Q: How was an employee able to embezzle $103.3 million from the Pentagon?
A: Yet again, what’s past is prologue at the Pentagon. As a taxpayer watchdog, I’ve long worked to fix the fiscal mess at the Department of Defense. From greedy contractors to faulty accounting systems, the Pentagon’s fiscal mismanagement undermines U.S. military readiness. National...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today met with city officials and community and business leaders from the greater Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Corridor to discuss issues important to the region. Specifically, the group discussed infrastructure, workforce, education and other issues. They thanked Grassley for his support of the Infrastructure...
WASHINGTON – The Des Moines International Airport (DSM) will receive over $5 million from the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Airport Terminals Program to fund the construction of new terminal areas. The Airport Terminals Program was created by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) supported in...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is launching a congressional oversight inquiry into the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Boeing, an engineering company that receives billions of taxpayer dollars annually. In letters this week, Grassley scrutinized decades of poor documentation and inadequate safety practices at Boeing. He first called out...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: the H5N1 Bird Flu, President Biden's executive order on immigration, the Farm Bill, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming congressional address, the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
Q: How is the federal government responding to recent outbreaks of avian flu?
A: As Iowa’s senior U.S. Senator, I’m staying on top of federal agencies with prevention, control, emergency management and public health responsibilities to effectively serve the American people. That includes upholding confidence in the food supply to supporting farm workers and...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), former and current chairmen, respectively, of the Senate Finance Committee, along with Finance Committee members Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.), are calling on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take additional measures to prevent abuse of pancreata...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is sharing remarks on the 80th anniversary of D-Day.Grassley this week joined Sens. John Boozman (R-Ark.), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and 58bipartisan senatorson a resolution commemorating the American troops who participated in thehistoric military operation.
A transcript and broadcast-quality video of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today made public a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report he requested to assess the impacts of the Over-the-Counter (OTC) Hearing Aid Act, a law he and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) championed in 2017. For five years following enactment, Grassley and Warren pressed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to...
WASHINGTON – Communities in central Iowa and in the Cedar Rapids area will receive a total of nearly $800,000 in federal funding to improve public transportation access. The Department of Transportation’s will administer both grants through its Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility (ICAM) Pilot Program. ICAM receives funding from the Grassley-backed...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today led Senate colleagues in introducing a bipartisan Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to strike down the Biden administration’s rule endangering the safety and wellbeing of unaccompanied alien children. The CRA would force meaningful reforms to the government’s Unaccompanied Children (UC) program....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, outlined critical advantages of free trade at today’s hearing on sunsetting preference programs. The U.S. is facing a projected $32 billion agricultural trade deficit for 2024, on the heels of a recorded $17.3 billion decline in ag exports last...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) to introduce legislation to improve women’s access to safe and effective contraception.
“Women, including those in rural areas, should have ready access to safe, effective and affordable contraception. I’m glad to join Senator Ernst on this important, commonsense measure,” Grassley...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today participated in a Senate Agriculture subcommittee hearing to advocate for policies that would benefit farmers with “dirt under their fingernails” and foster opportunities for new and emerging farmers. The Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management and Trade convened to examine legislative strategies to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statement regarding President Biden’s executive order on immigration:
“President Biden has had the power since Day 1 in office to take executive action to stem illegal immigration. Instead, he used that authority to stop construction of the border wall and loosen immigration enforcement...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: the Trump trial, Biden's executive order on immigration, the Farm Bill, crop insurance, Department of Defense funding, federal telework and legislation to lower prescription drug prices.
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: the Trump trial, the Farm Bill, tariffs, artificial intelligence regulation, the Russia-Ukraine war and immigration.
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), co-founder and co-chair of the U.S. Senate Whistleblower Caucus, is calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to implement concrete recommendations to reform its security clearance review process, following reports the agency has unlawfully used it to retaliate against whistleblowers.
“The Justice...
Q: Is Iowa having an unusual start to severe weather season?
A: According to preliminary data from the National Weather Service (NWS), Iowa is on pace for one of the most severe and deadliest tornado seasons in recent history. From records going back to 1950, Iowa has had more tornados sweep across the state through the month of May, at least 80, in 2024....
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and John Fetterman (D-Pa.), are demanding the Department of Defense (DoD) crack down on rampant taxpayer waste caused by military contractors’ price gouging tactics. In a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the lawmakers target “sweeping,” a...
