Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 03-8-21Topics include: Coronavirus economic relief, CVOID-19 vaccines, election laws and the 2022 election.
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Dems reject targeted COVID relief; adopt unrelated bailouts & extraneous liberal priorities
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today made the following statement after the Senate jammed through a partisan $1.9 trillion spending bill that, despite its name, was more focused on longstanding liberal policy priorities than COVID...
WASHINGTON – Sen.
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) proposed an amendment to the $1.9 trillion spending
plan that would make derecho-ravaged farms eligible for federal assistance already
available for victims of costal hurricanes, wildfires and other natural
disasters. The plan, which was originally
offered in the House of Representatives by Rep. Randy Feenstra...
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats blocked a motion by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to push for structural fixes to troubled multiemployer pension plans in their partisan $1.9 trillion COVID spending package. Instead, Democrats opted for an $86 billion bailout with no strings attached, all but guaranteeing that taxpayers will be on the hook for future...
WASHINGTON – Sen.
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined 10 of his Republican colleagues in introducing a
$650 billion COVID-19 relief plan as a substitute amendment to the $1.9
trillion budget reconciliation bill. The amendment, which was built on the
COVID-19 relief plan that was unveiled
last month by a group of Republican Senators, was not adopted by a vote of...
WASHINGTON – U.S.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee
today joined a bipartisan, bicameral group of colleagues to introduce critical
legislation to strengthen the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) which Grassley
cosponsored years ago. This legislation, led by U.S. Sen. Majority Whip Dick
Durbin (D-IL), chairman of the...
WASHINGTON –
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee, reintroduced the Chris Allen Multiemployer Pension Recapitalization and Reform Act.
The legislation is based on a 2019
proposal to
avert the collapse of critically underfunded multiemployer pension plans and
reform rules for these...
Q&A: Celebrate Iowa
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Could an Iowan be featured on a new quarter?
A: Many Iowans are familiar with the popular series of quarters that feature each of the 50 states in the America the Beautiful Quarter Program. Issued in 2004, the Iowa quarter was the 29th coin to join the series because it was the 29th state to...
WASHINGTON – The Senate unanimously passed the Concerns Over Nations Funding University Campus Institutes in the United States (CONFUCIUS) Act, legislation supported by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and introduced by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.). This legislation works to address concerns about Confucius Institutes suppressing free speech on American...
WASHINGTON – U.S.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this week joined, U.S. Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)
and John Cornyn (R-Texas) to reintroduce the PROTECT Asbestos Victims Act, commonsense legislation that provides
much-needed oversight of asbestos bankruptcy trusts to ensure victims
receive fair and just compensation. “Fraudsters
and poor...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined all six members of the Iowa congressional delegation in a letter requesting additional staffing for the Iowa Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) office.
In a letter to the head of the National Taxpayer Advocate office, the lawmakers highlight concerns that the Iowa TAS office does not have enough...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) today reintroduced bipartisan legislation beefing up a 2008 inspector general (IG) protection law that has been routinely flouted by successive administrations from both political parties. The Securing Inspector General Independence Act is cosponsored by Senators Rob Portman (R-Ohio),...
WASHINGTON – U.S.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
today joined the committee’s chair, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin
(D-Ill.), in sending letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) urging
the agency to retain and expeditiously implement the H-1B selection rule
published on January 8, 2021,...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) are pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about a recently uncovered data breach and fraud case involving foreign nationals employed at U.S. embassies in Jordan and Russia stealing refugee case information and selling it for profit.
The employees were hired as...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 03-01-21Topics include: Coronavirus economic relief, the Equality Act, prescription drug pricing, mental health, 2022 election and Confucius Institutes.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho),
Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, requested information from
the Internal Revenue Service regarding implementation of the House Democrats’
proposed child tax credit (CTC) advance payments program. In briefings...
WASHINGTON – Sen.Chuck Grassley condemned the action by the Democrat-controlled House ofRepresentatives to strip out aid to Iowa’s farmers devastated by last year’sderecho in their $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. The derecho aid wasproposed by Republican Rep. Randy Feenstra (Iowa-04) and supported byDemocratic Rep. Cindy Axne (Iowa-03). It was...
Q&A: Pull the Pork from COVID Relief
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s wrong with the sixth pandemic package under consideration in Congress?
A: First, let’s take account of what’s already in the pipeline. Since last March, Congress has approved $4 trillion to fight the pandemic and help hard-hit U.S. households put food on the table and...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) reintroduced the Safe and Affordable Drugs from Canada Act, which would allow individuals to safely import prescription drugs from Canada, creating savings for consumers and bringing greater competition into the pharmaceutical market.
“Addressing the rising costs of prescription drugs...
WASHINGTON – –
Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Senate Democratic 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
introduced the COVID-19 Bankruptcy Relief Extension Act, bipartisan
legislation to temporarily extend COVID-19 bankruptcy...
