WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a longtime advocate for government accountability and the role of inspectors general, is refusing to advance certain nominees until the White House provides adequate reasons for the termination of the Intelligence Community and State Department inspectors general. The escalation followed a recent letter from...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) in sending a
letter to the Justice Department requesting information about the financial health of the Crime Victims Fund in light of significant decreases in deposits to the account.
“Since 1984, the CVF has provided...
WASHINGTON – The Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Committees of jurisdiction over the Medicaid program sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today expressing concern over prolonged delays in disbursing funds from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund (PHSSEF) for Medicaid-dependent...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman and senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today slammed the withholding of information from Congress and the public in the Flynn case and pressed former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on these decisions in light of recent exculpatory evidence released by the Justice...
Legislation reintroduced today would require states to report on officer-involved shootings WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) in reintroducing the Walter Scott Notification Act. This critical legislation requires states receiving federal law enforcement...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today addressed the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA)
revised guidance regarding the manufacturing of alcohol-based hand sanitizer products during the COVID-19 pandemic. Grassley and Ernst sent a
letter to FDA last week requesting clarification on its temporary policy and the agency’s...
WASHINGTON – In a letter sent to Secretary Sonny Perdue today, U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, and Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig asked the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to include egg producers in the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP). “COVID-19 has...
Prepared Opening Statement by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeHearing on COVID-19 and Beyond: Oversight of the FDA’s Foreign Drug Manufacturing Inspection ProcessTuesday, June 2, 2020VIDEO Good afternoon, I’d like to welcome everyone to the Finance Committee’s oversight hearing on the Food and...
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 States Trade Representative’s (USTR) announcement that it has initiated investigations into digital services taxes (DST) that have been adopted or are being considered by a...
BloombergBy Riley Griffin and Emma CourtPublished June 1, 2020 Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said that he intends to push for a vote this year on a bill that would limit drug-price increases, even as pharmaceutical companies race to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19.…“There’s no better time to address this...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeTuesday, June 2, 2020VIDEO The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting our daily lives in unimaginable ways. The National Institutes of Health is working with a private sector biotech company and have already began early stage human trials for a potential...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Nationwide Protests and George FloydMonday, June 1, 2020VIDEO Our nation is hurting. George Floyd’s death was horrific, and justice must be served. The Justice Department has opened an investigation, and the officer has been charged with murder. A single act of violence at...
WASHINGTON – Transcripts of Lt. General Michael Flynn’s December 2016 conversations with the Russian ambassador
were released today following more than three years of bipartisan requests from Congress and overtures from Flynn’s own legal team. Though the transcripts are at the heart of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s charges that Flynn had lied to...
Q&A: Mental Health Awareness MonthWith U.S. Senator Chuck GrassleyQ: How has the coronavirus pandemic affected mental health?A: On top of the risk of contracting the infectious disease called COVID-19, another invisible impact of the pandemic reaches across all demographics and regions of the country. Americans are coping with unprecedented...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) resumed his annual 99 county meetings this week with six Q&A’s in northwest Iowa. He took questions in Guttenberg, Postville, Decorah, Rockwell City, Emmetsburg and Pocahontas. “While I had to take a brief pause this year because of the pandemic, it was time to move forward in a...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) today pressed the U.S. Supreme Court to continue allowing the real-time transparency it’s adopted during the pandemic even after lockdowns are lifted. In that same spirit of transparency, the lawmakers renewed their push to also allow live video coverage of court...
Washington – Federal agencies need to do a better job of communicating with U.S. research institutions to thwart foreign theft, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found. The report was requested by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and examined compliance with export control laws by U.S. research institutions. It...
Grassley: “I have great hope for America”The Fort Dodge MessengerDarcy Dougherty MaulsbyMay 28, 2020 …“People are more interested in where their food comes from,” said U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, a Republican who hosted a town hall meeting in Rockwell City on Wednesday at the Calhoun County Farm Bureau office. “If...
