WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats today reaffirmed their support for a new six-figure tax break for the wealthiest Americans, gutting an amendment by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to prevent such tax breaks that leave middle class and disadvantaged families behind. Grassley’s amendment failed on vote of 48-51.
Democrats have long voiced support for...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today voted for the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure package that will make significant investment in Iowa’s roads, bridges, waterways, energy and internet infrastructure. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act combines a routine highway bill with various other bipartisan infrastructure...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today is offering an amendment to the Democrats’ partisan $4.2 trillion reckless spend and tax budget that would prevent the lifting of the State and Local Tax (SALT) Deduction cap as many Democrats have advocated, a move that would amount to a six-figure tax break for the wealthiest Americans mostly in...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold a town meeting in Grundy Center on Monday, August 16 as part of his annual 99 county meetings.
“Representative government is a two-way street. I’m only one half of the equation and my constituents are the other half,” Grassley said. “I appreciate the opportunity to hold town...
Statement for the Record by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
On Democrats’ Reckless Tax and Spending Spree
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Yesterday, the Democrats unveiled their reckless tax and spend budget plan.
With our country experiencing the highest inflation it’s seen in decades and our national debt approaching an all-time high, common...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, asked Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig for an update on the recent major potential data leak at the IRS, questioning whether the IRS has fulfilled...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today will offer an amendment to the Democrats’ partisan $4.2 trillion reckless spend and tax budget that would prevent the lifting of the State and Local Tax (SALT) Deduction cap as many Democrats have advocated, a move that would amount to a six-figure tax break for the wealthiest Americans mostly in...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 08-10-21Topics include: Infrastructure, the one year anniversary of the derecho, the 9/11 Transparency Act, Immigration and the Iowa State Fair.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today reflected on the last year following the historic derecho that swept through Iowa; the resiliency that Iowans demonstrated, how communities came together to support neighbors.
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“It’s hard to believe it’s been one year since the devastating derecho hit families, businesses,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined his colleagues Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack asking the department to ensure swine producers and contract swine growers are eligible for the assistance Congress secured...
Q&A: Iowa State Fair
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why is the Iowa State Fair an important tradition for so many Iowans?
A: This month the Iowa State Fair expects to welcome more than a million visitors over 11 days to the fairgrounds. For generations of Iowans, the state fair has grown into the largest family friendly celebration in the state...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Bob
Menendez (D-N.J.) and others to improve governmental transparency regarding
federal 9/11 investigations. For nearly 20 years, 9/11 survivors and victims’
families have fought tirelessly to identify and bring to justice all of the
perpetrators of the attacks. The bipartisan September
11th Transparency...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today introduced a Senate resolution designating September 2021 as National Democracy Month. The resolution asks Americans to reflect on the contributions of the system of government of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today commended the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement of two new Market News Reports that will bring more transparency to the cattle industry. This comes after Grassley pressed the Administration for months to provide more data and address anticompetitive practices in the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined his colleagues, Sens. Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kan.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) in introducing the Exposing Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act to prohibit state and local governments from interfering with the production or manufacture of agricultural products in other...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and 17 senators in introducing legislation that will end lending to China from multilateral development banks, including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
“China has been lending development money outside its borders to extend its influence for years...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today praised the Senate Appropriations Committee’s vote to include aid for those affected by the derecho in an agriculture funding bill. Grassley called for adoption of this measure months ago.
“In all my decades of farming, I’ve never seen the scale of devastation that Iowa suffered by last...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) today introduced legislation to promote justice for survivors of crimes of sexual violence across the country. The Survivors’ Bill of Rights in the States Act encourages states to adopt the same protections for survivors of state sex crimes that already exist at the federal...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pressing the Justice Department about its lack of updates from Joint Task Force Vulcan’s (JTFV) efforts to combat the violent street gang MS-13. JTFV was established under the prior administration to combat the serious crimes, like murder, that MS-13...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) today introduced legislation to combat the spread of foreign animal diseases entering the United States. The Healthy Dog Importation Act would expand the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (USDA-APHIS) program by providing additional tools to...
