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WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), along with every member of Iowa’s congressional delegation in the House, are introducing legislation to rename two Iowa Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities in honor of Staff Sgts. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar and William Nathaniel Howard, the Iowa National Guardsmen who...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), John Kennedy (R-La.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) today introduced the Litigation Funding Transparency Act. The legislation would require parties to publicly disclose third-party litigation funding, including foreign funding, in mass tort and class action...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) are urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to collect the nearly $10 billion of outstanding criminal fines and penalties DOJ is owed and swiftly deposit them into the Crime Victims Fund...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined The Dr. Phil Podcast to discuss his three bipartisan bills to combat the rise in online child abuse and hold violent criminals accountable. The legislative package will be considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, February 12, at 10:15 a.m. ET.
The Sentencing...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee is putting Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile in the hot seat after Chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) oversight revealed the three companies secretly provided toll records for accounts associated with members of Congress to Jack Smith and the Arctic Frost investigation.
Grassley, along with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.),...
Audio from this afternoon’s call is available HERE.
Topics discussed: ICE, E15, the DHS appropriations bill, the Epstein Files and Argentina beef imports.
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) reintroduced the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Finance and Counterfeiting Act to enhance criminal money laundering statutes.
“Criminal enterprises and terrorist organizations depend on ill-begotten cash to carry out their dark deeds. As money...
Q: What prompted your decades-long advocacy for kids with complex medical needs?
A: Parents work their tails off to provide for their kids, from putting food on the table to putting money away for their education. Most days, moms and dads are burning the candle at both ends to make it through the homework grind and shuttle their kids to daycare or...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced the following nominations:
Thomas Govan, to be United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, by a vote of 12-10;
Zachary Keller, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, by a vote of 13-9; and
Ryan Raybould, to be United States Attorney for the Northern...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to address reported failures to provide follow-up care for children on Medicaid who have experienced suicidal thoughts or behaviors. Patients with an identified suicide risk history...
WASHINGTON – Today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Nazi-linked accounts at Credit Suisse, inspired by an ongoing oversight investigation led by Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), brought new facts about the bank’s past to light and increased pressure on Credit Suisse’s successor bank, UBS, to ensure the investigation isn’t stifled.
Here’s what news...
WASHINGTON – Legislation from Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) is now law after President Trump signed a Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding package today. Grassley’s bipartisan Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care Act, which was included in the package, improves health care access for children with complex medical conditions by simplifying...
WASHINGTON– The OPTN Fee Collection Authority Act from Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) today became law as part of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding package signed by President Trump. The law enables the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)’s continued implementation of Grassley’s life-saving reforms to the U.S. organ...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and John Fetterman (D-Pa.) sent a letter to Department of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Director Andrea Gacki, urging them to implement the Grassley-authored Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Improvement Act. The law created FinCEN’s whistleblower program to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today chaired a hearing to examine Swiss banks’ hidden Nazi ties. The hearing provided an update on Grassley and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-R.I.) ongoing investigation into Credit Suisse’s historic servicing of Nazi-linked accounts.
In response to Grassley’s questions, Neil Barofsky –...
Audio from this afternoon’s call is available HERE.
Topic’s discussed: ICE, Gaza ceasefire agreement, government funding, DOJ, the Federal Reserve and midterms.
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) are introducing the Student Loan Bond Expansion Act of 2026 this week to reduce financial barriers for college students looking for lower interest loans. The legislation would exempt Qualified Student Loan Bonds (QSLB) from the private activity bond volume cap and the alternative minimum tax,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) in introducing the Veterans Hearing Aid Improvement Act to improve access to over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids for eligible veterans through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
“Hearing loss limits a person’s ability to participate in...
Q: How widespread of a problem is human trafficking in our country?
A: Although exact numbers are difficult to nail down – estimates of victims trafficked within the United States range up to a million people every year – the crime of forcing a human being to provide labor, sex or domestic servitude occurs in communities across the entire country. It’s even...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced a resolution designating January as National Stalking Awareness Month. The bipartisan and bicameral resolution seeks to raise awareness of the dangers of stalking and boost prevention efforts. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Debbie Dingell...
