Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: USDA's response to bird flu, budget resolution amendments, reconciliation and the Safe and Affordable Drugs from Canada Act.
Q: Why did President Trump create the Department of Government Efficiency?
A: The American people delivered a resounding message in November. They’re fed up with lawlessness at our southern border and sick and tired of being the bottomless piggybank for partisan spending sprees. President Trump won the popular vote for a historic second term and Republicans...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Senate Republicans in voting to pass a budget resolution that builds on President Trump’s electoral mandate to restore fiscal sanity, authorize robust resources to secure the southern border and greenlight domestic energy production.
“After four years of being crushed by the Biden-Harris administration’s and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released a statement following the Senate’s confirmation of Kash Patel to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
“Change is coming to the seventh floor of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, and that is a good thing. Over the past several years, political infection has...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, joined Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) in reintroducing the Safe and Affordable Drugs from Canada Act. The bipartisan bill would allow Americans to safely import prescription drugs from Canada – lowering costs, increasing access and strengthening...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) welcomed growing support for the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of (HALT) Fentanyl Act ahead of the bill’s markup in the Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow morning. Grassley cosponsors the legislation, alongside Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), to permanently...
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WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and a lifelong family farmer, joined fellow Agriculture Committee members Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and John Fetterman (D-Penn.) in a letter urging Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins to quickly address the ongoing spread of highly...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: year-round and nationwide E15, federal workforce cuts, executive orders, the Department of Government Efficiency, airplane safety and tariffs.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released the following statement regarding Major General Evan L. “Curly” Hultman, who passed away Sunday at age 99.
“The Cedar Valley has lost a hometown hero, Iowa has lost a respected public servant and America has lost a lifelong patriot. Barbara and I have lost a dear friend who was a tireless grassroots leader...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, joined Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and 44 senators in reintroducing legislation to permanently repeal the federal estate tax, commonly known as the death tax. The Death Tax Repeal Act would end this purely punitive tax that can hit...
Q: What are pharmacy benefit managers?
A: Iowans may not know exactly what pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are, but they do know they’re fed up with sticker shock at the pharmacy counter. Six decades ago, PBMs started out processing drug claims. Then, they evolved into an intermediary between pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies and third-party payers,...
Seven years after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, lawmakers continue bipartisan push for changes to prevent future violence
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is leading bipartisan lawmakers in both chambers of Congress to reintroduce the EAGLES Act to prevent acts of mass violence. The bill, named...
In letter to president, Grassley seeks Rose Garden ceremony honoring whistleblowers
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is calling on President Donald Trump to empower and celebrate whistleblowers who pay a patriotic service to the country by helping eliminate government waste, fraud and abuse. In a letter to President...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), both members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, reintroduced the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025. The legislation is currently the only permanent, nationwide solution to unleash the power of E15—fulfilling President Trump’s mandate for energy independence. The...
WASHINGTON – Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today during an executive business meeting highlighted whistleblowers’ first-person accounts of the retaliation and abuse they have suffered at the hands of current and former top FBI officials. Grassley’s comments came shortly before voting to advance Kash Patel’s nomination to be FBI...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) reintroduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to fight the spread of illicit xylazine. The Combatting Illicit Xylazine Act would classify this highly toxic sedative as Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act, while protecting its...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and former Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, are reintroducing two bipartisan bills to combat the high cost of prescription drugs and provide greater transparency of pharmacy benefit...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), Chairmen of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, respectively, today introduced legislation to enable the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)’s continued implementation of Grassley’s life-saving reforms to the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is announcing Clayton Brown of Bondurant, Iowa will join his state staff as a veterans fellow and the first-ever participant of the U.S. Senate’s Stars of Valor Veterans Fellowship program. Brown, a U.S. Army veteran, will work directly with Iowa veterans and serve as a liaison with Veterans Service Organizations and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and author of legislation that significantly strengthened the False Claims Act (FCA), is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to immediately halt pending FCA qui tam case dismissals issued under the Biden-Harris administration and conduct a full review to ensure decisions were...
