News Releases

Q&A: Senate Filibuster With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley   Q: What is a filibuster?   A: Many Americans may be surprised to learn the Senate rules do not define what constitutes a filibuster. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a filibuster as “the use of extreme dilatory tactics in an attempt to delay or prevent action especially in a legislative...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), Ranking Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, are urging their Democrat counterparts to schedule hearings about the ongoing crisis on the southern border.   The senators today wrote to Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick...

BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley today made the following statement regarding Rita Hart’s decision to withdraw her request that the U.S. House of Representatives depart from Iowa law to reverse the certified election results in Iowa’s Second Congressional District:   “Midwest common sense has again prevailed over party...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) Ranking Member of the HSGAC Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, are seeking all U.S. intelligence records relating to Biden family business associates linked to Chinese intelligence services.   The senators’ investigative report...

Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 03-31-21Topics include: the Second Amendment, the crisis at the southern border, rural broadband, coronavirus economic relief, police reform and the Rural Health Care Protection Act.

BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last week visited several facilities and areas on the Texas-Mexico border affected by the ongoing crisis sparked and exacerbated by Biden administration policy. Grassley conducted the visit as part of a 18-member delegation from the Senate.   The delegation of senators received information and...

Q&A: USDA Pandemic Relief Re-Opens With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley   Q: When will the USDA open the next round of pandemic relief assistance for producers?   A: Just as planting season gets into full swing, Farm Service Agencies across the country will open the application process for the third round of pandemic relief assistance starting April 5, 2021...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today applauded final passage of the COVID-19 Bankruptcy Relief Extension Act, bipartisan legislation they introduced to temporarily extend COVID-19 bankruptcy relief...

WASHINGTON -- Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are seeking information from federal law enforcement agencies regarding their reported role in an incident involving a firearm belonging to Hunter Biden long after Biden’s U.S. Secret Service protection had ended.  Biden’s gun was discarded in a trashcan behind a grocery store near a...

WASHINGTON – Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to trade associations, firms, and businesses who spoke out about Republicans objecting to the electoral college. The letter asks these businesses to hold the Democrats attempting to overturn the election results in...

WASHINGTON – As the result of Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) leadership, the bipartisan Rural Health Clinic Protection Act was added to a health care extenders package that passed the U.S. Senate today. Rural health clinics in Iowa communities – including in Denver, Grinnell, Hawarden, North English, Ottumwa, Perry and Waverly – will be protected from a...

WASHINGTON – Amid rising oil prices fueled by foreign production cuts, a bipartisan group of Senate Judiciary Committee members today reintroduced legislation that will let the federal government take action against price fixing by OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act, or NOPEC, is led...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement after the Government Accountability Office released a study of U.S. efforts to disrupt gun smuggling.     “Gun violence and gun crimes are on everyone’s mind because of recent tragedies. This report by GAO shows that the set of crimes we ought to address includes...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) along with their colleagues, Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) today introduced legislation to foster efficient markets while increasing competition and...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) along with his colleagues, Sens. Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) introduced legislation to protect some rural health clinics in Iowa from a reduction in reimbursement funds. The bipartisan Rural Health Clinic Protection Act will fix a...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) and others to introduce legislation to combat the online sale of stolen, counterfeit, and dangerous consumer products by ensuring transparency of high-volume third-party sellers in online retail marketplaces. The Integrity, Notification,...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined his colleagues to introduce the Jaime Zapata and Victor Avila Federal Law Enforcement Protection Act, a bill to ensure individuals who have killed or attempted to kill U.S. federal officers and employees serving abroad can be brought to justice and prosecuted in the United States.   “Federal...

WASHINGTON – As elements of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing recently returned to the news cycle, Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today pressed the FBI and Justice Department for an update on any investigations into the false allegations made to Congress about Kavanaugh in violation of federal...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley today joined a bicameral group of colleagues led by Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa-01) in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressing outrage with her brazen efforts to overturn the state-certified election results in Iowa's Second Congressional District and unseat Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Senator Bob Casey (D-Penn.), Chairman of the Special Committee on Aging, and Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) to re-introduce the bipartisan, bicameral Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA). Enacting POWADA would restore critical protections in the...