WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) issued a bipartisan statement following new action by the American National Standards Institute’s Accredited Standards Committee (X12) to include the device identifier (DI) portion of a medical device’s unique device identifier (UDI) on Medicare claims forms:
“Following years of our...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) are pushing the Justice Department to explain its justification for opting not to charge two former FBI officials who failed to properly respond to information about abuse of young gymnasts, then sought to cover up their dereliction of...
Q&A: Inflation Swallows Up Savings
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What are you hearing from Iowans about inflation?
A: So far this year, I’ve met with Iowans in nearly two-thirds of my 99 county annual meetings. Without exception, I’ve heard deep concerns about inflation and a looming economic recession. The volume has turned up as the Biden...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.),
co-Chairs of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, led a
bipartisan group of their colleagues, including all Caucus members, in
introducing a resolution recognizing June 26, 2022 as the International Day
against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. This day has...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led a Senate resolution with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) designating June as “Elder Abuse Awareness Month” and June 15 as “World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.” This bipartisan resolution brings awareness to abuse, neglect and exploitation of the United States’...
WASHINGTON – Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) today joined Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and other committee Republicans in demanding an explanation for the Justice Department’s failures to enforce a law restricting efforts to influence pending judicial decisions. Title 18, Section 1507 of the U.S. code...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference, are pushing to hold Big Tech platforms accountable for using biased algorithms that take control away from consumers and alter the way users are able to see emails from political...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, alongside Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) today introduced legislation to provide relief and protections for middle class savings that still face federal taxes despite...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 06-13-22Topics include: school safety, deteriorating infrastructure impact on rural economy, gas prices, SEC requirements on agriculture, Iowa staff office hours and gun reform legislation.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today joined Sens. John
Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) to push back on a proposed rule from the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which would place unworkable climate
disclosure regulations on farmers, ranchers and agriculture producers. In a letter
to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Sen. Jim
Inhofe (R-Okla.) to introduce the Keep
Our Communities Safe Act.
This legislation seeks to close a legal loophole resulting from the Supreme
Court’s decision in the 2001 case Zadvydas
v. Davis, which requires immigration authorities to release...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and 24 Senate colleagues in urging Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra to provide Congress, patients and providers with additional insight on the Department’s plans for transitioning out of the COVID-19 public health emergency.
The letter...
Q&A: Reining in Unbridled Big TechWith
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: How would your bipartisan American Innovation and Choice
Online Act reform Big Tech platforms? A: Americans may view technology as a curse or a
blessing, particularly in the context of Big Tech’s grip on digital platforms.
Advances in communication tools, streaming services...
WASHINGTON – Judge Stephen Locher, nominee to be federal district judge for the
Southern District of Iowa, unanimously advanced through the Senate Judiciary
Committee today. Locher was nominated to the post by President Biden following
the recommendation of Senate Judiciary
Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Joni Ernst following
an...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) joined Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and several of his colleagues to
introduce the Safe
Schools Act, legislation
that would allow unused COVID relief dollars allocated to schools through the
Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund to be used by
schools to improve safety and security. This...
WASHINGTON – Bipartisan legislation led by
Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Dick Durbin
(D-Ill.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) to help small businesses and individuals
stay afloat during bankruptcy is set to become law after clearing the House of Representatives
on a vote of 392-21 last night. The Bankruptcy
Threshold Adjustment and...
WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) would have served as a central clearinghouse to respond to matters the government unilaterally determines to be mis-, dis- or mal-information (MDM), and planned to coordinate efforts to leverage ties with social media platforms to enable the removal of user...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today issued the following statement after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched an inquiry into the impacts of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) on the affordability of medicine. Grassley specifically pushed the FTC to open this investigation.
“I commend the FTC for taking this step toward a more transparent...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), former chairman and current senior member of the Senate Finance
Committee, pressed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on the administration’s
response to inflation, which has reached a four-decade high under President
Biden. Yellen’s testimony today comes after she
recently admitted that she was “wrong” to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
joined Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) on a resolution recognizing specially trained volunteers who advocate in courtrooms
and other settings on behalf of survivors of child abuse, neglect and
abandonment. The bipartisan resolution, which passed the Senate at the end of
May, honors Court...
