WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today will offer an amendment to the Democrats’ partisan $4.2 trillion reckless spend and tax budget that would prevent the lifting of the State and Local Tax (SALT) Deduction cap as many Democrats have advocated, a move that would amount to a six-figure tax break for the wealthiest Americans mostly in...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 08-10-21Topics include: Infrastructure, the one year anniversary of the derecho, the 9/11 Transparency Act, Immigration and the Iowa State Fair.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today reflected on the last year following the historic derecho that swept through Iowa; the resiliency that Iowans demonstrated, how communities came together to support neighbors.
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“It’s hard to believe it’s been one year since the devastating derecho hit families, businesses,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined his colleagues Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack asking the department to ensure swine producers and contract swine growers are eligible for the assistance Congress secured...
Q&A: Iowa State Fair
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why is the Iowa State Fair an important tradition for so many Iowans?
A: This month the Iowa State Fair expects to welcome more than a million visitors over 11 days to the fairgrounds. For generations of Iowans, the state fair has grown into the largest family friendly celebration in the state...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Bob
Menendez (D-N.J.) and others to improve governmental transparency regarding
federal 9/11 investigations. For nearly 20 years, 9/11 survivors and victims’
families have fought tirelessly to identify and bring to justice all of the
perpetrators of the attacks. The bipartisan September
11th Transparency...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today introduced a Senate resolution designating September 2021 as National Democracy Month. The resolution asks Americans to reflect on the contributions of the system of government of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today commended the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement of two new Market News Reports that will bring more transparency to the cattle industry. This comes after Grassley pressed the Administration for months to provide more data and address anticompetitive practices in the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined his colleagues, Sens. Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kan.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) in introducing the Exposing Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act to prohibit state and local governments from interfering with the production or manufacture of agricultural products in other...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and 17 senators in introducing legislation that will end lending to China from multilateral development banks, including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
“China has been lending development money outside its borders to extend its influence for years...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today praised the Senate Appropriations Committee’s vote to include aid for those affected by the derecho in an agriculture funding bill. Grassley called for adoption of this measure months ago.
“In all my decades of farming, I’ve never seen the scale of devastation that Iowa suffered by last...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) today introduced legislation to promote justice for survivors of crimes of sexual violence across the country. The Survivors’ Bill of Rights in the States Act encourages states to adopt the same protections for survivors of state sex crimes that already exist at the federal...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pressing the Justice Department about its lack of updates from Joint Task Force Vulcan’s (JTFV) efforts to combat the violent street gang MS-13. JTFV was established under the prior administration to combat the serious crimes, like murder, that MS-13...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) today introduced legislation to combat the spread of foreign animal diseases entering the United States. The Healthy Dog Importation Act would expand the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (USDA-APHIS) program by providing additional tools to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pushing the Commerce Department for details on corrective actions taken to address rogue law enforcement and intelligence activity by department employees detailed in a recent Senate Commerce Committee report. The report on “Abuse and Misconduct at the...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 08-02-21Topics include: Infrastructure, cattle market transparency, COVID-19, ethanol and marijuana.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, made the following comment after the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel reversed its prior opinion urging the Treasury Department denial of House Democrats’ request for former President Trump’s tax...
WASHINGTON – Members of the Senate Whistleblower Protection
Caucus, led by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), today celebrated
National Whistleblower Appreciation Day by announcing two new caucus members: Susan
Collins (R-Maine) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.). The Senate unanimously passed a resolution,
authored by caucus members, declaring...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Co-chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, today sent a letter to President Biden urging him to create a comprehensive counternarcotics strategy following the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.
“Terrorist activity and the drug trade in Afghanistan are inextricably intertwined....
WASHINGTON – Following a lackluster response from the National Institutes of Health to an inquiry about government oversight of grant funds that ended up with researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) made the following comment.
“While I appreciate finally receiving a response to questions I first posed to NIH in March,...
