BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), along with U.S. Rep John?Joyce (R-Pa.) and 82 bicameral colleagues, in urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw portions of a?proposal which would place more stringent vapor emissions requirements on small gasoline bulk plants.
The rule...
Q: What is National Police Week?
A: More than six decades ago, Congress passed a joint resolution to establish National Police Week to honor the men and women who answer the call to serve and protect the public. When these brave heroes put on the badge, they put their own lives at risk to keep our streets safe and secure so that Americans can go about daily...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.), along with U.S. Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) and Katie Porter (D-Calif.), in calling on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to strengthen and...
WASHINGTON – This week the Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution introduced by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) recognizing National Fentanyl Awareness Day.
Overdose deaths have skyrocketed in recent years, largely due to the influx of fentanyl – a synthetic opioid – being mixed into illicit drugs. The Drug...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) today introduced legislation to preserve the integrity of the Renewable Fuels Standard, which is at risk of being diluted by the Biden administration’s aggressive electric vehicle (EV) agenda. The No Fuel Credits for Batteries Act nullifies a proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) leadership on rural health care was praised by a bipartisan group of senators and witnesses yesterday at a Senate Finance Subcommittee hearing on improving health care access in rural communities. The hearing repeatedly referenced the new, voluntary rural emergency hospital (REH) program established under...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, joined current Finance Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), along with Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.), to crack down on anti-competitive practices in the U.S. organ donation system by modernizing the Organ...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) today reintroduced the Gang Activity Reporting Act. The bipartisan bill requires the Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to resume regular reporting on criminal gang trends across the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reintroduced legislation to end the practice of creating new federal red tape outside of the public rulemaking process. The tactic, known as sue-and-settle litigation, is used by federal agencies and like-minded special interest groups to impose new and burdensome regulations on businesses and communities without...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold a town meeting on Tuesday, May 23, in Garner and on Thursday, May 25, in Pomeroy 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,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the former chairman and senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement regarding Special Counsel John Durham’s report on FBI and Justice Department failures that led to a flawed multi-year Russia collusion investigation.
“The baseless and politically motivated Russia collusion lie...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics discussed include: Sen. Grassley's fourth Federal Judiciary Youth Summit, border security following the expiration of Title 42, debt ceiling negotiations and federal spending, the congressional subpoena of a FBI document, the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Reform Act, the...
COUNCIL BLUFFS – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a former chairman and senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today welcomed juniors and seniors from southwestern Iowa high schools to his fourth annual Federal Judiciary Youth Summit in Council Bluffs. This year’s summit is part of Grassley’s longstanding efforts to engage Iowans in our system of...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) in introducing a bill to require the U.S. State Department to release a public, unclassified version of the July 13, 2021, internal dissent channel cable that reportedly warned of the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan and the Taliban’s...
Q: What is Title 42?
A: Title 42 refers to a section of U.S. immigration law that enables the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a public health order regulating the entry of people coming into the United States. During the previous administration, Title 42 was put in place on March 21, 2020 to help curb the spread of COVID-19. This...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) are urging President Joe Biden to swiftly nominate qualified individuals to fill critical Inspector General (IG) vacancies. In a letter to Biden, the senators note that IGs play a vital role in stewarding American taxpayer dollars and rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer issued the following statements on the FBI failing to comply with Chairman Comer’s subpoena seeking an unclassified FBI generated FD 1023 form that allegedly details a bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today reintroduced bipartisan legislation encouraging pharmacists to serve older Americans in communities that lack easy access to doctors or where pharmacists are able to provide certain basic medical...
WASHINGTON – Upon invitation from Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former Iowa governor and former U.S. ambassador to China Terry Branstad testified today at a hearing on climate change.
“Former Governor Branstad and I worked together during his time as Iowa’s governor to advocate for renewable and alternative energy...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics discussed include: the expiration of Title 42 and the introduction of the BUILD IT Act, state auditing and checks and balances within government, Congressional subpoena of FBI document, Ottumwa Regional Health Center correspondence, negotiating the debt limit and minimizing spending and...
