News Releases

  • 11.14.2022

    WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) regional director based in Sioux City will hold traveling office hours in three counties around Iowa next Monday, November 21. 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.    Grassley will be...
  • 11.10.2022

    Q&A: Veterans Day With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley   Q: Can you tell us about the Veterans History Project?   A: The Veterans History Project is a collection of oral histories curated and archived at the Library of Congress American Folklife Center. The collection makes accessible to the public the personal accounts of American war veterans to...
  • 11.10.2022

    BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Ahead of Black Friday, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are asking the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to make additional staffing preparations to handle the influx of legal gun purchases and...
  • 11.09.2022

    WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released internal FBI reports detailing its sordid response to sexual misconduct by FBI employees. The previously-undisclosed records, provided to Grassley by a whistleblower, accompany a letter Grassley sent to the Justice Department Inspector General, seeking an immediate review...
  • 11.08.2022

    Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 11-08-22Topics include: term limits, women, CRP in the Farm Bill, the Republican party, 2022 reelection and the future.
  • 11.07.2022

    LINN COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and member of the Agriculture Committee, is requesting an update from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on efforts to implement the Seeding Rural Resilience Act. In 2020, Grassley and Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) successfully...
  • 11.07.2022

    DUBUQUE COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are demanding answers from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) after receiving reports that licensed firearm businesses across the country, including in Iowa, are being forced to forfeit their federal firearms...
  • 11.04.2022

    DES MOINES COUNTY, IOWA – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide the Quad Cities with additional resources to combat rising crime. The Iowa senators urge DOJ to establish a violent crime task force and to assign agents to the Quad Cities to support...
  • 11.04.2022

    Q&A: More IRS Auditors? With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley   Q: Why did Congress double the size of the IRS budget?   A: President Biden and big spenders in Congress want more revenue to pay for big government programs. Under this administration, the gross federal debt has reached an unprecedented $31 trillion. That’s $93,000 for every man, woman and child...
  • 11.04.2022

    WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on a letter to 51 law firms detailing the possible antitrust violations the law firms’ clients may commit if they pursue Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives. The letter advises the law firms...
  • 11.03.2022

    BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a family farmer, completed his two social media series called #CornWatch and #SoybeanWatch for 2022. The annual series gives followers an inside look at farming operations on the Grassley family farm in New Hartford, Iowa. Over the course of 28 weeks, he highlighted the progression, from planting to...
  • 11.02.2022

    DENVER, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and the History Channel partnered to feature the service of Korean War veteran and Denver, Iowa, native Bill Rector. Rector, a retired Gunner’s Mate on the USS Los Angeles, captured images from the war on an 8mm video camera, which are now available to help future generations better understand that piece of...
  • 11.02.2022

    POLK COUNTY, IOWA – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced that Iowa has been awarded $60 million in funding from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). This program, administered by the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is designed to help low-income individuals and...
  • 11.02.2022

    POLK COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) applauded the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for finalizing regulations for the new rural emergency hospital (REH) designation, a voluntary Medicare payment for rural hospitals that ensures minimal administrative burden, maximum flexibility and timely implementation while maintaining...
  • 11.02.2022

    WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is seeking clarification of the Justice Department’s (DOJ) decision not to charge FBI agents who repeatedly lied about their failure to adequately respond sexual abuse of young athletes in light of new information recently provided to the Senate. In a letter today to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Grassley...
  • 11.01.2022

    WASHINGTON – Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Taxation and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Oversight, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a current member of the Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight, today announced that they intend to introduce legislation that responds to the...
  • 10.31.2022

    Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 10-31-22Topics include: abortion, President Trump’s Iowa rally, lowering prescription drug prices, the SPEAK OUT Act, the Farm Bill and the Campus Accountability and Safety Act.
  • 10.28.2022

    Q&A: Overdose Deaths in Iowa With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley   Q: Why did you hold a Senate field hearing in Des Moines?   A: Counterfeit prescription pills laced with deadly fentanyl are contributing to historic drug overdose deaths in the United States, including here in Iowa. According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, drug overdose deaths...
  • 10.27.2022

    POLK COUNTY, IOWA – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced businesses in Allamakee, Hamilton, Washington and Winneshiek counties will receive a total of over $5 million in new financing through the ReConnect Loan and Grant Program to expand internet access. The investment comes from the bipartisan infrastructure law that Sen. Chuck Grassley...
  • 10.27.2022

    DES MOINES, IOWA – Parents of Iowans lost to fentanyl poisoning joined state and federal officials to shine a light on the deadly epidemic that has is claiming lives in Iowa and across the country at an alarming rate. The discussion was part of a U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control field hearing in Des Moines convened by caucus...