Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 09-07-21Topics include: Opioid epidemic, Afghanistan, 9/11 Anniversary, U.S.-China relations, Cannabis bill, Texas abortion bill, 99 county meetings, 2022 election.
Washington – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Republicans are demanding a full, open markup to thoroughly and rigorously examine and debate any forthcoming reckless tax-and-spend proposals in the Finance Committee’s jurisdiction. While the legislation Democrats intend to introduce has been withheld from Republicans on the Committee and from the...
BUTLER COUNTY,IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today praised anexecutive order expanding public access to secret government records related tothe terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The order, signedtoday by President Biden, is based on the bipartisan September11th Transparency Act, which requires federal agencies to conduct adeclassification...
Q&A: Every County. Every Year.
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why do you still go to every county in Iowa every year?
A: My 99 county tour is one of the most important things I do to make sure I’m representing Iowans well. When Iowans first elected me to Congress, I represented 18 counties in Iowa’s third congressional district....
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee and co-chairman on the Senate Caucus on International Drug
Control, issued the following statement regarding the Biden Administration’s
proposal to control deadly fentanyl-like drugs. “For months, I’ve been calling on the Biden administration to get...
WASHINGTON – Every Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), is demanding that Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) finally convene hearings on the historic border crisis that has continued for months.
“It is time for this Committee’s willful blindness to the situation at our southern...
GREENFIELD, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today held his 99th county meeting in Iowa for the 41st consecutive year as part of his annual 99 county meetings with an hour-long public town meeting in Adair County.
With this meeting, Grassley marks the conclusion of another year in his 41-year practice of holding at least one question-and-answer...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is seeking answers and an independent investigation into the faulty review of the Defense Department’s (DoD) now-defunct Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract conducted by the DoD Office of Inspector General (OIG).
The report released by the OIG about the JEDI contract contains...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 08-31-21Topics include: Flooding in Northeast Iowa, Afghanistan, COVID-19/mask mandate, impact of hurricane Ida.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pushing the Biden Administration to ensure that terrorists or other national security threats are not infiltrating efforts to provide humanitarian relief to Afghan nationals who assisted U.S. coalition forces during the war in Afghanistan. Recent media...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is calling on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to answer questions about its oversight of State Veterans Homes following reports of inconsistent inspection practices and quality controls.
“Our veterans deserve the best possible care after giving so much for our country. Unfortunately, it appears...
Q&A: Saving Bacon & Eggs
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Are contract producers eligible for pandemic relief assistance?
A: The market disruptions along the food supply chain last year created havoc from farm to fork, impacting producers, processors, grocers, restaurants and consumers. When COVID-19 shutdown processing facilities, the...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), president pro tempore emeritus of the U.S. Senate, issued the following statement on the attacks in Afghanistan that led to the deaths of American service members and Afghans seeking to escape the Taliban.
“It’s stomach-turning and heartbreaking to have lost twelve of our fellow Americans...
SIOUX CITY – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) regional director based in Sioux City will hold traveling office hours in three counties around Northwest Iowa in September. Iowans seeking assistance regarding a personal issue with a federal agency or wishing to share views on matters of federal policy may stop by during the scheduled hours.
These...
BUTLER COUNTY – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today called on President Biden to promptly appoint qualified individuals to the position of Chief Agricultural Negotiator at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and the role of Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report 08-26-21Topics include: Infrastructure, 99 county meetings, 2022 election, election laws, the opioid epidemic and Afghanistan.
BUTLER COUNTY – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold a town meeting in Adair County on Wednesday, September 1. This will mark his 99th county meeting in Iowa for the 41st consecutive year as part of his annual 99 county meetings.
“Representative Government is a two-way street. It can’t work without dialogue between elected officials and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans led by Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), are calling on the committee’s chairman, Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to convene a hearing to evaluate the Administration’s strategy to curb fentanyl overdoses. A temporary authority banning synthetic fentanyl analogues, which has proven effective in...
BUTLER COUNTY – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today announced that Harrison Swift, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and resident of Ankeny, will work as the new veterans fellow based in his Des Moines office. Dave Allen, who has worked as Grassley’s veterans fellow since 2015, is retiring.
“I’m glad Harrison will be...
BUTLER COUNTY – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today issued the following statement regarding reports that the EPA has recommended to lower the minimum renewable fuels volumes that must be supplied to the markets in 2021.
“I’m disappointed to hear the EPA is planning to lower the minimum required renewable fuels volumes for this year. If...
