WASHINGTON – A bill led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Iowa) to prevent opioid addiction, overdoses and deaths in rural communities has been signed into law. The Rural Opioid Abuse Prevention Act, introduced by Grassley and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) in the U.S. Senate, along with Feenstra and Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.) in the...
WASHINGTON – The Senate unanimously passed legislation authored by Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and committee member Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) to improve justice for young survivors of sex crimes. The Preventing Child Sex Abuse Act strengthens a federal sex tourism law that prosecutors feared was too vague to convict...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 12-19-22Topics include: Mexico's proposed ban on genetically-modified corn imports, anti-trust legislation and the end of year spending bill.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement about Attorney General Merrick Garland’s instructions to federal prosecutors to disregard federal criminal statutes for crack and powder cocaine cases.
“The attorney general’s guidance to prosecutors today is...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Agriculture Committee, joined Sens. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and over 20 of their colleagues in urging the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to take action against Mexico’s proposal to ban U.S. genetically-engineered corn. In...
Q&A: Medicare Fraud
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: How is waste, fraud and abuse weakening Medicare for current and future generations?
A: Seniors and people with disabilities depend on Medicare for their health care coverage, including more than 650,000 Iowans. Every dollar lost to waste, fraud and abuse rips off the taxpayer and skims...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas blasting the Department’s decision to cover up the Disinformation Governance Board’s activities by redacting large swaths of records produced to...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 12-12-22Topics include: Rural emergency hospital legislation, medicare and medicaid, government oversight and investigations and bipartisanship.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) secured the inclusion of a broad array of bipartisan policies in defense authorization legislation, which passed the Senate tonight. The bills, authored or backed by Grassley will provide new rights for survivors of sexual violence, support law enforcement’s efforts in the fight against cybercrime and...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House has passed bipartisan legislation authored by Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) to help identify and mitigate potential conflicts of interest between taxpayer-funded projects and government contractors’ other business opportunities. The federal...
WASHINGTON, DC – The Senate passed bipartisan legislation authored by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to improve our nation’s ability to prevent foreign governments, including adversaries like the...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), sent a letter to the National Committee on Vital Health and Statistics (NCVHS), calling on the committee to support the inclusion of device identifier (DI) information on Medicare claims forms in its recommendations to the Department of Health...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, joined Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in calling on Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz to lead a “root cause analysis” in...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), sent a follow-up letter Monday to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco seeking additional information about sexual misconduct...
Q&A: Outlook on Next Farm Bill
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s in store for the new Farm Bill?
A: As a member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee and a lifelong family farmer, I bring real world experience to the policymaking table on behalf of the farm families who feed and fuel the world. As Congress begins...
WASHINGTON – Legislation introduced by Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was last night unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate. The bill would strengthen an anti-money laundering whistleblower program and hold sanctions violators accountable. The House draft of the legislation has also received committee approval in the...
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill to prevent opioid addiction, overdoses and deaths in rural communities – sending it to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law. The Rural Opioid Abuse Prevention Act, introduced by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), passed the Senate at...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are
raising concerns about the Defense Department’s frequent approval of high-ranking
retired military members’ work for foreign governments. The senators’ concerns
follow recent investigative
reporting by the Washington Post detailing scores of retired U.S. service
members who took...
WASHINGTON – Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published an alarming report, finding that a vast majority – 91 percent – of colleges mislead potential students on the true cost of their education. After reviewing the report, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Rep. Young Kim (R-Calif.) renewed their...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 12-05-22Topics include: Congressional oversight of the FBI, my letter to the DHS seeking information from the Department of Homeland Security on steps being taken to reduce an alarming number of sexual harassment and misconduct reports and agriculture legislation next...
