Q: What are your most recent efforts in Congress to strengthen access to mental health care?
A: American society continues making strides to reduce the stigma long associated with mental illness. We have more work to do to raise awareness and expand access to behavioral health care services so people with mental health conditions can get treatment and get on...
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Topics discussed include: the Supreme Court's ruling on Waters of the United States (WOTUS), IRS whistleblowers, the push for the Secretary of Defense to investigate defense contractors overcharging the Department of Defense (DOD), debt ceiling negotiations, federal employees working from home...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is continuing to push for transparency from the Secretaries of Agriculture and Health and Human Services regarding members of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) who may bring serious conflicts of interest to their work on the committee.
Despite Grassley’s previous concerns...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today praised the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision rejecting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) onerous Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) regulations. All nine justices agreed that the EPA’s expansive regulatory efforts in the case violate the Clean Water Act. The court instead limited the EPA’s authority in...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are calling on federal employees to return to their taxpayer-funded offices or get rid of unused office space that continues to lie vacant. In a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA), the senators request GSA to provide data on the daily occupancy rates of...
WASHINGTON – Following a CBS News investigation uncovering repeated instances of defense contractors overcharging the Department of Defense (DOD) to secure excess profits of 40 to 50 percent, costing the U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Elizabeth Warren...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today are blasting FBI Director Christopher Wray for defying a congressional subpoena for an unclassified record alleging a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national. The document, an FBI-generated...
CORALVILLE, IOWA – In continuation of National Police Week, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman and a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today gave an address at the Iowa Police Chiefs Association’s 36th Annual Conference in Coralville. Grassley commended the police chiefs, sheriffs and leaders for their hard work and sacrifice to...
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to Special Counsel John Durham determined on getting to the bottom of the lack of cooperation by senior Justice Department officials and other witnesses central to his investigation.
“It seems odd that individuals would be allowed to avoid fully cooperating with your...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), along with U.S. Rep John?Joyce (R-Pa.) and 82 bicameral colleagues, in urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw portions of a?proposal which would place more stringent vapor emissions requirements on small gasoline bulk plants.
The rule...
Q: What is National Police Week?
A: More than six decades ago, Congress passed a joint resolution to establish National Police Week to honor the men and women who answer the call to serve and protect the public. When these brave heroes put on the badge, they put their own lives at risk to keep our streets safe and secure so that Americans can go about daily...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.), along with U.S. Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) and Katie Porter (D-Calif.), in calling on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to strengthen and...
WASHINGTON – This week the Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution introduced by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) recognizing National Fentanyl Awareness Day.
Overdose deaths have skyrocketed in recent years, largely due to the influx of fentanyl – a synthetic opioid – being mixed into illicit drugs. The Drug...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) today introduced legislation to preserve the integrity of the Renewable Fuels Standard, which is at risk of being diluted by the Biden administration’s aggressive electric vehicle (EV) agenda. The No Fuel Credits for Batteries Act nullifies a proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) leadership on rural health care was praised by a bipartisan group of senators and witnesses yesterday at a Senate Finance Subcommittee hearing on improving health care access in rural communities. The hearing repeatedly referenced the new, voluntary rural emergency hospital (REH) program established under...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, joined current Finance Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), along with Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.), to crack down on anti-competitive practices in the U.S. organ donation system by modernizing the Organ...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) today reintroduced the Gang Activity Reporting Act. The bipartisan bill requires the Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to resume regular reporting on criminal gang trends across the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reintroduced legislation to end the practice of creating new federal red tape outside of the public rulemaking process. The tactic, known as sue-and-settle litigation, is used by federal agencies and like-minded special interest groups to impose new and burdensome regulations on businesses and communities without...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold a town meeting on Tuesday, May 23, in Garner and on Thursday, May 25, in Pomeroy as part of his annual 99 county meetings.
“You can’t have representative government without dialogue between elected officials and the people we represent,” Grassley said. “I appreciate the opportunity to hold town meetings,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the former chairman and senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement regarding Special Counsel John Durham’s report on FBI and Justice Department failures that led to a flawed multi-year Russia collusion investigation.
“The baseless and politically motivated Russia collusion lie...
