WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released the following statement regarding the Trump administration’s guidance on the Affordable Care Act’s 1332 waivers.“Using misinformation and outright lies to scare patients about their health care is unacceptable. Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act...
Q&A: LIHEAPWith U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: What is LIHEAP? A: Congress adopted the federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) in 1981 to help Americans with financial hardship pay for heating and cooling energy costs. LIHEAP stemmed from previous outreach measures designed to avert harmful consequences to vulnerable...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) introduced a bill to track law enforcement suicides. The Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act requires the FBI to collect voluntary, anonymous data on police suicides and attempted suicides...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined his colleagues Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to introduce a resolution in support of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
“Unfortunately, too many Americans face violence and abuse from a loved one. It’s crucial that we continue to support...
Legislation targets fast-paced evolution of material that mimics controlled substances
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers from both houses of Congress today introduced a new framework to fight the rapid spread of deadly synthetic drugs, which can quickly be re-engineered to circumvent federal laws designed to outlaw them. The
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Senator Cites Bipartisan Support, Saying Americans 'Want This'Cedar Rapids GazetteBy James Lynch Americans want lower prescription drug prices. Sen. Chuck Grassley has a plan for that. The Iowa Republican who chairs the Senate Finance Committee said Wednesday that support is growing in the Senate for his Prescription Drug Pricing...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, president pro tempore of the United States Senate, today released the following statement regarding the House of Representatives vote on a resolution outlining impeachment proceedings. “House Democrats announced the opening of impeachment proceedings more than a month ago. So far, this process has been...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) wrote to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma seeking an update on the status of a congressionally-mandated report which requires CMS to detail the...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeThursday, October 31, 2019 Today is Halloween. This may sound a little candy corn-y, but this Iowan wants to talk about the scary prices of prescription drugs. Since January, I’ve joined bipartisan forces to drive a stake in the heart of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is highlighting Iowan Teresa Lynn Davison of Cedar Rapids who was appointed by President Trump to be a member of the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Council to End Human Trafficking. As Senate president pro tempore, Grassley recommended Davison for this...
Bill would clarify DHS detainer authority, incentivize cooperation between DHS and law enforcement agencies WASHINGTON – Today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Representatives Dan Bishop (R-NC-9), Ted Budd (R-NC-13) and Richard Hudson (R-NC-8) introduced the Immigration Detainer Enforcement Act, legislation that...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaCelebrating National Women’s Small Business MonthWednesday, October 30, 2019 October is National Women’s Small Business Month and I want to recognize the many women owned businesses that make our economy stronger. In Iowa, we work hard to inspire women to start...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the Impeachment CampaignWednesday, October 30, 2019 On January 20, 2017, President Trump was sworn into office and became our nation’s 45th president. Now, most presidents enjoy what political scientists refer to as a “honeymoon” period, where they are given a chance...
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 Tuesday to call for transparency in the reported Department of Justice criminal inquiry into the origins of the...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the Bipartisan Effort to Address Prescription Drug CostsTuesday, October 29, 2019 As Democrats in the House of Representatives work to pass Speaker Pelosi’s prescription drug bill, I remind my colleagues that for any bill to become law, it must be bipartisan and President Trump must...
Why It’s Smart for Republicans to Act on Prescription Drug PricesBy John Blanton RealClearPolitics.com Going into the 2020 election, President Trump and Senate Republicans must take serious action regarding one of the most highly polled and oft-cited issues of concern: health care. Not only will the issue be key to retaining the White House and...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaComments on Recent Findings of Deliberate Mishandling of Classified Information byState Department OfficialsOctober 28, 2019 In March 2015, I began my investigation into Secretary Clinton’s use of non-government email for official business. Since then, I have written hundreds of letters,...
How the Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act can reduce drug costsBy Sens. Chuck Grassley and Mike Braun The cost of prescription drugs is too high, plain and simple. It’s a chorus we hear repeatedly from our constituents in Indiana and Iowa. If you ask any of our colleagues in the Senate and House of Representatives, you’ll...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the Need to Act on Prescription Drug CostsMonday, October 28, 2019 Polling consistently shows that lowering the cost of prescription drugs is a top priority for Americans. That’s why I hope we can act on this pressing issue in the coming months. A failure to act would...
WASHINGTON – Last Thursday, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved bipartisan legislation cosponsored by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to address the shortage of agricultural inspectors who protect the nation’s food supply and agricultural industries at the border. The Protecting America’s Food & Agriculture Act of 2019 would...
