Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 05-02-22Topics include: the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act, U.S.-Russia relations, inflation, Iowan concerns, COVID-19, prescription drug pricing and excessive government spending.
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) sent a letter
to the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector
General (OIG) asking for an update on seven drug manufacturer referrals for
340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program) non-compliance. The 340B Program helps maintain health
care access for low-income patients. Last year, the...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – 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, sent a letter to Stefanie Tompkins, Director of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), regarding the agency’s involvement with Georgia Tech researchers...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) sent a letter
to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) asking for an update
on the implementation of the Advancing
Care for Exceptional (ACE) Kids Act. The ACE Kids Act, which
Grassley and Bennet ushered through Congress in 2019,
allows children with medically complex...
BUTLER COUNTY – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold a town meeting next Friday, May 6 in Fremont 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 said. “I appreciate the opportunity to hold town meetings, answer questions and take...
Q&A: May is National Beef Month
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s your beef with the meatpacking industry in America?
A: For years I’ve been riding herd on anticompetitive practices in the livestock industry. Our independent producers are getting the short end of the stick in today’s marketplace. Only four meatpackers control 85 percent of...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) today introduced the SMART Cocaine Sentencing Act, which will reduce the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenders tried in federal courts. The legislation aims to make sentencing fairer while also preserving the ability of...
WASHINGTON – The Senate today passed a bipartisan resolution introduced by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in support of National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.
The resolution was cosponsored by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.),...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement regarding the documents put forward and passed off yesterday by Biden Administration officials as a ‘plan’ to handle the termination of Title 42 authorities at the southern border.
“Unfortunately, the document put forward by Secretary...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and senior member of the Senate Agriculture
Committee, participated in a hearing
on two bills tackling fairness and competition in the cattle marketplace: the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act,
which Grassley first helped introduce last November, and the Meat and Poultry Special...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined colleagues in demanding to know why the Justice Department placed three deputy U.S. Marshals (DUSMs) on limited duty and opened an investigation into a use-of-force incident during the defense of the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon in July 2020. The questions were raised in a letter to Attorney...
WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, are pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General to address reports that it has delayed and downplayed reports of sexual harassment and...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) will host a U.S. Service Academy Virtual Open House on the evenings of Monday, May 2 and Tuesday, May 3. This will be an opportunity for Iowa students and their families to learn more about the five military service academies including the application and nomination processes.
WHO: Academy...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 04-25-22Topics include: the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act, inflation, Title 42/immigration, the Ukraine-Russia conflict, corn prices, summer school lunch programs and the Fort Madison wind turbine processing plant closure.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced a bipartisan resolution with Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) observing this week as National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. The resolution, which recognizes the Senate’s...
Q&A: Veterans Honor Flights
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What are Veterans Honor Flights?
A: Across the United States, a network of local organizations raises money to provide expense-free trips to the nation’s capital for veterans to spend a day in remembrance and celebration of their military service to America. Thanks to generous donors and...
WASHINGTON –Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the lead sponsors of the landmark First Step Act (FSA), released the following statement regarding the publication of the First Step Act Annual Report this week:
“The...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Yesterday, Senate
Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) held his third Federal Judiciary Youth Summit at the Northern District of Iowa Federal
Courthouse in Sioux City. 17 high schools from nine counties in northwest Iowa
participated in the program. U.S. District Chief Judge Leonard T. Strand joined
Grassley to...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 04-21-22Topics include: the Cattle Market Price Discovery and Transparency Act, the Ukraine-Russia conflict and inflation.
Washington – Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Chairman and Co-Chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, in a letter yesterday urged the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) to recommend the scheduling of methylamine—a precursor to methamphetamine. On the INCB’s recommendation, the most recent...
