WASHINGTON – Members of the Ghost Army deceptive military unit today received the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress’s highest honor, in recognition of their unique and distinguished service in WWII. Among the honorees was John Cantrell, an Iowa native and member of the Ghost Army, who was posthumously awarded the medal.
This distinguished award was made...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and John Kennedy (R-La.) to introduce the Protecting Access to Credit for Small Businesses Act. The legislation prohibits the Biden administration from making the Small Business Administration (SBA) a direct 7(a) lender, which would force community banks and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is amplifying his opposition to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) tailpipe emissions proposal, citing an alarming new cost estimate by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
“The CBO released its ten-year budget and economic outlook on February 7, 2024, which...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: the Israel-Hamas conflict, TikTok legislation, the Tyson Foods closure in Perry, Biden's proposed budget, the reelection of Vladimir Putin and Sunshine Week.
WASHINGTON – As part of his annual 99 county meetings, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold town meetings in Manchester on March 25th, Van Horne on March 26th and Montezuma on March 27th.
“Representative government is a two-way street. I’m one half of the process and Iowans are the other half,” Grassley said. “I look forward to hearing directly from...
WASHINGTON – Iowa Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst joined forces with Wisconsin Senators Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson to support a speedy reopening of Lansing’s Black Hawk Bridge. The senators are urging the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to continue working with the Iowa Department of Transportation...
Q: Any surprises in President Biden’s budget proposal?
A: It’s too bad the expression “better late than never” doesn’t apply to the president’s budget proposal. The tardy budget was delivered to Congress a month behind schedule, late for the fourth in year in a row. Despite bipartisan efforts by Senate appropriators to pass the 12 appropriations bills that...
WASHINGTON – At today’s Senate Finance Committee Hearing, senior member and former chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) pressed Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra about the agency’s failure to protect unaccompanied migrant children, as well as its inadequate attention to rural health care programs. Details follow.
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WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Sens. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and 31 Republicans in introducing legislation to combat crime stemming from illegal immigration. Companion legislation passed the House of Representatives last week by a bipartisan vote of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is urging federal agencies to improve compliance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in light of recent findings that their responsiveness to FOIA requests has increasingly lagged. A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, released at the request of Grassley and bipartisan, bicameral colleagues,...
WASHINGTON – The city of Dubuque will receive $2 million in federal funding to develop an open Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) interface, technology that will disseminate near-real time transportation information to the region. C-V2X can detect obscured hazards, alert drivers to potential collision trajectories and reduce traffic congestion. The grant...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), John Boozman (R-Ark.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) in urging U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to expand global markets for American producers by increasing export opportunities.
“We expect trade to fluctuate in response to macroeconomic...
WASHINGTON –Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined The Truth with Lisa Boothe to discuss the state of the economy, the “unparalleled” crisis at the southern border, the importance of congressional oversight, how he prioritizes bipartisanship and his past chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Listen to the full episode HERE and find excerpts below.
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WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) welcomed unanimous Senate passage of their resolution designating March as Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and Pulmonary Embolism (PE) Awareness Month.
“Blood clots affect hundreds of thousands of American each year,” Grassley said. “While these conditions can be life threatening, they are...
WASHINGTON – Amid National Sunshine Week, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is spotlighting federal whistleblower disclosure policies and demanding agencies take action to ensure employees know their rights to report wrongdoing.
By law, all federal agency nondisclosure policies, forms and agreements must contain an “anti-gag” provision, which informs employees...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: the State of the Union, government funding, Biden's budget proposal, the Farm Bill and summer waivers for E-15.
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the below statement on President Biden’s costly Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget released today, over a month past its statutory due date.
“President Biden’s FY 2025 budget is chock full of corner-cutting to circumvent congressional spending caps and presents short-sighted plans...
WASHINGTON – The city of Waterloo will receive $750,000 to lay the groundwork for potential railyard relocation and other rail projects that improve safety, pedestrian access and traffic flow. The award will be administered through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Neighborhood Access and Equity (NAE) Program, which was established in the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released the following statement regarding passage of a government funding package containing six of 12 appropriations bills.
“Our government is meant to be a service to the people, and that’s simply not possible without the funds necessary to operate. I’m confident this package will benefit Iowans and our nation,...
Q: What is the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)?
A: Under this nearly six decades-old federal law, the public has the right to request access to records from any federal agency. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) helps keep check on government overreach, waste, fraud and abuse. Government serves the people, not the other way around. The public has a...
