Q&A: “Rainbow” Fentanyl Targets Kids
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What do parents need to know about “rainbow” fentanyl?
A: As students headed back to school, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued an alert about candy-colored, “rainbow” fentanyl produced and marketed by the drug cartels to entice young people. When parents across...
WASHINGTON – Iowan Alexis Taylor, President Biden’s nominee to be undersecretary
of agriculture for trade and foreign agricultural affairs at the Department of
Agriculture, testified today during a nominations
hearing before the Senate Agriculture Committee. Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), a member of the committee, praised the nomination during the...
WASHINGTON -- Today, following yet another classified congressional briefing on the Biden administration’s failure to adequately vet Afghan evacuees, which included the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released the following statement:
"The DHS inspector general’s report released this...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Co-Chairs of the Senate Baltic Freedom Caucus, met with the Speaker of Lithuania’s Parliament Viktorija Cmilyte-Nielsen to discuss the continued congressional support for the Baltic States as well as ongoing Russian aggression and interference in western...
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation to improve our nation’s ability to prevent foreign governments, including adversaries like the Chinese and Russian Governments,...
WASHINGTON – Judiciary Committee Ranking
Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today pushed Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and
Justice Department senior leadership to do more to promote competition and
fairness in the agriculture and prescription drug industries during an oversight hearing on antitrust enforcement. “For quite some time, I’ve been concerned...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), a family farmer and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, was
joined by Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Jon Tester
(D-Mont.) in introducing the Biochar
Research Network Act. This bipartisan, bicameral proposal seeks to study
the effectiveness of biochar, which is a carbon-rich...
WASHINGTON – Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), today introduced legislation to extend Kevin and Avonte’s Law, which assists communities in locating individuals with autism, Alzheimer’s and related conditions that cause them to wander from safety. The bill, which reauthorizes a 2018 law authored by...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
and Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) introduced a bipartisan resolution recognizing today, September 19, as National Stillbirth Prevention
Day. The resolution seeks to lower the stillbirth rate in the U.S. by raising
awareness of the cause of stillbirth. Grassley and Hinson were joined by Sens.
Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 09-19-22Topics include: helping families,
disaster aid, 2022 election, end-of-session priorities, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, SJC anti-trust
subcommittee hearing and the Cattle Price
Discovery and Transparency Act.
WASHINGTON – Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), joined Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and 29 Republican Senate colleagues in calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to grant U.S. Attorney David Weiss special counsel protections and authorities to conduct the investigation into Hunter...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), president pro tempore emeritus of the U.S. Senate, released the following statement congratulating the Storm Lake Police Department after the law enforcement agency was presented with the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Freedom Award. This is the highest U.S. government honor awarded to employers that support the...
Q&A: PACT Act
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What is the PACT Act?
A: In August, Congress passed the Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act that provides eligibility for medical benefits to 3.5 million veterans sickened by toxin exposure during their military service in the Gulf War, post-9/11 and Vietnam War eras. This...
WASHINGTON – Momentum continued to build
for Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) Combating
Violent and Dangerous Crime Act, with Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) introducing companion
legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday. As ranking member
of the Judiciary Committee, Grassley first introduced the crime-fighting proposal in July with 24 Republican...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today voted to advance the Speak Out Act, legislation clarifying that nondisclosure agreements can’t prohibit survivors from speaking out about sexual assault or harassment. Grassley is a cosponsor of the bipartisan bill, which the committee advanced today by voice...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), president pro tempore emeritus of the U.S. Senate, was presented with the Guardian of Small Business Award by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) today. This award, which is NFIB’s most prestigious legislative award, is reserved for lawmakers who consistently support policies that help small...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Co-Chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Chairman of the caucus, today released a bipartisan report entitled: Strengthening U.S. Efforts to Attack the Financial Networks of Cartels. The report offers recommendations for Congress and the Biden...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), family farmer and president pro tempore emeritus of the U.S. Senate, today received the “2022 Fueling Growth Award” for his continuous support and work on behalf of America’s biofuels producers. The award given by Growth Energy, a national biofuel trade association, is exclusively reserved for congressional members...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
is calling on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to
finalize regulations for the new rural emergency hospital (REH) designation, a
voluntary Medicare payment for rural hospitals that ensures minimal
administrative burden, maximum flexibility and timely implementation. Over the
last several years,...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded a $1.1 million grant to the Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Department (Iowa HSEMD) to cover costs incurred from the 2020 derecho. FEMA’s announcement comes after Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and members of the Iowa congressional...
