WASHINGTON – After their bipartisan amendment to require disclosure of prescription drug prices in television ads was removed from the Fiscal Year 2019 Defense-Labor-HHS-Education appropriations “minibus” bill in a last-minute, back room deal, U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Angus King of Maine urged their...
WASHINGTON – The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) concurred with President George W. Bush representatives’ assessment that confidential records leaked by several Democrats are legally restricted from public release. In a letter dispelling misrepresentations about the handling of records related to Supreme Court nominee...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley was presented with Growth Energy’s 2018 “Fueling Growth” Award, which according to the group is “reserved for our esteemed congressional champions who have demonstrated their unwavering support for the biofuels industry and aggressively advocated for our members' top priorities in...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Mike Rounds of South Dakota sent a letter to United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions seeking clarification on whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to website accessibility. Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Mike Crapo of Idaho and John Cornyn of Texas...
WASHINGTON – The entire Iowa delegation, including Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst and Reps. David Young, Steve King, Rod Blum and Dave Loebsack, wrote to President Donald Trump in support of Governor Kim Reynolds’ appeal of the Administration’s decision denying Individual Assistance under FEMA for Buchanan, Dickinson, Polk and Winnebago counties.
“It is...
WASHINGTON – As the Senate Judiciary Committee continues its work reviewing the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, committee Democrats—all of whom are expected to vote against Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination—continue their meritless obstruction campaign by issuing an unprecedented...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa receives high marks for his leadership of the confirmation process for Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in an op-ed in The Hill. Excerpts can be found below.When future Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is...
OSCEOLA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today held his 99th county meeting for the 38th year as part of his annual 99 county meetings with an hour-long town meeting Q&A at the Clarke County Hospital in Osceola.With this meeting, Grassley marks the conclusion of another year in his 38-year practice of holding meetings with Iowans in every one of...
Opposition to Kavanaugh Is Failing Because It’s MeritlessBy Senator Chuck Grassley The American people have now had a chance to hear directly from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in what might be the longest nomination hearing in Supreme Court history.For more than 32 hours, Kavanaugh has sat before the TV lights of the Senate Judiciary...
From small-town Iowa to Washington, DCBy Grace BertelliWaterloo-Cedar Falls CourierSeptember 9, 2018…I applied to work for Sen. Grassley because he holds a folk-hero-like status in Iowa culture; I grew up listening to my parents discuss his policies at dinner and watching him on the news, making him an ideal representative to work for. However, I was...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, along with Sen. Joni Ernst and Rep. Rod Blum, sent a letter to Cedar Rapids Mayor Brad Hart and Cedar Rapids City Manager Jeffrey Pomeraz in response to an August 8 letter from the City of Cedar Rapids regarding emergency flood funding from the Army Corps of Engineers. In their response letter, Grassley, Ernst and Blum...
WASHINGTON – Iowan Adam J. White testified today before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who has led the committee since 2015, selected White to testify before the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa received a response from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma regarding his July 27 letter seeking more information into what happened in the case of an elderly Iowa woman who passed away seemingly due to lapses in care by staff at the Timely Mission Nursing Home in...
WASHINGTON – On the final day of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing to be an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley sat down to speak about Judge Kavanaugh’s qualifications and the convincing case he made for Senate confirmation. The video can be found...
WASHINGTON – At the end of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s second day of questioning, Senate Democrats still haven’t been able to achieve a “gotcha” moment on Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Instead, day two was little more than a continuation of political theatrics that failed to outshine a stellar performance by a highly-qualified...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today received and posted on its public website more than 1,000 pages of executive branch documents from Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s work as a White House lawyer. The release brings the total public executive branch material to more than 295,000 pages. Today’s release includes:Cover Sheet09-06-18 GWB...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on the confirmation of C.J. Williams to serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.“Judge Williams is highly qualified to serve in this lifetime appointment. His commitment to the...
WASHINGTON – After more than 12 hours of questioning on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s second day of hearings on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be the next Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, Kavanaugh’s record holds up to intense scrutiny from senators.Washington Post “Supreme Court...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today posted on its public website a subset of presidential records received and reviewed this week before the beginning of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination hearing. The release brings the total public executive branch material to more than 294,000 pages. Today’s release includes:Cover...
