WASHINGTON – The United States Senate today passed a broad, anti-opioid abuse package that includes 12 bipartisan legislative efforts led and co-sponsored by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today announced that the Committee will hold a public hearing with Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.“As I said earlier, anyone who comes forward as Dr. Ford has done deserves to be heard. My staff has reached out to Dr. Ford to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley issued the following statement regarding the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. “Anyone who comes forward as Dr. Ford has deserves to be heard, so I will continue working on a way to hear her out in an appropriate, precedented and respectful...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), approved by voice vote the Missing Children’s Assistance Act of 2018. The bill, authored by Grassley, would reauthorize the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and continue the fight against child abduction and exploitation.“This...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa released the following statement regarding the omission of a bipartisan amendment he introduced with Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois and Angus King of Maine in the upcoming appropriations bill to support the Department of Health and Human Services in requiring prescription drug prices in direct-to-consumer...
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act of 2018, a bill authored by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa to improve access to justice in U.S. courts for Americans who are victimized by acts of terrorism while abroad. The legislation addresses flawed...
WASHINGTON – After their bipartisan amendment to require disclosure of prescription drug prices in television ads was removed from the Fiscal Year 2019 Defense-Labor-HHS-Education appropriations “minibus” bill in a last-minute, back room deal, U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Angus King of Maine urged their...
WASHINGTON – The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) concurred with President George W. Bush representatives’ assessment that confidential records leaked by several Democrats are legally restricted from public release. In a letter dispelling misrepresentations about the handling of records related to Supreme Court nominee...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley was presented with Growth Energy’s 2018 “Fueling Growth” Award, which according to the group is “reserved for our esteemed congressional champions who have demonstrated their unwavering support for the biofuels industry and aggressively advocated for our members' top priorities in...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Mike Rounds of South Dakota sent a letter to United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions seeking clarification on whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to website accessibility. Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Mike Crapo of Idaho and John Cornyn of Texas...
WASHINGTON – The entire Iowa delegation, including Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst and Reps. David Young, Steve King, Rod Blum and Dave Loebsack, wrote to President Donald Trump in support of Governor Kim Reynolds’ appeal of the Administration’s decision denying Individual Assistance under FEMA for Buchanan, Dickinson, Polk and Winnebago counties.
“It is...
WASHINGTON – As the Senate Judiciary Committee continues its work reviewing the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, committee Democrats—all of whom are expected to vote against Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination—continue their meritless obstruction campaign by issuing an unprecedented...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa receives high marks for his leadership of the confirmation process for Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in an op-ed in The Hill. Excerpts can be found below.When future Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is...
OSCEOLA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today held his 99th county meeting for the 38th year as part of his annual 99 county meetings with an hour-long town meeting Q&A at the Clarke County Hospital in Osceola.With this meeting, Grassley marks the conclusion of another year in his 38-year practice of holding meetings with Iowans in every one of...
Opposition to Kavanaugh Is Failing Because It’s MeritlessBy Senator Chuck Grassley The American people have now had a chance to hear directly from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in what might be the longest nomination hearing in Supreme Court history.For more than 32 hours, Kavanaugh has sat before the TV lights of the Senate Judiciary...
From small-town Iowa to Washington, DCBy Grace BertelliWaterloo-Cedar Falls CourierSeptember 9, 2018…I applied to work for Sen. Grassley because he holds a folk-hero-like status in Iowa culture; I grew up listening to my parents discuss his policies at dinner and watching him on the news, making him an ideal representative to work for. However, I was...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, along with Sen. Joni Ernst and Rep. Rod Blum, sent a letter to Cedar Rapids Mayor Brad Hart and Cedar Rapids City Manager Jeffrey Pomeraz in response to an August 8 letter from the City of Cedar Rapids regarding emergency flood funding from the Army Corps of Engineers. In their response letter, Grassley, Ernst and Blum...
WASHINGTON – Iowan Adam J. White testified today before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who has led the committee since 2015, selected White to testify before the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa received a response from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma regarding his July 27 letter seeking more information into what happened in the case of an elderly Iowa woman who passed away seemingly due to lapses in care by staff at the Timely Mission Nursing Home in...
