BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to reexamine the Justice Department’s and FBI’s mishandling of its investigation into sexual abuse of young athletes by disgraced Olympic physician Larry Nassar. At a Judiciary Hearing this...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) sent a follow-up letter to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) demanding answers to questions that may shed light on data relating to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and NIH’s COVID-19 data retention policies.
This push for answers...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned witnesses at the hearing titled Dereliction of Duty: Examining the Inspector General’s Report on the FBI’s Handling of the Larry Nassar Investigation. The first panel included four current and former Olympic or competitive gymnasts,...
WASHINGTON –Christina Zuiderveen of Granville, Iowa, today testified at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on milk pricing. Zuiderveen is a managing partner at Black Soil Dairy, LLC. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member of the committee, introduced Zuiderveen at the hearing.Sen. Grassley Greets Christina Zuiderveen at Senate Agriculture...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 09-13-21Topics include: Vaccine mandate, 9/11 anniversary, Court packing, Filibuster, Prescription drug pricing, 2021 legislative goals and 99 county meetings.
BUTLER
COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement on
the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. “Two
decades have come and gone, but the scars of September 11 remain. Nearly three
thousand of our fellow Americans lost their lives during the horrific terror
attacks, and many thousands more have...
Q&A: 20th Anniversary of 9/11
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What goes through your mind two decades after 9/11?
A: As the world observes the 20th anniversary of 9/11, it’s notable that an entire generation of Americans was born after the horrific terror attacks. No matter if you watched it unfold on television in real time or read about...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today applauded the Biden Administration’s reported plan to finally withdraw the nomination of David Chipman to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
“Mr. Chipman’s long record as a partisan,...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement regarding the steps announced by the Administration today to improve competition and bring more transparency to the meat processing industry.
“Family farmers in Iowa, especially our independent livestock and...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 09-07-21Topics include: Opioid epidemic, Afghanistan, 9/11 Anniversary, U.S.-China relations, Cannabis bill, Texas abortion bill, 99 county meetings, 2022 election.
Washington – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Republicans are demanding a full, open markup to thoroughly and rigorously examine and debate any forthcoming reckless tax-and-spend proposals in the Finance Committee’s jurisdiction. While the legislation Democrats intend to introduce has been withheld from Republicans on the Committee and from the...
BUTLER COUNTY,IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today praised anexecutive order expanding public access to secret government records related tothe terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The order, signedtoday by President Biden, is based on the bipartisan September11th Transparency Act, which requires federal agencies to conduct adeclassification...
Q&A: Every County. Every Year.
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why do you still go to every county in Iowa every year?
A: My 99 county tour is one of the most important things I do to make sure I’m representing Iowans well. When Iowans first elected me to Congress, I represented 18 counties in Iowa’s third congressional district....
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee and co-chairman on the Senate Caucus on International Drug
Control, issued the following statement regarding the Biden Administration’s
proposal to control deadly fentanyl-like drugs. “For months, I’ve been calling on the Biden administration to get...
WASHINGTON – Every Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), is demanding that Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) finally convene hearings on the historic border crisis that has continued for months.
“It is time for this Committee’s willful blindness to the situation at our southern...
GREENFIELD, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today held his 99th county meeting in Iowa for the 41st consecutive year as part of his annual 99 county meetings with an hour-long public town meeting in Adair County.
With this meeting, Grassley marks the conclusion of another year in his 41-year practice of holding at least one question-and-answer...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is seeking answers and an independent investigation into the faulty review of the Defense Department’s (DoD) now-defunct Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract conducted by the DoD Office of Inspector General (OIG).
The report released by the OIG about the JEDI contract contains...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 08-31-21Topics include: Flooding in Northeast Iowa, Afghanistan, COVID-19/mask mandate, impact of hurricane Ida.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pushing the Biden Administration to ensure that terrorists or other national security threats are not infiltrating efforts to provide humanitarian relief to Afghan nationals who assisted U.S. coalition forces during the war in Afghanistan. Recent media...
