Q&A: Checklist for U.S. Passports
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What do Iowans need to know about obtaining or renewing passports?
A: The U.S. Department of State processes passports for American citizens. In recent months, the federal agency is experiencing significant backlog as global travel picks up since COVID-19 effectively shut down...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today introduced a bipartisan resolution designating July as National Anti-Counterfeiting Consumer Education and Awareness Month. The resolution also recognizes and celebrates the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Lanham Act which laid the foundation for modern trademark protection and safeguards consumers from...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa),
Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned witnesses at
the hearing on immigration and labor in the agriculture industry. The panel
included two Iowa witnesses: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom
Vilsack; and Jen
Sorenson of Ankeny, president of National Pork Producers...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today praised the Senate’s passage of a bill he cosponsored to aid organizations that provide services for victims of crime. The bill unanimously passed the Senate this evening.
“Since its enactment, the Crime Victims Fund has delivered billions of dollars to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pushing for answers after the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has stonewalled on questions related to allegations of ethics and conflicts of interest violations at the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA).
“Certainly the Congress has a sufficient interest in whether government employees are potentially...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 07-19-21Topics include: Rural broadband, E15, 99 county meetings and the Social Security Administration.
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pushing for corrective action in the wake of a recently-released Justice Department Inspector General (OIG) report regarding the FBI’s mishandling of the investigation into Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of young athletes
In a pair of letters to committee Chairman...
Q&A: Drug Advertising Needs More Daylight
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s direct-to-consumer advertising in the pharmaceutical industry?
A: Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisements market medications and biological therapeutics to U.S. consumers through television, internet and print media. Anyone who watches television likely is able to...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee; Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee; and Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold an oversight hearing on the Federal...
WASHINGTON – As overdose deaths surge, fueled by synthetic opioids, lawmakers from both houses of Congress today reintroduced a framework to fight the rapid spread of deadly synthetic drugs, which can quickly be re-engineered to circumvent federal laws designed to outlaw them. The Stop Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act would...
WASHINGTON – Multiple FBI field offices failed to
promptly and properly respond to repeated allegations of sexual abuse of
Olympic gymnasts and other young athletes by Olympic Physician Larry Nassar,
according to a Justice Department Inspector General report
released today. That investigation was
initiated after Sen. Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa) led
an effort in...
For Immediate Release
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Grassley and Johnson Request More Information from Justice Department about Special Counsel Mueller Team’s Missing Phones
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are asking the Justice Department for more information and records after learning that the department could not locate...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today joined Sens. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and a group of colleagues in reintroducing the Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act.
“The previous administration made the right call to allow E-15 to be sold year-round and allow consumers to make their own decision about what kind of fuel they want to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement regarding the recently announced draft legislation titled Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act.
“This new bill puts the cart before the horse. It’s important that we have robust research and fully understand the good and the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today announced that on July 27, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the growing wave of ransomware attacks affecting businesses, non-profits, and...
WASHINGTON – Next Tuesday, Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Co-Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and members of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control will hold a hearing entitled, “The Federal Response to the Drug Overdose Epidemic.” The hearing will address the federal response to the drug overdose epidemic and drug threats that have...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) today introduced the Assisting Broadband Connectivity Act. This bipartisan bill will streamline the funding process and remove barriers for broadband connectivity in hard-to-serve rural areas.
“This bipartisan bill makes commonsense updates to help areas connect all the pieces from both...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pushing for information about whether non-partisan, career officials were consulted in the creation of recent Biden administration policy pushes that appear to ignore important context about domestic terrorism and gun crime in the United States.
In it’s new...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 07-12-21Topics include: Cuba relations, cattle market transparency, stepped-up basis, cameras in the courtroom, FHFA IG, CFTC whistleblower fund, Social Security Administrator Saul and Sen. Grassley's veterans fellowship.
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) today sent a letter to President Biden urging the administration to promptly appoint a qualified individual as the Acting Inspector General to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and quickly nominate a permanent successor for the Senate’s consideration. This comes after embattled...
