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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...

WASHINGTON – Legislation sponsored by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) passed out of the Senate Agriculture Committee today. Their Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act passed by voice vote, and is now eligible for a final vote on the Senate floor. The senators unveiled the updated version...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today applauded passage of their bipartisan Meat Packing Special Investigator Act through the Senate Agriculture Committee. The senators’ legislation will address anticompetitive practices in the meat and poultry industries that hurt consumers and producers, threaten...

WASHINGTON – Legislation recently introduced by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), chair of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, to improve transparency in prescription drug pricing was approved by the Commerce Committee with bipartisan support, 19-9. Their bill would...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, urging him to send more advanced artillery rocket systems and ammunition to Ukraine, as the systems are vital in Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s brutal invasion.   The senators...

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden today signed into law a bipartisan bill authored by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to help small businesses and individuals stay afloat during bankruptcy. The Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment and Technical Corrections Act (S. 3823) becomes law at a time when Americans are battling 40-year high inflation, rising interest rates...

Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 06-21-22Topics include: gun reform, 2020 election, Jan. 6 hearings, federal funds rate increase, Iowa Supreme Court decision on abortion, Ukraine crisis and economic help for farmers.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), joined a bipartisan group of colleagues in voicing support for the Three Seas Initiative through the U.S. Development Finance Corporation at the Three Seas Summit in Riga, Latvia. Joining Grassley are Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Rob...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) today introduced bipartisan legislation that would establish a task force between the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) issued a bipartisan statement following new action by the American National Standards Institute’s Accredited Standards Committee (X12) to include the device identifier (DI) portion of a medical device’s unique device identifier (UDI) on Medicare claims forms:   “Following years of our...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) are pushing the Justice Department to explain its justification for opting not to charge two former FBI officials who failed to properly respond to information about abuse of young gymnasts, then sought to cover up their dereliction of...

Q&A: Inflation Swallows Up Savings With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley   Q: What are you hearing from Iowans about inflation?   A: So far this year, I’ve met with Iowans in nearly two-thirds of my 99 county annual meetings. Without exception, I’ve heard deep concerns about inflation and a looming economic recession. The volume has turned up as the Biden...

WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), co-Chairs of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, led a bipartisan group of their colleagues, including all Caucus members, in introducing a resolution recognizing June 26, 2022 as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.  This day has...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led a Senate resolution with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) designating June as “Elder Abuse Awareness Month” and June 15 as “World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.” This bipartisan resolution brings awareness to abuse, neglect and exploitation of the United States’...

WASHINGTON – Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) today joined Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and other committee Republicans in demanding an explanation for the Justice Department’s failures to enforce a law restricting efforts to influence pending judicial decisions.  Title 18, Section 1507 of the U.S. code...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference, are pushing to hold Big Tech platforms accountable for using biased algorithms that take control away from consumers and alter the way users are able to see emails from political...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, alongside Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) today introduced legislation to provide relief and protections for middle class savings that still face federal taxes despite...

Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 06-13-22Topics include: school safety, deteriorating infrastructure impact on rural economy, gas prices, SEC requirements on agriculture, Iowa staff office hours and gun reform legislation.

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today joined Sens. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) to push back on a proposed rule from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which would place unworkable climate disclosure regulations on farmers, ranchers and agriculture producers. In a letter to...