Q&A: Rising Crime Linked to Defund the Police
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s contributing to the postpandemic rise in violent crime in America?
A: With the open border policies of this administration and “defund the police” rhetoric coming from the left side of the ideological spectrum, a sense of lawlessness is infecting society,...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee
Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) have
introduced bipartisan legislation to further protect whistleblowers at the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from retaliation. The FBI Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act
would allow FBI employees to appeal retaliation claims to the...
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Senate passed the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), a biannual package that authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carry out water resource projects. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, cemented several Iowa priorities into this...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and
Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) introduced the bipartisan Farmland Security Act
to increase scrutiny over foreign investments in American agricultural land.
The legislation ensures that the American people and Congress have the
information needed...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) made the following statement after the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced this morning a second consecutive quarter of gross domestic product (GDP) contraction, meeting the traditional definition of economic recession.
“Whatever anyone wants to call it, Iowans are feeling the harsh economic realities...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) led their colleagues in the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus in a unanimously-passed Senate resolution celebrating July 30 as National Whistleblower Appreciation Day.
“Support for whistleblowers is something we can all get behind. It can and should unite every member of Congress who...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) as well as Reps. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) to introduce the Allowing Greater Access to Safe and Effective Contraception Act. This bill seeks to expand health care choices for women by increasing access to contraceptives over-the-counter (OTC) and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee
Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today led 24 Republican colleagues in
introducing a broad package to clarify and strengthen violent crime laws related
to homicide, bank robbery, carjacking, kidnapping and other offenses. The Combating Violent and Dangerous Crime Act
resolves discrepancies brought on by...
WASHINGTON – The Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights Act, introduced by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) unanimously passed the Senate Monday. The bill, which previously cleared the House of Representatives, requires federal agencies to take a fresh set of...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) introduced the bipartisan and bicameral Next Generation Fuels Act, a proposal that aims to leverage higher-octane fuels to improve engine efficiency and performance. Allowing the sale of fuels with greater octane levels would increase the amount of ethanol that can be utilized in the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a vocal critic of China’s aggressive intellectual property and espionage policies, panned Senate Democrats’ decision to strip key accountability language from a bill ostensibly designed to increase competition with the communist regime. Instead, this legislation, which is being considered this week, doles out more...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned witnesses at a hearing to address law enforcement safety and the rising crime against police. Iowan Zach Andersen of Cedar Falls, a public safety officer, testified about the ambush on Iowa police last year that resulted in the death of Sergeant Jim...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 07-26-22Topics include: economic recession, carbon capture pipelines, Ukraine assistance, American Rescue Plan money movement and the Judiciary Committee hearing on law enforcement safety.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
joined Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Deb Fischer
(R-Neb.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) to introduce
the Let Experienced Pilots Fly Act to
address airline flight cancellations caused by a shortage of pilots. Roughly
5,000 fully-qualified pilots will be forced to retire...
WASHINGTON – Multiple FBI whistleblowers, including those in senior positions, are raising the alarm about tampering by senior FBI and Justice Department officials in politically sensitive investigations ranging from election and campaign finance probes across multiple election cycles to investigative activity involving derogatory information on Hunter...
Q&A: Whistleblowers Save Taxpayer Dollars
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What prompted your decades-long support for whistleblowers?
A: The founding cornerstone of American self-government “of, by and for the people” means government works for the people, not the other way around. My approach to representative government is rooted in this basic...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced new
legislation that seeks to help Americans struggling to afford everyday expenses
keep more of their hard-earned money. Iowans are paying an average $669
more per month on living expenses since President Biden took office. Iowa State
University...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today introduced a bipartisan resolution designating August as National Anti-Counterfeiting Consumer Education and Awareness Month. The resolution recognizes the importance of trademarks in the economy and the role they have in protecting consumer safety.
“Knockoffs not only violate intellectual property rights,...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), members of the Senate Agriculture
Committee, led 22 of their colleagues in urging Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan to support higher amounts
of biomass-based biodiesel and other advanced biofuels in the upcoming 2023 and
2024 Renewable Volume Obligations...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee joined Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) on a bipartisan request to the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball for information regarding the impact of Major League Baseball’s (MLB)...
