WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) along with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) along with 13 Senate colleagues sent a letter to EPA Acting Administrator Jane Nishida urging the agency to take immediate action to restore integrity to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
Grassley and his colleagues urged the EPA to review three small refinery exemption...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) in reintroducing the Adopt GREET Act, which would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to update its greenhouse gas modeling for ethanol and biodiesel.
“I’ve long been an advocate for clean energy and the enhanced use of biofuels. It’s...
WASHINGTON – President
Biden has
named a close colleague of his son’s defense lawyer to lead the Justice Department’s
criminal division. The inauguration-day
move was one of Biden’s first actions as president, and comes as DOJ
continues to investigate his son, Hunter Biden, for possible tax and money
laundering activities. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and eleven Senate colleagues are today pushing back on a deportation moratorium proposed by President’s Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which will prevent the removal of the vast majority of illegal immigrants with final orders of removal—including dangerous criminals—from the United States.
The...
WASHINGTON – Sen.
Chuck Grassley, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s incoming Ranking Member today sought
details on actions by the Justice Department and FBI before and during a series
of anti-law enforcement and anti-government riots that began last summer and
have continued in recent weeks. The letter follows a similar joint inquiry by Grassley and incoming...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), incoming Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), incoming Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) requesting additional information regarding the security posture and...
Q&A: Balanced Budget Amendment
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why did you re-introduce the Balanced Budget Amendment?
A: Iowans work hard for their money. As a taxpayer watchdog, I conduct congressional oversight to root out wasteful spending and as a senior member of the Senate Budget Committee, support budgetary tools to restore fiscal...
WASHINGTON – In response to an inquiry from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the Congressional Budget Office this week projected only a 0.5 percent decrease in the national Average Wage Index (AWI), a significantly smaller reduction than prior predictions of 3.8 percent.
The AWI is used in the calculation of Social Security benefits. A substantial decrease...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and 24 Senate colleagues in sending a letter to President Joe Biden voicing their concerns about the new administration’s recent executive orders and regulatory actions targeting the domestic energy sector. They also highlighted the thousands of good-paying American...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and 45 Senate colleagues in reintroducing the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act, which would make permanent the Hyde Amendment restrictions on using taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. “Many Americans believe in pro-life...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and eleven other colleagues in reintroducing the Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act, a bill that holds sanctuary jurisdictions accountable for jeopardizing public safety and for failing to comply with lawful detainer and release notification requests made by federal...
Sarah Root, a young Iowan, was killed by an illegal immigrant who was released by federal law enforcement due to a loophole in the law
WASHINGTON – As the Biden Administration is rolling back immigration enforcement and reversing President Trump’s executive order prioritizing prosecuting illegal immigrants convicted of violent crimes,...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reintroduced legislation to help businesses comply with immigration laws by certifying the legal status of their workforce. The Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act would permanently authorize and expand the E-Verify program, an internet–based system that assists employers in determining...
WASHINGTON – U.S.
Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Acting Chairman of the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Committee
on Finance, in an effort to improve protections for Americans’ genomic data,
wrote to Christi Grimm, Principal Deputy Inspector within the U.S. Department
of Health and Human...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and 42 Senate colleagues in reintroducing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. This legislation would provide common-sense protections for unborn children at 20 weeks after fertilization, a point at which there is significant scientific evidence that abortion...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reintroduced an amendment to the United States Constitution that would require the federal government to balance its budget each year. This amendment would put a stop to the current “status quo” of Congress spending far more money than the federal government takes in and would...
Q&A: Insulin Pricing Gambit
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why did you investigate insulin prices?
A: Sticker shock at the pharmacy counter is an issue I regularly hear about from Iowans. In particular, the soaring cost for one life-saving medicine, insulin, has gained greater urgency in the last several years. Stories of patients who skip or...
Flynn-Kislyak calls were classified, but leaks to press about it go unpunished
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is calling for DOJ to explain its findings in its reportedly closed investigation into the origins of a classified leak to the Washington Post.
“Time and again,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined his colleagues in sending a bipartisan, bicameral letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding the implementation of Phase 1 of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, which will award more than $9.2 billion to reach more than 5.2 million unserved locations across rural...
