WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley praised the decision announced today by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide relief with respect to the March 1 deadline for farmers and fishermen who chose to forgo making quarterly estimated tax payments in 2018. After hearing from farmers, tax return preparers and the Iowa State...
WASHINGTON – Former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and others to introduce Singh’s Law, legislation that would bar foreign nationals associated with a criminal gang and convicted of a crime from entering the United States. Foreign nationals with gang associations also...
For Immediate Release
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Paul, Grassley Introduce Fuel Choice and Deregulation Act of 2019
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Chuck Grassley of Iowa introduced the Fuel Choice and Deregulation Act of 2019 (S.581), legislation that would remove burdensome regulations on domestic...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today made the following statement on the Senate confirmation of Michael J. Desmond to be Chief Counsel for the IRS and Assistant General Counsel for the Treasury Department. Yesterday, 84 senators voted to invoke cloture, and Desmond was confirmed today 83 to 15.“Mr. Desmond will...
Prepared Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeOn Tax Filing SeasonWednesday, February 27, 2019VIDEO Mr. President, We’re now in the fifth week of the tax filing season. Based on all reports from the IRS, the filing season is running smoothly. All systems are operating as expected, returns are...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Maria Cantwell of Washington led a bipartisan group of 12 senators in writing to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross questioning the Administration’s changed circumstances review of antidumping and countervailing duty orders that were imposed only months prior on imports of certain...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa discussed his thoughts on today’s Senate Finance Committee hearing on drug pricing with Neil Cavuto on Fox News Channel. Grassley’s opening remarks can be found here, an op-ed he wrote on the hearing can be found here and the interview can be found below. Your...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa discussed drug pricing on Squawk Box on CNBC and on Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas on Bloomberg ahead of today’s Senate Finance Committee hearing titled “Drug Pricing in America: A Prescription for Change, Part II.” The witness list includes top executives from...
Pharma execs should stop grandstanding and work to lower prescription pricesBy U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa It’s not every day an Iowan has the opportunity to wake up and ask top executives of seven major pharmaceutical companies the question that’s on the minds of most Americans: Why do prescription drug prices keep rising in...
Opening Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeHearing on Drug Pricing in America: A Prescription for Change, Part IITuesday, February 26, 2019VIDEO I want to welcome the witnesses and thank them for being here.The information they share will help inform the committee as it addresses the issue of high prescription...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa reintroduced legislation to help businesses comply with immigration laws by certifying the legal status of their workforce. The
Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act would permanently authorize the E-Verify program, an internet–based system that assists employers in determining whether...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley continued his years-long effort to ensure tax-exempt hospitals are fulfilling the standards for serving communities and low-income patients as required by law.
In a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, Grassley pressed for data on how many hospitals are in compliance with the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon today began a bipartisan investigation into insulin prices. The probe is part of the committee’s broader effort to examine drug pricing in the United States and rising costs for consumers and taxpayers.
The senators sent letters to leading...
Q&A: E-VerifyWith U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: What is the E-Verify program? A: The E-Verify program updated employment verification measures that were enacted with comprehensive immigration reform signed into law by President Reagan. For the first time in our history, Congress made it a federal crime to employ undocumented workers. Ten years...
Lower tax refunds show how the Republican tax cut is keeping money in your hands all year The size of your tax refund has nothing to do with your overall tax bill. It merely reflects what you overpaid the IRS in your paychecks last year. By Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Congressman Kevin Brady of Texas When Republicans transformed...
WASHINGTON – Amid news reports that Hezbollah and other hostile actors are exploiting political uncertainty in Venezuela, U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ted Cruz of Texas are raising concerns that adversaries, including known and suspected terrorists, may be able to threaten American security via the southern border. The senators are seeking a...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon are seeking details on reported meetings in 2015 between Russian Agents and Executive Branch officials, arranged by the nonprofit Center for the National Interest.
According to news reports, Russian nationals Maria Butina, who recently...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa joined Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Susan Collins of Maine in re-introducing the bipartisan Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA). Enacting POWADA (S. 485) would restore critical Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) protections and make it...
