WASHINGTON – The bi-state congressional delegation representing the Quad Cities is aiming to improve access to workers' compensation for federal employees in the region, including those at Rock Island Arsenal. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), along with...
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Chair Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today opened a bipartisan investigation into the impacts of private equity ownership on our nation’s hospitals. Grassley and Whitehouse sent letters to the chief executive officers (CEOs) of Apollo Global Management, Lifepoint Health, Medical...
WASHINGTON – Amid a barrage of warnings about the country’s deteriorating fiscal health, Senate Budget Committee Republicans today are urging Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) to convene a series of hearings examining policies to address the nation’s looming economic challenges. In a letter cosigned by all committee Republicans, the senators cite credit...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), whose congressional oversight of the FBI has raised serious concerns about its operations, grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray about the agency’s record at today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Before the committee gaveled in, Grassley on a call with reporters characterized Wray’s testimony as an...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today led 38 Senate Republicans in calling on the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to overhaul its harmful and deficient policies governing the agency’s treatment of unaccompanied alien children in the United States. ORR’s Proposed Rule – parts of which the agency is...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: the Israel-Hamas war, the narrowing pool of republican presidential candidates, the Affordable Care Act, budget negotiations, the USMCA dairy dispute and border security.
WASHINGTON -- As a result of an ongoing bipartisan Senate Budget Committee investigation, Credit Suisse has agreed to reinstate Independent Ombudsperson Neil Barofsky to oversee the bank’s internal investigation into its historic servicing of previously undisclosed Nazi-linked accounts.
Credit Suisse was approached in 2020 with credible information that...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and colleagues introduced legislation to bring greater transparency, accountability and clarity to foreign gift reporting requirements for American colleges and universities in an effort to protect higher education institutions from foreign adversaries’ influence. Grassley has long raised...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today made the following statement regarding the passing of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
“Justice O’Connor was the first Supreme Court nominee I had the honor of voting for as a senator. She was a trailblazer...
Q: Why is U.S. border security in shambles?
A: For three years, the Biden administration has failed to secure the border and enforce our nation’s immigration laws. In fact, illegal immigration reached an all-time record high in fiscal year 2023. This dereliction of duty has led to disastrous consequences, from migrant children facing endangerment by abuse...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, today was among a bipartisan coalition of 32 senators calling on President Biden to reaffirm America’s global economic leadership rather than kowtow to China. Specifically, the senators urged Biden to reverse a decision by the U.S. Trade...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released a statement regarding the passing of Henry Kissinger.
“I compliment Henry Kissinger on his public service, steady hand during the Cold War and excellent books on world affairs. He served as both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, the only person to hold both positions concurrently for a time,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Brad Finstad (R-Minn.), along with House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “G.T.” Thompson (R-Pa.), applauded the Department of Agriculture (USDA) for extending the Time-Limited Trial for New Swine Inspection System (NSIS) plants, but cautioned that the short 90-day extension would do little to provide...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: qualities to look for in a presidential candidate, COVID-19 funding fraud, AmeriCorps, Iowa receiving additional medical residency positions, Adopt GREET Act and presidential candidates completing the Full Grassley.
Q: How do DIR fees drive up costs for prescription drugs?
A: Sticker shock at the pharmacy counter continues to hammer patients when they pick up their prescription medicines. Coupled with historic inflation that pushed up prices for groceries, rent and gas, U.S. households are stretched thin to afford their medications. Iowans may not realize the sticker...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: next steps following the passage of the continuing resolution, a farm bill update, Sen. Tuberville's military promotion block, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implementing a Grassley-led transparency initiative, aid to Israel and Ukraine and the passing of former...
Q: What’s your message for Iowans this Thanksgiving Day?
A: As Americans, we are blessed to enjoy economic and individual freedoms that we must strive never to take for granted. Be grateful for the blessings of America’s agricultural abundance and natural resources that support U.S. food security and fuel our economy from sea to shining sea. Don’t shy away...
WASHINGTON – For the second time this year, a law championed by Sen. Chuck Grassley is enhancing Iowa’s ability to recruit and train medical doctors. MercyOne Iowa in Des Moines will receive Medicare funds to cover three additional graduate medical education (GME) residency positions made available under the 2020 law to support Iowa’s growing health care...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), co-chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting an explanation of what legal actions, if any, the Justice and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statement after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule implementing a Grassley-led initiative, signed into law in 2010, requiring nursing homes to disclose to CMS its ownership and management structure.
“For too long, our nation’s nursing home system has...
