SIOUX CITY, IOWA – The office of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will host a Library of Congress “Veterans History Project” event in honor of Veterans Day for the fourth year in a row. The event will take place on November 5, 2021, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. CT at the 185 Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City. Veterans being interviewed at this event served during World...
WASHINGTON – Ahead of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s scheduled testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week, Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is renewing questions about inappropriate political influence in the Biden administration’s recent changes to the nation’s strategy to combat domestic terrorism and violent crime.
Grassley...
Q&A: OTC Hearing Aids
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Will more affordable hearing aids approved by the FDA be available soon?
A: I’ve got good news for Iowans who’ve been waiting too long for less expensive, over-the-counter hearing aids to reach the marketplace. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), nearly 38 million American...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and several colleagues to introduce the Prohibiting IRS Financial Surveillance Act. This legislation will prevent the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from implementing Democrats’ plan to give the agency access to transaction information of virtually every American.
“The...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) yesterday questioned Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), on the negative affects government drug price dictation would have on cures and innovation.
Grassley has long fought to lower prescription drug prices. In 2019, as then-chairman of the Senate Finance...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today called on President Biden to support renewable energy as green manufacturing jobs are leaving Iowa under current economic conditions. In his letter to Biden, Grassley asks the President to do everything in his power to ensure workers are not hurt by federal economic and environmental policies moving...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and over 30 colleagues in introducing legislation requiring the Department of Defense (DoD) to take immediate action to enhance suicide prevention efforts. The bipartisan Save Our Servicemembers (S.O.S.) Act would direct DoD to evaluate the effectiveness of...
WASHINGTON –– The U.S. Senate tonight unanimously passed a Grassley-backed, bipartisan bill to improve safety and accountability in federal prisons. From the infamous Jeffrey Epstein case to countless documented acts of violence and civil rights abuses in American prisons, prison reformers, prison staff, and the Department of Justice Inspector General have...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) pressing the agency to address the rise in ransomware attacks, particularly damaging to the agricultural industry. This comes after two recent cyberattacks on Iowa grain cooperatives.
“Like many of the Iowans we represent, we...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today praised the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement of the newly proposed over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids regulations which implements the Grassley-Warren 2017 law. This comes after the senators pressed the FDA Commissioner last week to issue the regulations without...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and several of his Senate colleagues today called on the Biden administration to explain its delay in delivering financial assistance to Iowa’s biofuel industry negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In June 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced $700 million in aid to biofuel producers as...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 10-18-21Topics include: John Deere strike, unemployment, 2022 election, supply chain issues, Federal Judiciary Youth Summit, carbon pipelines and Colin Powell.
Q&A: Inflation Hits the Gas
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Is there end in sight to rising inflation?
A: Iowans keep getting slammed at the gas pump and when they check out at the grocery store. Inflation is climbing, pushing up prices on everyday goods and services with price increases for food, housing and energy swallowing up consumer...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced today that they will introduce bipartisan legislation to restore competition online by establishing commonsense rules of the road for dominant digital platforms to prevent them from abusing their market power to harm competition, online businesses and consumers.
“As Big Tech...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue new regulations for over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids without delay. This comes after President Biden issued an Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy in accordance with their bill, the...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Following a January 2021 order from then-President Trump to declassify records related to the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, the Justice Department has made no apparent progress toward transparency and has rebuffed numerous inquiries from members of Congress on the matter.
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is grilling the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the FBI about each agency’s work with the Commerce Department’s Investigations and Threat Management Service (ITMS)—which has operated as a federal law enforcement and intelligence unit without...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 10-12-21Topics include: Budget reconciliation, infrastructure, natural gas prices, the House Agriculture Committee hearing, Roe v. Wade, the Trump rally, 2022 election and goals for the remainder of the 2021 year.
Symposium Led By Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Will Include Federal Judges, Iowa High School Students and Educators
BUTLER COUNTY – As part of his longstanding effort to engage Iowans in our system of representative government, uphold the separation of powers and foster participation in civic life, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking...
Q&A: October is Manufacturing Month
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why do you push policies to help strengthen U.S. manufacturing?
A: A robust manufacturing sector supports good-paying, high-quality jobs. For 245 years, the pioneering spirit of the American people has propelled the United States to soaring heights of innovation and prosperity,...
