News Releases

  • 09.26.2022

    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.  
  • 09.26.2022

    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...
  • 09.23.2022

    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...
  • 09.23.2022

    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...
  • 09.22.2022

    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...
  • 09.22.2022

    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...
  • 09.22.2022

    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...
  • 09.22.2022

    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...
  • 09.22.2022

    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...
  • 09.21.2022

    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...
  • 09.20.2022

    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...
  • 09.20.2022

    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,...
  • 09.20.2022

    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...
  • 09.20.2022

    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...
  • 09.19.2022

    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...
  • 09.19.2022

    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...
  • 09.19.2022

    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.  
  • 09.19.2022

    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...
  • 09.16.2022

    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...
  • 09.16.2022

    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...