WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, introduced two bipartisan bills to reduce drug prices by promoting competition and taking on drug company anti-competitive settlements and sham Food and Drug Administration (FDA) petitions. The Preserve Access to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) reintroduced legislation to strengthen whistleblower protections at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The bipartisan SEC Whistleblower Reform Act of 2025 would ensure timely processing of whistleblower...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last week kicked off his 45th consecutive year of meeting face-to-face with Iowans in every county.
Grassley began his annual 99 county meetings last Wednesday in Grundy County with a tour of a local business, followed by a question-and-answer session with employees. Grassley then held 11 additional county meetings,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, joined The Bottom Line on Fox Business to discuss nationwide injunctions, reconciliation and his work to secure the promotion of IRS whistleblowers.
Audio and excerpts of Grassley’s remarks follow.
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WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, today attended a Finance hearing and submitted questions for the record to President Trump’s nominee to be Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Frank Bisignano.
In his questions, Grassley pressed Bisignano on the need to maintain...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today challenged Democrats’ continued refusal to acknowledge the judicial branch’s constitutional limits.
In response to Ranking Member Dick Durbin’s (D-Ill.) request for unanimous consent on a resolution demanding the executive branch comply with all federal court rulings, Grassley...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), along with Committee members Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), to introduce the Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act. The bipartisan legislation would establish a task force between the United...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will host his sixth Federal Judiciary Youth Summit on Monday, April 14, 2025, at the U.S. Courthouse in Cedar Rapids. The summit allows students and educators to learn more about the federal judiciary system and their constitutional freedoms.
Grassley has served on the Senate Judiciary...
Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: USAID and Foreign Food Assistance, Iowans’ Concerns at Town Meeting, Department of Education, Ukrainian Legal Status, Farm Bill Stop Gaps and Whistleblowers.
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – As Sunshine Week draws to a close, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote Attorney General Pam Bondi and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel requesting the Department of Justice and FBI take corrective action to restore the security clearances of DOJ and FBI whistleblowers who’ve suffered...
Q: What is Sunshine Week?
A: The nation’s fourth president is best known as the Father of the Constitution and is considered the defender of open government. During the anniversary week of James Madison’s birth, we honor his legacy by celebrating Sunshine Week to commemorate this fundamental principle of good government. One of the most influential founders...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) led a bipartisan letter calling on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to continue supporting efforts to investigate Russia’s abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children.
“We write to convey serious concerns over reports that the State Department has terminated a...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold a town meeting on Friday, March 21, in Franklin County as part of his annual 99 county meetings.
“You can’t have representative government without dialogue between elected officials and the people we represent,” Grassley said. “I appreciate the opportunity to hold town meetings, answer...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this week successfully secured the promotions of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, prompting widespread praise.
Here’s what they are saying (WTAS):
“Senator Grassley really should be made a saint. His support for whistleblowers, and the way that that’s...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are requesting Attorney General Pam Bondi and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel take immediate action to remove all redactions from interview transcripts relating to the Department of...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is shining a light on misconduct by Department of Justice (DOJ) officials and their efforts to evade public scrutiny.
In a letter to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Grassley requested unredacted copies of Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reports that outline...
Senator Grassley's Capitol Hill Report is linked HERE.
Topics include: Farm Bill, Social Security, Department of Education, Executive Orders, Government Transparency, and Tariffs.
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) in introducing the Preventing Child Trafficking Act. The bipartisan legislation aims to strengthen federal child trafficking prevention initiatives by enhancing coordination between the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Health and Human Services (HHS). The...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption (CCA), joined CCA co-chairs Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), along with Reps. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) and Danny Davis (D-Ill.) in a letter urging President Trump to advocate for families impacted by China’s termination of its intercountry...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – At the urging of U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the U.S. Department of Treasury has agreed to promote Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler to leadership positions at Treasury Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Under the Biden administration, Shapley and Ziegler were issued an illegal gag order...
