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...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) met with the Jackson County Prevention Coalition in Washington, D.C. this week to discuss policies and strategies to address and reduce drug and alcohol abuse by America’s youth, and to recognize the coalition for its service and success. The Jackson County Prevention Coalition was named Coalition of...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) to introduce the bipartisan Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 2023. The legislation would restore transparency and accountability in the cattle market by establishing regional cash minimums and equipping producers...
This would prevent lobbyists working on behalf of foreign governments and political parties from exploiting the FARA provision that exempts registrants of foreign persons or organizations from registering under FARA.
“Sunlight is the best disinfectant when it comes to the people’s business. We ought to always push for the greatest transparency possible,...
WASHINGTON
in Associated Press
to evaluate DOJ and BOP’s approach to rooting out and preventing BOP staff sexual misconduct. In November, the working group published its report and recommendations
to Attorney General Garland and DAG Monaco requesting the briefing, as well as data garnered from BOP’s Office of Internal Affairs (OIA) disciplinary records...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) and 42 of their colleagues today in introducing the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which would allow individuals with concealed carry privileges in their home state to exercise those rights in any other state that allows concealed carry,...
WASHINGTON – The Senate today unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution introduced by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) alongside other colleagues designating January as “National Trafficking and Modern Slavery Prevention Month.”
“It takes all eyes and ears to fight human trafficking and slave labor. This resolution is an...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 01-31-23Topics include: the debt ceiling, Department of Health and Human Services funding for Wuhan, China, tanks to Ukraine, IRS accountability, Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2023, Farmland Security Act.
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) are leading the introduction of the Drone Act of 2023. Their bipartisan proposal seeks to criminalize dangerous drone activity – including by drug and human traffickers who have embraced drone technology to facilitate their operations. Alarmingly, criminals have started attaching weapons to...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reintroduced legislation to help businesses comply with immigration laws by certifying the legal status of their workforce. The Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act would permanently authorize and expand the E-Verify program, an internet-based system that assists employers in determining whether...
