Q: What is the historical significance of Nov. 11?
A: On the “11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month,” fighting ceased between the Allied nations and Germany during World War I. Back then, November 11, 1918 (Armistice Day) was regarded as the end of the war “to end all wars.” In the years to follow, President Woodrow Wilson and Congress deemed Nov. 11...
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and colleagues to reintroduce bipartisan budget reform legislation. The Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act would overhaul the way Congress allocates federal dollars and strengthen oversight of government spending,...
WASHINGTON – Senior members of the Senate Judiciary Committee Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), along with 24 Senate Republican colleagues, introduced legislation to ensure the American people have a full accounting of the number of migrants being released into the United States by the Biden administration. The Southern Border...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), is seeking data from U.S. law enforcement agencies on the volume and nature of weapons identified or recovered at the southern border. This includes the increased use of drones by transnational criminal organizations to surveil U.S. law enforcement or deploy explosives. Grassley’s inquiry comes as FBI Director Chris...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is raising concerns that Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) failure to consistently collect DNA from illegal immigrants apprehended at the border is robbing law enforcement of critical investigative leads, hampering the United States’ ability to go after unsolved criminal cases.
According to FBI DNA Database Unit...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Fox Business’ Kudlow to discuss new details he obtained on the volume of FBI sources who provided information of criminality on members of the Biden family, and the steps the FBI took to bury such information. Today’s interview comes on the heels of a letter Grassley sent the Justice Department and FBI...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Iowa pharmacies are urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to act ahead of financial burdens slated to hit rural drugstores on January 1, 2024. This looming problem was spurred by a regulatory change to direct and indirect remuneration (DIR) clawback fees, specifically Medicare Part D...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) are lauding unanimous Senate passage of their Find and Protect Foster Youth Act. The bipartisan bill would create a feedback loop between states and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to improve care and...
WASHINGTON – As National Youth Substance Use Prevention Month comes to a close, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined officials from the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Education Department and community leaders to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Drug Free Communities (DFC) program. The DFC Program provides local partners with grants to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is demanding the Biden administration provide a full account of the scope of its “CBP One” program, a government-run mobile application that has been used to parole thousands of otherwise inadmissible aliens into the U.S. without proper vetting, including over 7,000 foreign nationals who should be flagged as...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: Israel-Hamas conflict, Iran, funding for Ukraine and Israel, Hamas hostages, Biden student debt transfer plan and the current state of the federal appropriations process.
WASHINGTON – The staff of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold traveling office hours in 21 Iowa counties from November 6 through November 17. 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 hours.
Grassley will be represented by his regional...
Q: What do you hear from Iowans about housing?
A: In August I wrapped up my 43rd year in a row holding at least one meeting in every county across the state. From urban areas to county seats and smaller rural communities, I regularly hear from employers, civic leaders and chambers of commerce members how housing shortages impact economic growth and community...
WASHINGTON – Senate Agriculture Committee members Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today introduced bipartisan legislation to prevent and reduce food waste nationwide. The United States produces and imports an annual 241 million tons of food, 33 percent of which is never sold or eaten. Not only does this holding pattern carry significant...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Finance Committee members Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are ramping up momentum behind their decade-long push to include the device identifier (DI) portion of unique device identifiers (UDIs) on Medicare claims forms. This proactive measure would reduce health risks for patients and save taxpayers money in...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today co-hosted a press conference alongside the National Retail Federation and bipartisan Senate and House cosponsors pushing for passage of his legislation to fight organized retail crime. The Combating Organized Retail Crime Act, led by Grassley and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), would establish a...
WASHINGTON – Senate Agriculture Committee member and lifelong family farmer Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst and Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Zack Nunn, are calling on the Department of Commerce (DOC) to lower countervailing duties (CVDs) on phosphate fertilizers from Morocco. The push was prompted by the Court of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and co-chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, today questioned witnesses at a Senate Judiciary hearing examining the Biden administration’s failure to ensure the safety of unaccompanied children who have entered the United States under the...
WASHINGTON – In recognition of Fight Retail Crime Day, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will co-host a press conference Thursday, October 26, at 9 a.m. ET/8 a.m. CT to urge passage of his Combating Organized Retail Crime Act. This bipartisan solution would establish a multi-agency coordination center, combining expertise and resources from federal, state and...
FBI’s Biden bribery document cleared initial vetting by multiple Justice Department offices--FBI had 40+ informants from across country
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today revealed new details about the scale of criminal information provided to the FBI about the Biden family and the efforts some FBI officials took to sideline key information and...
