WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee members Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) today reintroduced the Justice for Murder Victims Act. Their bipartisan proposal seeks to eliminate the 13th century “year-and-a-day” rule, which prohibits homicide prosecutions if the victim died more than a year-and-a-day from the date of the defendant’s assault....
WASHINGTON – Legislation Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) targets the rise in flash mob robberies and intricate retail theft schemes sweeping the nation. The Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2023 establishes a coordinated multi-agency response and creates new tools to...
Q: What should taxpayers know before filing their 2022 tax returns?
A: As lawmakers roll up their sleeves and get to work in the new session of Congress, taxpayers are getting their ducks in a row for tax season that got underway on Jan. 23. That’s the first day the IRS began accepting and processing returns for the 2022 tax year. The federal agency...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary and Finance committees, and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash), chair of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, are continuing to press for transparency and fairness in the prescription drug supply chain. They partnered on several efforts to hold pharmacy benefit...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced the Senate passage of their bipartisan, bicameral resolution designating January as National Stalking Awareness Month. The resolution raises awareness of the dangers of stalking and highlights the need for law enforcement to prevent this predatory behavior. Approximately...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is partnering with Sens. Dick
Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and
Chris Coons (D-Del.) to introduce bipartisan legislation that would establish a
task force between the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reintroduced legislation aimed at cracking down on foreign adversaries’ efforts to secretly influence U.S. policy. The Disclosing Foreign Influence in Lobbying Act closes a loophole, frequently exploited by the Chinese Communist Party, which allows some entities to conceal their...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators, led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), re-introduced legislation to help police, fire, emergency medical and 911 personnel cope with the stresses of responding to crisis situations. The Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act of 2023 would establish mental health programs for America’s first responders who often...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the senior
Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.)
reintroduced legislation to improve justice for young survivors of sex crimes.
The Preventing Child
Sex Abuse Act strengthens a federal sex tourism law
that prosecutors feared was too vague to convict former USA Gymnastics...
WASHINGTON – On Monday, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), senior member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to Debra Steidel Wall, Acting Archivist at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), requesting information related to the...
WASHINGTON - On Monday, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), senior member of the Committee on the Judiciary and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle requesting a complete list of all individuals who entered locations where classified...
Q&A: Veterans in Crisis
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s the new benefit now available to veterans in crisis?
A: In 2020, the Senate unanimously passed the Veterans Comprehensive Prevention, Access to Care and Treatment (COMPACT) Act to expand access to mental health services for veterans experiencing acute suicidal crisis. Signed by...
DES MOINES, IOWA – Two Iowa hospitals will be able to recruit and train additional doctors thanks to a 2020 law championed by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines and MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center have received additional Medicare funds to cover nearly six additional graduate medical education (GME) residency...
Q&A: Foreign Ownership of U.S. Farmland
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s new with your efforts to boost transparency in foreign investment of farmland?
A: Last year, Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and I teamed up and introduced the Farmland Security Act to shine a spotlight on foreign investment of U.S. farmland. Our bill requires the USDA...
WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to Richard Sauber, Special Counsel to the President, regarding Joe Biden’s compliance with federals records storage and archival...
WASHINGTON –Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today hurt his hip and will have surgery this week. He is otherwise in good spirits and is expected to make a full recovery.
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WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), presumptive ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, is seeking information from a broad set of federal government agencies about their use of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Mobility Program, which allows agencies to utilize non-federal employees to serve in temporary roles in the federal government...
WASHINGTON
– Legislation expanding rights for survivors of crimes of sexual violence
throughout the nation has become law as a part of Congress’ annual defense
funding package. The Survivors’ Bill of Rights in the States Act, bipartisan
legislation introduced by Sens. Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), builds on the senators’ prior
work to...
Q&A:
118th CongressWith U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: What are your committee assignments in the 118th Congress? A: On Jan. 3,
I was honored to take the constitutional oath of office to represent Iowans for
an 8th term in the U.S. Senate. It is a solemn oath I take
to heart and strive every day to uphold the blessings of...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R- Iowa) will begin holding meetings with Iowans in every county this year starting on Monday, January 9, in Dallas County. Grassley will hold a Q&A with students at Dallas Center-Grimes High School.
Grassley will begin his 43rd year holding meetings in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties. He’s held at least one...
