News Releases

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) along with his colleagues, Sens. Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) introduced legislation to protect some rural health clinics in Iowa from a reduction in reimbursement funds. The bipartisan Rural Health Clinic Protection Act will fix a...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) and others to introduce legislation to combat the online sale of stolen, counterfeit, and dangerous consumer products by ensuring transparency of high-volume third-party sellers in online retail marketplaces. The Integrity, Notification,...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined his colleagues to introduce the Jaime Zapata and Victor Avila Federal Law Enforcement Protection Act, a bill to ensure individuals who have killed or attempted to kill U.S. federal officers and employees serving abroad can be brought to justice and prosecuted in the United States.   “Federal...

WASHINGTON – As elements of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing recently returned to the news cycle, Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today pressed the FBI and Justice Department for an update on any investigations into the false allegations made to Congress about Kavanaugh in violation of federal...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley today joined a bicameral group of colleagues led by Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa-01) in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressing outrage with her brazen efforts to overturn the state-certified election results in Iowa's Second Congressional District and unseat Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Senator Bob Casey (D-Penn.), Chairman of the Special Committee on Aging, and Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) to re-introduce the bipartisan, bicameral Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA). Enacting POWADA would restore critical protections in the...

Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 03-22-21Topics include: the Violence Against Women Act, immigration, cameras in the courtroom and D.C. statehood.

WASHINGTON – The nation’s leading law enforcement groups are calling on Congress to extend a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) authority that allows the rapid scheduling of deadly synthetic substances responsible for hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths throughout the opioid epidemic. The DEA order, which expires in May, has been instrumental in...

Q&A: Tax Season & Tax Scams With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley   Q: When is Tax Day 2021?   A: The IRS announced a one month delay for individuals to file their federal 2020 tax returns, shifting Tax Day from April 15 to May 17 this year. The federal tax-collecting agency postponed Tax Day for the second year in a row as Americans continue coping with...

WASHINGTON – Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today slammed the Biden administration’s self-induced border crisis and are pressing officials for information about how the administration is responding to the crisis amid the ongoing pandemic.   “Regardless of what the Biden Administration wants to call this current set of...

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers in both chambers of Congress reintroduced legislation requiring disclosure of third-party litigation financing agreements in civil lawsuits. The bills, which are designed to shine a light on the financial interests or potential conflicts involving third-party lawsuit funders is led by Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and five of their Senate colleagues reintroduced bipartisan legislation to expand the public’s window into federal court proceedings by allowing television cameras in federal courtrooms. The Sunshine in the Courtroom Act allows judges to permit media coverage of trial and...

WASHINGTON – As a longtime supporter of Sunshine Week, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in introducing legislation that would bring further transparency to how tax dollars are being spent in schools. The senators asked for regular public updates on the reopening status of the nation’s schools and accountability...

WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Representatives Scott Peters (D-Calif.) and John Curtis (R-Utah) today introduced the Methamphetamine Response Act, a bill declaring methamphetamine an emerging drug threat which would require the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to develop, implement and make...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Judiciary Committee today introduced legislation to require open proceedings of the Supreme Court to be televised. The bipartisan Cameras in Courtroom Act 2021would require the Supreme Court to permit television...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a senior member and former chairman of the Judiciary Committee, today introduced the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2021 to address fraud and national security vulnerabilities in the EB-5 investor visa Regional Center Program, which has...

WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Senator Patrick Leahy, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and Senator John Cornyn to issue the following statement in recognition of Sunshine...

WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today, along with Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-California), introduced the Open and Responsive Government Act, to reverse recent developments that undermine the public’s right to access information and hold government accountable....

Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 03-15-21Topics include: Coronavirus economic relief, Sunshine Week and the 2022 election cycle.

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led a group of lawmakers in calling on the Justice Department to continue its probe into whether state officials failed to comply with federal guidelines or requirements for participation in federal programs in their response to coronavirus infections among...