BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the Senate President pro tempore as well as a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today made the following statement on President Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court. “Judge Barrett demonstrated her...
Q&A: Supreme Court VacancyWith U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: What is the Senate’s role to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court? A: Article 2, Section 2, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution says the President, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall nominate judges to the U.S. Supreme Court. That means the president has...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced the bipartisan
Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care Act to help families access life-saving care for children with complex medical conditions. The legislation aims to facilitate access to care while retaining program safeguards and reducing regulatory burdens on providers. Joining...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today
urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue to provide Iowa agricultural cooperatives with additional support and relief as they continue to rebuild from the derecho. This letter comes following a
request made last week led by the Iowa Institute of...
Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today made the following comment to, once again, correct the record and call out misinformation spread by leading Congressional Democrats regarding payroll tax policy. “It’s confounding that I have to keep saying this, especially after the Washington Post gave these...
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– Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today issued the following comment after the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) today approved new rules regarding awards for whistleblowers who bring forward information about fraud.
“I’m glad Chairman Clayton and the commission heeded many of my concerns and many concerns of...
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– Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released a comprehensive
report on care in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities in the United States during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The report, titled “COVID-19 and Nursing Homes: What Went Wrong and Next Steps,” reviews U.S. nursing home performance during the...
By Alex HendrieAmericans for Tax ReformPublished September 22, 2020 The IRS has released 2018 Statistics of Income (SOI) data. This data shows that middle income American families saw the biggest tax cut – measured as the percentage decrease in "total tax liability" between 2017 and 2018 – from the Trump-Republican...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeWednesday, September 23, 2020VIDEO I’ve spoken before about the need to reform the multiemployer pension system. According to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s annual projections report released last week, that need for reform is as...
By Dan McLaughlin
Published August 7, 2020
National Review
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History supports Republicans filling the seat. Doing so would not be in any way inconsistent with Senate Republicans’ holding open the seat vacated by Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016. The reason is simple, and was explained by Mitch McConnell at the time. Historically, throughout American...
Washington – U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Rep. Sam Graves (Mo.) and seven additional members of Congress to send a
letter urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to provide additional funding for projects that will improve safety and navigation on the Lower Missouri River. The letter was cosigned by Sens. Josh Hawley...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeTuesday, September 22, 2020VIDEO Last week, former Vice President Biden released his presidential tax plan. He vowed to raise taxes immediately on U.S. businesses, even though our country is recovering from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression....
A Democratic Senate pattern, from Bork to the filibuster rule Wall Street Journal EditorialPublished September 20, 2020 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is widely reported to have told his Democratic colleagues on Saturday that “nothing is off the table for next year” if Republicans confirm a Supreme Court nominee in this Congress....
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Democrats’ Claiming They Want to Eliminate the FilibusterTuesday, September 22, 2020VIDEO Those on the other side of the aisle who openly say they will end the filibuster if they get the majority should explain why they continue to vote to filibuster important issues like police...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today made the following statement about the current Supreme Court vacancy after the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “In 2016, with an open seat on the U.S. Supreme Court and a window into the type of justice he’d...
The Iowa Congressional delegation is working to ensure Iowa farmers and producers have support through the Commodity Credit Corporation in the midst of COVID-19, derecho recovery and extreme drought
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined his colleagues in the Iowa Congressional delegation in
urging Speaker of the House of...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released IRS data showing a significant increase in syndicated conservation easement transactions. Last month, the Finance Committee released a bipartisan report on syndicated conservation easement...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Senate President pro tempore, today released the following statement on the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “For more than a quarter century on the highest court in the land, Justice Ginsburg fought tirelessly for greater justice, equality and opportunity for all...
