WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) penned a bipartisan letter to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin urging the Administration to take action to review all Chinese investments in the U.S. for their long-term economic impact. Treasury is currently reviewing Chinese investment patterns and impact as part the Section 301...
WASHINGTON – Iowa’s U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst met with U.S. Ambassador to China and former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad yesterday in Washington, D.C. The discussion included issues such as the relationship between the United States and China, security in East Asia and ongoing developments regarding North Korea.One topic of concern...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today joined several of his colleagues in introducing the Keep Families Together and Enforce the Law Act. The legislation requires that children and their parents remain together during their legal proceedings, and incorporates many of Grassley’s suggested...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today responded to a request by his Democratic committee colleagues to hold a hearing on family separations at the border. Acknowledging the urgency of the crisis, Grassley urged colleagues to support the simplest fix to this problem. He proposed a solution that would repeal the Flores v....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa released the following statement upon learning that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the primary federal government agency responsible for medical and public health research, plans to end funding to a controversial trial aimed at finding the long term effects of daily alcohol consumption. The trial,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa joined Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi of Wyoming and fellow committee members Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Bob Corker of Tennessee, David Perdue of Georgia, John Boozman of Arkansas, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Cory Gardner of Colorado, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, in...
Prepared Remarks of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary Committee In response to Democratic comments on family separationAt committee hearing on “Citizenship for Sale: Oversight of the EB-5 Investor Visa Program” June 19, 2018VIDEO I’d like to take a moment and respond to some of the comments my colleagues have...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa sent a letter to Secretary of Defense James Mattis voicing his concerns over the ongoing waste occurring at all levels of the Department of Defense. In the letter, Grassley urges Mattis to follow through on the commitment he made in a July, 2017 department-wide memo to “bring to light wasteful practices… and take...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, continues to be a leader in the fight against opioid addiction and abuse.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that two-thirds of drug overdose deaths between 2015 and 2016 were opioid-involved...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to reiterate the importance of including medical device identifiers on the updated Medicare claim form and to urge the agency to maintain its support for this change.
In its recently-released Medical...
Farm bill must have payment limit reformSen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa The farm bill is a critical piece of legislation for Iowa and the entire country. It provides a framework from which farmers can make decisions with more certainty, and serves as a necessary safety net for our farmers in the event of a natural disaster, dramatic market shifts and other...
Grassley: Tax-reform legislation proving its worthSen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa It’s been six months since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law. Since then, there have been continuous, positive economic developments in Iowa and throughout the country.Last month, the U.S. economy generated 223,000 new jobs. In fact, more than one million new...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples (CREATES) Act by a strong bipartisan vote of 16 to 5. The legislation, sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and cosponsored by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), would combat anticompetitive...
Grassley Statement on Release of Justice Department Inspector General ReportWASHINGTON – The Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General today released a report on the actions taken by the department and the FBI ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released the following statement on...
Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate Agriculture CommitteeExecutive Business Meeting on the 2018 Farm BillJune 13, 2018VIDEO Chairman Roberts, Ranking Member Stabenow, I want to commend you for getting us here today. Putting together a bill of this size and complexity is no small task. This legislation will impact every citizen...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a family farmer, issued the following statement regarding the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill out of the Senate Agriculture Committee.“Farm programs should provide temporary, limited assistance to farmers when there’s a natural disaster or an unforeseeable, sudden change in market prices. Setting...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, received confirmation that Kuauhtemoc Rodriguez, a Department of Veterans Affairs whistleblower seeking a transfer to a new VA facility after allegations of retaliation, has...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa gave remarks at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., regarding the 2018 Senate Farm Bill. He outlined some of his top legislative priorities related to agriculture policy, including payment limits and crop insurance.Video of Grassley’s remarks is available here. A full...
