASHINGTON – The Senate unanimously passed legislation authored by Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and committee member Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) 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...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 12-19-22Topics include: Mexico's proposed ban on genetically-modified corn imports, anti-trust legislation and the end of year spending bill.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement about Attorney General Merrick Garland’s instructions to federal prosecutors to disregard federal criminal statutes for crack and powder cocaine cases.
“The attorney general’s guidance to prosecutors today is...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Agriculture Committee, joined Sens. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and over 20 of their colleagues in urging the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to take action against Mexico’s proposal to ban U.S. genetically-engineered corn. In...
Q&A: Medicare Fraud
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: How is waste, fraud and abuse weakening Medicare for current and future generations?
A: Seniors and people with disabilities depend on Medicare for their health care coverage, including more than 650,000 Iowans. Every dollar lost to waste, fraud and abuse rips off the taxpayer and skims...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas blasting the Department’s decision to cover up the Disinformation Governance Board’s activities by redacting large swaths of records produced to...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 12-12-22Topics include: Rural emergency hospital legislation, medicare and medicaid, government oversight and investigations and bipartisanship.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) secured the inclusion of a broad array of bipartisan policies in defense authorization legislation, which passed the Senate tonight. The bills, authored or backed by Grassley will provide new rights for survivors of sexual violence, support law enforcement’s efforts in the fight against cybercrime and...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House has passed bipartisan legislation authored by Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) to help identify and mitigate potential conflicts of interest between taxpayer-funded projects and government contractors’ other business opportunities. The federal...
WASHINGTON, DC – The Senate passed bipartisan legislation authored by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to improve our nation’s ability to prevent foreign governments, including adversaries like the...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), sent a letter to the National Committee on Vital Health and Statistics (NCVHS), calling on the committee to support the inclusion of device identifier (DI) information on Medicare claims forms in its recommendations to the Department of Health...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, joined Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in calling on Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz to lead a “root cause analysis” in...
