Trailblazing Judges Confirmed Despite Delay TacticsU.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary CommitteeLaw360Monday, March 12, 2018When President Donald Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2017, our federal courts had more than 100 vacancies, including one for the United States Supreme Court. As chairman of the Senate Judiciary...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) provided notice of a committee hearing to take place on March 14, 2018, to focus on the tragic shooting that occurred in Parkland, Florida. Grassley publicly noted his intent to hold this hearing during the committee’s executive business meeting last week. In the time...
America First Means Lowering Foreign Trade BarriersU.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaFox News ChannelWednesday, March 07, 2018 President Trump’s America-first strategy has been working. From his aggressive deregulation of burdensome and unnecessary Obama-era regulations to the continuing success of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the President’s...
Schools could use federal dollars for school counselors, alarm systems, security cameras, and crisis intervention training
WASHINGTON – A group of 13 senators today introduced legislation to allow 100,000 public schools to improve school safety by using federal dollars for school counselors, alarm systems, security cameras and crisis intervention...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Rep. David Young (IA-03), along with Reps. Rod Blum (IA-01), Dave Loebsack (IA-02) and Steve King (IA-04), in sending a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to consider the consequences of imposing tariffs on imported steel and aluminum that could harm Iowa’s...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chair and co-chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics, wrote a letter, along with 22 of their colleagues, to Sens. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman and vice-chairman of the Appropriations Committee...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today congratulated former Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey on his swearing-in as Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “Bill Northey is a highly qualified and honorable man. His experience in soil conservation and renewable fuel development has...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today reintroduced legislation to improve school safety and prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands. The Protecting Communities and Preserving the Second Amendment Act of 2018 prevents gun violence by ensuring that relevant agencies and...
WASHINGTON – In February’s “Grassley Direct,” Sen. Grassley discusses Bill Northey's confirmation to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act and the benefits Iowans are seeing from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.For the full video, click here. It can also be found on Facebook and...
WASHINGTON – Today US Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Bill Nelson (D-FL), John Cornyn (R-TX), Tom Udall (D-NM), Dean Heller (R-NV), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Shelley Moore...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa are demanding answers from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regarding their national review of all VA health care provider licenses in order to certify that no doctors have been hired illegally. Grassley and Ernst’s call for answers follows a disturbing report that shed light on illegal...
Op-ed: Grassley: An all-of-the-above energy strategy means ethanol, tooU.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaThe Houston ChronicleMarch 2, 2018It’s no secret that oil and natural gas are significant economic drivers in Texas. The Lone Star state is home to some of the nation’s largest refineries and produces billions of barrels of conventional...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement regarding today’s meeting with President Donald Trump, U.S. Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) and industry stakeholders. “Both sides made their case and the only agreement was to look at economic studies for impact. No...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) in seeking feedback from the health care and patient communities as they develop legislation to improve price transparency in the health care market and lower costs. The...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today issued the following statement on EPA’s official position, restated as recently as November 2017 that, “high RIN prices do not cause significant harm to refiners.” Grassley also commented on a previously unreleased letter that he, along with Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Deb Fischer...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley introduced legislation that would inject needed transparency in a targeted way into the 340B program. The 340B program was created by Congress in the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 and allows hospitals and other health care entities to receive discounted prices on prescription drugs and biologics from drug...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa on Tuesday met with sexual assault survivors Amanda Nguyen and Evan Rachel Wood to discuss policies supporting victims of sexual violence. Nguyen, the founder of RISE, worked with Grassley to pass the Survivors’ Bill of Rights in 2016. Wood, star of the HBO series “Westworld” partnered with...
Concerned about government waste, senators ask about guidance which allows estates to continue collecting farm benefits automatically even two years after the death of a farmerWASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), and senior Agriculture Committee member U.S. Senator Chuck...
Senate Floor Statement by Senator Chuck GrassleyChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeElizabeth Branch to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Eleventh CircuitFebruary 27, 2018 Mr. President, today the Senate is voting to confirm Judge Elizabeth Branch to serve as a U.S. Circuit Court Judge for the Eleventh Circuit. Judge Branch was favorably reported out...
