WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), the only two farmers currently serving in the United States Senate, today wrote to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue expressing their vehement disagreement with the USDA’s withdrawal of two rules related to the Packers and Stockyards Act, commonly referred to as the...
WASHINGTON –Bipartisan legislation to step up enforcement against perpetrators of crimes targeting senior citizens became law Wednesday after receiving the president’s signature. The
Elder Abuse Prevention and Protection Act of 2017, introduced by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), passed by a...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) introduced bipartisan legislation to review foreign investments in the United States to ensure they are in the long-term economic interests of the U.S.
Recent patterns of foreign investment in the U.S. have raised concerns that overseas competitors, including state-owned enterprises,...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa continues his oversight of the Hardest Hit Fund (HHF), a $9.6 billion program that began in 2010 to help homeowners who suffered during the housing crisis. Wasteful spending of these funds by state agencies persisted unchecked for many years of the Obama Administration, and the need for accountability remains. In a...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, along with several other senators from biofuels producing states, met with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt today for an hour in Grassley’s office in Washington. Grassley convened the meeting, which came after he earlier discussed the EPA’s about-face on biofuels with President Trump. Grassley made...
View remarks here.Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck GrassleyThe Goals of Tax Reform Delivered Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017 The budget we are debating this week paves the way for fundamental tax reform. For more than a decade, both sides of the aisle have talked about the need for tax reform that provides tax simplification, tax fairness, and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, are asking the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to respond to allegations of severe retaliation of a Phoenix VA Health Care System whistleblower who reported serious patient wait list...
Senators: EPA Proposal to Cut Renewable Fuel Standard Would Cost Jobs in Rural America
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) led a bipartisan group of 29 other senators urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increase its proposed 2019 Renewable Volume...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has pressed federal and state agencies on their extremely poor performance of managing the Hardest Hit Fund (HHF), a $9.6 billion program that began in 2010 to help homeowners who suffered during the housing crisis. The problems persisted for many years of the Obama Administration, and the need for accountability...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst today forwarded to the President recommendations of four highly qualified Iowa lawyers to fill a federal district court vacancy in the Northern District of Iowa in Cedar Rapids.The Iowans recommended are Lisa A. Stephenson, a corporate legal officer in Cedar Rapids; Ian K. Thornhill, a state...
WASHINGTON – In light of revelations that Christopher Steele pushed dossier allegations to British intelligence last year, in addition to working with Fusion GPS, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley pressed the FBI to explain what steps it took to determine whether the underlying source of any foreign intelligence used in the FBI’s Russia...
WASHINGTON -- In a report earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recommended that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) work to add device identifiers (DIs) to Medicare claims in order to better track faulty devices. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chuck Grassley...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and a bipartisan group of 35 other senators, sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt calling for a strong Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) as the agency works toward finalizing its rule on biofuels volume...
Statement of U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaNomination Hearing for the Honorable William M. Northey, Iowa Secretary of AgricultureUnder Secretary of Agriculture for Farm Production and ConservationU.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and ForestryThursday, October 5, 2017VIDEO Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is my honor to introduce Bill...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) penned an op-ed as a bipartisan coalition of senators reintroduced the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act. The bill, which received broad bipartisan support last Congress, gives judges greater sentencing flexibility for nonviolent...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators today reintroduced the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2017 to recalibrate prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, target violent and career criminals and save taxpayer dollars. The legislation permits more judicial discretion at sentencing for offenders with minimal criminal histories and...
Sen. Chuck Grassley is a senior member of the Finance Committee, which today voted to re-authorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for five years. The committee approved the Keep Kids’ Insurance Dependable and Secure (KIDS) Act of 2017 on a bipartisan voice vote. Grassley made the following comment on the...
WASHINGTON – Bipartisan
legislation stepping up enforcement against perpetrators of crimes targeting senior citizens is headed to the President’s desk to be signed into law. The
Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017, originally introduced and championed by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Richard...
