Grassley: $300,063 to Iowa from the U.S. Department of Commerce
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley announced today that the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, has awarded two grants totaling $300,063 to Iowa for disaster...
Grassley: More Than $11.6 Million to Iowa from FEMA
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley announced today that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be releasing federal grant dollars totaling $11,673,927 to Iowa in 2009....
Grassley asks AARP about misleading marketing of product called health insurance
WASHINGTON -- Senator Chuck Grassley is asking the AARP to account for the way its marketing materials for a product it calls health insurance fails to limit policy holders' exposure to the potentially high cost of a serious illness. Grassley said the AARP...
Grassley says final letter from Postal Service is a “big relief”
WASHINGTON --- Senator Chuck Grassley today said that a final, formal letter from the U.S. Postal Service means the threat to move a mail processing center out of Sioux City is gone for the foreseeable...
Grassley seeks transparency with Fed loan dollars
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley has asked American International Group, Inc., AIG, to disclose its expenditures so far of the $123 billion lent by the Federal Reserve Bank in order to prevent the company from filing for bankruptcy.
Grassley based his inquiry on an October 30 New York...
Grassley Q & A: Veterans Day
Q: What is Veterans Day?
A: Veterans Day is a day to honor the brave men and women who have worn the uniforms of America’s armed services. Veterans Day is held on the 11th of November of each year because in 1918, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, an armistice was reached between the Allied...
Grassley asks the Grocery Manufacturers Association for lower food prices given lower input costs
Senator Chuck Grassley sent a letter to the Grocery Manufacturers Association asking for lower food prices given lower input costs.
Click Here to see the letter.
Grassley works to protect distressed homeowners
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley has asked the Treasury Department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for an accounting of how it is determining eligibility among the mortgages is selects to guarantee as part of the federal...
Grassley: More Than $1.9 Million to Iowa from the U.S. Department of Commerce
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley announced today that the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, has awarded five grants totaling $1,952,773 to Iowa for disaster...
Senators protest presidential signing statement on Inspector General Reform Act
WASHINGTON --- A bipartisan group of senators says the presidential signing statement accompanying the Inspector General Reform Act passed by Congress this fall needlessly challenges two important elements of the new law. The senators have called on the President to...
Grassley: More Than $1.3 Million to Iowa from the U.S. Department of Transportation
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has awarded a $1,337,184 grant to Iowa through the...
Grassley: $428,138 for Workforce Development from U.S. Department of Labor
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today announced that the Department of Labor has awarded $428,138 to Iowa Workforce Development through Workforce Investment Act National Emergency grant funds.
“These funds will help the workers who lost jobs at Northern...
Grassley to GMA: Apologize or Lower Prices - DTN Ag Policy Blog
Read about Senator Grassley's letter to the Grocery Manufacturers Association asking them to lower food prices or apologize for their intellectually dishonest media campaign attacking ethanol by clicking here.
Grassley: More Than $1.6 Million to Iowa Department of Public Health
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today announced that the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded a $1,628,026 grant to Iowa Department of Public...
Grassley Q&A: FDA Inspection of Imported Medicine
Q: How does the FDA oversee foreign manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and devices?
A: American companies are increasingly turning to foreign producers for prescription drugs and medical devices. The safety of imported drugs and devices is a growing concern. Earlier this year, a...
Grassley: More Than $23 Million for Highway and Road Repair and Reconstruction
WASHINGTON—Senator Chuck Grassley today announced the Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration is releasing $23,048,071 in emergency relief to Iowa for projects to repair or reconstruct...
Grassley organizes senators to call on USDA to let small farms combine for farm program participation
WASHINGTON – Ten farm state lawmakers today joined Senator Chuck Grassley in urging the Department of Agriculture to allow a producer who farms parcels that are 10-acres or less...
Grassley: More Than $232 Million in Loans and Grants to Iowa from USDA
WASHINGTON — Senator Chuck Grassley said today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Rural Development is awarding loans and grants totaling $232,700,285 million to Iowa through the Electric Loan...
ICYMI: Senate Investigations Target SEC Officials - Washington Post
Click here to read about Senator Grassley's investigation into Securities and Exchange Commission senior officials in the Washington Post.
