Q&A: COVID-19 Impacts Iowa Agriculture
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What is the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program?
A: The USDA will accept applications through Aug. 28, 2020 from farmers for pandemic-related financial assistance. The direct payments will help keep hard-hit farming operations afloat due to catastrophic disruptions in the...
Statement for the Record by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaMemorializing Iowan Italia KellyThursday, June 4, 2020 On Sunday, a young Iowan from Davenport set out to exercise her constitutional rights by peacefully protesting the disturbing death of George Floyd. But when agitators turned things violent, Italia Marie Kelly decided it was time to...
The Congressional Budget Office Predicted that the Increased Benefits Would Pay 5 of 6 Recipients More Than Working, Discouraging a Return to Work and Resulting in Lower Employment and Less Economic Activity in 2021
Washington
– According to an
analysis released today by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), an extension of increased unemployment...
Statement for the Record by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the Tiananmen Square Massacre AnniversaryThursday, June 4, 2020 Today marks the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, when students led demonstrations for greater accountability, constitutional due process, democracy, freedom of the press and freedom of speech. One...
Finance Committee Chairman Presses IRS on Reasons for Failure to Collect
Washington
– The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA)
recently found that almost 900,000 high-income taxpayers failed to file tax returns from 2014 to 2016 resulting in billions of dollars in unpaid taxes, and the IRS did not attempt to collect in several...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a longtime advocate for government accountability and the role of inspectors general, is refusing to advance certain nominees until the White House provides adequate reasons for the termination of the Intelligence Community and State Department inspectors general. The escalation followed a recent letter from...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) in sending a
letter to the Justice Department requesting information about the financial health of the Crime Victims Fund in light of significant decreases in deposits to the account.
“Since 1984, the CVF has provided...
WASHINGTON – The Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Committees of jurisdiction over the Medicaid program sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today expressing concern over prolonged delays in disbursing funds from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund (PHSSEF) for Medicaid-dependent...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman and senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today slammed the withholding of information from Congress and the public in the Flynn case and pressed former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on these decisions in light of recent exculpatory evidence released by the Justice...
Legislation reintroduced today would require states to report on officer-involved shootings WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) in reintroducing the Walter Scott Notification Act. This critical legislation requires states receiving federal law enforcement...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today addressed the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA)
revised guidance regarding the manufacturing of alcohol-based hand sanitizer products during the COVID-19 pandemic. Grassley and Ernst sent a
letter to FDA last week requesting clarification on its temporary policy and the agency’s...
WASHINGTON – In a letter sent to Secretary Sonny Perdue today, U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, and Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig asked the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to include egg producers in the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP). “COVID-19 has...
Prepared Opening Statement by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeHearing on COVID-19 and Beyond: Oversight of the FDA’s Foreign Drug Manufacturing Inspection ProcessTuesday, June 2, 2020VIDEO Good afternoon, I’d like to welcome everyone to the Finance Committee’s oversight hearing on the Food and...
Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released the following joint statement regarding the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) announcement that it has initiated investigations into digital services taxes (DST) that have been adopted or are being considered by a...
BloombergBy Riley Griffin and Emma CourtPublished June 1, 2020 Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said that he intends to push for a vote this year on a bill that would limit drug-price increases, even as pharmaceutical companies race to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19.…“There’s no better time to address this...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeTuesday, June 2, 2020VIDEO The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting our daily lives in unimaginable ways. The National Institutes of Health is working with a private sector biotech company and have already began early stage human trials for a potential...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Nationwide Protests and George FloydMonday, June 1, 2020VIDEO Our nation is hurting. George Floyd’s death was horrific, and justice must be served. The Justice Department has opened an investigation, and the officer has been charged with murder. A single act of violence at...
WASHINGTON – Transcripts of Lt. General Michael Flynn’s December 2016 conversations with the Russian ambassador
were released today following more than three years of bipartisan requests from Congress and overtures from Flynn’s own legal team. Though the transcripts are at the heart of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s charges that Flynn had lied to...
