WASHINGTON – Today, Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced bipartisan legislation that seeks to replace weapons, ammunition and other defense equipment
provided to Ukraine by certain NATO countries. Specifically, the bill would
authorize the Department of Defense (DoD) to transfer equipment to lower-income
NATO countries to quickly...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Join Ernst (R-Iowa) are working to protect affordable housing
resources intended for low-income families in Iowa from being redirected to
major cities, like Chicago. Their new proposal, the Rural Housing Accessibility Act, would require receiving Public
Housing Authorities (PHAs) with available funding to...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) are continuing their support for rural health
care by introducing the Rural
Hospital Support Act.
Their bipartisan proposal seeks to permanently extend two key Medicare rural
hospital programs and establish a new rebasing year – preventing closures that
would disrupt access to care for...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) have introduced the Human Rights Violator Act of 2022. The legislation would establish grounds of inadmissibility for any alien who participated in the persecution of people because of race, religion, nationality, social group, or...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators, led by Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), introduced legislation to help police, fire, emergency medical and 911 personnel cope with the stresses of responding to crisis situations. The Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act of 2022 (S.4007) would establish mental health programs for...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
joined Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) in urging
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to update its greenhouse gas (GHG)
modeling for biofuels and adopt the Argonne National Lab’s Greenhouse Gases,
Regulated Emissions and Energy Use in Transportation (GREET) model. These
long-overdue...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 04-04-22Topics include: Ukraine/Russia conflict and U.S. involvement, cattle market bill, Supreme Court nomination hearing, Title 42 and Iowan's concerns.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold town meetings next week in Allamakee County on Monday, April 11, Clinton County on Tuesday, April 12 and Des Moines County on Wednesday, April 13 as part of his annual 99 county meetings.
“You can’t have representative government without dialogue between elected officials and the people we represent,”...
Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee
Executive Business Meeting to Consider Supreme Court Nomination
April 4, 2022
We have six judicial nominees and one executive nominee on the agenda today.
I’ll be supporting Jennifer Rearden. Ms. Rearden has spent her career litigating at some of the...
Q&A: National Donate Life Month
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why are you working to improve the nation’s organ procurement system?
A: Ask anyone who has had a loved one on the organ transplant list or waiting for approval to get on it. The uncertainty and anguish to find a match can turn into an emotional roller coaster. According to federal...
WASHINGTON – To begin National Child
Abuse Awareness Month, Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) joined Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) in introducing
a new bill to reauthorize the Victims of Child Abuse Act (VOCAA). The
law, first enacted in 1990, provides the only dedicated source of funding for
Children’s...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of
senators, led by Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), introduced
legislation to gather greater information on attacks targeting law enforcement.
The Improving Law Enforcement Officer
Safety and Wellness Through Data Act builds on existing reporting
requirements and fills gaps highlighted by law...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following joint statement criticizing a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) decision to release additional H-2B temporary non-agricultural work visas:
“We’ve long expressed...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
joined Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) in urging the
Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and
Families (ACF) to speed up their implementation timeline for new reporting
requirements that cover at-risk children in foster care. “Children in the foster care...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) have introduced legislation to
strengthen whistleblower protections at the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC). Their bipartisan proposal, the SEC
Whistleblower Reform Act of 2022, would ensure claims are processed in a timely manner, and it would
implement new measures to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member and former chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) have introduced new legislation to prohibit the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) directly to individuals. Specifically, the legislation prohibits the Federal Reserve from...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) recently introduced a resolution
recognizing the month of March as Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and Pulmonary
Embolism Awareness Month to raise public awareness. Last night, the resolution
passed the Senate with unanimous support. “Blood clots can cause deep vein
thrombosis and pulmonary...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has maintained his commitment to passing the bipartisan and negotiated Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act (PDPRA), or Wyden-Grassley, named for the bill’s other sponsor, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). This fact sheet describes how Wyden-Grassley and other Grassley priorities will help control the cost of insulin...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) today introduced the bipartisan China Trade Cheating Restitution Act. This proposal would ensure agricultural sectors most affected by China’s evasion on anti-dumping duties will receive approximately $38.5 million in accrued delinquency interest on duties wrongfully...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), co-chairs of the Senate Baltic Freedom Caucus, have introduced the Baltic Defense and Deterrence Act. This bipartisan, bicameral legislation seeks to codify the Baltic Security Initiative effort and create a complementary initiative at the U.S. Department of State. Jointly, these two...
