WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) partnered with Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to announce the release of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report outlining the need for better information sharing and collaboration to address Trade Based Money Laundering (TBML), the system criminal...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 12-13-21Topics include: Prescription drug pricing, debt limit, opioid crisis, Russian-Ukraine tension, end-of-year agenda and rural broadband.
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley and Senator Joni Ernst, both of Iowa, have reconvened a Judicial Selection Commission to evaluate candidates for recommendation to fill an impending vacancy on the bench for the Sothern District of Iowa.
The commission, comprised of the same members that selected candidates for Grassley...
Q&A: Debt Limit
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What is the debt limit?
A: The U.S. Treasury Department manages the revenue coming into the federal treasury and the money going out the door to pay the bills. Congress sets a debt ceiling that limits the amount of debt the U.S. Treasury is allowed to extend to finance government operations. From...
WASHINGTON – The Congressional Budget Office today estimated President Biden’s
signature social spending bill would cost $4.9 trillion
and add a staggering $3 trillion to the federal
deficit over ten years. The figure comes just hours after the Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported that Inflation reached a 39-year
high in November. Sen. Chuck...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack sharing concerns with new scoring criteria for Rural Connectivity Pilot Program’s (ReConnect) Round 3 that will adversely affect many of Iowa’s broadband providers.
“It is vital for Iowans to have access to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), president pro tempore emeritus of the U.S. Senate, issued the following statement after a meeting with Dr. Bisera Turkovi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“I had the honor of meeting with Dr. Turkovi this afternoon in my office. Bosnia and Herzegovina is facing a potential political...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), along with Reps. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.-17) and Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa-01), today to lead a bicameral, bipartisan letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prioritize the funding for construction of the Navigation and Ecosystem...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement regarding a procedural vote today that will allow the debt ceiling increase to be attached to otherwise non-controversial Medicare extenders.
“I have fought to protect Medicare provider reimbursement and led prior rounds of Medicare extenders in a bipartisan manner. These are...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate last night passed a bipartisan bill to prevent opioid addiction, overdoses, and deaths in rural communities introduced earlier this year by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.).
The Rural Opioid Abuse Prevention Act, which was introduced in September, will help ensure that rural communities with a high level of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today supported a Senate resolution that would invalidate President Biden’s Vaccine mandates on American businesses. The resolution passed the Senate by a bipartisan vote of 52-48.
“I have always encouraged Iowans to get vaccinated to protect themselves and their families from the virus. If anyone has doubts about...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) along with Reps. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) today introduced legislation to extend authorization of the National Liberty Memorial, a monument to commemorate enslaved and free African Americans who fought in the United States Revolutionary War. The bipartisan...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and 16 other Republican members in sending a letter to Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member, respectively, of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, urging them to prioritize the U.S.-Chile bilateral tax treaty by scheduling a committee...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today issued the following statement regarding
the Biden Administration’s unprecedented plan to cut 2020’s mandatory biofuels
blending requirements while ostensibly returning to statutory blend levels by 2022,
barring other retroactive changes. “At a time when gas prices are through the roof and the administration
is...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 12-07-21Topics include: Veterans, the NDAA, Ukraine-Russia relations, debt ceiling, biofuels and mental health.
WASHINGTON – In light of the disturbing revelation that the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division created a “threat tag” based on Attorney General Merrick Garland’s October 4 memorandum, Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and every Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding that Garland finally withdraw that memo and make clear that the...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement on the death of his close friend, former colleague and war hero, Senator Robert J. Dole.
“Senator Bob Dole was a faithful representative to the people of Kansas and a great civic leader for all Americans. He was also a loyal friend and trusted mentor. He set a standard of...
Q&A: SALT & Inflation
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What is the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction?
A: As a senior member of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, I helped steer the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law that led to the greatest economic expansion in America in the last half-century. The 2017 tax law provided tax relief for...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee is continuing to press the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on its weak response to leaks of protected taxpayer records to ProPublica. Grassley was joined by Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee and Finance Committee Republican...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today blocked Senate passage of the largely partisan H.R. 8 legislation, which would criminalize private transfers of firearms without government involvement.
Grassley objected to the unanimous consent request, raised by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), to bring up...
