WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) today reintroduced the Campus Accountability and Safety Act (CASA). The legislation would enhance recovery resources for survivors of sexual assault on college campuses, ensure a consistent adjudication process and bolster transparency standards for academic institutions.
“Our bill...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today on Fox Business’ Cavuto: Coast to Coast called for the Secret Service to be transparent and take accountability for its failures following the attempted assassination of former President Trump. Grassley questioned the Secret Service’s Acting Director at a Senate hearing yesterday and has released a trove of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold public town meetings in Eldora on August 7 and Boone on August 8 as part of his annual 99 county meetings across Iowa.
“Representative government relies on open dialogue between elected officials and the people we represent. I welcome the opportunity to meet face-to-face with Iowans in Hardin and Boone...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today pressed Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe about the failed vetting and communications procedures that led to the near-assassination of former President Trump.
Rowe admitted to Grassley that he “had no explanation” for some of the Secret Service’s shortcomings at the July 13 campaign rally in Butler,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today voted for bipartisan legislation to protect youth from exploitation online and help rein in Big Tech. The package, which substantially includes the Grassley-backed Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and Children and Teens’ Online Privacy...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today delivered remarks commending whistleblowers’ role as our nation’s greatest fraud fighters. Grassley, a co-founder and co-chair of the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus, additionally introduced a Senate resolution recognizing July 30, 2024, as “National Whistleblower Appreciation Day.”
Congress enacted our...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined America’s Newsroom to discuss his oversight of the security failures that led to the assassination attempt on former President Trump. The evidence Grassley has received and made public – law enforcement text messages, bodycam footage, briefing materials and an after-action report – provide the most...
WASHINGTON – Text messages, bodycam footage, law enforcement briefing materials and an after-action report – all obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) – paint the “most detailed picture yet” of the security failures surrounding the assassination attempt on former President Trump.
Grassley has led Congress and federal agencies in providing the public the...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: the presidential election, Supreme Court ethics and term limits, unified GOP support for former President Trump, abortion, organized retail crime and the southern border.
Q: What is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)?
A: In 1974, Congress passed the Congressional Budget Act, creating a non-partisan arm of the legislative branch to crunch numbers that inform the federal budget process. For 50 years, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has provided independent analyses of budgetary and economic issues that lawmakers use to...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) received the National Retail Federation’s “Champion of Main Street” award for his bipartisan efforts to defend the American retail industry from organized crime.
“I’m honored to be recognized for my time spent fighting for Main Street,” Grassley said. “Organized retail crime is a billion-dollar problem...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, this week reminded the Justice Department (DOJ) of its longstanding practice to defend the constitutionality of laws Congress passes. His bipartisan, bicameral letter was prompted by a recent decision – which has since been appealed to the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is making public the full extent of bodycam footage obtained from local law enforcement thus far and filmed in the hour following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Grassley obtained these videos from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit (ESU) in compliance with congressional requests....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) in introducing legation directing universities and the Education Department to immediately address civil rights complaints if a student experiences violence or harassment on campus because of their heritage.
The Restoring...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) hosted a roundtable examining the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s unlawful failure to collect DNA from illegal immigrants apprehended at the border, as well as its retaliation against whistleblowers who reported the violations.
Per the Office of Special Counsel, DHS’ noncompliance...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released bodycam footage of local law enforcement and United States Secret Service (USSS) personnel responding to the scene of the shooter in Butler, Pennsylvania. The video was obtained from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit in compliance with congressional requests.
The footage records Beaver County...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: President Biden dropping out of the race, cost of living, the border crisis, the Secret Service Director's resignation and J.D. Vance as President Trump's pick for Vice President.
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) are introducing bipartisan legislation to ensure qualified and accountable leadership at the United States Secret Service (USSS). The Providing Real Oversight and Transparency to Effectively Counter Threats (PROTECT) Act would subject all future USSS Directors to Senate...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with Sens. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), are conducting congressional oversight to ensure the Justice Department (DOJ) maintains adequate funding to compensate crime victims. Recent DOJ data reveals the...
Q: What are your thoughts about the assassination attempt on former President Trump’s life?
A: Like many Americans, I was watching former President Trump’s political rally in Pennsylvania on television in real time. Grassroots participation in our electoral process is central to our system of self-government, and the former president draws massive crowds to...
