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...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and fellow Committee Republicans to introduce a bill to prevent the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from using its massive, $80 billion infusion of taxpayer dollars to squeeze more revenue out of American taxpayers who earn less than $400,000 per...
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...
