Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 03-01-21Topics include: Coronavirus economic relief, the Equality Act, prescription drug pricing, mental health, 2022 election and Confucius Institutes.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho),
Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, requested information from
the Internal Revenue Service regarding implementation of the House Democrats’
proposed child tax credit (CTC) advance payments program. In briefings...
WASHINGTON – Sen.Chuck Grassley condemned the action by the Democrat-controlled House ofRepresentatives to strip out aid to Iowa’s farmers devastated by last year’sderecho in their $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. The derecho aid wasproposed by Republican Rep. Randy Feenstra (Iowa-04) and supported byDemocratic Rep. Cindy Axne (Iowa-03). It was...
Q&A: Pull the Pork from COVID Relief
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s wrong with the sixth pandemic package under consideration in Congress?
A: First, let’s take account of what’s already in the pipeline. Since last March, Congress has approved $4 trillion to fight the pandemic and help hard-hit U.S. households put food on the table and...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) reintroduced the Safe and Affordable Drugs from Canada Act, which would allow individuals to safely import prescription drugs from Canada, creating savings for consumers and bringing greater competition into the pharmaceutical market.
“Addressing the rising costs of prescription drugs...
WASHINGTON – –
Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin
(D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck
Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today
introduced the COVID-19 Bankruptcy Relief Extension Act, bipartisan
legislation to temporarily extend COVID-19 bankruptcy...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) along with his colleagues Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) introduced the CFTC Fund Management Act to expand a whistleblower reward fund in danger of drying up due to the increasing success of the program. This bipartisan bill allows the commission to set aside more money...
Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 02-22-21
Topics include: President Biden’s executive orders, the Paycheck Protection Program, biofuels, Judge Garland hearing and coronavirus economic relief.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) in introducing a Senate resolution denouncing the Biden administration’s plan to ease immigration enforcement for those charged with drunk driving and some violent crimes, a move that could allow more violent criminals like Iowan Sarah Root’s killer to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined his colleagues in the Iowa Congressional delegation urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to expand eligibility of the department’s COVID-19 relief programs to include custom cattle feeders, a sector of Iowa’s agricultural economy operated primarily by family...
WASHINGTON – A
bipartisan group of lawmakers in both chambers of Congress today reintroduced
the EAGLES Act, legislation named for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Eagles, which would expand the U.S. Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment
Center (NTAC) with a greater focus on school violence prevention. The
NTAC provides research and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today received the Rural Community Assistance Partnership’s (RCAP) 2021 Congressional Champion Award. This award is given to a member of Congress to recognize their outstanding service, dedication and tireless advocacy on behalf of rural communities and small towns across the nation.
“I’ve lived my entire life on...
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency today announced its support for a recent appeals court decision supporting biofuels producers. The move is a departure from the EPA’s previous position, and follows Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) long-running campaign to restore integrity in the implementation of the law setting minimum benchmarks for the...
WASHINGTON –
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined U.S.
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chair of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, and U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) in
submitting an Amicus Brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Tarahrick Terry v.
United States, a case related to the...
Q&A: Iowa-Grown Energy is Good for America
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why did you invite the Biden administration’s climate advisor to Iowa?
A: When President Biden took office, I reassured Iowans I’ve been able to work with every president throughout my years representing Iowa. When an administration’s agenda is good for Iowa, I’m all in to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is seeking explanations from Ambassador Samantha Power, who is nominated to head the U.S. Agency for International Development, for her previous office’s effort to remove the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA) from the Treasury Department’s sanctions list. ISRA was placed on that list, maintained by the Office of Foreign...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today praised the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) announcement that it is awarding a $2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Des Moines University Osteopathic Medicine. The university will use this grant to purchase equipment for its planned state-of-the-art...
WASHINGTON – In light of new reports alleging New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and his staff engaged in a cover-up of New York’s nursing home COVID-19 death toll, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and others on a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), calling for the Committee to...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Following
testimony that New York state officials intentionally withheld data on
COVID-19-related deaths in the state’s nursing homes, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is again urging the
Biden administration to take care not to disrupt sensitive ongoing
investigations by terminating...
