WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) are urging nine U.S. media companies to stop working with or accepting money from China Daily, a publication that targets Americans with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda. In their letter, the senators expressed serious concerns about the CCP’s efforts to infiltrate U.S. institutions,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today submitted a statement for the record honoring Iowa native Caitlin Clark for her achievements in women’s basketball. Grassley also joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) in introducing a resolution congratulating Clark for becoming the National Collegiate Athletic Association...
Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, border security and immigration, Grassley’s letter to Biden admin for summertime E-15 waiver, aid for Ukraine, the Supreme Court ruling on former President Donald Trump’s ballot eligibility case and Iowans' concerns voiced at Grassley’s 99...
WASHINGTON – Senate Agriculture Committee member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is leading the entire Iowa delegation in calling on President Biden for a waiver authorizing E-15 sales this summer. The letter – signed by Sen. Joni Ernst and Reps. Ashley Hinson, Zach Nunn, Randy Feenstra and Mariannette Miller-Meeks – underscores the geopolitical significance of...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and his committee colleague Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) applauded the unanimous Senate passage of their Justice for Murder Victims Act. The bipartisan bill would end the 13th-century “year-and-a-day” rule, which prohibits homicide prosecutions if the...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Three Iowa community colleges will receive a total of more than $1.2 million to expand their aviation training programs. These Aviation Workforce Development grants were made possible thanks to program funding in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, legislation U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) supported.
“Aviation training programs...
Q: Will Congress renew the Farm Bill this year?
A: The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee held its annual oversight hearing in late February to review operations at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack appeared before the committee to answer questions and testify about various programs of the federal department. As...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the former and current chairmen, respectively, of the Senate Judiciary Committee reintroduced the Inspector General Access Act alongside their committee colleague, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah). The bipartisan bill would close a loophole that precludes the Justice Department’s Office of the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today questioned U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and highlighted the importance of completing a five-year Farm Bill. Consistent with his efforts encouraging federal adoption of the GREET model, a science-based tool for assessing...
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today welcomed Tamra Call, Executive Director of the Obria Medical Clinic in Ames, Iowa, to testify at a hearing on reproductive health care. Call shared with Budget committee members her clinic’s mission to support women in making informed, life-affirming decisions.
“Life is a...
WASHINGTON – At today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, former chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) questioned Justice Department (DOJ) witnesses about glaring issues across federal prisons, citing his oversight exposing misconduct allegations at FCC Hazelton and the Biden administration’s neglect to safeguard unaccompanied children who’ve entered the...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: year-round E-15 authorization, the farm bill, the foreign aid supplemental, the Packers and Stockyard Act, improving FAFSA, increasing transparency in college costs and the upcoming U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee hearing with the Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack.
Q: What’s your message to Iowans during National Cancer Prevention Month?
A: Although society has made strides in recent decades to prevent and treat cancer, the disease remains the second leading cause of death in the United States. Three words no one wants to hear were delivered to nearly two million Americans last year: “You have cancer.” I encourage...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the below statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved a petition, filed by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and other Midwest governors, to permanently authorize year-round E-15 sales.
“I applaud Governor Reynolds’ persistent advocacy for ethanol producers across the heartland....
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Thanks to a law U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) championed, the federal government recovered $2.68 billion in 2023 and settled the most fraud cases ever in a single year. Since Grassley strengthened the False Claims Act in 1986, it has recouped approximately $75 billion for taxpayers and saved countless more by deterring would-be...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Millions of taxpayer dollars funneled through an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant program were largely used by recipient organizations to cover the organizations’ overhead and operating expenses, without yet producing tangible results demonstrating the efficacy of the environmental justice program.
Records and receipts...
CHICKASAW COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.), both farmers and members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today sent a letter to colleagues urging them to oppose efforts to weaken the Packers and Stockyards Act in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Agriculture Appropriations bill. Grassley and Tester are seeking to protect...
WASHINGTON – Iowans David C. Waterman and Matthew L. Gannon were nominated today by President Joe Biden to be the U.S. Attorneys for the Southern and Northern Districts of Iowa, respectively. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) endorsed their nominations last...
CHICKASAW COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) introduced legislation to permanently authorize the Undetectable Firearms Act, which President Reagan first enacted in 1988 and Congress has renewed three times since. The bill makes it illegal to manufacture, own or sell firearms that do not contain enough metal to set...
WASHINGTON – Following this month’s Big Tech hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) in welcoming added support for the updated Kids Online Safety Act. With 62 Senate cosponsors, the legislation aims to improve tools for families to protect their children...
