WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley is praising the work of four Iowans who collaborated to bring down a Sioux City gang member with a lengthy criminal record ranging from drug dealing to the attempted murder of a Sioux City police officer. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (ATF) Special Agent Todd Monney, Sioux City Police...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) today asked the Food and Drug Administration to answer questions about its approval process and other steps for alternatives to the EpiPen, a self-injectable remedy for severe allergic reactions that has been the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today announced a hearing on the increasing consolidation within the seed and chemical industry. The hearing will be held in late September. “The seed and chemical industries are critical to agriculture and the nation’s economy, and Iowans are concerned that this...
DES MOINES – Sen. Chuck Grassley is bringing national and state anti-human trafficking experts together for an Iowa-based forum on ending human trafficking and modern slavery. The discussion is intended to be a guide for medical professionals, first responders and the public at large in recognizing and combating trafficking.The event will take place...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold town meetings in Cherokee on Monday, August 29, and in Sioux Rapids on Tuesday, August 30, as part of his annual 99 county meetings.With these meetings, Grassley will continue his long-standing practice of holding meetings with Iowans in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties every year. Grassley has held a...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement regarding the completion of the review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) on the ChemChina-Syngenta merger. Grassley has introduced the Securing American Food Equity (SAFE) Act, to permanently add the U.S. Department...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today asked the manufacturer of the EpiPen, used for emergency treatment for life-threatening allergic reactions, to explain a steep price increase in the product in recent years. Grassley cited concerns expressed to him from Iowans, including a father in Iowa who said he had to pay more than $500 for one EpiPen for his...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley has a veterans fellow based in his Cedar Rapids office. Nathan Peterson is available to help fellow veterans and help bring their concerns to Grassley’s attention. “I’m glad to have Nathan available to meet with veterans and join in community events with service organizations,”...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will take part in a roundtable discussion on foster care prevention and child welfare with foster youth, parents and services providers in Cedar Rapids on Friday, Aug. 19. Grassley is co-founder and co-chairman of the Senate Caucus on Foster Youth and has made a priority of hearing directly from foster youth,...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is urging the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission to collaborate where it’s appropriate as the agencies analyze several proposed mergers in the seed and chemical industry. Grassley also asked the two agencies to seek input from the Department of...
Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, twice wrote to the FBI director over the agency’s investigation of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Today the Senate received the FBI’s interview summaries from the investigation. Grassley made the following comment on the materials...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley will hold a town meeting in Corydon on Friday, August 26, 2016, as part of his annual 99 county meetings.With this meeting, Grassley will continue his long-standing practice of holding meetings with Iowans in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties every year. Grassley has held a meeting in every county, every year...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, today asked the Department of Justice to explain its reported decision to drop inquiries into Clinton Foundation and State Department interactions. The reported declinations came amid reports of favorable action from the State Department for foundation donors and concerns that...
Senator Chuck Grassley’s regional director based in Cedar Rapids, Fred Schuster, will be holding open office hours in Delaware, Clayton, Allamakee, Linn, Jones and Dubuque counties from September 6 to September 7. The office hours provide an opportunity for Iowans to obtain casework assistance or to express views.Schuster’s schedule is as...
In June 2013, Sen. Chuck Grassley began seeking answers from the State Department on its use of the Special Government Employee designation. His questions came after revelations that a top aide, Huma Abedin, used the special status to work at the State Department and private sector entities at the same time. It appears the Special Government Employee...
“Bipartisanship has allowed us to make meaningful progress on good ideas from senators on both sides of the aisle… It’s a formula for representative government that puts us to work for you.”WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the Weekly Republican Address, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) discusses his committee’s...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is concerned that Medicare may be steering beneficiaries to mail order firms rather than brick and mortar pharmacies for their diabetes testing supplies. The concern came to Grassley from an Iowa pharmacist who shared a letter sent to a beneficiary that seemed to encourage the use of the mail order option. “This...
The Obama Administration announced that it will make it easier for scientists to access marijuana for research and leave the scheduling of marijuana unchanged. Sen. Chuck Grassley, as chairman of the Judiciary and the Caucus on International Narcotics Control, has worked with Sen. Dianne Feinstein to help persuade federal agencies to conduct a scientific and...
