WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are calling on the Biden Administration to remove Federal Housing and Finance Agency’s inspector general (IG) Laura Wertheimer. The request follows separate years-long reviews by Congress and the Council of the Inspectors General on...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) reintroduced legislation requiring the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to study the role and recent merger activity of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), including possible anticompetitive behavior.
The Prescription Pricing for the People Act requires the FTC to examine the effects of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, is calling on the Biden administration to explain why
critical employer data was omitted from a recent annual report on our nation’s
student visa programs and paid work programs for international students, such
as the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program. The...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Bob Casey
(D-Penn.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) today re-introduced bipartisan legislation
encouraging pharmacists to serve older Americans in communities lacking easy
access to doctors or where pharmacists are able to provide certain basic
medical services. “A lot of people in rural Iowa have
easier access to...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 04-26-21Topics include: COVID-19, ethanol, renewable fuels infrastructure and COVID-19 vaccines.
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today announced their bipartisan collaboration on a resolution observing this week as National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. The resolution recognizes the Senate’s commitment to raising awareness about the unique needs of...
Q&A: Improving U.S. Organ Donation System
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s your message to Iowans during National Donate Life month?
A: Thanks to modern medicine and the selfless generosity of fellow Americans, organ donation and transplantation have saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of beloved family members, friends and neighbors...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined bipartisan legislation led by his colleagues Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) to expand renewable fuel infrastructure. The Renewable Fuel Infrastructure Investment and Market Expansion Act of 2021 would direct the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a grant program to...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the
respective chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today
criticized a Department of Homeland Security decision to release additional
H-2B temporary non-agricultural work visas. “We’ve
long expressed concerns that perverse incentives created by the H-2B...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the SenateJudiciary Committee, reintroduced legislation to end the practice of creatingnew federal red tape outside of the public rulemaking process. The tactic,known as sue-and-settle litigation, is used by federal agencies and like-mindedspecial interest groups to impose new and burdensome...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and several colleagues in sending a bipartisan, bicameral letter urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to quickly and fully utilize the tools and resources Congress provided in the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2020 and the FY2020 Energy and Water appropriations...
WASHINGTON – Iowa Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today continued to build on their work to recognize Iowa farmers’ commitment to conservation and responsible land stewardship by introducing the Growing Climate Solutions Act, alongside a bipartisan group of colleagues. This legislation would create a certification program at the U.S....
Op-Ed: Packing the court strikes out independent judiciary
By Sen. Chuck Grassley
Washington Examiner
Former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used his bully pulpit to try to pack the Supreme Court. He struck out, and in the 1938 midterm elections, his party lost 72 seats in the House of Representatives and seven seats in the Senate. As they say, history...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to the Accredited Standards Committee (X12) urging them to finalize their recommendation that Medicare claims forms include the device identifier portion of a medical device’s unique device identifier (UDI). UDI’s are serial numbers used to identify specific types of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, is calling on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
(D-N.Y.) to extend temporary restrictions on fentanyl analogues that are
driving overdose deaths during the opioid epidemic. In a letter this week, Grassley pressed
Schumer to advance an extension that provides...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Representative Victoria Spartz (IN-05) and 16 colleagues to send a letter to President Biden urging him to prohibit a practice known as ‘sue-and-settle.’
Sue-and-settle tactics place special interest priorities above the public interest by allowing activist agencies to circumvent the public rulemaking...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators, led by Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today introduced legislation to reauthorize temporary class-wide restrictions on fentanyl analogues, which have fueled overdose deaths in the opioid epidemic. The Temporary Extension of Fentanyl Scheduling Act of 2021 extends for 14 months a Drug...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 04-19-21Topics include: the second amendment, infrastructure, U.S.-Russia relations and COVID-19 vaccines.
WASHINGTON – During National Parks Week, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) introduced legislation to support the Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area (SSNHA), an affiliate of the National Park Service (NPS). The Protecting the Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area Act will ensure the organization can continue to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). This award recognizes a lawmaker’s outstanding contribution to the progress of electric cooperatives and the public power program in the United States. Grassley will meet with members of Iowa’s electric...
