WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) sent a letter to U.S Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, urging the Department – which is in the midst of a comprehensive review of the federal oil and gas program – to include their bipartisan Fair Returns for Public Lands Act as a policy recommendation in their finalized...
WASHINGTON – Today, the Co-Chairs of the Senate Caucus on
International Narcotics Control, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Chuck
Grassley (R-IA) led a bipartisan group of their colleagues in introducing a
resolution marking June 26, 2021 as the International Day against Drug Abuse
and Illicit Trafficking. This day has been observed by the United...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are today introducing the IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act, which would strengthen the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) successful Whistleblower Awards Program. That program has enabled the agency to collect over $6 billion from wealthy individuals and businesses caught dodging...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), both members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, are pressing their fellow Iowan, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, on recent actions by the Biden administration that have the potential to harm Iowa’s agriculture industry. In a letter, the Iowa senators express concern...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and several colleagues in a bipartisan letter to Small Business Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman urging her to disburse Shuttered Venue Operator Grant funding to struggling live entertainment venues as soon as possible. The legislation that...
WASHINGTON – Michelle Root of Modale, Iowa, today
testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on policy proposals that
would legalize certain illegal immigrant populations. Root, the mother of Sarah
Root, who was killed in 2016 by an illegal immigrant, called on the committee to
pursue policies that improve justice for victims of crimes perpetrated...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 06-14-21Topics include: The origins of COVID-19, the Meat Packing Special Investigator Act, cattle market transparency, the Hunger-Free Summer for Kids Act and pandemic unemployment insurance.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking
Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick
Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the
following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Tarahrick Terry v.
United States, a case related to the interpretation of provisions of...
WASHINGTON –Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Mike Lee
(R-Utah) in introducing the Tougher
Enforcement Against Monopolies (TEAM) Act to reform our nation’s antitrust
laws. “America is facing a
panoply of competition concerns not just in Big Tech, but across our entire
economy. We need a holistic approach that deals with all of these concerns,...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined
Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) to announce new, bipartisan
legislation to address anticompetitive practices in the meat and poultry
industries that threaten the nation’s food supply and national security
following last week’s ransomware attack on JBS, the country’s largest...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the Justice Department Inspector General’s review of investigative activity, including subpoenas, targeting records of certain Members of Congress and congressional staff:
“Both classified leaks and abuses of power are...
Q&A: Cyberattacks in America
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Are recent cyberattacks on JBS and Colonial Pipeline the tip of the iceberg?
A: Ransomware cyberattacks targeting critical U.S. infrastructure are cropping up with increasing frequency, delivering wake-up calls to cybersecurity vulnerabilities across the government and U.S. economy. The...
WASHINGTON – The Senate last night unanimously passed bipartisan legislation authored by Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) 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 bill is co-led in the Senate by Senator Kirsten...
WASHINGTON – Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance two bipartisan criminal justice reform bills authored by 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 —the Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. John Boozman (R-Ark.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and several colleagues to introduce the Hunger-Free Summer for Kids Act to add flexibility to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), which offers children free lunch and snacks in the summer. The bipartisan...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is seeking information from the Biden administration about announced plans to restart the Central American Minors program (CAM), through which certain minors from three countries could be considered for refugee resettlement or parole in the United States. The...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) are calling on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to ensure a timely and stakeholder-driven implementation of the new and voluntary Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) Medicare payment designation.
“The REH designation offers the flexibility to support rural hospitals...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Angus King (I-Maine) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) are introducing bipartisan legislation to reform tax laws that cover charitable donations, so that philanthropic funds are made available to working charities within a reasonable time period. The Accelerating Charitable Efforts (ACE) Act would establish a timeline for donations to...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Congressman Jim Jordan (R, Ohio-4), ranking members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees today renewed their request for the Biden Administration’s views on deadly fentanyl analogues. In a letter to the Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration, the lawmakers again called for a briefing on...
DES MOINES – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) regional director based in Des Moines will hold traveling office hours in ten counties around central Iowa throughout June. Iowans seeking assistance regarding a personal issue with a federal agency or wishing to share views on matters of federal policy may stop by during the scheduled hours.
These meetings will...
