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...
Q&A: Inheritance Taxes Bad for Farm Economy
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: How would repealing step-up in basis tax proposals harm family farmers and small businesses?
A: As a lifelong family farmer and former chairman of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, I bring life experience to the policymaking table when lawmakers hammer out the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today commended the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) as they announced a $1 million grant to the county of Monona, Iowa, to make critical roadway improvements and improve access to the Monona County Barge Port.
“I’m glad the Economic Development Administration has continued to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Ranking Republican Members on the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, today wrote to President Joseph R. Biden seeking to understand the administration’s position on changes to the law governing the treatment of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) who cross U.S. borders.
In 2014,...
UPDATE: Resolution text was updated to add Sen. Durbin and others as cosponsors and adjust language regarding a Judiciary Committee hearing. Updated resolution text is available HERE.*****WASHINGTON – Sen.
Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led a
coalition of Senators in introducing a resolution condemning a...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is continuing to press the Department of Defense (DoD) on questions regarding the alleged retaliatory revocation of a former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employee’s security clearance, leading to his eventual departure from the agency in...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today introduced legislation to address the increase in counterfeit merchandise entering the United States. This legislation would modernize the Trade Enforcement and Trade Facilitation Act (TFTEA) of 2015 and expand U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) authority to share information with rights holders and...
WASHINGTON –
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary
Committee joined senators John Cornyn (R-Texas), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Josh
Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in sending a letter to Attorney General
Garland and Acting SEC Chair Lee requesting an investigation into the chemical
firm Avantor’s role in drug...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) are seeking a briefing from the U.S. Treasury Department and related intelligence and law enforcement partners about the steps the Biden administration is taking to ensure the integrity of reviews done by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, and Tom Cotton (R-Ark) Ranking Member of the Subcommittee
on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism, today called for the committee to
convene a hearing on hate crimes. “We are
concerned to see that such an important issue has not already received
Committee or...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 04-12-21Topics include: Second Amendment, immigration, the filibuster and infrastructure.
Q&A: Falsehoods Undermine Voter Confidence
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s wrong with For the People Act?
A: The House of Representatives passed an 800-page bill along a party-line vote under pretext of preventing election irregularities after we were told this was the most secure and fair election in history. Unfortunately, H.R. 1, For...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) praised the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) as they announced a $1.5 million grant to the city of Ames to provide critical water infrastructure for a new industrial park and a $1 million grant to the city of Sioux City to support growth in the aviation sector.
The EDA grant...
