WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today joined their colleagues Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) in introducing
legislation that would extend for two years the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) “
Temporary Policy for Preparation of Certain Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer Products During...
Finance Committee Chairman and Ranking Member Urge HHS to Establish A Single, Comprehensive and Publicly Available Data Source for CARES Act Provider Funds WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn China Stonewalling the World Health OrganizationThursday, June 11, 2020VIDEO On Wednesday, June 3, 2020, the Associated Press released an article detailing China’s stonewalling and delay tactics in withholding crucial data from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the novel...
WASHINGTON – The Senate passed the
Concerns Over Nations Funding University Campus Institutes in the United States (CONFUCIUS) Act by unanimous consent, legislation supported by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and introduced by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.). This legislation works to address concerns about Confucius Institutes’...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance Committee Thursday, June 11, 2020VIDEO The miracles of scientific innovation have cured illnesses that a generation ago delivered a death sentence to many Americans. Dr. Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine in 1953 eradicated the fatal effects of the virus that killed...
Officials knew early on that debunked dossier at heart of unlawful surveillance lacked verification well before Mueller took over Russia probe
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a
recently...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-Ore.) commended the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance Committee Wednesday, June 10, 2020VIDEO The coronavirus pandemic underscores the vital contribution pharmaceutical sciences make for the nation’s public health, economic prosperity and our way of life. It also confirms that we need a policy solution to treat...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a
letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue requesting that the Packers and Stockyards Division publicly release findings from its investigation into beef pricing margins following the fire at Tyson’s plant in Holcomb, Kansas. The USDA’s Packers and Stockyards Division was...
Prepared Opening Statement by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeHearing on Unemployment Insurance During COVID-19: The CARES Act and the Role of Unemployment Insurance During the PandemicTuesday, June 9, 2020VIDEO Welcome to today’s hearing. Before we start, I think it’s important again to note...
WASHINGTON
– Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are asking the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG) to issue alerts to providers and the public about the unlawful practices of some nursing homes that are requiring Medicaid recipients in their care to...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Iowa’s Successful Primary ElectionTuesday, June 9, 2020VIDEO Last week, Iowans voted in record numbers for a June primary. In most elections, about forty percent of Iowans choose to vote by absentee ballot. In this election, understandably, the vast majority cast their votes...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeMonday, June 8, 2020VIDEO It’s no longer business as usual in America. Let’s end business as usual in Washington. We’re experiencing a deadly pandemic. The United States is firing on all cylinders to fight it and find a...
Q&A: COVID-19 Impacts Iowa Agriculture
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What is the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program?
A: The USDA will accept applications through Aug. 28, 2020 from farmers for pandemic-related financial assistance. The direct payments will help keep hard-hit farming operations afloat due to catastrophic disruptions in the...
Statement for the Record by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaMemorializing Iowan Italia KellyThursday, June 4, 2020 On Sunday, a young Iowan from Davenport set out to exercise her constitutional rights by peacefully protesting the disturbing death of George Floyd. But when agitators turned things violent, Italia Marie Kelly decided it was time to...
The Congressional Budget Office Predicted that the Increased Benefits Would Pay 5 of 6 Recipients More Than Working, Discouraging a Return to Work and Resulting in Lower Employment and Less Economic Activity in 2021
Washington
– According to an
analysis released today by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), an extension of increased unemployment...
Statement for the Record by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the Tiananmen Square Massacre AnniversaryThursday, June 4, 2020 Today marks the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, when students led demonstrations for greater accountability, constitutional due process, democracy, freedom of the press and freedom of speech. One...
Finance Committee Chairman Presses IRS on Reasons for Failure to Collect
Washington
– The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA)
recently found that almost 900,000 high-income taxpayers failed to file tax returns from 2014 to 2016 resulting in billions of dollars in unpaid taxes, and the IRS did not attempt to collect in several...
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...
