News Releases

Marshall County Receives Funding to Fight Drugs from Grassley Initiative ? Sen. Chuck Grassley today announced that Marshall County will receive $99,993 to fight drugs through a community-based program he helped establish last year. Today's matching grant represents the first federal dollars awarded through the Drug Free Communities Support Program. The...

Grassley Petitions USDA to Engage in Productive Efforts to Help Farmers ? Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today called on USDA to seek additional funds for farmers through the upcoming appropriations process and to fully exercise its authority to assist farmers by expanding eligibility for loan deficiency payments. Grassley made his appeal in a letter to...

Grassley Petitions IRS to Not Apply Gift Tax on McGwire's Homerun Ball Iowa Senator Goes to Bat for "Common Sense" Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today joined Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri in a petition to the IRS Commissioner to not apply the federal gift tax to any fan who returns a homerun ball to St. Louis Cardinal Mark McGwire. Grassley is a member of the...

Grassley Works to Beef-Up Anti-Drug Resources at U.S. Borders Iowa Senator Bolsters U.S. Customs to Promote Trade, Snuff Out Illegal Drugs Responding to increasingly sophisticated international drug trafficking networks, Sen. Chuck Grassley today laid the foundation for a bipartisan proposal that would launch a more comprehensive interdiction strategy...

CHIP Funding for Iowa The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) today announced that Iowa's Children's Health Insurance Block Grant Program (CHIP) plan has been approved and the state is eligible to receive new federal funds that were made available in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. A senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, Grassley advocated...

Grassley Launches Statewide Anti-Drug Coalition Iowa Senator Targets Drug Problem, Works to Help Communities Face It Together Sen. Chuck Grassley today launched in Iowa the nation's first-of-its- kind statewide anti-drug effort offering citizens strategies to combat illicit drug use in their own hometowns. Grassley has been at work with Iowans for nearly...

Grassley Launches Statewide Anti-Drug Coalition Iowa Senator Targets Drug Problem, Works to Help Communities Face It Together Sen. Chuck Grassley today launched in Iowa the nation's first-of-its- kind statewide anti-drug effort offering citizens strategies to combat illicit drug use in their own hometowns. Grassley has been at work with Iowans for nearly...

Grassley Works to Keep Federal Agency Focused on Rural America Justice Department Says It Will Prevent Anticompetitive Mergers Jill Kozeny 202/224-1308 ? Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today said he has received assurances from the Justice Department that the government will continue to pay special attention to the impact of mega-mergers on rural states like...

Grassley to Unveil Statewide Anti-Drug Coalition Senator Plans News Conferences in Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Burlington, Davenport, Cedar Rapids, and Waterloo Jill Kozeny 202/224-1308 ? Sen. Chuck Grassley announced today that this Thursday he will launch in Iowa the nation's first-of-its-kind statewide anti-drug effort offering citizens creative ideas...

Grassley Works for Iowa Farmers Iowa Senator Seeks Congressional Support for New Trade Opportunities Jill Kozeny 202/224-1308 Sen. Chuck Grassley today pledged his support to Speaker Newt Gingrich to help secure votes from members of the U.S. House of Representatives in favor of fast-track negotiating authority for the President of the United...

Grassley Urges Response to New Report on Drug Use by Young Americans Iowa Senator Calls on Government Officials, Community Leaders and Parents to Act Jill Kozeny 202/224-1308 Sen. Chuck Grassley today called for intensified efforts on the part of government officials, community leaders and parents to fight drug use by young people, citing a new survey...

Grassley Invites Cedar Rapids Area Residents to Town Meeting Next Week Jill Kozeny 202/224-1308 ? Sen. Chuck Grassley today encouraged Cedar Rapids area residents to participate in a town meeting he will host next Tuesday morning at the Bonanza Family Restaurant at 3505 16th Avenue, SW. The meeting is scheduled from 8:00-9:30 a.m., on August 25th. It is...

Grassley Keeps in Touch with Central Iowans Sen. Chuck Grassley today announced that he will visit Des Moines during the week of August 17th to discuss health care and other issues impacting older Iowans, work at the State Fair and host an open forum for area residents to ask questions and express concerns about issues important to them. Sen. Grassley's...

Grassley Invites Last-Minute Registrations for Iowa Womens' Conference Elizabeth Dole to Deliver Keynote Address Jill Kozeny 202/224-1308 ? Over 600 Iowa women have pre-registered to attend a non- partisan, motivational conference that Sen. Chuck Grassley and his wife Barbara will host on Monday, August 10th. Today, Grassley said a few seats remain. He...

Grassley: Senate Approves Early Release of $597 million for Iowa Farmers Congress Responds to Low Commodity and Livestock Prices Jill Kozeny 202/224-1308 ? Sen. Chuck Grassley today announced that the U.S. Senate has approved early release of federal funds set aside for farmers in 1999. For Iowa farmers, the result could be up to $597 million in...

Grassley Fights for Farmers ? Sens. Paul Coverdell, Chuck Grassley and Pat Roberts today announced that the U.S. Senate will have the opportunity this week to approve early release of federal funds set aside for farmers in 1999. Under the proposal, farmers would have the option to receive 1999 market transition payments along with their 1998 payments this...

Children's Rights Council Rating The Children's Rights Council announced today that it has ranked Iowa as the number one state to raise a child. The rating is based upon each state's ranking in 11 different categories, ranging from infant mortality rate to divorce and graduation rates. In response to the announcement, Sen. Chuck Grassley issued the...

Capitol Shooting Sen. Grassley left Washington to return to Iowa at 10:30 this morning. His staff members ? most of whom are from Iowa ? work in the Hart Senate Office Building. The Hart Building is part of the Capitol complex. It is just Northeast of the Capitol. Here is a statement from Sen. Grassley regarding the tragic events that occurred today. He...

Grassley, Bond Challenge COPs Awards for Meth Lab Clean-Up Iowa, Missouri Passed Over, Federal Dollars Given to Cities with Fewer Meth Labs ? Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Kit Bond of Missouri today protested the recent decision of the federal COPs program to direct $5 million earmarked by Congress specifically for meth lab clean-up to major urban areas...

Grassley Wins Amendment to Ag Spending Bill The full Senate today overwhelmingly gave its approval (71-28) to Sen. Grassley's Sense of the Senate Resolution to the Agriculture Appropriations Bill. "Farmers deserve to have Congress and the President deliver the outstanding items promised with passage of freedom to farm in 1996. We need to aggressively open...