Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 02-14-22Topics include: Foreign owned farmland, Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS), immigration, prescription drug pricing bill, Postal Service Reform Act and the STOCK Act.
Q&A: COVID-19 & Mental Health
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why are you working to expand access to behavioral health care?
A: Even before the pandemic, Iowans at my 99 county meetings often brought up barriers to mental health care, particularly in rural areas of the state. The issue has gained even more urgency when lockdowns, remote...
MIAMI – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), president pro tempore emeritus of the U.S. Senate, today received the “America’s Fuel Award” for his significant work supporting America’s robust biofuels industry. The award is the highest and most prestigious honor given by Growth Energy, a national biofuel trade association. The award was presented to Grassley at...
WASHINGTON – On the heels of new inflation numbers released today, which showed a 7.5% spike in inflation over the past year under Democrat leadership, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in putting forward the Providing Reports on Inflation Costs and Economic Impact (PRICE) Act. The PRICE Act would require the nonpartisan...
WASHINGTON – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and several of his colleagues to introduce the Cutting off Rampant Access to Crack Kits (CRACK) Act. The bill would amend Section 2706 of the American Rescue Plan Act to prohibit any federal funds from directly or indirectly...
WASHINGTON – Legislation expanding access to courts for survivors of sexual assault and harassment in the workplace cleared Congress this week with the support of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act passed the Senate this morning by voice vote without objection. An earlier version of the...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) participated in a press conference and spoke on the Senate floor to continue shining a light on the rise in violent crime across the country. In 2021, a dozen major cities set all-time high homicide records – including several cities in the Midwest like St. Paul, Minnesota and Indianapolis, Indiana.
During...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led their colleagues in a letter to Janet Woodcock, Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), expressing support for key provisions in the FDA’s proposed rule for regulating over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. The FDA’s proposed rule is a result of the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Ranking Member Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are expressing concern that the State Department withheld information during the senators’ investigation into conflicts of interest involving Hunter Biden.
Many months after the senators released...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 02-07-22Topics include: Cattle market reform, big tech, rural broadband, Supreme Court nominee qualifications, WOTUS and the 2022 election.
DES MOINES, IOWA – Following unanimous
support from a Judicial
Selection Commission, Sens. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, and Joni Ernst have recommended Judge Stephen H. Locher of
Des Moines to President Joe Biden for an upcoming vacancy on the federal bench.
The seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and several of his colleagues in urging the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to prioritize funding for broadband projects in unserved rural areas. Instead of overbuilding existing broadband infrastructure in areas with reliable broadband service, the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and all of his Republican colleagues in urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to suspend the pending rulemaking to redefine the scope of waters protected under the Clean Water Act (CWA), specifically “waters of the United States”...
Q&A: Foreign Ownership of U.S. Farmland
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What are your concerns regarding foreign ownership of U.S. food companies and farmland?
A: Food security is national security. If foreign buyers, especially those backed by government regimes, are buying up prime farmland in America as a strategy to dominate food production,...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), Co-Chairs of the Senate Baltic Freedom Caucus, yesterday met with members of the Lithuanian Parliament and Lithuanian Ambassador to the U.S. Audra Plepyte to discuss President Biden’s newly announced decision to move 3,000 troops to Germany, Poland and Romania to deter Russian aggression...
WASHINGTON – Thanks to a law championed by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the federal government recovered $5.6 billion lost to fraud in 2021 – the second largest yearly amount on record. Whistleblowers, who Grassley has fought for and protected throughout his tenure in the Senate, accounted for $1.6 billion of those recoveries. Since it was modernized and...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) led the Iowa delegation, including Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Reps. Cindy Axne (IA-03), Randy Feenstra (IA-04), Ashley Hinson (IA-01) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-02) in urging Pres. Joe Biden to promptly grant Gov. Kim Reynolds’ request for federal disaster assistance in 25 Iowa counties.
These...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Agriculture
Committee and co-author of the Cattle
Price Discovery and Transparency Act, issued the following statement
after JBS
settled a lawsuit over beef price-fixing: “If there were any doubt about the shenanigans Big Packers play to line
their pockets at the expense of consumers and...
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), co-chairs of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, pushed the Biden administration to finish its work on and release the 2022 National Drug Control Strategy.
Their bipartisan letter comes after Dr. Rahul Gupta – Director of the White House Office of Drug...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after meeting with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).
“The advice and consent duties of the Senate are a critical constitutional part of appointing justices...
