News Releases

  • 02.23.2026

    Audio from this afternoon’s call is available HERE. Topics include: Term limits, President Trump’s executive order on glyphosate, the Supreme Court’s tariff decision, the partial government shutdown, Grassley’s 99 county meetings and the State of the Union.
  • 02.20.2026

    Q: Why do you keep raising the volume in Washington about the nation’s debt? A: America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation’s independence this year on the Fourth of July. We are blessed to live in the land of opportunity and have an obligation to pass on the promise of prosperity for generations to come. Just consider, in 1776 a 33-year-old...
  • 02.20.2026

    Audio from this afternoon’s call is available HERE. Topics include: the Supreme Court’s tariff decision, immigration, Iran, the SAVE Act and the Epstein Files.
  • 02.20.2026

    WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision on tariffs: “While Congress gave some of its authority on importations to the president when it passed the 1977 International Emergency Economic...
  • 02.20.2026

    WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) hit the ground running this week to begin his 46th consecutive year of meeting face-to-face with Iowans in every county. Grassley started his annual 99 county meetings on Tuesday in Union County with a tour of a local business, followed by a question-and-answer session with employees. Grassley then held 12 additional...
  • 02.19.2026

    BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – The Government Accountability Project (GAP), a nonpartisan whistleblower protection and advocacy organization, issued a statement defending whistleblowers’ legal right to release Arctic Frost records to U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), including grand jury materials. GAP clarified that whistleblowers’...
  • 02.13.2026

    WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) staff will hold traveling office hours in four counties from Feb. 23 to Feb. 25, 2026. Iowans seeking assistance with a federal agency or wishing to share their views may stop by during the scheduled hours listed below. NOTE: Senator Grassley will not be in attendance. He will be represented by his Regional...
  • 02.13.2026

    Q: What do Iowa seniors need to know about the new enhanced tax deduction? A: The Republican-led Congress last year passed historic tax relief for Americans that included a new enhanced tax deduction for seniors effective for tax years 2025 through 2028. These savings are geared to help older taxpayers living on fixed incomes make ends meet. Iowans need to...
  • 02.12.2026

    WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, questioned stakeholders about the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s (USMCA) benefits to the U.S. economy, including strengthening supply chains against unfair competition from countries like China, ahead of a joint review of the agreement later this...
  • 02.11.2026

    Click HERE for video WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), along with every member of Iowa’s congressional delegation in the House, are introducing legislation to rename two Iowa Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities in honor of Staff Sgts. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar and William Nathaniel Howard, the Iowa National Guardsmen who...
  • 02.11.2026

    WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), John Kennedy (R-La.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) today introduced the Litigation Funding Transparency Act. The legislation would require parties to publicly disclose third-party litigation funding, including foreign funding, in mass tort and class action...
  • 02.11.2026

    WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) are urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to collect the nearly $10 billion of outstanding criminal fines and penalties DOJ is owed and swiftly deposit them into the Crime Victims Fund...
  • 02.10.2026

    WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined The Dr. Phil Podcast to discuss his three bipartisan bills to combat the rise in online child abuse and hold violent criminals accountable. The legislative package will be considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, February 12, at 10:15 a.m. ET. The Sentencing...
  • 02.10.2026

    WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee is putting Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile in the hot seat after Chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) oversight revealed the three companies secretly provided toll records for accounts associated with members of Congress to Jack Smith and the Arctic Frost investigation. Grassley, along with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.),...
  • 02.09.2026

    Audio from this afternoon’s call is available HERE. Topics discussed: ICE, E15, the DHS appropriations bill, the Epstein Files and Argentina beef imports.
  • 02.06.2026

    WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) reintroduced the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Finance and Counterfeiting Act to enhance criminal money laundering statutes. “Criminal enterprises and terrorist organizations depend on ill-begotten cash to carry out their dark deeds. As money...
  • 02.06.2026

    Q: What prompted your decades-long advocacy for kids with complex medical needs?   A: Parents work their tails off to provide for their kids, from putting food on the table to putting money away for their education. Most days, moms and dads are burning the candle at both ends to make it through the homework grind and shuttle their kids to daycare or...
  • 02.05.2026

    WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced the following nominations: Thomas Govan, to be United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, by a vote of 12-10; Zachary Keller, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, by a vote of 13-9; and Ryan Raybould, to be United States Attorney for the Northern...
  • 02.05.2026

    WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to address reported failures to provide follow-up care for children on Medicaid who have experienced suicidal thoughts or behaviors. Patients with an identified suicide risk history...
  • 02.03.2026

    WASHINGTON – Today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Nazi-linked accounts at Credit Suisse, inspired by an ongoing oversight investigation led by Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), brought new facts about the bank’s past to light and increased pressure on Credit Suisse’s successor bank, UBS, to ensure the investigation isn’t stifled. Here’s what news...