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BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after the Justice Department’s announcement that, after a re-review of the record, it would not bring criminal charges against two former FBI special agents whose mishandling of the Larry Nassar investigation...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, Rob Portman (R-Ohio), ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Reform and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Committee on Armed Services, requested an update from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray on...

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today urged his colleagues to heed the advice of career counterterrorism experts and oppose Democrats’ bill to reorganize the federal counterterrorism offices. Democrats’ Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act would establish duplicative offices and prescribe which threats officials...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) co-authored bipartisan legislation along with Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) to help identify and mitigate potential conflicts of interest between taxpayer-funded projects and government contractors’ other business opportunities has advanced in the Senate. The federal...

WASHINGTON – Bipartisan legislation to shine a light on secret foreign lobbying efforts was approved today by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC).  The Disclosing Foreign Influence in Lobbying Act is led by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Gary Peters (D-Mich.),...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman and current member of the Finance Committee, joined Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and his Republican colleagues to urge Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Chuck Rettig to implement 2-D barcoding for paper returns in the 2023 tax filing season – technology that would...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), John Thune (R-S.D.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) have introduced legislation that seeks to make it easier for retired first responders to take advantage of a benefit designed to help them cover health expenses. Under the current system, health insurance payments are required to go directly from...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) regional directors based in Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo will hold traveling office hours in 31 counties around Iowa throughout the month of June. Iowans seeking assistance regarding a personal issue with a federal agency or wishing to share views on matters of...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), chair of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, have introduced legislation that would empower the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to increase drug pricing transparency and hold pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) accountable for...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and 79 of his colleagues in urging President Biden to expedite the administration’s process to advance Sweden and Finland’s applications for...

WASHINGTON – As President Biden’s historic southern border crisis rages on due to his weak policies and refusal to secure the border, taxpayers might be interested to know they are footing the bill — to the tune of at least $3 million per day — for the protection of materials that were meant for a barrier at our southern border. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland questioning whether Blue Star Strategies, a Democrat lobbying firm, filed incomplete and misleading information with...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), respectively ranking member and chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, are seeking additional information about the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) oversight of its foreign operations, including the closure of a special DEA unit in Mexico that Mexican officials claim...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) signed on to a letter led by Sens. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), along with 19 bipartisan colleagues urging the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to ensure reliable, consistent rail service for American industries and shippers.   “We are very concerned over the significant rail...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold town meetings next Tuesday, May 31 in O’Brien County and Sioux County, and Wednesday, June 1 in Louisa County as part of his annual 99 county meetings.   “You can’t have representative government without dialogue between elected officials and the people we represent,” Grassley...

Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 05-23-22Topics include: infant formula shortage, aid to Ukraine, defending Taiwan, gas prices, economic recession and the EAGLES Act. 

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee and author of legislation that strengthened the False Claims Act (FCA), is urging the Supreme Court to uphold Congress’s original intent of the law – which is designed to root out fraud and abuse in federal government programs. Recently, several circuit court decisions have...

Q&A: Baby Formula Shortage With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley   Q: What caused the nationwide shortage of baby formula in the United States?   A: During COVID-19 lockdowns, Americans met with the inconvenience of empty store shelves for possibly the first time in their lifetimes as manufacturing and distribution channels were diverted to produce personal...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently joined Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Ranking Member John Boozman (R-Ark.) to introduce bipartisan, bicameral legislation to address the baby formula shortage for families who rely on the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for...

WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators, led by Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), introduced legislation aimed at cracking down on foreign adversaries’ efforts to secretly influence U.S. policy.  The Disclosing Foreign Influence in Lobbying Act closes a loophole that the Chinese Communist Party frequently exploits to...