WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Personnel, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, raising concerns over retired military officers working for foreign governments. The lawmakers are...
Des Moines, Iowa – Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) will host the United States Service Academy Virtual Informational Nights on Monday, May 1st, and Tuesday, May 2nd, for Iowa students interested in applying to our nation’s military academies. Every year, Grassley and Ernst each nominate 10 individuals to each of the U.S. Service...
Q: How was Social Security saved 40 years ago?A: A bipartisan commission created in 1981 by Congress and President Ronald Reagan set aside partisanship for the public good to save Social Security. Back then, the public retirement program was heading for fiscal insolvency. Specifically, the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund would have run out of...
WASHINGTON – Sen U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today reintroduced the bipartisan Drug-price Transparency for Consumers (DTC) Act, a bill that would require price disclosures on advertisements for prescription drugs, in order to empower patients and reduce spending on medications. The Government...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the lead sponsors of the landmark First Step Act (FSA), reintroduced three pieces of criminal justice reform legislation today to further implement the FSA and advance its goals. The First Step Act, which was signed into...
WASHINGTON – In an effort to improve accountability at big banks and ensure managers of failed banks don’t profit from their mismanagement and negligence, U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) introduced the Bank Management Accountability Act (S. 1181). The bipartisan bill would make it easier for banking regulators to claw back...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today led a group of 18 Republican colleagues in introducing a broad package to clarify and strengthen violent crime laws related to attacks on law enforcement, bank robbery, carjacking, kidnapping and other offenses. The Combating Violent and Dangerous Crime Act resolves discrepancies brought on by conflicting...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco about the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) failure to produce documents regarding its foreign operations in Mexico, mismanagement of U.S. resources sent to foreign countries and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) this week to introduce the Project Safe Childhood Act, which would make improvements to the investigation and prosecution of online child exploitation.
“We must do all we can to ensure America’s...
WASHINGTON — Multiple reports shine a new light on Credit Suisse’s historical servicing of Nazi clients and Nazi-linked accounts, which in some cases continued until as recently as 2020. The reports, released by the Senate Budget Committee on Holocaust Remembrance Day, detail a multi-year internal investigation by a forensic research firm retained by Credit...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics discussed: the organized retail crime and the illicit drug trade public roundtable hosted by Sen. Grassley in Cedar Rapids, Administrative False Claims Act of 2023, Senate Agriculture Subcommittee Hearing on, “SNAP and Other Nutrition Assistance in the Farm...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE. Topics discussed include: Sen.
Boozman joining Sen. Grassley and Sen. Ernst in Iowa to discuss the 2023 Farm Bill priorities, pain at the
pump with high gas prices, fossil fuel production, E-15 year round
availability, Iowa Caucus, Rural Emergency Hospital program, the NRA...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and a bipartisan group of 14 colleagues urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to strengthen the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Specifically, the senators are calling on EPA to maintain the blending requirements for 2023, deny all pending Small Refinery Exemptions (SREs),...
Q: What is the Cooper Davis Act?
A: Counterfeit pills laced with illicit fentanyl are driving overdose deaths among our youngest generations. In addition to better public awareness, law enforcement needs more tools. On behalf of Iowans, I’m working in the U.S. Senate to strengthen policies at the federal level to help save precious lives from overdose...
RED OAK, IOWA – On Wednesday, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) hosted Senator John Boozman (R-Ark.) – ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee – for Farm Bill discussions in Story, Greene and Guthrie Counties.
“Senator Boozman will be a leading voice for Senate Republicans while writing this year’s Farm Bill, and I’m...
RED OAK, IOWA – On Wednesday, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) hosted Senator John Boozman (R-Ark.) – ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee – for Farm Bill discussions in Story, Greene and Guthrie Counties.
“Senator Boozman will be a leading voice for Senate Republicans while writing this year’s Farm Bill, and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is today calling on the Biden administration to once again issue an emergency extension of the Reid vapor pressure waiver for this summer, which would allow the sale of higher ethanol blend fuels between June 1 and September 15. Grassley’s letter to the president comes on the anniversary of President Biden’s visit to...
WASHINGTON – Following the release of a final rule forcing small businesses to comply with burdensome social reporting requirements, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joins Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.) in the fight against the Biden administration's overreaching small business rule.
The Small LENDER Act would block the Consumer Financial Protection...
Q: What steps should Iowans take to prepare for severe weather?A: Iowans are no strangers to severe weather, from the historic derecho in 2020 to deadly tornados, damaging hail, thunderstorms that produce lightning and flash flooding, blizzards and more. With the volatile severe weather season underway, it’s important to have a family emergency...
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA – A group of local, state and federal officials explored the shadowy ties between a spike in organized retail crime and the illicit drug trade at a public roundtable today. The event, hosted by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), fostered dialogue between retail leaders, who are increasingly targeted by organized retail crime rings, and law...
