WASHINGTON – Today US Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Bill Nelson (D-FL), John Cornyn (R-TX), Tom Udall (D-NM), Dean Heller (R-NV), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Shelley Moore...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa are demanding answers from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regarding their national review of all VA health care provider licenses in order to certify that no doctors have been hired illegally. Grassley and Ernst’s call for answers follows a disturbing report that shed light on illegal...
Op-ed: Grassley: An all-of-the-above energy strategy means ethanol, tooU.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaThe Houston ChronicleMarch 2, 2018It’s no secret that oil and natural gas are significant economic drivers in Texas. The Lone Star state is home to some of the nation’s largest refineries and produces billions of barrels of conventional...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement regarding today’s meeting with President Donald Trump, U.S. Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) and industry stakeholders. “Both sides made their case and the only agreement was to look at economic studies for impact. No...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) in seeking feedback from the health care and patient communities as they develop legislation to improve price transparency in the health care market and lower costs. The...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today issued the following statement on EPA’s official position, restated as recently as November 2017 that, “high RIN prices do not cause significant harm to refiners.” Grassley also commented on a previously unreleased letter that he, along with Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Deb Fischer...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley introduced legislation that would inject needed transparency in a targeted way into the 340B program. The 340B program was created by Congress in the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 and allows hospitals and other health care entities to receive discounted prices on prescription drugs and biologics from drug...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa on Tuesday met with sexual assault survivors Amanda Nguyen and Evan Rachel Wood to discuss policies supporting victims of sexual violence. Nguyen, the founder of RISE, worked with Grassley to pass the Survivors’ Bill of Rights in 2016. Wood, star of the HBO series “Westworld” partnered with...
Concerned about government waste, senators ask about guidance which allows estates to continue collecting farm benefits automatically even two years after the death of a farmerWASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), and senior Agriculture Committee member U.S. Senator Chuck...
Senate Floor Statement by Senator Chuck GrassleyChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeElizabeth Branch to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Eleventh CircuitFebruary 27, 2018 Mr. President, today the Senate is voting to confirm Judge Elizabeth Branch to serve as a U.S. Circuit Court Judge for the Eleventh Circuit. Judge Branch was favorably reported out...
The senators called on the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to support bipartisan legislation to bring drug prices down for patients and families across the countryWASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) led a bipartisan letter today urging the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa today held a joint press conference call to discuss their meeting with President Trump and others at the White House, as well as the confirmation of Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey to serve at USDA as Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation. Audio of the press call is...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, wrote White House Counsel Don McGahn and FBI Director Christopher Wray today seeking additional...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley said today that summer internships for college-aged Iowans are available. Applications are due Thursday, March 15.Internships are available in Grassley offices in Washington, D.C., Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo. The summer internship program is divided into two separate...
After Grassley Request, FBI, Google Brief Staff on Response to Multiple Warnings WASHINGTON – Following questions from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, FBI officials today briefed congressional staff on how it handled multiple tips about the disturbed teenager that would later carry out the school shooting in Parkland, Fla....
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chair and co-chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, alongside Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), John Kennedy (R-La.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) recently wrote to four tech companies urging action to reduce illegal online drug sales and...
WASHINGTON – After public allegations and news reports of sexual harassment and inappropriate workplace conduct within the federal judiciary, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein wrote to James Duff, the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC). They wrote seeking detailed...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) joined 25 of his colleagues in sending a letter to President Trump supporting his recent comments about re-engaging in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations.
The senators wrote, “Reducing barriers to trade and investment, protecting American intellectual property rights, and leveling the playing field for...
Op-ed: Iowans benefit from GOP tax cuts and reformU.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaCedar Rapids GazetteFebruary 17, 2018Last December, President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law. Supporters promised that the new law would reform America’s broken tax code, make filing simpler and give a necessary break to middle-class families...
