WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement regarding President Donald Trump’s second State of the Union Address.“I’m glad President Trump rightly discussed the many accomplishments of the last two years. Tax cuts and regulatory reforms have led to a booming economy with near-record low...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa joined Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and other leading Judiciary Committee senators to reintroduce legislation to combat anticompetitive practices used by some brand-name pharmaceutical and biologic companies to block entry of lower-cost generic drugs. The Creating and Restoring Equal Access to...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Michael Bennet of Colorado reintroduced their bipartisan bill to improve health outcomes and care coordination for children with complex medical conditions in Medicaid.“Children with complex medical conditions have complex medical needs,” Grassley said. “And they certainly have...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon today invited seven major pharmaceutical companies to testify before a committee hearing on February 26, 2019, on drug pricing in the United States, the second in a series of hearings examining prescription drug costs.
The companies invited include...
Q&A: Shut Down Government ShutdownsWith U.S. Senator Chuck GrassleyQ: What’s your position on government shutdowns?A: One of the most fundamental constitutional responsibilities afforded to Congress is the power of the purse. That means lawmakers have the authority to raise and spend revenue to operate the government. The founders’ decision...
WASHINGTON – On January 31, 2016, the night of her graduation, Sarah Root, a twenty-one year-old Iowan from Council Bluffs, was struck and killed in Omaha, Neb., by Edwin Mejia, who entered the country illegally and was driving drunk – three times over the legal limit.Today, on the third anniversary of her death, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of...
WASHINGTON – GovTrack, an independent organization that tracks federal legislation and information about Members of Congress, recently released its annual “Report Card,” a special year-end project that reports the legislative statistics of Members of Congress. U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa received high marks in a number of...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon today announced expected subcommittee membership for the committee in the 116th Congress. The below lists subcommittee membership by seniority within the subcommittee. The chairman and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee are ex...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa issued the following statement regarding the recent 9-2 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affecting Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans. Yesterday’s appellate decision overturns past court opinions, ruling that Congress never intended to exclude service members who served in...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota introduced bipartisan legislation to improve health care for veterans. The Veterans Access to Care Act would help improve veterans’ medical facilities by allowing facilities with a need for additional health care professionals to apply to be designated as a Health...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today wrote to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to reaffirm their support for U.S. engagement in the multilateral OECD process on an approach to addressing the tax challenges arising from the “digitalization of the economy.” The...
Trade is Top Issue for Iowa AgricultureBy Senator Chuck Grassley and Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike NaigAs we start the new year and look ahead to what we as public servants can achieve, there are a number of important issues facing Iowa’s agricultural industry where our roles on the state and federal levels intersect. Recently, one issue has been...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota were joined by Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa in sponsoring bipartisan legislation to bring down the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs. The Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act would limit anticompetitive pay-for-delay deals that prevent or delay the...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa, Chris Coons of Delaware, Cory Gardner of Colorado, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Doug Jones of Alabama, Pat Roberts of Kansas, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, and Jack Reed of Rhode Island introduced the Teachers Are Leaders Act, which would create...
WASHINGTON – In a letter to U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer submitted a description of changes to existing laws needed to bring the United States into compliance with the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA).
“This is an important step required...
Prepared Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaAt the National Federation of the Blind Washington SeminarOn the Marrakesh Treaty and the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation ActMonday, January 28, 2019 Thank you for the invitation to be with you. It means much to me that you’ve asked me to speak at this Great Gathering-In meeting. I especially want...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, joined Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Senate Majority Whip John Thune of South Dakota and dozens of his Senate colleagues in re-introducing legislation to permanently repeal the federal estate tax, more commonly known as the death...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced transparency legislation today to ensure that the work of Justice Department Special Counsels is made available to both Congress and the public. The Special Counsel Transparency Act requires that a Special Counsel submit...
