News Releases

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the findings of their new bipartisan investigative report: Loud and Clear: Why Americans Want Effective and Affordable Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids – and How Powerful Special Interests are Trying to Undermine Them. The report details dominant hearing aid manufacturers’...

EDGEWOOD, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) stopped at the Edgewood Locker this morning as part of his annual 99 county meetings across Iowa. Grassley toured the newly expanded locker and held a question-and-answer session with 33 of their employees. Grassley is a family farmer and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee.   “Edgewood Locker is a...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and John Kennedy (R-La.) are pressing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (the Authority) for answers on its implementation and enforcement of certain guidelines under the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA)....

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is demanding answers from Attorney General Merrick Garland on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) repeated failure to prosecute employees after they are caught making materially false statements during internal investigations. In at least a dozen cases, Grassley lays...

WASHINGTON –Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is seeking briefing on FBI’s response to outbursts of riots and violence by pro-abortion extremists following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray, Grassley warned that unchecked violence could spiral into...

WASHINGTON – Last week, the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Reauthorization Act passed the U.S. Senate with bipartisan support. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is an original cosponsor of the proposal and helped usher it through committee in May, where it advanced unanimously. The programs funded by...

Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 06-27-22Topics include: the Pharmacy Benefit Transparency Act, the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment and Technical Corrections Act, the Jan. 6 hearings, the Safe Schools Act and the COMPETES Act.

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and colleagues in introducing the Preventing Terrorist Transfers to Afghanistan Act (S.4491). The bill, which mirrors a bipartisan provision in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, would prevent the transfer of...

Q&A: Stop Pills that Kill With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley   Q: Why did you introduce the Stop Pills that Kill Act?   A: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that nearly 108,000 Americans died last year from drug overdose deaths. Fentanyl overdoses have become the number one cause of death among U.S. adults ages 18-45. And,...

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Ranking Member Rob Portman (R-Ohio) are writing to the Justice Department to gather information on the departments’ posture to defend the U.S. Supreme Court amid a barrage of attacks and threats from pro-abortion extremists stemming...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), president pro tempore emeritus of the U.S. Senate and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which returns abortion policy decisions to the people and their elected...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) along with Reps. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) 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...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) made the following comment regarding his vote against the Senate’s recently proposed gun legislation. “Schools should be the safest place for our kids. I share the concerns of Iowans who are disgusted with gun violence, especially when those tragedies involve children. I commend the negotiators for earnestly working...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is requesting an update from Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on his efforts to help implement the Seeding Rural Resilience Act in coordination with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Grassley is also seeking answers from the surgeon general on whether the office will be issuing a rural-focused mental health...

WASHINGTON – As families face inflation and other barriers in affording their medications, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) want to make sure Iowans have easy access to the numerous programs and resources available right now to assist with the costs for insulin and other drugs. Their new measure — called the Insulin For Our Reoccurring...

WASHINGTON – Several provisions led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman and current member of the Senate Finance Committee, were included in the Enhancing American Retirement Now (EARN) Act, which advanced out of committee with unanimous support yesterday. “I’m glad several of my proposals were included in the EARN Act, which will build on...

WASHINGTON —Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined more than 80 Members of Congress in releasing a bicameral joint statement spearheaded by Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.-01), calling on the Biden Administration to reverse course on its plan to erode the full and faithful implementation of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 by moving the...

WASHINGTON – A bill originally introduced by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to strengthen an anti-money laundering whistleblower program and hold sanctions violators accountable has cleared the House Financial Services Committee. The bipartisan, bicameral proposal expands on an anti-money laundering whistleblower program by adding support for whistleblowers...

WASHINGTON – While COVID-19 restrictions have left the U.S. Capitol largely closed to public tours, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is creating new opportunities for Iowans to witness the history and architecture of the legislative branch of government. Grassley’s office is now offering one-of-a-kind staff-led walking tours of the U.S. Capitol grounds for...

WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, participated in a markup on two bills to restore fairness and competition in the cattle marketplace: the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act, which Grassley helped introduce last November, and the Meat Packing Special...