Q&A: Stop Pills that Kill
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why did you introduce the Stop Pills that Kill Act?
A: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that nearly 108,000 Americans died last year from drug overdose deaths. Fentanyl overdoses have become the number one cause of death among U.S. adults ages 18-45. And,...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Ranking Member Rob Portman (R-Ohio) are writing to the Justice Department to gather information on the departments’ posture to defend the U.S. Supreme Court amid a barrage of attacks and threats from pro-abortion extremists stemming...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), president pro tempore emeritus of the U.S. Senate and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which returns abortion policy decisions to the people and their elected...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) along with Reps. Bill Pascrell
(D-N.J.), Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) 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...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) made the following comment regarding his vote against the Senate’s recently proposed gun legislation.
“Schools should be the safest place for our kids. I share the concerns of Iowans who are disgusted with gun violence, especially when those tragedies involve children. I commend the negotiators for earnestly working...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
is requesting an update from Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on his efforts to help
implement the Seeding
Rural Resilience Act
in coordination with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Grassley is
also seeking answers from the surgeon general on whether the office will be
issuing a rural-focused mental health...
WASHINGTON – As families face inflation
and other barriers in affording their medications, Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) want to make sure Iowans have easy access to
the numerous programs and resources available right now to assist with the
costs for insulin and other drugs. Their new measure — called the Insulin For Our Reoccurring...
WASHINGTON – Several provisions led by
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman and current member of the Senate
Finance Committee, were included in the Enhancing
American Retirement Now (EARN) Act, which advanced out of committee with
unanimous support yesterday. “I’m glad several of my proposals were
included in the EARN Act, which will
build on...
WASHINGTON —Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined more than 80 Members of Congress in releasing a bicameral joint statement spearheaded by Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.-01), calling on the Biden Administration to reverse course on its plan to erode the full and faithful implementation of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 by moving the...
WASHINGTON – A bill originally introduced by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to strengthen an anti-money
laundering whistleblower program and hold sanctions violators accountable has
cleared the House Financial Services Committee. The bipartisan, bicameral
proposal expands on an anti-money laundering whistleblower program by adding
support for whistleblowers...
WASHINGTON – While COVID-19 restrictions have left the U.S. Capitol largely closed to public tours, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is creating new opportunities for Iowans to witness the history and architecture of the legislative branch of government. Grassley’s office is now offering one-of-a-kind staff-led walking tours of the U.S. Capitol grounds for...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and senior member of the Senate Agriculture
Committee, participated in a markup on two bills to restore fairness and
competition in the cattle marketplace: the Cattle
Price Discovery and Transparency Act, which Grassley helped introduce last November, and the Meat Packing
Special...
WASHINGTON – Legislation sponsored by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) passed out of the Senate Agriculture Committee today. Their Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act passed by voice vote, and is now eligible for a final vote on the Senate floor. The senators unveiled the updated version...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today applauded passage of their bipartisan Meat Packing Special Investigator Act through the Senate Agriculture Committee. The senators’ legislation will address anticompetitive practices in the meat and poultry industries that hurt consumers and producers, threaten...
WASHINGTON – Legislation recently introduced by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary
Committee, and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), chair of the Committee on Commerce,
Science and Transportation, to improve transparency in prescription drug
pricing was approved by the Commerce Committee with bipartisan support, 19-9. Their
bill would...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, urging him to send more advanced artillery rocket systems and ammunition to Ukraine, as the systems are vital in Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s brutal invasion.
The senators...
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden today signed into law a bipartisan bill authored by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to help small businesses and individuals stay afloat during bankruptcy. The Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment and Technical Corrections Act (S. 3823) becomes law at a time when Americans are battling 40-year high inflation, rising interest rates...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 06-21-22Topics include: gun reform, 2020 election, Jan. 6 hearings, federal funds rate increase, Iowa Supreme Court decision on abortion, Ukraine crisis and economic help for farmers.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), joined a bipartisan group of colleagues in voicing support for the Three Seas Initiative through the U.S. Development Finance Corporation at the Three Seas Summit in Riga, Latvia. Joining Grassley are Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Rob...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) today introduced bipartisan legislation that would establish a task force between the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
