Q&A: Student Loan Debt
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Do you support President Biden’s plan to wipe away student debt?
A: When something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Once again, the Biden administration is operating under the false assumption that money grows on trees. When the economy shut down in 2020, Congress passed a...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pressing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide updated data about how the VA has handled reporting of veterans to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), specifically with respect to veterans who have been assigned...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), co-chair of the Senate
Caucus on International Narcotics Control and Judiciary Committee ranking member, led Sens. Dianne Feinstein
(D-Calif.), John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) in introducing
bipartisan legislation to implement new penalties for counterfeit pill production. Recently,
there has been a...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) sent a letter
to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack regarding the
USDA Inspector General’s findings that the backlog of civil complaints
continues to grow at the Office of Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
(OASCR). The senators noted that processing time for...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), president pro tempore emeritus of the U.S. Senate, was recognized
today for his significant work on behalf of workplace injury victims. The
National Structured Settlements Trade Association (NSSTA) presented Grassley
with their Lifetime Achievement Award during an annual business meeting this
morning. “Structured...
WASHINGTON – Bipartisan legislation led by Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley to crack down on anticompetitive behavior by foreign oil producing nations advanced today in the committee. The No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act, or NOPEC, will let the federal government take action against price fixing by OPEC, the...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Environment and Public
Works (EPW) Committee, have secured a number of key provisions in this year’s Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) —
a biannual water resources package that passed the EPW Committee unanimously
this morning — including key measures to update...
WASHINGTON – In a new study on bipartisanship in the U.S. Senate released by Georgetown University’s Lugar Center, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) ranked among the most bipartisan senators for 2021. The Lugar Center’s Bipartisan Index placed Grassley at number 12 of all 100 senators, making him the 5th most bipartisan Republican in the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last night voted to pass S.J.Res.39, a proposal that would end the current mask requirement in Head Start facilities.
“Even though most Americans stopped wearing masks in almost every setting, children are still required to wear masks all day long in Head Start locations. Current HHS guidance demands...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and
Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) sent a letter
to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) seeking clarification
on the flexibilities that will be granted to pharmacists once the COVID-19
public health emergency (PHE) designation ends. The...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 05-02-22Topics include: the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act, U.S.-Russia relations, inflation, Iowan concerns, COVID-19, prescription drug pricing and excessive government spending.
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) sent a letter
to the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector
General (OIG) asking for an update on seven drug manufacturer referrals for
340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program) non-compliance. The 340B Program helps maintain health
care access for low-income patients. Last year, the...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to Stefanie Tompkins, Director of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), regarding the agency’s involvement with Georgia Tech researchers...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) sent a letter
to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) asking for an update
on the implementation of the Advancing
Care for Exceptional (ACE) Kids Act. The ACE Kids Act, which
Grassley and Bennet ushered through Congress in 2019,
allows children with medically complex...
BUTLER COUNTY – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold a town meeting next Friday, May 6 in Fremont County 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, answer questions and take...
Q&A: May is National Beef Month
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s your beef with the meatpacking industry in America?
A: For years I’ve been riding herd on anticompetitive practices in the livestock industry. Our independent producers are getting the short end of the stick in today’s marketplace. Only four meatpackers control 85 percent of...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) today introduced the SMART Cocaine Sentencing Act, which will reduce the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenders tried in federal courts. The legislation aims to make sentencing fairer while also preserving the ability of...
WASHINGTON – The Senate today passed a bipartisan resolution introduced by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in support of National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.
The resolution was cosponsored by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.),...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement regarding the documents put forward and passed off yesterday by Biden Administration officials as a ‘plan’ to handle the termination of Title 42 authorities at the southern border.
“Unfortunately, the document put forward by Secretary...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and senior member of the Senate Agriculture
Committee, participated in a hearing
on two bills tackling fairness and competition in the cattle marketplace: the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act,
which Grassley first helped introduce last November, and the Meat and Poultry Special...
