Q: Why did you co-sponsor a resolution for National FFA Week?
A: As a lifelong family farmer and U.S. Senator for Iowa, I take every opportunity to serve as a voice for American agriculture. The bipartisan resolution to establish February 18-25, 2023 as National FFA Week provides a platform for this student-led organization to toot its own horn and...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 02-21-23Topics include: Meat Packing Special Investigator Act, Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act, Social Security, aid to Ukraine, Ohio train derailment and Infrastructure Bill.
Q: What’s driving up the cost of prescription drug prices in America?
A: Iowans regularly share concerns about the rising cost of prescription medicine and sticker shock at the pharmacy counter. There’s particular frustration about the high cost of medicines that have been on the market for a long time, such as insulin. That’s why I’ve rolled up my sleeves...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) in introducing the Stop Reckless Student Loan Actions Act to end President Joe Biden’s attempt to unilaterally cancel student loan debt. The bill would prohibit the president from canceling student debt, stop the student loan payment pause and prevent a...
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is demanding answers from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) about steps being taken to rein in the dangerous overprescribing of psychotropic medications in our nation’s nursing homes. According to a recent HHS...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) reintroduced legislation to combat the spread of foreign animal diseases entering the United States. The Healthy Dog Importation Act would expand the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (USDA-APHIS) program by providing additional tools to monitor and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today reintroduced the Immigration Parole Reform Act of 2023 to restore integrity to the immigration parole statute after decades of misuse by the executive branch. Immigration parole, first established in 1952, allows the executive branch to temporarily grant individuals entry into the United States on a...
WASHINGTON – The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2023-2033. This new report contains CBO’s projections about how the budget and economy will look under existing laws for the next decade. The report also confirmed that the Democrats’ so-called Inflation Reduction Act would in fact add to inflationary pressures...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman and senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, joined Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and their Republican committee colleagues in reintroducing a bill to prevent the IRS from using its $80 billion infusion of taxpayer dollars to squeeze more revenue out of hardworking...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and a bipartisan group of lawmakers in both chambers of Congress today reintroduced the EAGLES Act to prevent acts of mass violence. The bill, named after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mascot, would expand the U.S. Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) to include a greater focus on...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 02-13-23Topics include: Chinese balloons, prescription drug prices, carbon pipeline and
eminent domain, 2023 Farm Bill, cattle and meat packing industries and
Brazilian tariff on American ethanol.
Q: What’s your takeaway from the
State of the Union address? A: President Biden missed an opportunity to address what’s on
the top of mind for Iowans: tackling inflation and bringing down costs for
everyday goods, including groceries, gas and utilities. Too many households are
living paycheck to paycheck. Americans feel worse off today than when...
WASHINGTON – Ahead of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s visit to the White House, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), both members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, sent a bipartisan letter to President Joe Biden urging him to use his meeting with President Lula to address Brazil’s recent decision to levy an import...
The bill would create the “Office of the Special Investigator for Competition Matters” within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Packers and Stockyards Division, comprised of a team of investigators with subpoena power who are responsible for targeting and preventing anti-competitive practices among large players in the meat and poultry...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, participated in a markup on five Grassley-led bills to boost competition in the pharmaceutical industry and improve access to more affordable prescription drugs. All five bills advanced in committee by voice vote.
“Iowans’ pocketbooks are already being...
WASHINGTON – Thanks to a law championed by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the federal government recovered $2.2 billion lost to fraud in 2022 in 351 cases – the second highest number of individual settlements and judgements in history. Whistleblowers, who Grassley has fought for and protected throughout his tenure in the Senate, accounted for $1.9 billion of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. “President Biden will use tonight’s address to paint a rosy portrait of the state of our nation under his leadership. But Iowans know the rhetoric doesn’t match reality. “Nearly half of all...
Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be
found here: Capitol
Hill Report, 02-07-23
Topics include: State of the Union address, comprehensive
immigration bill, Foreign Adversary Risk Management (FARM) Act, police reform, healthcare
in rural America and the Accountability through Electronic Verification (E-Verify) Act.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today after President Joseph R. Biden failed to produce a budget proposal by the statutory deadline.
“It’s the first Monday in February and the White House has produced no budget. After two years of abusing the budget process to pursue...
Q: What resources are available for
taxpayers having issues with the IRS? A: As a taxpayer watchdog, I keep close tabs on the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) and champion efforts to strengthen taxpayer protections
and customer service at the federal tax collecting agency. For example, I take
seriously my congressional oversight work to ensure the...
