WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate last night unanimously passed the Confidentiality Opportunities for Peer Support (COPS) Counseling Act. The bill, authored by Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), would encourage the adoption of law enforcement peer counseling programs across the country and ensure that the information disclosed...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 06-07-21Topics include: President Biden's budget proposal, immigration, police funding, 2022 election, mental health and recent cyber attacks.
Q&A: Biden’s Bloated Budget
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s your take on President Biden’s first budget?
A: The president is borrowing a page from the Obama administration to “never let a serious crisis go to waste.” It’s as clear as the day is long what the Biden administration set out to do since day one of his presidency: Use the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is looking for answers to the many questions raised by the Justice Department’s new strategy to combat violent crime.
“I am concerned as I review your very different answer to the problem of rising violent crime. First, I must tell you it is extremely difficult to...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pressing the Justice Department on its approach to prosecuting rioters at violent and destructive demonstrations over the summer and fall of 2020 and in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Reports indicate that many of the cases involving a...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 06-01-21Topics include: biofuels, Israel-Palestine conflict, gun violence, President Biden's budget proposal, inflation, and Senator Grassley's work calling on the U.S. Census Bureau to release data in a timely manner.
WASHINGTON – The Senate today unanimously passed bipartisan legislation authored by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to preserve a whistleblower program in danger of collapsing under its own success. The CFTC Fund Management Act (S. 409) ensures that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s whistleblower program can continue to function even when awards...
Q&A: Beefing Up Cattle Price Transparency and Local Meat Markets
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why did you resurrect your bipartisan cattle price transparency bill?
A: When independent cattle farmers are losing money on each head of cattle while packers are profiting $1,200 per head, they have every reason to be fed up with anticompetitive...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, today issued the following statement after President Biden announced his Fiscal Year 2022 budget proposal.
“It’s one of the oldest tricks in the Washington playbook: wait until Friday afternoon before a three-day holiday weekend to put out bad news, and hope the American...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.),...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement on the Senate’s consideration of a proposal to establish a separate commission to examine the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol:
“While the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is already the subject of much scrutiny...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) to introduce the bipartisan RFS Integrity Act of 2021. This legislation would provide more certainty for rural America by bringing transparency and predictability to EPA’s small refinery exemption process. The bill would require small refineries to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today questioned President Biden’s nominee to head the Office of Tax Policy within the Department of Treasury on the potential devastating effects repealing stepped-up basis rules could have on American family farms and small businesses.
In a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Grassley questioned Lily Lawrence...
WASHINGTON –
U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced the
bipartisan Inspector General Testimonial Subpoena Authority Act, which
would give Inspectors General the authority to subpoena former federal
employees, as well as contractors and grantees, for in-person testimony,
strengthening their ability to safeguard...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today called on President Biden and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to support the nation’s biofuels community and family farms. In two letters, Grassley urged Biden to uphold his commitment to supporting the biofuels industry and sought information from Vilsack regarding Biden’s proposed changes in capital...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) today introduced legislation to support the biodiesel industry, continue to broaden America’s energy independence. The bipartisan Biodiesel Tax Credit Extension Act of 2021 would extend the current federal biodiesel tax credit program through 2025.
“The biodiesel tax credit has proven...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 05-24-21Topics include: Mask mandates, mental health awareness month, 2022 election, crisis at the southern border and the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
Q&A: Mental Health Matters
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: How are you working to raise awareness for mental health wellness?
A: From my leadership assignments in the U.S. Senate, I’ve worked to expand access to behavioral health services for individuals and families coping with pressures from the opioid epidemic, natural disasters and COVID-19....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has continued to request the redistricting data from the U.S. Census Bureau to be released in time for the nonpartisan redistricting process to move forward in Iowa. Grassley recently called and wrote the Acting Director of the U.S. Census Bureau requesting information regarding the redistricting data delivery...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a Senate Armed Services Committee Member, announced today he is leading the Protecting Our Well-being by Expanding Russian Sanctions (POWERS) Act, legislation to build on recently-passed bipartisan sanctions against Russia and reinstate sanctions the Biden Administration is waiving on Russian people and entities...
