WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.) in reintroducing Kate’s Law. The bicameral bill would establish a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for any person with multiple convictions, or a conviction for an...
WASHINGTON – At today’s Senate Finance Committee hearing, senior committee member Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) touted the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act, bipartisan legislation he and his colleagues introduced to permanently authorize a cattle contract library and establish regional minimums for the percentage of non-contract cattle sales....
WASHINGTON – The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a global Jewish human rights organization dedicated to confronting anti-Semitism, hate and terrorism, recognized Budget Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) for their efforts to shine a light on previously-undisclosed Nazi-linked accounts held by Credit...
WASHINGTON – Several Iowa communities are getting an injection of federal resources to support essential local infrastructure projects, thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which Sen. Grassley supported in 2021. The Department of Transportation today announced that Cedar Falls, Clear Lake and nine additional counties will receive more than...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), along with Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.), in introducing the Ensuring Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act. The bill would close loopholes in the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) to allow the families of victims of terrorism to seek...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, welcomed the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) nursing home quality information website, Care Compare. Grassley requested the audit as then-chairman of the Finance Committee as...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), along with Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa), Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) and Randy Feenstra (R-Iowa), are once again urging President Joe Biden to approve federal assistance for activities related to last month’s building collapse in Davenport. The lawmakers previously...
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WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), along with Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), today introduced a bipartisan bill to require the Department of Defense (DOD) to pass a full, independent audit in fiscal year 2024. The Audit the Pentagon Act of 2023 would further direct any DOD...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced bipartisan legislation requiring public reporting on retired service members who work on behalf of foreign governments. The bill would create civil penalties for retired officers who break the law. Companion legislation was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by...
WASHINGTON – Senior Senate Judiciary Committee member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), today led all committee Republicans calling on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to produce an unclassified FBI-generated document containing allegations of corruption against the Biden family.
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WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), one of the Senate’s only corn farmers, today criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule setting minimum biofuels blending levels for the next three years below current production capabilities. While the plan makes modest increases to blend levels for certain biodiesel products, the overall...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold town meetings on Tuesday, June 27, in Red Oak, on Wednesday, June 28, in Clarinda and Mount Ayr and on Thursday, June 29, in Elkader 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...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today made the following statement regarding Hunter Biden’s reported plea deal, which was limited to federal tax violations and a firearm offense.
“Since the FBI’s investigation into Hunter Biden began nearly five years ago, I and my colleagues in Congress have uncovered extensive government and bank records...
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Topics discussed include: indictment of former President Donald Trump, California's Proposition 12 and its harmful impact on Iowa's pork industry, the EATS Act, the carbon pipeline, Iowa Supreme Court's ruling on the six week abortion ban and updates on the 2023 Farm Bill.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined 59 of his bipartisan colleagues, including Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), in reintroducing the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health...
Q&A: Don’t Mess with Iowa Pork
With U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley
Q: What is Proposition 12?
A: In May the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a California law known as Proposition 12 that dictates how farmers raise their livestock to gain market access to consumers in the most populous state in the country. The ruling upheld the state ballot measure...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, joined Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) in reintroducing the Exposing Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act. The legislation prohibits state and local governments from interfering with agricultural production nationwide, while preserving their...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation to expand healthy milk options in schools. The bill would amend existing law to allow schools enrolled in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to offer students whole and 2% milk. Currently, participating...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Chairwoman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, in reintroducing the American Innovation and Choice Online Act. This bipartisan legislation would restore competition online by establishing common sense rules of the road...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) yesterday joined Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), along with Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), in introducing the Sustainable Aviation Fuels Accuracy Act of 2023. The bipartisan legislation would update federal standards to align with the definition of sustainable aviation...
