Grassley Keeps in Touch with Iowans
Iowa Senator Plans to Visit 16 Iowa Communities Next Week
Sen. Chuck Grassley will visit 16 Iowa communities next week during a five-day congressional recess honoring President's Day.
Grassley will conduct meetings and visit local schools and businesses as part of his long-time commitment to visit each of Iowa's 99...
Word On: Farm Storage Facility Loan Program
Q: What is the Farm Storage Facility Loan program?
A: After months of delay, the U.S. Department of Agriculture in January finalized rules for a low-interest loan program designed to help farmers meet future grain storage and handling needs. The glut of grain worldwide has made extra grain storage all the...
Word On: Farm Storage Facility Loan Program
Q: What is the Farm Storage Facility Loan program?
A: After months of delay, the U.S. Department of Agriculture in January finalized rules for a low-interest loan program designed to help farmers meet future grain storage and handling needs. The glut of grain worldwide has made extra grain storage all the...
Anchors Away
When Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan gave his thumbs up to tax relief in January, he took some of the wind out of the big spenders’ sails in Washington. And when the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office soon thereafter issued a sunny skies forecast, predicting a $5.6 trillion budget surplus over the next 10 years,...
Grassley Schedules Hearing on Education Tax Initiatives
Event: hearing, "Making Education More Affordable: The Tax Code as a Student Aide"
Date/time: Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2001, at 10 a.m.
Location: 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Description: Sen. Chuck Grassley, Finance Committee chairman, will convene a hearing to explore a series of proposals to make...
Grassley Announces Appointment of Young Iowans to Service Academiess
Senator Sessions, thank you for chairing this hearing on bankruptcy reform, which we all consider to be unfinished business from the 106th Congress. As you know, the issue of bankruptcy reform is familiar to all of us here in the Senate. For the past 4 or so years, we've debated the...
News Conference to Receive President's Tax Bill
To those who say we can't afford tax cuts:
Let me tell you a story about the mountain and the mole hill. The mountain is the $27.9 trillion that the government expects to take in over the next 10 years. The mole hill is the $1.6 trillion in tax cuts that President Bush plans over the next 10 years.
So can...
Grassley Introduces Legislation for Special Needs Children
Joined by an Iowa family, Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today announced introduction of his legislation to improve health coverage for children with special needs. This legislation is a revision to the bill he championed last year.
"When you're a parent, your main objective is to provide...
Grassley Recognized For Work on Behalf of Children with Disabilities
Bipartisan Hero Award given to Grassley, Kennedy for Work Together in 106th Congress
Sen. Chuck Grassley this week received the "Bipartisan Heros Award" from the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners.
Grassley, along with Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts,...
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Airline Consolidation
I thank the Chairman for holding this hearing this morning and giving me the opportunity to speak and ask questions on this subject. As you know, I've been following airline competition issues closely for several years because their importance to my state of Iowa. Iowa air travelers and businesses...
Grassley, Kennedy, Sessions, Waxman to Re-introduce Family Opportunity Act
Event: News conference
Participants: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Finance Committee chairman
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), HELP Committee ranking member
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), Rules Committee member
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), Commerce Subcommittee on Health and...
Grassley, Kennedy, Sessions, Waxman to Re-introduce Family Opportunity Act
Event: News conference
Participants: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Finance Committee chairman
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), HELP Committee ranking member
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), Rules Committee member
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), Commerce Subcommittee on Health and...
Nomination of Robert B. Zoellick
I rise this afternoon in support of President Bush's nomination of Robert B. Zoellick to the position of United States Trade Representative. As Chairman of the Finance Committee, I am pleased to report to my distinguished colleagues that Robert Zoellick is uniquely qualified to represent the United States in the extremely...
Bush tax proposal
Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Finance Committee, issued the following statement about the remarks on tax relief made today by President George W. Bush.
"President Bush has made tax relief a cornerstone of his agenda, and that's good for American families. Tax relief fosters economic growth. The recent testimony of the Federal...
Grassley Introduces Bill to Repeal the Telephone Tax
? Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, today introduced a bill to repeal the telephone excise tax, which he called a century-old levy that affects anyone with a telephone, but serves no particular purpose.
"The telephone tax is as old as Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders and just as...
Statement on Confirmation of John Ashcroft
Sen. Chuck Grassley today issued the following statement regarding the Senate's vote to confirm John Ashcroft as Attorney General of the United States:
"I'm pleased that the Senate voted to confirm John Ashcroft as Attorney General of the United States. John Ashcroft is a man of his word and I'm fully confident...
Grassley Seeks Level Playing Field for Family Farmers
Iowa Senator Reaches Out to Iowa Attorney General
? Sen. Chuck Grassley said that he has asked Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller to work with him to look out for the Iowa farm community and ensure there is a level playing field for independent producers nationwide.
In a letter to Miller, Grassley asked...
Grassley Continues Effort to Overhaul Bankruptcy System
? Sen. Chuck Grassley introduced legislation last night to overhaul the nation's bankruptcy system.
The bill he introduced ? S.220 ? is identical to the final conference report approved last year by the Senate and House of Representatives but pocket-vetoed by President Clinton.
Grassley said that he...
Floor Statement on Nomination of John Ashcroft to U.S. Attorney General
Mr. President, I stand here today to voice my support for the nomination of John Ashcroft to become the next Attorney General of the United States. Despite the well-publicized, well-financed attempts orchestrated by outside groups to smear his good name, I'm thankful that Senator...
