Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statement regarding the passing of Chris Allen, Senior Advisor for Benefits and Exempt Organizations on the Senate Finance Committee majority staff. “Chris made brighter every room he entered with his positivity and sincerity. He had a way of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Senate president pro tempore and Senate Finance Committee Chairman, today released the following statement regarding House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announcing that she will soon transmit articles of impeachment to the United States Senate. “Speaker Pelosi threw the United...
Q: What’s in store for 2020? A: Passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017 delivered across-the-board tax relief and more take-home pay for American workers, helping families make ends meet and small businesses to grow and invest in their operations. For U.S. households, the overhauled federal tax code increased tax credits for families with...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and 41 Senate colleagues in supporting a resolution honoring the members of the military and intelligence community who carried out the successful mission that killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) and a designated...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today led a press conference with Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Risch (R-Idaho) and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) on the United...
Total taxpayer savings from Grassley-championed 1986 False Claims Act top $62 Billion ---Whistleblower claims make up more than two thirds of all recoveries WASHINGTON – The federal government recovered more than $3 billion in taxpayer dollars lost to fraud in 2019, using a law championed by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). Whistleblower claims...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Iranian AggressionThursday, January 9, 2020 Over the past year, the Iranian regime has been increasingly aggressive, attacking oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, shooting down a U.S. drone, seizing a British tanker, attacking a Saudi oil facility, attacking U.S. military bases in Iraq and...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the House of Representatives Legislative GraveyardWednesday, January 8, 2020 There is a story where George Washington is said to have told Jefferson that the Senate was created to "cool" House legislation as a saucer is used to cool hot tea. Whether historically accurate or...
WASHINGTON - Today, S.Res.343 passed the United States Senate with the support of U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), an original cosponsor of the resolution. A resolution congratulating the people of the Czech Republic and the people of the Slovak Republic on the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, the 26th anniversary of the formation of the...
Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today led the bipartisan passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act, which was reported out of committee on a 25-3 basis and will update the North American Free Trade Agreement. Grassley held a press conference immediately following the...
Modernized Trade Agreement Will Open Market Access, Grow Economy, Protect Workers Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released the following statements regarding the broad, bipartisan passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation...
Prepared Opening Statement by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeExecutive Session on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementing ActTuesday, January 7, 2020VIDEO The committee will come to order. We are meeting today to consider H.R. 5430, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaLooking Ahead to the New YearMonday, January 6, 2020VIDEO I want to wish all Iowans a happy New Year. As 2020 begins, I’m focused on passing the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement. I’m leading a meeting of the Finance Committee tomorrow to report out the bill, so...
TownhallBy: Dick BrewbakerJanuary 4, 2020 For over a decade, prescription drug prices have soared with no end in sight. Price hikes have forced 1 in 10 Americans to ration their prescription drugs. This dangerous practice has taken the lives of at least 10 Americans – many of them never saw their 30th birthday. Some parents found second...
Let Americans unwrap savings on prescription medicineBy Sens. Chuck Grassley and Lisa Murkowski These days it’s seems there’s scant agreement about much of anything in Washington. However, outside of the nation’s capital, Americans share full-throated agreement on an issue that really matters: the sky rocketing prices they pay for...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) marked a series of policy and oversight accomplishments of 2019.
“Serving the people of Iowa as their United States Senator is my first priority and it’s an honor that I take seriously. As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and through my extensive oversight efforts, my work focuses on making government more...
Unwrapping 2019 and Looking Ahead to 2020By U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley At the start of 2019, I became only the second U.S. senator from Iowa to be sworn in as Senate president pro tempore, one of only two constitutional officers in Congress. As the most senior lawmaker in the Senate Majority, it’s an honor to serve in this leadership position on...
Q&A: Improving U.S. Organ Transplant SystemWith U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: Why are you looking into the nation’s organ procurement and transplant system? A: Advances in medical science, specifically organ transplants, save lives and give loved ones a new lease on life. Incredible gifts of life are made possible when family...
Let's break silence and talk about mental health on the farmBy Sen. Chuck Grassley As this year nears its end, the Grassley family is grateful for another fall harvest. Like other family farms across Iowa, our three-generation farming operation experiences many of the uncertainties blanketing our profession. For starters, our livelihoods are at...
