WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is echoing concerns raised by Democratic colleagues that President Biden’s action to fire 56 U.S. attorneys could impede ongoing investigations. In a letter to President Biden, Grassley urged the administration to consider the impacts of removing each U.S. attorney on their...
WASHINGTON – Amid
the COVID-19 public health pandemic, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin
(D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, authors of
the bipartisan First Step Act, landmark criminal justice reform legislation,
introduced bipartisan legislation...
WASHINGTON – U.S.
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are calling on the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to publicly release its weekly
formula for allocating vaccines to states and other jurisdictions. The push for
greater transparency comes as news reports suggest Iowa is lagging behind other
states in vaccines delivered...
WASHINGTON – U.S.
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, today announced that the Committee will hold a nomination
hearing for Judge Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be U.S.
Attorney General, on Monday, February...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), leaders of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Roy Blunt (R-MO), leaders of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration; Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), leaders of the Judiciary Committee; Mark Warner (D-VA) and Marco Rubio...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and 46 other pro-life senators in sending a unified message to Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) pledging that they will vote to block any bill that would undermine the Hyde Amendment or any other pro-life protections.
“We are united in our resolve to guard against any...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote to White House Counsel Dana Remus regarding reports of the formation of a ‘bipartisan commission’ to develop policies to reform the Supreme Court and federal judiciary.
Grassley, who is returning as Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, pushed for answers on why the commission was reportedly...
WASHINGTON – As
the Department of Homeland Security warns of the potential for continued civil
unrest motivated by a range of issues, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the
senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is inviting his Democratic
colleagues to take seriously all forms of political violence, including from
left-wing extremists. In a...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) reintroduced the Cannabidiol and Marijuana Research Expansion Act, a bill to encourage scientific and medical research on marijuana and its compounds including cannabidiol, or CBD.
“I’ve been a strong supporter of this legislation since it was first...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement after Senate Democrats spent the overnight hours voting down a series of commonsense amendments designed to improve their partisan $1.9 trillion COVID relief spending bill.
“After all the talk of unity, President Biden and congressional Democrats took the partisan route right out of...
Q&A: Vaccine Update
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: When can Iowans expect to get a COVID-19 vaccine?
A: My office is getting a lot of feedback from Iowans who are frustrated about how and when they can sign up to get a COVID-19 vaccine. By the first week of February, Iowa had administered 289,737 doses with many more scheduled in the coming...
Washington – Senate Finance Committee leaders Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) yesterday issued a subpoena to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), compelling production of documents related to the committee’s investigation of organ procurement organizations (OPOs), and potential false claims submitted to government benefit...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) along with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) along with 13 Senate colleagues sent a letter to EPA Acting Administrator Jane Nishida urging the agency to take immediate action to restore integrity to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
Grassley and his colleagues urged the EPA to review three small refinery exemption...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) in reintroducing the Adopt GREET Act, which would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to update its greenhouse gas modeling for ethanol and biodiesel.
“I’ve long been an advocate for clean energy and the enhanced use of biofuels. It’s...
WASHINGTON – President
Biden has
named a close colleague of his son’s defense lawyer to lead the Justice Department’s
criminal division. The inauguration-day
move was one of Biden’s first actions as president, and comes as DOJ
continues to investigate his son, Hunter Biden, for possible tax and money
laundering activities. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and eleven Senate colleagues are today pushing back on a deportation moratorium proposed by President’s Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which will prevent the removal of the vast majority of illegal immigrants with final orders of removal—including dangerous criminals—from the United States.
The...
WASHINGTON – Sen.
Chuck Grassley, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s incoming Ranking Member today sought
details on actions by the Justice Department and FBI before and during a series
of anti-law enforcement and anti-government riots that began last summer and
have continued in recent weeks. The letter follows a similar joint inquiry by Grassley and incoming...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), incoming Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), incoming Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) requesting additional information regarding the security posture and...
