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,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is seeking information from multiple government agencies on reported misclassification of positions at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that allowed staff in administrative positions to receive additional compensation reserved for law...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and all Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today demanded the Department of Justice (DOJ) not interfere with local school board meetings or threaten the use of federal law enforcement to deter parents’ free speech. This comes after DOJ issued a memorandum suggesting federal law enforcement may need...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the committee Republicans’ report on the committee’s review of former President Trump’s management of the Justice Department following the 2020 presidential election. The investigation was launched by Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in January. This...
WASHINGTON – Every year, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) selects 10 young Iowans to nominate to each of the U.S. service academies including the Military Academy at West Point, the Air Force Academy, the Naval Academy and the Merchant Marine Academy. Grassley encourages Iowa students to consider applying to all of the U.S. service academies because each one has...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and several of their colleagues in introducing the Better Enforcement of Grievous Offenses by un-Naturalized Emigrants (BE GONE) Act to give the Department of Homeland Security more authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to deport individuals in the U.S. who...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined colleagues at a press conference today to discuss the ongoing border crisis and its consequences for the country.
Grassley’s brief remarks are transcribed below and can be watched HERE or downloaded HERE.
“At my county meetings in Iowa, I hear...
WASHINGTON – Despite announcements of various inquiries and investigations, nothing is known about the source of the massive leak or hack of private taxpayer information ending up in the hands of advocates at ProPublica. Meanwhile, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has said it does not yet even know whether there has been a threat of a breach, even as it...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pushing nominees
to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to commit to supporting
a highly successful whistleblower program at risk of collapsing under the
weight of its own successes. “Because of its great success, the whistleblower
fund is at risk of being depleted. The increasing size...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) regional directors based in Sioux City, Des Moines and Waterloo will hold traveling office hours in 30 counties around Iowa throughout October. Iowans seeking assistance regarding a personal issue with a federal agency or wishing to share views on matters of federal policy may stop by during the scheduled...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 10-04-21Topics include: Budget reconciliation, Medicare, debt limit, big tech, estate taxes and COVID-19 vaccines.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee; U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee; and U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Mike Lee (R-UT), both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee; introduced the bipartisan Terry Technical Correction Act, which...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is warning the leadership of USA Badminton about its potential criminal violations amid allegations that it sought to conceal claims of child sexual abuse and is obstructing an investigation by U.S. Center for SafeSport (SafeSport).
“As the Nassar case...
Q&A: Biden’s Bank Reporting Proposal
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s up with the proposal that would require banks to report account holder information to the IRS?
A: The Biden administration is searching under every couch cushion in America to pay for its reckless multi-trillion dollar spending spree. I’ve got news for the big spenders....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) to reintroduce bipartisan legislation to ensure federal law provides U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) civil servants with the same due process rights available to corporate employees who...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pushing the Justice Department and FBI to detail efforts to detect and prevent travel by known terrorists or terrorist recruits to and from the United States following the Biden Administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“Congress...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined every Republican member of the Senate Finance and Banking Committees in urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to abandon the Biden administration’s unprecedented proposal to expand the reporting of the private, confidential financial data of law-abiding Americans from financial...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 09-27-21Topics include: Gun rights, carbon capture pipelines, opioid crisis, unemployment, border crisis, immigration, abortion and the 2022 election.
Q&A: Debt Limit
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What is the debt limit?
A: The debt limit is the amount of money the U.S. Treasury is authorized to borrow to meet spending obligations. The Constitution grants Congress the power of the purse strings and under federal law, the legislative branch of the federal government must approve borrowing...
