WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) today introduced a bill authorizing the Architect of the Capitol to bury a time capsule on the Capitol’s west lawn as part of the planned semiquincentennial celebration in 2026, which will be 250 years since our nation’s founding. The capsule would remain sealed until the United States’...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Senate Republican colleagues in releasing the following statement ahead of President Biden’s meeting with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in San Francisco.
“President...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and fellow Senate Finance Committee Republicans are demanding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provide the specific steps it is taking to address security weaknesses at the agency. The lawmakers’ latest call for greater transparency and accountability comes amid oversight reports of data security concerns and an...
WASHINGTON – Amid National Adoption Month, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) congratulated Joel and Heather Fry, who were honored by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) for their work in adoption and child welfare. The Clarke County family, nominated by Grassley, were chosen as CCAI’s 2023 Angels in Adoption Honorees representing the state of...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill report can be found HERE.
Topics include: Senate appropriation bills, aid to Ukraine and Israel, the status of the farm bill, the Iowa caucuses and the Grassley amendment to the Better Mental Health Care, Lower-Cost Drug and Extenders Act adopted by the Senate Finance Committee on Nov. 8, 2023.
Q: What is National Adoption Month?
A: During this season of thanksgiving, families will gather together around the table and celebrate the Thanksgiving feast. From one year to the next, Americans carry on family traditions, recipes and stories that have been passed down from generation to generation. This is the time of year when gathering with family...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Finance Committee today adopted Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) amendment requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to report to Congress on the impacts of a rule pertaining to Part D reimbursements and direct and indirect remuneration (DIR) clawbacks, slated to take effect January 1, 2024. Grassley’s amendment aims to hold...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: the Farm Bill, border security, U.S. military presence in the Middle East, support for Israel, the importance of participation in local politics and the top concerns among Iowa constituents.
Q: What is the historical significance of Nov. 11?
A: On the “11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month,” fighting ceased between the Allied nations and Germany during World War I. Back then, November 11, 1918 (Armistice Day) was regarded as the end of the war “to end all wars.” In the years to follow, President Woodrow Wilson and Congress deemed Nov. 11...
WASHINGTON – Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and colleagues to reintroduce bipartisan budget reform legislation. The Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act would overhaul the way Congress allocates federal dollars and strengthen oversight of government spending,...
WASHINGTON – Senior members of the Senate Judiciary Committee Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), along with 24 Senate Republican colleagues, introduced legislation to ensure the American people have a full accounting of the number of migrants being released into the United States by the Biden administration. The Southern Border...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), is seeking data from U.S. law enforcement agencies on the volume and nature of weapons identified or recovered at the southern border. This includes the increased use of drones by transnational criminal organizations to surveil U.S. law enforcement or deploy explosives. Grassley’s inquiry comes as FBI Director Chris...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is raising concerns that Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) failure to consistently collect DNA from illegal immigrants apprehended at the border is robbing law enforcement of critical investigative leads, hampering the United States’ ability to go after unsolved criminal cases.
According to FBI DNA Database Unit...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Fox Business’ Kudlow to discuss new details he obtained on the volume of FBI sources who provided information of criminality on members of the Biden family, and the steps the FBI took to bury such information. Today’s interview comes on the heels of a letter Grassley sent the Justice Department and FBI...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Iowa pharmacies are urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to act ahead of financial burdens slated to hit rural drugstores on January 1, 2024. This looming problem was spurred by a regulatory change to direct and indirect remuneration (DIR) clawback fees, specifically Medicare Part D...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) are lauding unanimous Senate passage of their Find and Protect Foster Youth Act. The bipartisan bill would create a feedback loop between states and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to improve care and...
WASHINGTON – As National Youth Substance Use Prevention Month comes to a close, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined officials from the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Education Department and community leaders to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Drug Free Communities (DFC) program. The DFC Program provides local partners with grants to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is demanding the Biden administration provide a full account of the scope of its “CBP One” program, a government-run mobile application that has been used to parole thousands of otherwise inadmissible aliens into the U.S. without proper vetting, including over 7,000 foreign nationals who should be flagged as...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: Israel-Hamas conflict, Iran, funding for Ukraine and Israel, Hamas hostages, Biden student debt transfer plan and the current state of the federal appropriations process.
WASHINGTON – The staff of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold traveling office hours in 21 Iowa counties from November 6 through November 17. Iowans seeking assistance regarding a personal issue with a federal agency or wishing to share views on matters of federal policy may stop by during the scheduled hours.
Grassley will be represented by his regional...
