Q: What is National Adoption Month?
A: More than four decades ago, President Ronald Reagan used the power of the bully pulpit to bring attention to the tens of thousands of children in foster care awaiting a forever home. In 1984, he signed a Senate Joint Resolution to designate the week before Thanksgiving as National Adoption Week. Choosing this week...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) welcomed an announcement from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) that Iowa will receive $82,144,823 to support transit improvements across the state. The awards will be administered through DOT’s Buses & Bus Facilities Program and the Low- or No-Emission Program, which both received funding...
WASHINGTON – Seven major whistleblower groups told Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) his whistleblower advocacy “has changed the course of history for freedom of speech and government accountability to taxpayers.”
This year alone, Grassley has helped secure reinstatement and restitution for at least 15 whistleblowers at three separate government agencies. One of...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced the following nominations:
Tysen Duva, to be Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, by a vote of 12-10;
Robert P. Chamberlin, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi, by a vote of 12-10;
William J. Crain, to be United States District Judge for the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement:
“After 43 long days, the government shutdown is finally over. Dysfunction in Washington does not serve Iowans. Iowans deserve common sense, not partisan nonsense. As we approach the holiday season, I hope my colleagues are inspired to bring more bipartisanship and cooperation to the...
WASHINGTON – At a hearing today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, outlined his work to lower health care costs for Iowans, including to bring more transparency and accountability to Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) whose shady tactics raise prescription drug costs.
Grassley noted that current...
Senator Grassley’s Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: health care subsidies, rural hospital funding, the Epstein files, cameras in federal court rooms, U.S. and China soybean trade and SNAP.
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), Chairs of the Senate Committees on the Judiciary and Appropriations, respectively, welcomed the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) decision to apportion $4,287,000 for the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE).
This decision will ensure CIGIE can...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) staff will hold traveling office hours in 17 counties next week, from November 24 to November 26. Iowans seeking assistance with a federal agency or wishing to share their views may stop by during the scheduled hours listed below.
NOTE: Senator Grassley will not be in attendance. He will be...
Senator Grassley’s Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: China and U.S. soybean trade, the Farm Bill, tariffs on fertilizer, health care subsidies, airline operations and congress members’ pay during the government shutdown.
KOSSUTH COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) yesterday concluded his 45th annual 99 county meetings across Iowa with a tour of Country Maid in West Bend, followed by a question-and-answer session with employees. Earlier in the day, Grassley held meetings in Akron, Sheldon and Rock Rapids. Grassley takes questions on any subject, and Iowans set...
Q: Why are you continuing to push for cameras in federal courtrooms?
A: Opening up the federal courthouse to cameras would help foster civic engagement and boost public confidence in our legal system. As a watchdog for good government, I’ve led a crusade for nearly three decades to let the sun shine on federal court proceedings so people can see the wheels...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is making public internal emails and a Federal Bureau of Investigation Electronic Communication (FBI EC) exposing Department of Justice (DOJ) officials’ refusal to open a criminal investigation into potential campaign finance violations committed by Hillary Clinton and the...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are pressing Verizon, AT&T and Lumen to elaborate on the full extent of the Biden Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) efforts to obtain information relating to Members of...
Q: What’s the history behind Veterans Day?
A: President Eisenhower signed legislation in 1954 that renamed Armistice Day to Veterans Day to honor all veterans of all wars. Armistice Day was made a national holiday in 1938 to honor the sacrifice of those who served in World War I and commemorate the end of fighting on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) are reintroducing the bipartisan Providing Real Oversight and Transparency to Effectively Counter Threats (PROTECT) Act to ensure all future United States Secret Service (USSS) Directors are Senate confirmed and subject to a single, 10-year...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today voted unanimously to advance the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025, led by Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is a cosponsor. The bipartisan bill would help reunite Holocaust survivors with their stolen artwork by ensuring that their...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) are urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to amend its procedures for congressional attendance at Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (FISCR) proceedings ahead of the expiration of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong family farmer and a Senate Agriculture Committee member, questioned Glen Smith of Atlantic, Iowa about the need to support ethanol and biofuels and to improve loan functions at the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support family farmers.
Grassley also discussed the Rural Economic Development Loan and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) today wrote to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts regarding federal judges’ anonymous, partisan and public statements smearing the Supreme Court.
Grassley and Jordan’s oversight follows anonymous statements made by federal...
