WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jon Tester’s (D-Mont.) bill to improve access to mental health care in rural America and curb rising suicide rates among farmers cleared the Senate today as a part of the must-pass
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
The
Seeding Rural Resilience Act aims to address the farmer suicide crisis...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeTuesday, July 21, 2020VIDEO The USMCA entered into force on July 1, and I am eager to see the modernized agreement deliver on its promise to spur job growth for American farmers, workers, businesses and innovators as well as create new opportunities with our...
Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement regarding the Trump Administration’s recently announced requirement for weekly testing of nursing home staffers and disbursement of an additional $5 billion in funding to these facilities. “America’s seniors face just about the...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaCelebrating the 80th Anniversary of the Welles DeclarationThursday, July 23, 2020VIDEO On this date in 1940, acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles issued a statement outlining U.S. policy toward the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states. It began, “During these past few...
Grassley's tweet can be found HERE. Congress Must Address Drug Prices in Relief LegislationPrepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeWednesday, July 22, 2020VIDEO According to a recent Gallup poll, nine out of ten Americans are concerned about prescription drug prices. Specifically, they are...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a longtime farmer and member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry today praised a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) review of market disruptions in the cattle industry, and called on Congress to enact price transparency measures to improve fairness for consumers and...
Unfair, Unilateral Action Unnecessarily Complicates U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal WASHINGTON -- Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released the following joint statement regarding the United Kingdom’s digital services tax law’s taking effect. “Unilaterally imposing a...
Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) introduced a bill to protect recovery payments provided in the recent CARES Act pandemic response legislation from...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the 25th Anniversary of the Srebrenica MassacreWednesday, July 22, 2020VIDEO This month is the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the worst genocide on European soil since the Holocaust. Twenty five years ago, 8,000 Bosnians were murdered out of ethnic and religious...
Prepared Opening Statement by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeTuesday, July 21, 2020VIDEO Welcome everyone to today’s hearing on pending nominations. Today, we will have an opportunity to hear testimony from the President’s nominees for positions with the U.S. Trade Representative and the U.S. Tax...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa99 County Meeting UpdateMonday, July 20, 2020VIDEO Representative government is a two-way street. To hold up my part of that commitment, I’m on my 40th year of holding at least one Q&A in every county, every year. Over the past two weeks, I had Q&As in 29 counties. Iowans...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives today unanimously passed bipartisan legislation led by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) to improve timely access to financial assistance for families of public safety officers lost to COVID-19. The
Senate unanimously passed the
Safeguarding America’s First Responders Act (SAFR) in May....
Q&A: U.S. Meat Supply Chain With U.S. Senator Chuck GrassleyQ: What’s driving your renewed effort to fix flaws in the livestock markets?A: The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened public awareness about fault lines in our nation’s meat supply chain. As consumers noticed empty shelves and sharp price increases in the grocer’s meat case,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today praised U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announcement that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $13.1 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small...
Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statement regarding the European Union General Court ruling that overturned a 2016 European Commission decision that incorrectly and unfairly targeted Apple, a U.S.-based company. “I’m encouraged by the ruling from the General Court of...
Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released the following statement on the announcement from the United States Trade Representative (USTR) that the United States would impose tariffs on $1.3 billion of French goods. “Retaliatory tariffs aren’t ideal but the...
Q&A: COVID Adds Urgency to Price TransparencyWith U.S. Senator Chuck GrassleyQ: What is the PRICE Transparency Act?A: When a loved one goes to the hospital for cancer treatments, orthopedic surgery or complications from COVID-19, American consumers and taxpayers deserve to know what hospitals will charge for their services. For years I’ve heard...
By John Kartch
Americans for Tax Reform
Published Friday, July 3, 2020
Iowa is benefiting greatly from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act enacted by congressional Republicans and President Trump:
243,620 Iowa households are benefiting from the TCJA’s doubling of the child tax credit.
Every income group in every Iowa congressional...
