Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa“Oversight Hearing on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Management of the 2019 Missouri River Basin Flooding”Wednesday, April 17, 2019 I thank the Environment & Public Works Committee for holding and Sen. Ernst for chairing this important field hearing on oversight of...
WASHINGTON – Three Senate committee chairmen are calling on the Justice Department to provide
previously-sought information related to the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email server investigation. DOJ initially refused to furnish the information, citing the ongoing special counsel investigation. Following the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa sent a letter to National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France A. Córdova seeking information regarding the processes in place at NSF to detect and deter threats to NSF-supported research.
“The threats to our academic and research institutions from foreign governments are well...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa released the following statement in response to the European Union’s announcement that its mandate for a trade agreement with the United States excludes agriculture.“The U.S.-E.U. trade relationship is a significant one. The decisions made in any bilateral agreement...
Senators Durbin and Cramer have joined as new cosponsors WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced that U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) have joined their bipartisan legislation to bring down the skyrocketing prices of prescription...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa joined Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming and a group of colleagues in introducing legislation to prevent thousands of people from losing their health care coverage after a federal judge struck down the Department of Labor’s Association Health Plans rule. This rule made it easier for small...
Americans continue to see and feel the benefits of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.American workers and a market economy succeed when crushing regulation is replaced with smart regulation.The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act cut taxes for households in every state and in every congressional district across the country.The typical family of four earning the 2017 median family...
Foreign Thieves Threaten America’s Prosperity
By U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa
American innovation is second to none. Our creativity and forward-facing approach to everything from health care to telecom to artificial intelligence has made and kept us a world leader. It didn’t happen by accident. It’s been achieved through American ingenuity and, in...
WASHINGTON – Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao today announced the immediate availability of $9 million in Emergency Relief “Quick Release” funds from the Federal Highway Administration to the state of Iowa to help repair road damages caused by flooding in Iowa. “This money will help with the emergency repairs and...
WASHINGTON – In March, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley was joined by Sens. Tina Smith of Minnesota and Joni Ernst of Iowa in introducing the Net Price Calculator Improvement Act, the Understanding the True Cost of College Act and the Know Before You Owe Federal Student Loan Act to help students better understand the cost of college. Since the introduction of...
There’s a Smarter Way to Tackle Student DebtBy U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa Every year, I hold at least one meeting in each of Iowa’s 99 counties. Many of these meetings are at schools, and the number one concern among students is student loan debt. They have every reason to be worried. Over 44 million Americans currently hold more...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation to fix deficiencies in a federal benefit program that are preventing first responders with certain injuries from receiving benefits intended by Congress. The
Protecting America’s First Responders Act...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is pressing the Department of Defense on its handling of conflicts of interest allegations in the procurement process of the new Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing program. The $10 billion JEDI program contract will be awarded to a single vendor.
“The size and scope of this...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa sent a letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry asking for clarity about the department’s review process concerning Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) hardship exemptions, submitted by small refineries. The DOE provides recommendations on exemption requests to the Environmental Protection Agency...
Q&A: Tax Day 2019With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: Is the new federal tax law working as intended? A: April 15 is tax filing day in the United States. It’s also the first Tax Day Americans will file under the new federal tax code. Congress passed the historic Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, ushering in a new era of lower taxes and...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa, along with Sen. Deb Fischer and Rep. Adrian Smith of Nebraska, have introduced legislation to provide tax relief for Iowans in areas impacted by the recent devastating floods.
“Families and businesses in Iowa and throughout the nation are working to rebuild their lives and reopen the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is seeking details on Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to implement new information and cyber security policies to mitigate several vulnerabilities found in an inspector general audit.
On March 1, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa discussed health care from the Senate floor. Video can be found here and text can be found below. Some elected officials are proposing radical changes to our health care system. These proposals include Medicare for All, Medicare Buy-In, Medicaid for All...
Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaUpdate on Efforts to Address Midwest Floods and Introduction of Disaster Tax Relief BillThursday, April 11, 2019VIDEO I come before the Senate again to talk about the devastating flooding in Iowa and the Midwest. In western Iowa, we still have areas underwater from flooding on the...
