WASHINGTON – Today, Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) made the following joint statement after
the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance to state Medicaid directors on the implementation of the Advancing Care for Exceptional (ACE) Kids Act. “We appreciate CMS issuing additional
guidance to state Medicaid...
WASHINGTON – Last night, the U.S. Senate
passed multiple bipartisan bills led by Judiciary Committee Ranking Member
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that seek to provide resources, grants and other
support to law enforcement officers. National Night Out, a day that focuses on
fostering stronger relationships between law enforcement and neighbors in the
communities...
Senator
Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 08-01-22
Topics
include: contraceptive access bill, codifying same-sex marriage, Next Generation Fuels Act, carbon
capture pipelines, biofuels, Middle-Class
Saving and Investment Act and protecting the middle class.
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today introduced legislation to reauthorize the National Computer Forensics Institute, which provides training to state and local law enforcement agencies. The National Computer Forensics Institute Reauthorization Act of 2022 builds on the Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime...
Q&A: Rising Crime Linked to Defund the Police
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s contributing to the postpandemic rise in violent crime in America?
A: With the open border policies of this administration and “defund the police” rhetoric coming from the left side of the ideological spectrum, a sense of lawlessness is infecting society,...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee
Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) have
introduced bipartisan legislation to further protect whistleblowers at the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from retaliation. The FBI Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act
would allow FBI employees to appeal retaliation claims to the...
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Senate passed the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), a biannual package that authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carry out water resource projects. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, cemented several Iowa priorities into this...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and
Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) introduced the bipartisan Farmland Security Act
to increase scrutiny over foreign investments in American agricultural land.
The legislation ensures that the American people and Congress have the
information needed...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) made the following statement after the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced this morning a second consecutive quarter of gross domestic product (GDP) contraction, meeting the traditional definition of economic recession.
“Whatever anyone wants to call it, Iowans are feeling the harsh economic realities...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) led their colleagues in the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus in a unanimously-passed Senate resolution celebrating July 30 as National Whistleblower Appreciation Day.
“Support for whistleblowers is something we can all get behind. It can and should unite every member of Congress who...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) as well as Reps. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) to introduce the Allowing Greater Access to Safe and Effective Contraception Act. This bill seeks to expand health care choices for women by increasing access to contraceptives over-the-counter (OTC) and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee
Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today led 24 Republican colleagues in
introducing a broad package to clarify and strengthen violent crime laws related
to homicide, bank robbery, carjacking, kidnapping and other offenses. The Combating Violent and Dangerous Crime Act
resolves discrepancies brought on by...
WASHINGTON – The Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights Act, introduced by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) unanimously passed the Senate Monday. The bill, which previously cleared the House of Representatives, requires federal agencies to take a fresh set of...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) introduced the bipartisan and bicameral Next Generation Fuels Act, a proposal that aims to leverage higher-octane fuels to improve engine efficiency and performance. Allowing the sale of fuels with greater octane levels would increase the amount of ethanol that can be utilized in the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a vocal critic of China’s aggressive intellectual property and espionage policies, panned Senate Democrats’ decision to strip key accountability language from a bill ostensibly designed to increase competition with the communist regime. Instead, this legislation, which is being considered this week, doles out more...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned witnesses at a hearing to address law enforcement safety and the rising crime against police. Iowan Zach Andersen of Cedar Falls, a public safety officer, testified about the ambush on Iowa police last year that resulted in the death of Sergeant Jim...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 07-26-22Topics include: economic recession, carbon capture pipelines, Ukraine assistance, American Rescue Plan money movement and the Judiciary Committee hearing on law enforcement safety.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
joined Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Deb Fischer
(R-Neb.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) to introduce
the Let Experienced Pilots Fly Act to
address airline flight cancellations caused by a shortage of pilots. Roughly
5,000 fully-qualified pilots will be forced to retire...
WASHINGTON – Multiple FBI whistleblowers, including those in senior positions, are raising the alarm about tampering by senior FBI and Justice Department officials in politically sensitive investigations ranging from election and campaign finance probes across multiple election cycles to investigative activity involving derogatory information on Hunter...
Q&A: Whistleblowers Save Taxpayer Dollars
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What prompted your decades-long support for whistleblowers?
A: The founding cornerstone of American self-government “of, by and for the people” means government works for the people, not the other way around. My approach to representative government is rooted in this basic...
