*NOTE: Senator Grassley kicked off a summer-long initiative highlighting the importance of congressional oversight with a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. Grassley has championed congressional oversight throughout his congressional career, keeping close tabs on the judicial and executive branch to make sure the government of the people and by...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa will give an address on congressional oversight at the Heritage Foundation, a think tank in Washington, D.C. Grassley has championed congressional oversight throughout his congressional career, keeping close tabs on the judicial and executive branch to make sure the government of the people and by the people...
Q: How has the U.S. patent system contributed to American prosperity?A: The genius of America’s system of free enterprise rewards risk-taking. The nation’s founders embraced the power of ingenuity, innovation, invention and investment to drive progress, opportunity and prosperity. The architects of the Constitution engineered a framework to...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to examine whether makers of biologic medicines are using strategies like...
WASHINGTON – Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, this week joined the growing list of bipartisan supporters for the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act. The comprehensive criminal justice reform package is supported by a balance of 29 Republican and Democratic senators. The bill was introduced last...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold two town meetings on July 2 and July 3 as a part of his annual 99 county meetings. Grassley will be in Webster County on July 2 and Fayette County on July 3.“Representative government is a two-way street. I’m one half of the process and the people of Iowa are the other half. You can’t have...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) penned a bipartisan letter to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin urging the Administration to take action to review all Chinese investments in the U.S. for their long-term economic impact. Treasury is currently reviewing Chinese investment patterns and impact as part the Section 301...
WASHINGTON – Iowa’s U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst met with U.S. Ambassador to China and former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad yesterday in Washington, D.C. The discussion included issues such as the relationship between the United States and China, security in East Asia and ongoing developments regarding North Korea.One topic of concern...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today joined several of his colleagues in introducing the Keep Families Together and Enforce the Law Act. The legislation requires that children and their parents remain together during their legal proceedings, and incorporates many of Grassley’s suggested...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today responded to a request by his Democratic committee colleagues to hold a hearing on family separations at the border. Acknowledging the urgency of the crisis, Grassley urged colleagues to support the simplest fix to this problem. He proposed a solution that would repeal the Flores v....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa released the following statement upon learning that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the primary federal government agency responsible for medical and public health research, plans to end funding to a controversial trial aimed at finding the long term effects of daily alcohol consumption. The trial,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa joined Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi of Wyoming and fellow committee members Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Bob Corker of Tennessee, David Perdue of Georgia, John Boozman of Arkansas, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Cory Gardner of Colorado, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, in...
Prepared Remarks of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary Committee In response to Democratic comments on family separationAt committee hearing on “Citizenship for Sale: Oversight of the EB-5 Investor Visa Program” June 19, 2018VIDEO I’d like to take a moment and respond to some of the comments my colleagues have...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa sent a letter to Secretary of Defense James Mattis voicing his concerns over the ongoing waste occurring at all levels of the Department of Defense. In the letter, Grassley urges Mattis to follow through on the commitment he made in a July, 2017 department-wide memo to “bring to light wasteful practices… and take...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, continues to be a leader in the fight against opioid addiction and abuse.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that two-thirds of drug overdose deaths between 2015 and 2016 were opioid-involved...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to reiterate the importance of including medical device identifiers on the updated Medicare claim form and to urge the agency to maintain its support for this change.
In its recently-released Medical...
Farm bill must have payment limit reformSen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa The farm bill is a critical piece of legislation for Iowa and the entire country. It provides a framework from which farmers can make decisions with more certainty, and serves as a necessary safety net for our farmers in the event of a natural disaster, dramatic market shifts and other...
Grassley: Tax-reform legislation proving its worthSen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa It’s been six months since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law. Since then, there have been continuous, positive economic developments in Iowa and throughout the country.Last month, the U.S. economy generated 223,000 new jobs. In fact, more than one million new...
