Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the Trump Administration’s Regulatory Enforcement ReformThursday, May 14, 2020VIDEO An important part of my job is hearing the views of Iowans. But it’s not every day that the executive branch bureaucracy makes an effort to listen to the American people. Fortunately,...
Our way of life depends on affordable, 21st century curesBy Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Mike Braun of Indiana When it comes to treatments and lifesaving cures, the U.S. healthcare system is second to none. This is why, when a loved one receives a cancer diagnosis, or a parent is told her child has diabetes, we can bear such unsettling news with a...
WASHINGTON – In a new study released by Georgetown University’s Lugar Center, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) ranked among the most bipartisan senators in 2019. The Bipartisan Index ranked Grassley as number ten of all senators. For the last several years, Grassley has ranked among the top 10 bipartisan senators and he continued that...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaCelebrating Foster Care MonthWednesday, May 13, 2020VIDEO I rise today to recognize May as National Foster Care Month. In 1988, President Reagan first designated the month of May as a time to celebrate and remember all those in foster care, as well as foster parents, caseworkers and all...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) praised the Senate passage of S. 249, legislation he cosponsored that calls for the Secretary of State to develop a strategy for Taiwan to regain observer status in the World Health Organization (WHO). Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) introduced this bipartisan bill as co-chairs of the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released the recently declassified names of Obama-era officials who were behind the unmasking of Michael Flynn, following their
Tuesday request. The senators...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Iowa Prison Programs Producing PPEWednesday, May 13, 2020VIDEO People often just think of prisons as places to send criminals and forget about them. But as I’ve noted here before, most inmates will one day be released. Helping former criminals become productive citizens is an...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr and Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell late Tuesday seeking the names of Obama-era officials...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn National Police WeekTuesday, May 12, 2020VIDEO Mr. President, I come to the floor today to salute and thank our nation’s law enforcement officers during this year’s “National Police Week.” It’s notable that this week dedicated to the brave men and women in...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Transparency in the Cattle IndustryTuesday, May 12, 2020VIDEO Iowa is home to 88,000 family farms. These farms make up the economic foundation of our rural communities and farmers are the leaders that make up the city councils and school boards across our state. So when we see...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) along with his colleagues Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) today introduced
legislation to foster efficient markets while increasing competition and transparency among meat packers who purchase livestock...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.), Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.) in a bipartisan, bicameral call for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to test all inmates and confirm they are negative for COVID-19 prior to transferring them to quarantine locations.
In a letter to BOP...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), lead authors and sponsors of the
First Step Act – landmark criminal justice reform legislation – today submitted a bipartisan Amicus Brief to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in
United States of America v Alan L. Mapuatuli, a case related to the reduction of the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today is again calling on the Justice Department to show its work in the case against Lt. General Michael Flynn. The Justice Department’s recent motion to dismiss the criminal case against Flynn in light of exculpatory evidence doesn’t absolve the government of public scrutiny or accountability,
Grassley wrote today...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaIowa Businesses have stepped up to the PlateTuesday, May 12, 2020VIDEO COVID-19 has thrown a wrench into America’s corridors of commerce and manufacturing. The unprecedented effort to stop the spread shut down life as we know it, closing schools, movie theaters, gyms, salons and...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and the Russia InvestigationMonday, May 11, 2020VIDEO In the last several weeks, a lot of information relating to the FBI’s Russia investigation has been declassified and made public. That’s in large part thanks to Attorney General Barr and Acting Director...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the Farm to Fork Supply ChainMonday, May 11, 2020VIDEO The pandemic has disrupted just about everything Americans take for granted in life, including our food supply. Empty grocery store shelves have greeted U.S. consumers, perhaps for the first time in their lifetimes. The...
ICYMI: The Curious Case of Michael Flynnby Jason Foster in NewsweekPublished May 11, 2020 …From the beginning, my former boss, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), wanted to see the underlying evidence for himself. If Flynn engaged in nefarious business with the Russians, why would he do it on a phone call he knew was likely being monitored? Why would he...
Don’t let the Pentagon dip into its bag of old tricks By Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Franklin “Chuck” Spinney The Pentagon might be reaching into its bag of old tricks to pull the wool over the public’s eyes. Don’t worry. As taxpayer watchdogs, we’ve got its number. We’ve spent decades tracking...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today sent a bipartisan
letter with 13 of his Senate colleagues to Congressional leaders seeking additional funding for programs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that would assist pork producers who are being forced to depopulate livestock herds because of restaurant and meat processing plant closures...
