WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), sent a follow-up letter Monday to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco seeking additional information about sexual misconduct...
Q&A: Outlook on Next Farm Bill
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s in store for the new Farm Bill?
A: As a member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee and a lifelong family farmer, I bring real world experience to the policymaking table on behalf of the farm families who feed and fuel the world. As Congress begins...
WASHINGTON – Legislation introduced by Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was last night unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate. The bill would strengthen an anti-money laundering whistleblower program and hold sanctions violators accountable. The House draft of the legislation has also received committee approval in the...
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill to prevent opioid addiction, overdoses and deaths in rural communities – sending it to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law. The Rural Opioid Abuse Prevention Act, introduced by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), passed the Senate at...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are
raising concerns about the Defense Department’s frequent approval of high-ranking
retired military members’ work for foreign governments. The senators’ concerns
follow recent investigative
reporting by the Washington Post detailing scores of retired U.S. service
members who took...
WASHINGTON – Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published an alarming report, finding that a vast majority – 91 percent – of colleges mislead potential students on the true cost of their education. After reviewing the report, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Rep. Young Kim (R-Calif.) renewed their...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 12-05-22Topics include: Congressional oversight of the FBI, my letter to the DHS seeking information from the Department of Homeland Security on steps being taken to reduce an alarming number of sexual harassment and misconduct reports and agriculture legislation next...
Q&A: ‘Tis the Season for Shipping and Shopping
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s the outlook for this holiday shopping season?
A: Inflation is top of mind for consumers during this holiday season. Rising interest rates are pinching household budgets and high energy costs will force Americans to pay more to heat their homes this...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was presented The Salvation Army’s highest honor and award, the Evangeline Booth Award, yesterday in his Washington, D.C. office. The award is given to individuals and organizations dedicated to doing the most good in communities across the country.
“On behalf of Salvation Army, and recognizing...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Agriculture Committee, today released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announced biofuel volume levels:“Month after month, Americans have seen prices rise as the cost of energy needed to move goods has soared. Diesel prices in particular – the critical...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee
Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) are
seeking information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on steps
being taken to reduce an alarming number of sexual harassment and misconduct
reports. The issue stems from a DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) survey,
which found...
Senator Grassley's interview with Chip Flory on AgriTalk can be found here. They discussed the fall harvest, the end-of-year funding bill and my legislative work to promote E15 year round.
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), members of the Agriculture Committee, joined
a bipartisan group of Midwest senators on a push to expand the year-round sales
of E15 nationwide. The Consumer and Fuel
Retailer Choice Act would extend the Reid vapor pressure (RVP) volatility
waiver to ethanol blends above ten percent....
WASHINGTON – On Monday night, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Patents for Humanity Program Act of 2022, written and sponsored by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), sending the bipartisan bill back to the House for final passage. This bill codifies the Patents for Humanity Program, which awards innovators for revolutionary...
WASHINGTON – The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has awarded Iowa three grants totaling over $5 million to help expand high-speed internet access. The investment comes from the bipartisan infrastructure law that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) supported last year. The critical infrastructure funding from this legislation is now...
WASHINGTON – Roughly 80 percent of nursing home residents on Medicare received psychotropic drugs between 2011 and 2019, according to a Health and Human Services watchdog report. The report followed concerns raised by then-Senate Finance Committee chairmen Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and then-Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
“Nursing home residents...
WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore) and Senate Finance Committee members Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) raised concerns regarding conflicts of interest at the National Academy for Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) after it published a report on the organ procurement and transplantation...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA - Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) regional directors based in Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo will hold traveling office hours in 32 counties around Iowa the last week of November and beginning weeks of December. Iowans seeking assistance regarding a personal issue with a federal agency or wishing to share...
Q&A: Celebrating Thanksgiving
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: How is Iowa integral to Thanksgiving?
A: As Iowa’s senior U.S. Senator and lifelong family farmer, I take pride in our state’s bountiful harvest and the work put in year round by Iowa farm families and workers along the supply chain to put food on the table. At Thanksgiving time, it’s...
WASHINGTON – On behalf of Iowa auto dealers and truck drivers across the country, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are working to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from placing overly burdensome emissions regulations on commercial motor vehicles. As inflation continues eating into Americans’ pocketbooks, overbearing...
