WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today joined Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma in introducing the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act (S.1120) to require federal agencies to analyze the full impact of a proposed regulation on small businesses during the rulemaking process. The bill is co-sponsored by Sens. Jim...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) and House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement. “The tax challenges that have arisen due to...
Democrats are releasing their plans to effectively eliminate private health insurance in favor of a national, single-payer system that would take away personal choice and freedom -- further expanding Washington’s control over Americans’ health care decisions. The Democrat plan would make private and employer-sponsored health coverage illegal,...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are probing the Department of Defense for apparent failure to ask victims of sexual assault if they would prefer their case to be tried in a civilian or military court. Such notifications are required by law, but a recent
inspector general report found a...
Opening Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, U.S. Senate Finance Committee“The 2019 Tax Filing Season and the 21st Century IRS”Wednesday, April 10, 2019VIDEO Commissioner Rettig, thank you for joining us this morning. I appreciate your willingness to testify today on the 2019 tax filing season and IRS...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa discussed from the Senate floor the need for answers to outstanding questions surrounding the FBI’s Clinton investigation. Video can be found here and text can be found below.On Tuesday I spoke about the Clinton investigation, and I want to reiterate one very...
WASHINGTON
– Senate Judiciary Committee members Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) Amy Klobuchar, Joni Ernst and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today introduced the
Small Business Reorganization Act (SBRA). The bill streamlines existing bankruptcy procedures and provides new tools to improve a small business’ ability to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today issued the following statement after the joint announcement of federal indictments and law enforcement actions in one of the largest health care fraud schemes in American history. The schemes affected hundreds of thousands of patients and allegedly caused more than $1.2 billion in...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Dick Durbin of Illinois, along with Sens. Roy Blunt of Missouri and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Reps. Cheri Bustos of Illinois and Jason Smith of Missouri, led a bipartisan, bicameral letter to Senate and House appropriators urging the inclusion of funding for the Navigation and Ecosystem Restoration...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today discussed pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) on “Squawk Box” on CNBC and “Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas” on Bloomberg TV ahead of the Committee’s third hearing so far this year on drug pricing. Five PBM executives from Cigna Corporation, CVS...
Rising prescription drug costs are a problem for many Americans – so let’s fix itBy U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa Innovative medical therapies discovered by doctors and researchers have improved the quality of life for millions of Americans and saved the lives of millions more. However, the public and policy...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaUnited States SenateDouble Standards in Trump and Clinton InvestigationsApril 8, 2019VIDEO Mr. President, After years of hearing Democrats falsely proclaim that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, Special Counsel Mueller found no collusion existed. The fact that there was no...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa discussed 232 tariffs on the Senate floor. Video of the remarks can be found here and text can be found below. Congress needs to pass the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement this year to give farmers and businesses the certainty they need and the certainty they...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold town meetings in Cass County on April 16, Carroll County on April 17 and Buchanan County on April 23 as a part of his annual 99 county meetings.“Representative government is a two-way street. I’m one half of the process and the people of Iowa are the other half. You can’t have representative...
Q: What is the TRACED Act?A: The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act would update federal telemarketing laws to widen the enforcement net for unsolicited phone calls. The bipartisan bill takes aim at malicious telemarketers, commonly known as robocallers, who prey on consumers at all hours of the day. One industry...
Prepared Floor Statement by Sen. Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, U.S. Senate Committee on FinanceOn Requests for the President’s Tax ReturnsThursday, April 4, 2019 Mr....
CREATES Act Unanimously Clears Energy & Commerce Committee WASHINGTON – The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved by a vote of 51-0 its version of the CREATES Act, which is cosponsored in the Senate by Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley. The CREATES Act addresses abuses by brand-name drug companies that keep lower-cost generic...
Senator Grassley posted an Instagram of the event that can be found here. Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaAdvanced Bioeconomy Leadership ConferenceRecipient of the Holmberg Lifetime Achievement AwardThursday, April 4, 2019 It’s very good to be here with all of you this morning. I am in good company with like-minded...
