WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined “The Briefing” with Ed Henry on Newsmax to discuss his release of 197 subpoenas former Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team issued as part of the indiscriminate “Arctic Frost” election case against President Donald Trump. Henry and Newsmax were among Smith’s targets.
In emails...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today issued a response to Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and fellow Judiciary Committee Democrats’ inquiries regarding oversight of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation.
“Many of my Democratic colleagues failed to speak up...
Senator Grassley’s Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: China and U.S. soybean trade, SNAP benefits, government shutdown, Argentina beef imports, and the Fertilizer Research Act.
Q: Why did you hold a Judiciary Committee hearing to examine consolidation in the farm sector?
A: As the only grain farmer in the United States Senate, I’m honored to advocate on behalf of family farmers who are wrapping up the harvest season and looking ahead to next year’s crop. Today U.S. farmers are feeling crushed with uncertainty as they make plans to...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), along with Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.), had a briefing with Acting Army Materiel Commander Lieutenant General (LTC) Christopher Mohan to learn more about the impacts the Army Transformation Initiative (ATI) could have on Rock Island Arsenal and the Quad Cities...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today made public 197 subpoenas former Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team issued as part of the indiscriminate election case against President Trump. Smith’s case began at the Biden Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the codename “Arctic Frost.”
The subpoenas, which were...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee as well as a lifelong family farmer, questioned two nominees for the U.S. Trade Representative’s office about the need to support Iowa farmers, including by restoring rules-based trade with China and ending the Biden Phosphate Duties that removed...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate’s only grain farmer, led a committee hearing this morning to examine how market consolidation drives up production costs for family farmers. The hearing also touched on the high cost of fertilizer and efforts to fill in reporting gaps after the Obama...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is scrutinizing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation to determine how the organizations are complying with applicable tax laws given their reported funding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its allies.
“According to recent...
Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee
“Pressure Cooker: Competition Issues in the Seed & Fertilizer Industries”
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Today, the Judiciary Committee turns its attention to a problem Iowa farmers talk to me about at the kitchen table and at the co-op. This time of year,...
Senator Grassley’s Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: China and U.S. soybean trade, government shutdown, Argentina beef imports, Arctic Frost oversight and “The Knot” oversight.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is urging federal health officials to investigate schemes by states to provide taxpayer-funded Medicaid coverage to illegal immigrants.
In two letters to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human...
Q: What do Iowans need to know about Medicare Open Enrollment?
A: The annual open enrollment season runs now through December 7, 2025. During the government shutdown, enrollment will continue online at medicare.gov. Iowans can create or log into their online Medicare account to compare plans, find providers and talk to a representative. In 2026,...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today made public responses from U.S. Southern District of Mississippi Judge Henry T. Wingate, U.S. District of New Jersey Judge Julien Xavier Neals and the Administrative Office of the Courts (AO) Director Robert Conrad regarding Wingate and Neals’ use of generative artificial...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) today reintroduced the Gang Activity Reporting Act to confront violent crime. The bipartisan bill would require the Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to resume annual reports to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate allegations of fraudulent and deceptive business practices at The Knot, a wedding planning website, after receiving hundreds of reports from whistleblowers, including Iowans. In a follow up letter to FTC Chairman Andrew...
Senator Grassley’s Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: government shutdown, health care subsidies, Arctic Frost oversight, China and U.S. soybean trade, the Rural Emergency Hospital Program and the “No Kings” protests.
Q: What is Arctic Frost?
A: Under the Biden administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened an investigation in April 2022 codenamed Arctic Frost. I started my congressional oversight of Arctic Frost in July 2022 after whistleblowers approached my office. Ostensibly, the FBI investigation was opened to examine an alleged false electors...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced the following nominations:
Thomas Albus, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, by a vote of 12-10; and
Adam Mildred, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana by a vote of 12-10.
Watch the executive business meeting HERE. Read Chairman Chuck...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: Israel-Hamas ceasefire, aid for farmers, governnment shutdown, and U.S. Supreme Court case on the Voting Rights Act.
