Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 03-22-21Topics include: the Violence Against Women Act, immigration, cameras in the courtroom and D.C. statehood.
WASHINGTON – The
nation’s leading law enforcement groups are calling on Congress to extend a
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) authority that allows the rapid
scheduling of deadly synthetic substances responsible for hundreds of thousands
of overdose deaths throughout the opioid epidemic. The DEA order, which expires
in May, has been instrumental in...
Q&A: Tax Season & Tax Scams
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: When is Tax Day 2021?
A: The IRS announced a one month delay for individuals to file their federal 2020 tax returns, shifting Tax Day from April 15 to May 17 this year. The federal tax-collecting agency postponed Tax Day for the second year in a row as Americans continue coping with...
WASHINGTON – Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today slammed the Biden administration’s self-induced border crisis and are pressing officials for information about how the administration is responding to the crisis amid the ongoing pandemic.
“Regardless of what the Biden Administration wants to call this current set of...
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers in both chambers of Congress reintroduced legislation requiring disclosure of third-party litigation financing agreements in civil lawsuits. The bills, which are designed to shine a light on the financial interests or potential conflicts involving third-party lawsuit funders is led by Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and five of their Senate colleagues reintroduced bipartisan legislation to expand the public’s window into federal court proceedings by allowing television cameras in federal courtrooms. The Sunshine in the Courtroom Act allows judges to permit media coverage of trial and...
WASHINGTON – As a longtime supporter of Sunshine Week, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in introducing legislation that would bring further transparency to how tax dollars are being spent in schools. The senators asked for regular public updates on the reopening status of the nation’s schools and accountability...
WASHINGTON – Senators
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Representatives
Scott Peters (D-Calif.) and John Curtis (R-Utah) today introduced the Methamphetamine
Response Act, a bill declaring methamphetamine an emerging drug threat
which would require the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to
develop, implement and make...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Judiciary Committee today introduced legislation to require open proceedings of the Supreme Court to be televised. The bipartisan Cameras in Courtroom Act 2021would require the Supreme Court to permit television...
WASHINGTON – Sens.
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a senior member and former chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, today introduced the EB-5
Reform and Integrity Act of 2021 to address fraud and national security vulnerabilities
in the EB-5 investor visa Regional Center Program, which has...
WASHINGTON – Today,
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
joined Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the House Committee on
Oversight and Reform, Senator Patrick Leahy, the Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Appropriations and Senator John Cornyn to issue the following
statement in recognition of Sunshine...
WASHINGTON
– Senator
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today,
along with Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-California),
introduced the Open and Responsive Government Act, to reverse
recent developments that undermine the public’s right to access information and
hold government accountable....
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 03-15-21Topics include: Coronavirus economic relief, Sunshine Week and the 2022 election cycle.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led a group of lawmakers in calling on the Justice Department to continue its probe into whether state officials failed to comply with federal guidelines or requirements for participation in federal programs in their response to coronavirus infections among...
Q&A: Sunshine Week
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why is Sunshine Week important to commemorate?
A: James Madison is known as the father of open government. During the week of his birthday, March 16, we honor his legacy with “Sunshine Week” to celebrate the public’s right to know. Thirty-five years after drafting the...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and a bipartisan group of senators to introduce the NICS Denial Notification Act, which would help states enforce existing laws against individuals who attempt to purchase firearms but have no legal right to do so. This bill would require federal authorities to alert state and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley joined Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and dozens of their Senate colleagues in reintroducing legislation to permanently repeal the federal estate tax, more commonly known as the death tax. The Death Tax Repeal Act of 2021, would...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) introduced the bipartisan Fair Returns for Public Lands Act, legislation to update the nation’s outdated public lands royalty system and ensure that taxpayers and rural communities get fair returns on leases of public lands for oil and gas production.
“Big Oil continues...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) are seeking an expanded investigation of the circumstances leading to the placement of National Security Agency General Counsel Michael Ellis on administrative leave, following public reports that raise concerns of political pressure from the new...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and eight of their Senate colleagues today sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack urging the department to assist biofuel producers hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We have been advocating for targeted relief for the biofuels industry since...
