House action follows Senate passage of Grassley-backed bipartisan anti-lynching measure last year WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee today praised the U.S. House of Representatives broad bipartisan approval of anti-lynching legislation yesterday. The bill is similar to...
Washington ExaminerPaul BedardFebruary 26, 2020 President Trump, hit unexpectedly with the coronavirus scare and facing voter pressure to focus on healthcare, is hastily moving to push a package through Congress to help people facing growing medical costs, an agenda sidelined last year by the impeachment debate. In an hourslong meeting with GOP...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaGoes to Bat for IowaThursday, February 27, 2020VIDEO As Iowa farmers count down the days to get in the fields, baseball fans are counting down the days for that first pitch to cross the plate. As a farmer and a baseball fan, hope springs eternal. However, we’ve gotten wind that...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn His Office’s Accessibility to IowansThursday, February 27, 2020VIDEO This is my 40th year holding a Q&A in each of Iowa’s 99 counties. My regional staff is also committed to holding meetings across Iowa. My Iowa staff serve as my eyes and ears when I’m working in...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and 68 of their colleagues in introducing a resolution honoring former U.S. Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels. This week marks 150 years since Revels was sworn-in as a U.S. senator from Mississippi. He was the first African American to serve in...
Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaVictims of Communism Event on World Bank lending to ChinaWashington, D.C.Monday, February 24, 2020 China is now the world’s second largest economy after the United States, yet it continues to claim it needs World Bank loans. Keep in mind that the World Bank was created to help economic...
Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeCredit Union National Association’s 2020 Governmental Affairs ConferenceWashington, D.C.Wednesday, February 26, 2020 Good morning, and thank you for the invitation to speak. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to hear from the CEOs of many credit unions from...
Prescription Drug Middleman Cigna Has So Far Failed to Produce Records Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today wrote to the president of Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) owned by the Cigna Corporation, making a final request for documents as part of the...
On the 100 year anniversary of the Mineral Leasing Act, senators introduce the Fair Returns for Public Lands Act of 2020 to modernize the country’s antiquated public lands royalty system, increase return to federal and state taxpayers by $200 million each in the next decade
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Tom Udall...
For Immediate ReleaseFriday, February 21, 2020 Grassley, Ernst Call for Prompt Biodiesel Tax Credit Processing WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) fought hard to include the biodiesel tax credit in the year-end funding package last year. Now, the two Iowa senators...
NOTE: Grassley’s tweet on this can be found here.Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeTuesday, February 25, 2020VIDEO The next time Big Pharma claims what we’re trying to do to lower drug prices undermines the free market, just remember: they supported Obamacare. Big Pharma...
Statement for the Record by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Lithuanian and Estonian Independence DaysMonday, February 24, 2020 Today is Estonia’s 102nd Independence Day. Lithuania celebrated 102 years of continuous statehood on the 16th and Latvia will in November. This is significant not just because the Baltic states are...
Q&A: Coronavirus UpdateWith U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: What is COVID-19? A: In January the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern regarding the outbreak of a new coronavirus detected in China. Coronaviruses belong to a large family of viruses, ranging from the common cold to acute...
Washington – The chairmen of three Senate committees are continuing their investigation into whistleblower allegations of low morale and low productivity at the Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General (OIG). Following a staff interview with Inspector General Peggy Gustafson, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Ron...
A rift between the GOP and its longtime pharmaceutical-industry allies is shaking up policy, as Republicans and Democrats join to overhaul price regulations Wall Street JournalBy Brody Mullins and Stephanie ArmourFebruary 19, 2020 The drug industry doesn’t pack the lobbying punch it once did, and one sign is something rare in the capital...
CYMI: Sen. Chuck Grassley takes your questions on drug prices, insulin, and innovationSTAT Thursday, February 20, 2020 Sen. Chuck Grassley has a clear position on this Congress’s priority list. “You can bet your boots, families care a lot more about what they’re paying each month for their child’s insulin than impeaching the...
By Adam CancrynPOLITICO2/19/2020 …The vast majority of Americans rank cutting health care and prescription drug costs as their top priorities heading into election season, regardless of party affiliation, according to a new POLITICO-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health survey. Those topics polled as far more important than passing a...
Washington – Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today endorsed Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) bipartisan Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act, further growing the ranks of Senate Republican support. Other Senate Republicans are expected to announce their support for the bill in the coming days. Last week, Sen. Martha McSally...
Religious freedoms under attack – U.S. can promote and protect liberty globally By Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa The Declaration of Independence recognizes each individual is endowed with inalienable rights. Americans cherish our blessings of freedom, including the rights of individuals to worship freely. From one generation to the next,...
