Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee
Saturday, August 2, 2025
VIDEO
One of the next two votes will be for Ms. Pirro [and] her nomination for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Ms. Pirro is a trailblazer. It’s shameful for Democrats to oppose this trailblazing woman. Her qualifications speak for...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined “Saturday Agenda” with Rob Astorino on Newsmax to discuss his successful efforts to declassify and release the previously Classified Appendix (“Durham annex”) to John Durham’s 2023 Special Counsel report.
The Durham annex exposed a reported Hillary Clinton campaign plan to...
Q: What is an ESOP?
A: An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) is a tax-advantaged retirement plan that allows business owners to sell shares of stock to their employees as part of an employee benefit plan. For many family-run small businesses that have invested their time and money into the company for generations, an ESOP is a beneficial tool for...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined “The Record with Greta van Susteren” on Newsmax to discuss his successful work to declassify and release the formerly Classified Appendix (“Durham annex”) to John Durham’s 2023 Special Counsel report.
The Durham annex exposed a reported Hillary Clinton campaign plan to falsely...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, today questioned Treasury Department nominee Derek Theurer on the implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Grassley asked whether Theurer would advise the Treasury Department to maintain its longstanding interpretation of “began...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong family farmer and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, submitted questions for the record to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden following a committee hearing on USDA’s reorganization proposal Wednesday.
In his questions, Grassley asked Vaden to explain why Congress...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined “America’s Newsroom” on Fox News to discuss his successful efforts to secure the declassification and release of the formerly Classified Appendix (“Durham annex”) to John Durham’s 2023 Special Counsel report.
The Durham annex exposes a reported Hillary Clinton campaign plan...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today is making public the formerly Classified Appendix (“Durham annex”) to John Durham’s 2023 Special Counsel report. The Unclassified Report and the Classified Appendix form the entirety of Durham’s Special Counsel Report.
The Durham annex contains previously classified information...
WASHINGTON – At the National Whistleblower Day celebration on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced he has succeeded in reinstating a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whistleblower's clearance and employment with the agency. This is the sixth whistleblower Grassley has successfully restored so far this year.
During his remarks,...
WASHINGTON – On National Whistleblower Day, whistleblowers helped by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) expressed their gratitude for his tireless advocacy. Grassley is the co-founder and co-chair of the Whistleblower Protection Caucus.
In March, the Department of Treasury promoted Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler after...
WASHINGTON – Ahead of the Senate’s vote on the nomination of Emil Bove to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released an exhaustive overview of his work to thoroughly vet Bove’s nomination in light of three whistleblower allegations made against the nominee.
In a speech on the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), co-founder and co-chair of the Whistleblower Protection Caucus, today introduced the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act. Grassley’s legislation is cosponsored by Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.).
“The Biden-Harris administration’s weaponization of...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) on the Senate floor to request unanimous passage of seven bipartisan law enforcement bills, which were passed out of the Judiciary Committee by a unanimous voice vote in May as part of Police Week.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a member of...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) recently sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel requesting the FBI review unevaluated material related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and...
Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: Prop 12, President Trump’s Trade Deals, PBS/NPR Funding, the Epstein Files and Pascual Pedro.
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) and Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), reintroduced legislation to study the effectiveness of biochar, a carbon-rich material produced from biomass.
The bipartisan Biochar...
Q: What’s your most recent work to strengthen whistleblower protections?
A: Estimates show federal contractors outnumber roughly two million civilian employees in the federal workforce. In July I introduced bipartisan legislation to address gaps in existing federal law that leave millions of people who work as federal contractors vulnerable to reprisal if...
WASHINGTON – In a letter to President Donald Trump, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), co-founder and co-chair of the Whistleblower Protection Caucus, praised the president’s efforts to eliminate waste and fraud and requested that the administration ensure whistleblowers are not terminated or retaliated against after making legally protected whistleblower...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today unanimously voted to advance three bipartisan public safety bills to support law enforcement’s efforts to combat crime and protect vulnerable populations.
The Opioid Overdose Data Collection Enhancement Act, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), would...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined three Senate colleagues to reintroduce the Short on Competition Act to increase competition in the pharmaceutical industry and lower prices for consumers. The legislation is led by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) and sponsored by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). Grassley is the current chairman...
