Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: Nitrate Pollution, Cost of Living, Iowa’s Cancer Rates, Prop 12, Iowa’s Rank in Education and the National Guard in D.C.
Q: What is the Presidential Physical Fitness Award?
A: Nearly 70 years ago during the Eisenhower administration, the President’s Council on Youth Fitness developed a program to prioritize physical fitness, strength and healthy habits among America’s school-age children. Post-World War II, President Dwight Eisenhower wanted to ensure American youth didn’t...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – The One Big Beautiful Bill Act allocated significant federal funds to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), dramatically enhancing ICE’s ability to safeguard American communities. The ICE funding was shepherded into law by the Senate Judiciary Committee, under the leadership of Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
“America’s...
POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) held a question-and-answer session with members of the Iowa Restaurant Association, the Iowa Hotel and Lodging Association and the Iowa Latino Hospitality Council on Tuesday. The group discussed how the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is benefiting Iowa workers through policies like no tax on tips or...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong family farmer and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, joined U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) and a bipartisan group of senators to introduce a bipartisan resolution celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
“Renewable fuels lower prices at the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) introduced legislation to detect and halt counterfeit and pirated imports. The bipartisan and bicameral bill would authorize Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to share suspected counterfeits’ packing and shipping information with key intellectual...
Q: How is the Trump administration working to restore sanity to climate policies?
A: In the previous Congress, I served as ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. The budget committee’s top job is drafting and enforcing the annual budget resolution that provides a public framework to manage the public purse. The budget resolution is the blueprint for...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Senate Agriculture Committee members Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), along with the committee’s Ranking Member, Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), introduced the bipartisan Ethanol for America Act to make it easier for Americans to fuel their vehicles with homegrown E15.
The bill eliminates unnecessary barriers by requiring the...
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BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced legislation to enhance access to information regarding the safety and quality of inpatient psychiatric care facilities (IPFs) to help patients and families make fully-informed decisions.
The Psychiatric...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Reps. August Pfluger (R-Texas) and Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) co-authored an op-ed in The Hill calling for immediate congressional action on their Combating Illicit Xylazine Act.
“The Combating Illicit Xylazine Act is a commonsense solution that...
Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: Blue Slips, the Future of Renewable Energy, Lowering Pharmaceutical Prices, the Economy’s Impact on Iowa, the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant and Substance Use Program and Texas Redistricting Efforts.
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sixty-nine percent of recently-polled voters are pushing for accountability in light of new reports made public by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) showing the FBI botched the Clinton investigation and turned a blind eye to evidence that Clinton’s campaign planned to falsely tie President Trump to Russia.
At...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) introduced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant and Substance Use Program (COSSUP), which helps address the opioid epidemic through prevention, treatment, law enforcement and recovery resources. The program was...
WASHINGTON – Last week, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) approved three bipartisan bills by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and HSGAC Ranking Member Gary Peters (D-Mich.): the Expanding Whistleblower Protections for Contractors Act, the Lobbying Disclosure Improvement Act and the Disclosing Foreign...
Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee
Saturday, August 2, 2025
VIDEO
One of the next two votes will be for Ms. Pirro [and] her nomination for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Ms. Pirro is a trailblazer. It’s shameful for Democrats to oppose this trailblazing woman. Her qualifications speak for...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined “Saturday Agenda” with Rob Astorino on Newsmax to discuss his successful efforts to declassify and release the previously Classified Appendix (“Durham annex”) to John Durham’s 2023 Special Counsel report.
The Durham annex exposed a reported Hillary Clinton campaign plan to...
Q: What is an ESOP?
A: An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) is a tax-advantaged retirement plan that allows business owners to sell shares of stock to their employees as part of an employee benefit plan. For many family-run small businesses that have invested their time and money into the company for generations, an ESOP is a beneficial tool for...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined “The Record with Greta van Susteren” on Newsmax to discuss his successful work to declassify and release the formerly Classified Appendix (“Durham annex”) to John Durham’s 2023 Special Counsel report.
The Durham annex exposed a reported Hillary Clinton campaign plan to falsely...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, today questioned Treasury Department nominee Derek Theurer on the implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Grassley asked whether Theurer would advise the Treasury Department to maintain its longstanding interpretation of “began...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined “America’s Newsroom” on Fox News to discuss his successful efforts to secure the declassification and release of the formerly Classified Appendix (“Durham annex”) to John Durham’s 2023 Special Counsel report.
The Durham annex exposes a reported Hillary Clinton campaign plan...
