WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today cosponsored legislation to untangle a web of federal red tape that has prevented key energy from moving forward. The Simplify Timelines and Assure Regulatory Transparency (START) Act, a comprehensive federal regulatory permitting and project review reform package would clarify criteria and timelines for...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 09-12-22Topics include: Queen
Elizabeth II, the American Innovation and
Choice Online Act, ethanol in Farm Bill, Farm Bill priorities, the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act and tech censorship.
Q&A: Community Pharmacies
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: How do Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) inflate prescription drug costs?
A: When I make my 99 county visits across Iowa, I hear from Iowans about the high costs of prescription drugs and the sticker shock at the pharmacy counter. It turns out that sticker shock is a two-way street for...
GREENE, IOWA – Yesterday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) presented several awards to Mr. Thomas William Johnson, a Vietnam veteran from Greene, Iowa. Johnson served in Battery A, 7th Battalion, 15th Artillery for the U.S. Army from December 1969 to March 1971.
“It was an honor to present these medals to Thomas Johnson for his act of bravery and service in...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Every year, Sen.
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) nominates 10 young Iowans to each of the U.S. service academies, including
the Military Academy at West Point, the Air Force Academy, the Naval Academy
and the Merchant Marine Academy. Grassley encourages Iowa students to consider
applying to all five of the U.S. service academies, since each one...
Sen. Chuck Grassley meets Queen Elizabeth II during her joint address to Congress in 1991
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Senate president pro tempore emeritus, today issued the following statement on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.
“Queen Elizabeth II was a strong and graceful leader for the better part of a century. As queen, she was a...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General published its report about the failures and deficiencies in the vetting of Afghan evacuees after the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan last...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 09-06-22Topics include: COVID testing, 2022 election debate, Farm Bill, relationship with President Biden, FBI raid @ Mar-a-Lago and the potential prosecution of former President Trump.
Q&A: 99 County Meetings
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s on the minds of Iowans at your 99 county meetings?
A: In August, I completed my annual 99 county meetings for the 42nd consecutive year across the state. When Iowans first elected me to the U.S. Senate, I started this annual tradition and have kept it every year since. I hold an...
DES MOINES, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) held a roundtable yesterday at the Central Iowa Trauma Recovery Center (TRC) in Des Moines. Grassley talked with staff of the TRC, supportive community leaders, crime survivors helped by the center and the Alliance for Safety and Justice. The roundtable discussion was held as part of Grassley’s annual 99 county...
DES MOINES, IOWA – Following recent reports that the only smelter producing, high-purity aluminum plant in the U.S. is set to curtail the production due to high energy costs, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) as well as Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-02), are sounding the alarm with the Department of Defense (DoD) on their plans to...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland in response to Garland’s August 30 memorandum to Department of Justice (DOJ) employees about direct communications with Congress. Grassley mentioned statutory provisions that Garland failed to note in...
BOONE, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, held his third Farm Bill roundtable discussion today at the Pivot Bio booth at the Farm Progress Show in Boone. He met with farmers and attendees of the event in a question-and-answer format to discuss priorities for the upcoming Farm Bill and any subject Iowans...
WASHINGTON — Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today sent a letter to USTR Representative Katherine Tai urging her to keep the resurrection of the World Trade Organization (WTO) appellate body out of any dispute settlement reform negotiations at the WTO. In part, the senators wrote: “We are writing to express our...
BEDFORD, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today held his 99th county meeting in Iowa for the 42nd consecutive year with an hour-long public town meeting in Taylor County.
With this meeting, Grassley marks the conclusion of another year in his 42-year practice of holding at least one question-and-answer session with Iowans in every one of Iowa’s 99...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 08-30-22Topics include: NASA, Farm Bill roundtable discussion with Rep. Feenstra, Twitter hearing, trade, 99 county meetings and insulin prices.
LAKE CITY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Rep. Randy Feenstra (IA-04), member of the House Agriculture Committee, yesterday met with leaders from Iowa agriculture groups for a roundtable in Lake City to discuss priorities for the upcoming Farm Bill. The roundtable discussion was held as part of Grassley’s...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are pushing for clarity about comments made by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg indicating that Facebook took “meaningful” steps to decrease distribution of the reports about Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020 after Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials approached the company with warnings...
Q&A: Canceling Student Debt
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s your view on the Biden administration’s move to cancel student debt?
A: Last year, even Speaker Pelosi said President Biden does not have the authority to unilaterally wipe away student debt. His proposal would transfer up to $20,000 in debt for individuals making up to $125,000...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Bradley Benavides and FBI Intelligence Analyst in Charge of...
