Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 09-26-22Topics include: the Farm Bill, the
closure of the Keokuk hospital, Kevin and
Avonte’s Law, Alexis Taylor, 2022 election debates, abortion, the 2022 election
campaign and the Biochar Research Network
Act.
WASHINGTON – Years before it paid the rumor peddler at the center of the debunked anti-Trump dossier, the FBI considered him a counterintelligence threat. Payments from the FBI to Igor Danchenko, the dossier’s primary sub-source, continued from March 2017 to October 2020 despite his problematic history and ongoing congressional investigations into the FBI’s...
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) presented Cedar Rapids resident David Clark with the award of a Purple Heart for his service in the Vietnam War. Grassley provided casework assistance to help Mr. Clark in his effort to officially document his combat-related wound. Clark also received the Valorous Unit Award and Vietnam Service Medal with...
WASHINGTON – Just four days after it was introduced, legislation to help families locate missing loved ones with Autism, Alzheimer’s disease and related conditions unanimously cleared the Senate Thursday. The bill to extend Kevin and Avonte’s Law, was introduced Monday by Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Amy Klobuchar...
WASHINGTON – Since
assuming office, Colombian President Gustavo Petro has initiated peace talks
with the National Liberation Army (ELN), a left-wing Foreign Terrorist
Organization, called for delisting Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of
terrorism, and resumed diplomatic relations with the Maduro narco-regime in
Venezuela, all while he called on...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined his Republican Senate Finance Committee colleagues, led by ranking member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), on a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig requesting detailed plans for how the agency will spend the massive $80 billion injection of mandatory funding recently granted to it under...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), president pro tempore emeritus of the U.S. Senate, met with
superintendents and chief administrators from Iowa’s Area Education Agencies
(AEAs). The group presented Grassley with a “Friend of the AEA” award to
recognize his longtime work to support Iowa students, including by ensuring all
students have access...
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...