WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), lifelong farmer and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, joined Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and many of his colleagues in urging the International Trade Commission (ITC) to address the strain on the fertilizer supply chain to bring down costs. Specifically, the lawmakers ask the ITC to eliminate duties on...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
joined Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) to introduce new legislation ensuring Congress has a say in the revocation of Foreign Terrorist
Organization (FTO) designations. Currently, the executive branch can take such
action unilaterally. Their new proposal comes after reports
have indicated the Biden administration is...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold a town meeting on Friday, March 25 in Iowa County as part of his annual 99 county meetings.
“You can’t have representative government without dialogue between elected officials and the people we represent,” Grassley said. “I appreciate the opportunity to hold town meetings, answer questions and take...
Q&A: National Agriculture Week
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: How does your life experience influence your work for Iowans in Washington?
A: As a lifelong family farmer, I’m proud to serve as the voice for Rural America and farm families in the United States Senate. While advances in science and technology have improved productivity and lessened...
WASHINGTON – Today, Senate Judiciary
Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Catherine Cortez
Masto (D-Nev.) introduced the bipartisan Invest to Protect Act to provide $250
million over the next five years to support small law enforcement agencies
across the country. This funding will help them invest in training, equipment,
mental health...
WASHINGTON – As many American students
and families face staggering student loan debt, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are proposing a new measure that would pull back the
curtain and give prospective students a clear estimate of the costs they would
owe years down the road before they take out a loan. The senators’ bill — the Student...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) spoke at the Senate Finance Committee hearing about his bipartisan Wyden-Grassley Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act (PDPRA) to lower prescription drugs costs. Grassley reiterated his commitment to passing the bipartisan and negotiated PDPRA. You can find Senator Grassley’s prepared remarks below.
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WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member
of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today is pushing federal agencies to take
action following recent revelations of egregious conditions at the Woodland
Behavioral and Nursing Center in Andover, N.J. In a letter to the Justice
Department, co-signed by Senate Aging Committee Ranking Member Tim Scott...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, James Comer (R-Ky.), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Sen. Dick Durbin (R-Ill.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sens. Patrick Leahy...
WASHINGTON – Recently, Sen. Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and a bipartisan group of
lawmakers to introduce a resolution calling for Vladimir Putin and members of the Russian regime to be
held accountable for the numerous acts of war, aggression and human rights
abuses that have taken place in Ukraine. Yesterday, the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and 19 of his colleagues in expressing concern over the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) use of internal guidance to enforce regulations that are unpublished and unknown to the public. In an alarming display of insufficient transparency from a federal agency,...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) supported S.J.Res.37, a proposal that would effectively end mask mandates on planes, trains, buses, subways and other methods of public transportation.
“Iowans – and now a majority of Americans – are no longer wearing masks in grocery stores, office buildings, churches, schools, sports venues, restaurants...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) urged the Commission on Planning,
Programming, Budgeting and Execution Reform to help bring much-needed financial
accountability to the Department of Defense (DOD). The letter,
which comes after Grassley passed a new policy directing the commission to
analyze and propose...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) joined ranking member of the Commerce Committee Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) in introducing the TORNADO Act, which seeks to simplify, update and improve forecasting technology and infrastructure. The legislation would also require the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to...
WASHINGTON – The Methamphetamine Response Act, a bill introduced by Sens. Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Dianne
Feinstein (D-Calif.), was signed into law yesterday. The new law, which passed
the Senate
in December and the House
in February with broad bipartisan support, directs the Office of National...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was one of 49 Republican Senators who today told the Biden Administration they will not support the revived Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran, which, according to public reports, will weaken sanctions and lessen restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program.
The full statement from the senators...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) led several of his colleagues in urging President Joe Biden to
continue utilizing liquid fuel vehicles in the federal fleet, including
vehicles used by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). In a letter
to Biden, the senators take aim at the administration’s push to transition the
entire federal fleet to electric...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 03-14-22Topics include: Crop protection letter to EPA, high gas prices, Sunshine Week, False Claims Act, infrastructure, Rural Prosperity Act and fertilizer prices.
Q&A: Sunshine Week
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What is Sunshine Week?
A: Open government is good government. Sunshine Week celebrates transparency and why it’s important to our system of self-government and U.S. economy. Transparency brings accountability. Throughout my service representing Iowans in the U.S. Senate, I’ve led a legislative...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), following the committee’s long-standing practice for vetting Supreme Court nominees, has requested documents from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s service in a federal agency. Specifically, the senator requests documents and emails authored by the nominee during her service on the...
