News Releases

  • 06.05.2009

    $822,532 to Eastern Iowa Community College    WASHINGTON - Senator Chuck Grassley today announced that Eastern Iowa Community College in Davenport has received a continuing grant with the intended total amount of $822,532 from the National Science Foundation.    Eastern Iowa Community College will use the money to help pay for a project...
  • 06.04.2009

    Nearly $231 Million in Loan Guarantees to Benefit Iowa from USDA               WASHINGTON — Senator Chuck Grassley said today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Rural Development is awarding four loan guarantees totaling $230,951,000 that will benefit Iowa through the Electric...
  • 06.03.2009

    Grassley asks how FINRA handled allegations of insider trading    WASHINGTON --- Senator Chuck Grassley is asking the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority – the securities industry's own regulator – to explain how it handled allegations made in April 2008 about insider trading and other violations of the rules and regulations that govern...
  • 06.03.2009

    $224,100 to the University of Iowa                WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $224,100 competitive grant to the University of Iowa.   The University of Iowa will use the funds to help pay for a...
  • 06.03.2009

    Grassley works to improve Medicare quality with improved QIO system    WASHINGTON --- Senator Grassley is asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to explain how it justifies using a government auditing firm that the Government Accountability Office has found to be "non-compliant" for its audits of the Quality Improvement...
  • 06.03.2009

    Levin, Grassley, Specter Release GAO Report onSEC Actions to Curb Stock Failures to Deliver and Manipulative Naked Short Selling      WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Carl Levin, D-Mich., Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Ranking Member of the Finance Committee; and Senator Arlen Specter,...
  • 06.02.2009

    Transcription of Senator Grassley's Agriculture News Conference Call    GRASSLEY: Last week, I learned that an EPA employee who heads the department writing the indirect land use guidelines has never set foot on an American farm.   I understand she has met with people in the Agriculture Committee, but I don't think anybody can fully...
  • 06.02.2009

    $491,422 to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa                WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded competitive grants totaling $491,422 to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa.   The...
  • 06.02.2009

    EPA's Impact on Agriculture Grassley Speaks on Senate Floor    Prepared FloorStatement of Senator Chuck Grassley Nomination of Regina McCarthy Assistant Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday, June 2, 2009     Mr. President,   I’d like to speak for a few minutes regarding the nomination of Regina...
  • 06.02.2009

    $145,457 to Iowa Airports                WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration has awarded two grants totaling $145,457 to Iowa...
  • 06.02.2009

    Grassley Issues Formal Invitation to EPA Invites EPA Personnel to Iowa to See Working Family Farm                WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley has made a formal request to have the EPA administrator and several staff visit a family farm in Iowa.  Grassley made a verbal request...
  • 06.01.2009

    $156,873 to the Iowa Department of Elder Affairs                WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today said that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has awarded two competitive grants totaling $156,873 to the Iowa Department of Elder...
  • 06.01.2009

    $4.65 Million to Iowa for Disaster Recovery                WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley announced today that St. Luke’s Health Care Foundation and Coe College in Cedar Rapids received a grant totaling $4.65 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development...
  • 06.01.2009

    Grassley: CBO Has Final Word on Health Industry’s $2 Trillion Cost Savings Proposals    M E M O R A N D U M   To:       Reporters and editors Re:       Health industry cost savings   Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, today made the following...
  • 06.01.2009

    $583,461 to Central College WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today announced that the U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $583,461 competitive grant to Central College in Pella through the Upward Bound Program.   “These funds will help underprivileged and first-generation students get a college education,” Grassley said.    The...
  • 05.29.2009

    Entitlement Forecast: Unsustainable    The economic recession has put millions of Americans out of work.  Joblessness puts a heavy burden on households to put food on the table, not to mention keeping ahead of debt.  Widespread unemployment also means lower tax revenues for government programs financed by tax dollars. Consider the...
  • 05.28.2009

    Senator Grassley speaks with Jim Turbes from KWBG Boone and Gregory Norfleet from the West Branch Times    SEN. CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, R-IOWA, HOLDS A NEWS TELECONFERENCE               MAY 28, 2009   GRASSLEY STAFF:  The following is an unrehearsed interview with Iowa Senator...
  • 05.27.2009

    Grassley Encourages Antitrust Division to Focus on Agriculture Grassley Encourages Antitrust Division to Focus on Agriculture   WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley has sent a letter to the new Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division at the Justice Department, Christine Varney, after she reportedly made promising comments about putting...
  • 05.26.2009

    Grassley Agriculture News Conference Call    SEN. CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, R-IOWA   TELECONFERENCE   MAY 26, 2009   GRASSLEY: A couple weeks ago, the new attorney general for anti- trust made some promising comments about her division within the Justice Department putting more focus on competition in agriculture. Well, that was good...
  • 05.26.2009

    Sotomayor React    M E M O R A N D U M   TO:      Reporters and Editors RE:      React to Sotomayor nomination DA:     Tuesday, May 26, 2009               U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley issued the comment below about the...