“This is a president, who more than the three other presidents, knew what was wrong with NAFTA. He said we’re either going to get out of it or change it. And he changed it for the better.” WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Neil Cavuto on Fox Business Network to discuss the United...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in working for Iowa veterans, passing
bipartisan legislation unanimously through the Senate to ensure proper care and treatment of our war heroes. This legislation will help to prevent another
tragic event – like the case of Iowa veteran Anthony French, who, while suffering from...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeWednesday, July 1, 2020VIDEO Today the United States, Mexico and Canada launch a new chapter in our historic partnership with entry into force of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. Thanks to the decisive leadership of President Trump, the USMCA...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Russian EscalationWednesday, July 1, 2020VIDEO If reports are true that Russia has been paying a bounty to the Taliban to kill American soldiers, this is a serious escalation of what Russia expert Edward Lucas dubbed “The New Cold War” back in 2008. It demands a strong...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeTuesday, June 30, 2020VIDEO Since I reclaimed the gavel of the Finance Committee at the start of this Congress, one of my top priorities has been to fix the failing multiemployer pension system and help secure retirement benefits of more than 10 million...
WASHINGTON – In a move to empower patients and lower health care costs, today Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined his colleagues Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), John Kennedy (R-La.) and Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) in introducing the PRICE Transparency Act. This legislation would codify the two health care...
Prepared Opening Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance Committee Tuesday, June 30, 2020VIDEO Commissioner Rettig, thank you for agreeing to testify on the 2020 tax filing season and the IRS’ handling of the challenges posed by ongoing pandemic. The 2020 filing season got off to its typical start at the end of...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Auditing the Department of DefenseTuesday, June 30, 2020VIDEO As the Senate considers the NDAA this week, I hope that my amendments to improve the Pentagon’s financial management systems and crack down on wasteful spending will be supported. Thirty years after Congress passed the...
The Emergency Aid for Returning Americans Affected by Coronavirus Act would ensure adequate funding is available to help Americans recently brought back to U.S. because of COVID-19
WASHINGTON – The Senate by unanimous consent today passed the
Emergency Aid for Returning Americans Affected by Coronavirus...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Protecting Family FarmsMonday, June 29, 2020VIDEO The past few months have resulted in some dramatic changes in our daily lives. But for America’s farmers, and the 86,000 Iowa family farms, there were still crops to be planted, fields to be fertilized and livestock to care...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn China Targeting U.S. ResearchMonday, June 29, 2020VIDEO In June of last year, I held an oversight hearing about foreign threats to taxpayer funded research. My goal is to ensure that the government is doing its job to detect and deter these threats. Since COVID, America’s...
Washington
– Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-Ore.) today sent a
letter to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requesting the OIG initiate an investigation into whether or not five states – California,...
Democrats walked away from negotiations, and too many Republicans are sitting on their hands.
By Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Chairman, Senate Finance Committee
Many issues that were top of mind only a few months ago have been sidelined by the coronavirus pandemic, its economic fallout, and social unrest related to police brutality and racial...
ICYMI: Threat of meat shortages is growing. Senate needs to act now.American farmers and ranchers are facing a grave crisis, and it could hurt every family who buys meat at a grocery store.By Sens. Chuck Grassley and Jon Tester As two farmers from rural America who moonlight as U.S. senators, we know that many folks who live in urban centers may be...
By Noah WeilandNew York TimesJune 27, 2020 When President Trump visited Senate Republicans last month for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began ripping across the country, Senator Charles E. Grassley, the powerful chairman of the Finance Committee, confronted him about whether he still wanted to fulfill his years-old promise of lowering...
Q&A: Great American Outdoors ActWith U.S. Senator Chuck GrassleyQ: What is the Great American Outdoors Act?A: Last year, Congress permanently reauthorized the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), ensuring a federal commitment to conservation, habitat protection, water quality and access to outdoor recreation. The 56-year-old federal law provides...
“Granting these petitions would worsen the unprecedented economic challenges facing the biofuels industry and the rural communities that it supports while violating EPA’s own policy on this issue”
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined his colleagues, Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) in...
WASHINGTON –Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) expressed support for President Donald Trump’s
recent proclamation extending and expanding a temporary freeze on certain categories of visas as millions of American workers remain sidelined by the ongoing pandemic. In May, Grassley joined Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and others in
calling on the administration to expand...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Police ReformThursday, June 25, 2020VIDEO Senate Republicans are taking a step in advancing real change in our country. We’ve heard the calls for police reform, and are responding. The JUSTICE Act, of which I am a cosponsor, encourages states to stand as partners in addressing...
