Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 05-06-21Topics include: Flood management, bipartisanship, infrastructure, John Kerry investigation, D.C. statehood and Sen. Grassley's 99 county meetings.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is calling on the State Department and its independent watchdog to investigate allegations against John Kerry, the former secretary of state and current special presidential envoy for climate, for potentially mishandling sensitive and classified information. According to news reports, Kerry may have disclosed covert...
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 urged the Department of Justice (DOJ)
to direct the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to expeditiously revise the proposed rule
published on November 25, 2020, regarding...
WASHINGTON – A man who fraudulently obtained asylum and
U.S. citizenship was hired by the Obama administration to adjudicate the very
immigration petitions and forms on which he repeatedly lied. The case has Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa),
ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, raising new questions about immigration
vetting protocols, the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) recently introduced legislation along with his colleagues, Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) that would require U.S. schools and universities to disclose their financial ties to the Chinese government including its Confucius Institutes, which are a part of the Chinese...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) along and a group of Senate Finance Committee Republicans, in calling on Chairman Wyden to open an investigation into New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s cover-up of the nursing home death toll. “This committee has direct oversight on this issue and a responsibility to act when HHS...
WASHINGTON – At a classified national security briefing on the ongoing border
crisis, Biden administration officials declined to provide details that were
previously shared with staff. Now,
Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is calling on the
immigration officials to provide a more fulsome assessment of the national
security...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is seeking additional information about former Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent financial disclosures. Kerry now serves as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. Those financial disclosures show millions in income from major corporate financial institutions and energy firms.
News reports indicate that ethics...
WASHINGTON – Sen.
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is calling on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
to promptly implement recommendations from a recent Government Accountability
Office (GAO) report that could improve customer service for Americans who
recently experienced a natural disaster. Many
Americans struggle to navigate FEMA’s processes for...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan, bicameral group of
lawmakers this week introduced legislation to better ensure that law
enforcement and first responders who are disabled in the line of duty have
prompt access to the benefits they’ve been promised. The Protecting America’s First Responders Act was authored by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa),
ranking member of the...
Q&A: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebrated in May?
A: In 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed the first joint congressional resolution to celebrate the cultural, social and economic contributions of Asian Pacific Americans from May...
WASHINGTON – At a press conference yesterday, a broad, bipartisan coalition of senators and advocates pressed for Congress to pass the recently introduced the Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act. The bill is led by its author, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and longtime legislative partner Sen. Chuck Grassley...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) introduced legislation making foreign nationals engaged in the theft of U.S. intellectual property and other sensitive proprietary information inadmissible to and deportable from the United States.
The Stop Theft of Intellectual Property Act makes foreign nationals deportable...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) reintroduced the Preserving Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act and the Stop Significant and Time-wasting Abuse Limiting Legitimate Innovation of New Generics (Stop STALLING) Act to promote competition and reduce drug costs.
“Addressing the rising costs of...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Jim Inhofe (R-OK), along with several of their Senate GOP colleagues, today introduced the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. This legislation will allow individuals with concealed carry privileges in their home state to exercise those rights in...
WASHINGTON – A
group of Senate Republicans today reintroduced legislation aimed at curbing
China’s access to the World Bank’s low-rate debt financing intended for
developing nations. The World Bank
Integrity Preservation Act of 2021 was authored by Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and cosponsored by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.),
Ted Cruz...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today joined Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and 17 colleagues in sending a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to investigate allegations against John Kerry the former secretary of state and current special presidential envoy for climate. The current allegation states that Kerry disclosed covert Israeli actions against...
WASHINGTON – After a narrow inspector general’s review of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) program’s procurement process left outstanding ethics and propriety questions, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is renewing his requests for documents and information from the Defense Department under its new leadership.
“DoD OIG did not examine key...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) along with his colleagues, Sens. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today introduced three bills that would provide students and their families with better information about the costs of college from the initial college search, through the application process, to ultimately accepting financial aid. The...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement after President Biden delivered a joint address to Congress this evening.
“President Biden campaigned on unifying a divided nation. Part of that means working with a Congress divided right down the middle. Thus far he’s done very little to back up his words from the campaign trail,...
