Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Highlighting Giving Tuesday
Thursday, December 3, 2020
VIDEO
The Tuesday after Thanksgiving has become known as Giving Tuesday.
This week, non-profits of all sizes appealed to Americans to give back this holiday season.
Like many sectors, the non-profit industry is hurting from...
Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today issued two investigative reports regarding the performance and efficacy of providers REM Iowa and MENTOR Oregon, which receive significant federal funding through Medicaid to provide care for individuals with intellectual or developmental...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, today released over 400 pages of documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Department of State regarding...
Key documents from each agency can be viewed below:
DOJ documents can be found here
Lync and text messages between and among DOJ and FBI employees from 6/27/16 to 1/2/18
Emails about FBI’s receipt of Fusion GPS thumb drive
Miles Taylor April 2017 FBI FD-302
FBI documents can be found here
Lync and text messages from eight DOJ/FBI employees...
Washington – Following a year of inquiry, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote in a letter today to every member of the Senate Finance and Judiciary Committees about the need for new attention to the tax laws governing non-profit hospitals. Prompted by troubling public reports about the practices of two hospitals,...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Protecting the Farm Safety NetWednesday, December 2, 2020VIDEO I’ve long fought to strengthen the farm safety net so that Iowa family farmers are protected from natural disasters or unforeseeable events like flooding and wind storms. Family farmers work hard to make sure...
End the Taxpayer Giveaway to Big Oil and Gas
Congress should raise the royalty rates on federal lands.
By Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Tom Udall of New Mexico
One hundred years ago, Congress passed the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, setting up a system in which companies lease public lands to wrest valuable oil and gas from the ground. In the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a former chairman and senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today made the following comment regarding the appointment of U.S. Attorney John Durham to be special counsel in his ongoing review of the origins of the FBI’s 2016 Russia Collusion investigation. “John Durham has...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Thanking Joe Morton for his Service at the Omaha World-Herald
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
VIDEO
Each week, without failure, a familiar voice opens one of my press calls with a thoughtful question on some matter of interest to folks in the heartland.
For more than two decades at the Omaha...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today sent a
letter to the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Labor seeking an investigation into California’s Employment Development Department (EDD), with particular attention to fraud and to EDD’s practice of mailing documents that contain individuals’ social security...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaCelebrating National Thanksgiving Turkeys from IowaMonday, November 30, 2020VIDEO Like many Iowans, I wasn’t able to share a meal with my family this Thanksgiving. I’m thankful for the essential workers of our country who have missed many Thanksgiving meals. Still, they...
Grassley Renews Calls on Congress to Pass Relief Legislation
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today returned to his Washington office after completing a quarantine due to testing positive for COVID-19. Grassley was asymptomatic throughout his quarantine and was cleared to return to the office by his doctors. Grassley released the following...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today highlighted the significance of Thanksgiving in a video address to Iowans.
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“I’m thankful that we had a bountiful harvest on our farm this year when a lot of farmers, particularly across central Iowa, from the Missouri to the Mississippi River, had that awful windstorm go through and about...
Q&A: Farm Outlook 2020
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s your take-away on the 2020 farm economy?
A: Between the historic derecho and once-a-century pandemic, 2020 has served up unprecedented challenges for farm families across the state. Disruptions to the food supply chain delivered a reality check to Americans, reminding consumers that...
WASHINGTON
— U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr requesting the full declassification of briefing notes for then-Director James Comey summarizing the FBI’s...
Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today issued the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services announced new final rules regarding prescription drug pricing. “While I still need to review the details of these new rules, I’m not surprised the administration is taking action....
Q&A: Coronavirus Update
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Has Operation Warp Speed accelerated the development of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics and treatments?
A: Yes. The nation’s top infectious disease doctor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, recently said it has been “beyond historic.” As the novel coronavirus continues to wrap around the world, the Trump...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released the following joint statement regarding the Department of the Treasury’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan expense deductibility guidance. “Since the CARES Act, we’ve stressed that our intent was for...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a supplement to their September 23, 2020, report that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden...
