WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) as well as Reps. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) to introduce the Allowing Greater Access to Safe and Effective Contraception Act. This bill seeks to expand health care choices for women by increasing access to contraceptives over-the-counter (OTC) and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee
Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today led 24 Republican colleagues in
introducing a broad package to clarify and strengthen violent crime laws related
to homicide, bank robbery, carjacking, kidnapping and other offenses. The Combating Violent and Dangerous Crime Act
resolves discrepancies brought on by...
WASHINGTON – The Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights Act, introduced by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) unanimously passed the Senate Monday. The bill, which previously cleared the House of Representatives, requires federal agencies to take a fresh set of...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) introduced the bipartisan and bicameral Next Generation Fuels Act, a proposal that aims to leverage higher-octane fuels to improve engine efficiency and performance. Allowing the sale of fuels with greater octane levels would increase the amount of ethanol that can be utilized in the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a vocal critic of China’s aggressive intellectual property and espionage policies, panned Senate Democrats’ decision to strip key accountability language from a bill ostensibly designed to increase competition with the communist regime. Instead, this legislation, which is being considered this week, doles out more...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned witnesses at a hearing to address law enforcement safety and the rising crime against police. Iowan Zach Andersen of Cedar Falls, a public safety officer, testified about the ambush on Iowa police last year that resulted in the death of Sergeant Jim...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 07-26-22Topics include: economic recession, carbon capture pipelines, Ukraine assistance, American Rescue Plan money movement and the Judiciary Committee hearing on law enforcement safety.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
joined Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Deb Fischer
(R-Neb.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) to introduce
the Let Experienced Pilots Fly Act to
address airline flight cancellations caused by a shortage of pilots. Roughly
5,000 fully-qualified pilots will be forced to retire...
WASHINGTON – Multiple FBI whistleblowers, including those in senior positions, are raising the alarm about tampering by senior FBI and Justice Department officials in politically sensitive investigations ranging from election and campaign finance probes across multiple election cycles to investigative activity involving derogatory information on Hunter...
Q&A: Whistleblowers Save Taxpayer Dollars
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What prompted your decades-long support for whistleblowers?
A: The founding cornerstone of American self-government “of, by and for the people” means government works for the people, not the other way around. My approach to representative government is rooted in this basic...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced new
legislation that seeks to help Americans struggling to afford everyday expenses
keep more of their hard-earned money. Iowans are paying an average $669
more per month on living expenses since President Biden took office. Iowa State
University...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today introduced a bipartisan resolution designating August as National Anti-Counterfeiting Consumer Education and Awareness Month. The resolution recognizes the importance of trademarks in the economy and the role they have in protecting consumer safety.
“Knockoffs not only violate intellectual property rights,...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), members of the Senate Agriculture
Committee, led 22 of their colleagues in urging Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan to support higher amounts
of biomass-based biodiesel and other advanced biofuels in the upcoming 2023 and
2024 Renewable Volume Obligations...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee joined Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) on a bipartisan request to the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball for information regarding the impact of Major League Baseball’s (MLB)...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 07-18-22Topics include: President Biden’s
visit to Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, potential Republican control of Congress,
bipartisan bill priorities, Big Tech bill, Jan. 6 hearings and 99 county
meetings.
Q&A: Food Inflation Stokes Food Insecurity
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Are you concerned about food insecurity in 2022 and beyond?
A: During the COVID-19 pandemic, more Americans experienced food insecurity as unemployment and empty store shelves produced uncertainty around kitchen tables in households across the country. Moms and Dads...
ICYMI: Milley still hasn't responded to Banks, Grassley letter with questions on 'commitment to civilian control'
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Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mark Milley still has not responded to an April letter from Republican Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and his House colleague Republican Study Committee chairman Jim Banks of Indiana regarding his recent...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) led several of their colleagues in demanding answers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director
Tae Johnson on the dangers of President Biden’s continued implementation of
catch and release policies in response to the border crisis. In particular, the
concerns focus...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) are asking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) when it plans to rescind a guidance memorandum from the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA) within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which experts say could be used to dismiss hundreds of thousands of immigration...
WASHINGTON – Judge Stephen Locher of Des Moines today was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to a lifetime federal judgeship for the Southern District of Iowa. As ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) marshalled the nomination through the vetting process, culminating in a rare unanimous approval by the full Senate.
“Judge...
