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...
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– 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...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaThe Flynn Investigation: What Did Obama and Biden Know and When Did They Know It?Wednesday, June 24, 2020VIDEO Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the District Court to grant the government’s motion to dismiss the Flynn case. I’m...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Democrats Blocking JUSTICE Act Motion to ProceedWednesday, June 24, 2020VIDEO Today, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle voted to block consideration of the JUSTICE Act, the first major piece of police reform legislation in years. To be clear, this vote wasn’t a vote to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats today voted to block consideration of a police reform bill, abandoning an opportunity to debate and amend the proposal offered by Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.). The JUSTICE Act, which is cosponsored by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), included bipartisan provisions to improve accountability and transparency in...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Judicial ConfirmationsWednesday, June 24, 2020VIDEO The Senate will soon cross the milestone of 200 judicial confirmations since President Trump’s inauguration in 2017. These have been nominees in the mold of Justice Scalia, just as the president promised nearly four years...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaIt’s Time to Proceed on the JUSTICE ActTuesday, June 23, 2020VIDEO We’re taking an important vote on the JUSTICE Act. I’m proud to cosponsor this police reform bill, and applaud Senator Tim Scott for his leadership to improve police accountability while preserving the...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Revolutionary War PatriotsMonday, June 22, 2020VIDEO As Americans, our understanding of history has a tremendous impact on our sense of who we are and where we are headed. That is why it is so important for Americans to have a good understanding of our history – all of our...
WASHINGTON – Amid the COVID-19 public health pandemic, U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), authors of the bipartisan First Step Act, landmark criminal justice reform legislation, introduced new, bipartisan legislation to reform the Elderly Home Detention Pilot Program and compassionate release from federal...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn President Trump’s Policing Executive OrderMonday, June 22, 2020VIDEO President Trump recently signed an executive order requiring commonsense administrative steps to promote police accountability. Democrats immediately criticized it as weak and insufficient to combat racial...
Bipartisan Bill Would Ensure that Nonprofits Receive Federal Help for Unemployment Payments Up Front, Rather than Being Reimbursed Later Fix Would Free up Much-Needed Money to Keep Nonprofits Running, Serving Americans WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Tim Scott...
