Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 06-28-21Topics include: cattle market transparency, child care, the Renewable Fuel Standard, worker shortage and immigration.
Butler County, Iowa – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today made the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision allowing small oil refiners to seek extended exemptions from renewable fuels blending requirements even if they didn’t receive such waivers in the past. The decisions reverses a 10th Circuit ruling limiting the Environmental Protection...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) along with Reps. Jim Hagedorn (R-Minn.) and Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) urging the Administration to pursue all legal actions to push back on a recent U.S. district court decision that will slow swine inspection...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today condemned a blockade of their bipartisan bill to reform and extend the EB-5 investor visa program, which expires on June 30. The blockade was led by a small group of wealthy and unscrupulous real...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate today passed legislation backed by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that will allow Iowa farmers to capitalize on conservation practices and actions that combat climate change. The legislation, the Growing Climate Solutions Act, was introduced in April and creates a certification program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Senate
Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) to introduce the Drug-price
Transparency for Competition (DTC) Act, a bill that would require price
disclosures on advertisements for prescription drugs, in order to empower
patients and reduce spending on medications. Last week, the...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today
advanced two bipartisan bills backed by Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that
would require televised coverage of federal court proceedings. Sunshine in the Courtroom ActThe Sunshine in the
Courtroom Act, introduced
by Grassley and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) would give federal judges, at
both...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today questioned witnesses at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing to examine cattle markets, transparency and prices from the cattle producer to consumer.
WATCH
Grassley questioned Justin Tupper, Vice President, United States Cattlemen’s Association on the producers’ ability to market their cattle with...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators is criticizing the Defense Department’s continued failure to obtain a clean financial audit, and pressing the department to prioritize the longstanding and documented issues preventing it from achieving that goal.
“As you know, the DOD has the largest budget of any Executive Branch agency, and unfortunately is...
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives today passed bipartisan legislation authored by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to preserve a whistleblower program in danger of collapsing under its own success. The CFTC Fund Management Act (S. 409) ensures that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s whistleblower program can continue to function even when awards...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) made the following statement after voting against consideration of Democrats’ multi-year partisan campaign to federalize American elections and strip states of key election management decisions.
“Our elections are the hallmark of our democracy, and we should strive to increase both participation and integrity in...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley joined Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) in introducing the Define WOTUS Act, a bill to legislatively define the “waters of the United States,” (WOTUS) and make a reasonable, workable definition of the term permanent.
“Adding more federal red tape for home builders during construction or to a farmer’s...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold town meetings in Kossuth County on Tuesday, June 29, Ida County on Wednesday, June 30 and Calhoun County on Thursday, July 1 as a part of his annual 99 county meetings.
“I look forward to hosting my town meetings and returning to business as usual after an unprecedented year. Representative government is...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 06-21-21Topics include: The 2022 election, infrastructure, the TEAM Act, the G-7 Summit, the Affordable Care Act and immigration.
Q&A: Border Security Update
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What grade do you give the Biden administration for its immigration policies?
A: President Biden’s promises on the campaign trail, as well as the administration’s messaging and policies enacted during his First 100 Days have created chaos, uncertainty and confusion at our southern...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa),
ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led an effort to press the
Justice Department and FBI for details about any investigation into the
disclosure of sensitive taxpayer records to the news media. Joining his
letter to the Justice Department and FBI are Judiciary Committee colleagues
Sens. John...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in a letter today to Attorney General Merrick Garland took the Justice Department to task for its continued failure to respond to congressional oversight inquiries, particularly those relating to political considerations in light of Garland’s recent statements.
“I read with interest your June 14, 2021,...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick
Durbin (D-Ill.) and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the
following statement after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a
report they had requested
entitled, “Prescription Drugs: Medicare Spending on Drugs with
Direct-to-Consumer Advertising,” which found direct-to-consumer...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement in light of the 7 to 2 Supreme Court ruling to dismiss pending lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act for lack of standing.
“Last fall when the Senate was considering Justice Barrett’s nomination for the court, my Democratic...
WASHINGTON – Members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee today engaged in an impromptu bipartisan discussion about the Justice
Department’s repeated failures to respond to congressional oversight inquiries
from Republicans and Democrats alike.
The discussion was kicked off by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who
called for a better flow of information...
