WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) spoke at the Senate Finance Committee hearing about his bipartisan Wyden-Grassley Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act (PDPRA) to lower prescription drugs costs. Grassley reiterated his commitment to passing the bipartisan and negotiated PDPRA. You can find Senator Grassley’s prepared remarks below.
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WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member
of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today is pushing federal agencies to take
action following recent revelations of egregious conditions at the Woodland
Behavioral and Nursing Center in Andover, N.J. In a letter to the Justice
Department, co-signed by Senate Aging Committee Ranking Member Tim Scott...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, James Comer (R-Ky.), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Sen. Dick Durbin (R-Ill.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sens. Patrick Leahy...
WASHINGTON – Recently, Sen. Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and a bipartisan group of
lawmakers to introduce a resolution calling for Vladimir Putin and members of the Russian regime to be
held accountable for the numerous acts of war, aggression and human rights
abuses that have taken place in Ukraine. Yesterday, the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and 19 of his colleagues in expressing concern over the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) use of internal guidance to enforce regulations that are unpublished and unknown to the public. In an alarming display of insufficient transparency from a federal agency,...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) supported S.J.Res.37, a proposal that would effectively end mask mandates on planes, trains, buses, subways and other methods of public transportation.
“Iowans – and now a majority of Americans – are no longer wearing masks in grocery stores, office buildings, churches, schools, sports venues, restaurants...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) urged the Commission on Planning,
Programming, Budgeting and Execution Reform to help bring much-needed financial
accountability to the Department of Defense (DOD). The letter,
which comes after Grassley passed a new policy directing the commission to
analyze and propose...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) joined ranking member of the Commerce Committee Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) in introducing the TORNADO Act, which seeks to simplify, update and improve forecasting technology and infrastructure. The legislation would also require the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to...
WASHINGTON – The Methamphetamine Response Act, a bill introduced by Sens. Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Dianne
Feinstein (D-Calif.), was signed into law yesterday. The new law, which passed
the Senate
in December and the House
in February with broad bipartisan support, directs the Office of National...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was one of 49 Republican Senators who today told the Biden Administration they will not support the revived Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran, which, according to public reports, will weaken sanctions and lessen restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program.
The full statement from the senators...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) led several of his colleagues in urging President Joe Biden to
continue utilizing liquid fuel vehicles in the federal fleet, including
vehicles used by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). In a letter
to Biden, the senators take aim at the administration’s push to transition the
entire federal fleet to electric...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 03-14-22Topics include: Crop protection letter to EPA, high gas prices, Sunshine Week, False Claims Act, infrastructure, Rural Prosperity Act and fertilizer prices.
Q&A: Sunshine Week
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What is Sunshine Week?
A: Open government is good government. Sunshine Week celebrates transparency and why it’s important to our system of self-government and U.S. economy. Transparency brings accountability. Throughout my service representing Iowans in the U.S. Senate, I’ve led a legislative...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), following the committee’s long-standing practice for vetting Supreme Court nominees, has requested documents from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s service in a federal agency. Specifically, the senator requests documents and emails authored by the nominee during her service on the...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), both members of the Senate Agriculture
Committee, are seeking to cut red tape and streamline the sprawling federal
resources available to rural communities. Their new bipartisan legislation, which costs no new money, puts a rural-focused office inside the
White House — an Office of Rural...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
joined Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and nearly 40 of his
colleagues in urging President Joe Biden to work with Poland and NATO to
immediately transfer much-needed airpower and other support to Ukraine. This
comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleaded with the U.S. and
NATO to send...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today denounced Democrats’ tactic to
tie a bloated government funding package to must-pass Ukrainian aid package. “Tonight, Democrat leaders in Congress held hostage critical support for
Ukraine in order to pass another massive spending package. Our choice was to vote
for increased federal spending or vote against...
WASHINGTON – Following a deadlocked Federal Trade Commission (FTC) vote in February over whether to initiate a study into the business practices of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is urging the FTC to find consensus and move forward on a study examining bipartisan concerns about competition within the PBM industry.
“…PBMs...
WASHINGTON – Sen.
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and a bipartisan group of 29 lawmakers are urging
the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to help lower the cost
of prescription drugs for Part D beneficiaries through certain pharmacy direct
and indirect remuneration (DIR) fee reforms issued in a proposed regulation. In
a separate letter,
Grassley...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
joined Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and several of his
colleagues in urging
President Joe Biden to permit the year-round sale of E15 fuel to restore
American energy independence. In their letter, the bipartisan group of
lawmakers note that biofuels are a clean and reliable energy solution that...
