News Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman and current senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, joined a bipartisan group of his colleagues in calling on the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to dramatically improve transparency and consultation with Congress on pending trade negotiations.  The senators, including Finance...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today released the findings of a staff review examining whether Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, nominee to be ambassador to India, was aware of allegations of misconduct by a former senior advisor. The review comprises interviews with 15 witnesses as well as examinations of 26 depositions and other...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Finance and Agriculture committees, joined Republican farm-state senators in urging U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to prioritize market access initiatives as part of America’s trade agenda. “Advancing U.S....

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), member of the Senate Finance Committee, joined Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) to send a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Acting Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement...

WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) demanded answers from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf on steps they are taking to address the ongoing baby formula shortage that has impacted families across the country. The letter comes as reports indicate at least 40 percent of baby formula supplies in the U.S. are...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, are seeking transparency on steps the Justice Department has taken to prevent interference with the ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax and foreign...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, led their colleagues in a bipartisan push for more funding to help address the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak. As of Friday, the HPAI outbreak has impacted around 19 sites across Iowa, affecting 13 million birds – more than...

Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 05-09-22Topics include: letter to the Veterans Affairs, bipartisanship, Rural Hospital Support Act, inflation, student loan forgiveness, potential Roe v. Wade overturn and the disinformation governance board.

WASHINGTON – Last Thursday, the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on “Ensuring Fairness and Transparency in the Market for Prescription Drugs.” The hearing looked at the opaque middlemen – known as pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) – and cited an investigation and legislation led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to lower prescription drug prices and...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), co-chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control and Judiciary Committee ranking member, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) led a group of their colleagues on a Senate resolution designating May 10, 2022, as National Fentanyl Awareness Day. Overdose deaths have skyrocketed in recent years, largely...

Q&A: Student Loan Debt With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley   Q: Do you support President Biden’s plan to wipe away student debt?   A: When something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Once again, the Biden administration is operating under the false assumption that money grows on trees. When the economy shut down in 2020, Congress passed a...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pressing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide updated data about how the VA has handled reporting of veterans to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), specifically with respect to veterans who have been assigned...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), co-chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control and Judiciary Committee ranking member, led Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) in introducing bipartisan legislation to implement new penalties for counterfeit pill production. Recently, there has been a...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack regarding the USDA Inspector General’s findings that the backlog of civil complaints continues to grow at the Office of Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (OASCR). The senators noted that processing time for...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), president pro tempore emeritus of the U.S. Senate, was recognized today for his significant work on behalf of workplace injury victims. The National Structured Settlements Trade Association (NSSTA) presented Grassley with their Lifetime Achievement Award during an annual business meeting this morning. “Structured...

WASHINGTON – Bipartisan legislation led by Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley to crack down on anticompetitive behavior by foreign oil producing nations advanced today in the committee. The No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act, or NOPEC, will let the federal government take action against price fixing by OPEC, the...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, have secured a number of key provisions in this year’s Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) — a biannual water resources package that passed the EPW Committee unanimously this morning — including key measures to update...

WASHINGTON – In a new study on bipartisanship in the U.S. Senate released by Georgetown University’s Lugar Center, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) ranked among the most bipartisan senators for 2021. The Lugar Center’s Bipartisan Index placed Grassley at number 12 of all 100 senators, making him the 5th most bipartisan Republican in the...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last night voted to pass S.J.Res.39, a proposal that would end the current mask requirement in Head Start facilities.   “Even though most Americans stopped wearing masks in almost every setting, children are still required to wear masks all day long in Head Start locations. Current HHS guidance demands...

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) seeking clarification on the flexibilities that will be granted to pharmacists once the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) designation ends. The...