WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) today introduced a bipartisan bill to support teenagers and young adults in the foster care system negatively impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Continued State Flexibility to Assist Older Foster Youth Act will help these young adults pay for college or job training programs, in...
WASHINGTON – In a letter to senators, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that it did not push for answers after learning from media reports that McKinsey & Company did not reveal potential conflicts of interest to the FDA while they were contracted to work for the agency, which included working simultaneously for the FDA and opioid manufacturers...
Prepared Opening Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee
“Oversight of the Department of Justice”
October 27, 2021
Attorney General Garland, this Committee has a constitutional obligation to ensure the Department complies with the laws that we write and executes them according to our intent. In the performance...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and several colleagues in calling out the Department of Defense’s (DoD) proposed timeline – of up to nine years – to implement the findings of the Independent Review Commission (IRC) on Sexual Assault to combat sexual assault and harassment in the...
WASHINGTON – As oil prices continue to surge, Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pressing the Biden administration to take a closer look at his bipartisan legislation to hold foreign oil producing nations accountable for anticompetitive behavior. Grassley introduced the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act, or NOPEC,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and several Senate colleagues in requesting a meeting with President Biden and representatives of his cabinet to discuss the Renewable Fuel Standard and promote biofuels as a key solution for America’s energy and climate agenda. In July, Thune and Grassley made a similar effort...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), president pro tempore emeritus of the U.S. Senate, today received the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun for his significant work in strengthening relations and promoting friendship between Japan and the United States. The award, one of Japan’s highest honors, was presented to Grassley today at an event at...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) regional directors based in Davenport, Sioux City and Cedar Rapids will hold traveling office hours in 13 counties around Iowa the first two weeks of November. Iowans seeking assistance regarding a personal issue with a federal agency or wishing to share views on matters of federal policy may stop by during the...
Grassley Joins Cornyn, Coons, Colleagues on Bill to Enhance Judicial Disclosure and Transparency Requirements
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined senators John Cornyn (R-Texas), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and others to introduce the Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act to require online publication of...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 10-25-21Topics include: Judiciary Committee hearing with DOJ, border crisis, IRS surveillance, spending bill, Comptroller nominee, Afghanistan, Consumer Protection Bureau and over-the-counter hearing aids.
SIOUX CITY, IOWA – The office of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will host a Library of Congress “Veterans History Project” event in honor of Veterans Day for the fourth year in a row. The event will take place on November 5, 2021, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. CT at the 185 Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City. Veterans being interviewed at this event served during World...
WASHINGTON – Ahead of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s scheduled testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week, Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is renewing questions about inappropriate political influence in the Biden administration’s recent changes to the nation’s strategy to combat domestic terrorism and violent crime.
Grassley...
Q&A: OTC Hearing Aids
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Will more affordable hearing aids approved by the FDA be available soon?
A: I’ve got good news for Iowans who’ve been waiting too long for less expensive, over-the-counter hearing aids to reach the marketplace. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), nearly 38 million American...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and several colleagues to introduce the Prohibiting IRS Financial Surveillance Act. This legislation will prevent the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from implementing Democrats’ plan to give the agency access to transaction information of virtually every American.
“The...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) yesterday questioned Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), on the negative affects government drug price dictation would have on cures and innovation.
Grassley has long fought to lower prescription drug prices. In 2019, as then-chairman of the Senate Finance...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today called on President Biden to support renewable energy as green manufacturing jobs are leaving Iowa under current economic conditions. In his letter to Biden, Grassley asks the President to do everything in his power to ensure workers are not hurt by federal economic and environmental policies moving...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and over 30 colleagues in introducing legislation requiring the Department of Defense (DoD) to take immediate action to enhance suicide prevention efforts. The bipartisan Save Our Servicemembers (S.O.S.) Act would direct DoD to evaluate the effectiveness of...
WASHINGTON –– The U.S. Senate tonight unanimously passed a Grassley-backed, bipartisan bill to improve safety and accountability in federal prisons. From the infamous Jeffrey Epstein case to countless documented acts of violence and civil rights abuses in American prisons, prison reformers, prison staff, and the Department of Justice Inspector General have...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) pressing the agency to address the rise in ransomware attacks, particularly damaging to the agricultural industry. This comes after two recent cyberattacks on Iowa grain cooperatives.
“Like many of the Iowans we represent, we...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today praised the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement of the newly proposed over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids regulations which implements the Grassley-Warren 2017 law. This comes after the senators pressed the FDA Commissioner last week to issue the regulations without...
