WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, laid out his health care priorities during a hearing to consider Dr. Mehmet Oz’s nomination to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Oz committed to supporting Grassley’s efforts to lower prescription drug costs,...
Q: What is “Be The One” campaign all about?
A: This grassroots effort raises public awareness about veteran suicide and facilitates training and prevention strategies using one-on-one connections with at-risk veterans in local communities across the country. The nationwide outreach is coordinated by the American Legion, the patriotic veterans organization...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued a statement regarding President Trump’s decision to close the Department of Defense (DOD)’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA). In a meeting in January, Grassley personally discussed his longtime oversight of ONA waste with then-Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth and recommended DOD close the ONA.
“After years...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gary Peters (D-Mich.) introduced the Foreign Agents Transparency Act to ensure unregistered foreign agents are unable to sidestep disclosure requirements by exploiting judicial misinterpretations of the Foreign...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Co-Chairs of the Senate Baltic Freedom Caucus, introduced the Baltic Security Initiative Act to enhance and strengthen U.S. security cooperation with the Baltics amid Putin’s aggressive action in the region. The bipartisan legislation would effectively codify the Baltic Security Initiative...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) applauded the unanimous Senate passage of their Justice for Murder Victims Act. The bipartisan bill would strike down the “year-and-a-day” rule, which prohibits murder prosecutions against individuals whose victims die more than a year-and-a-day after they...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member and Chairman, respectively, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led a group of nine bipartisan House and Senate colleagues in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlining their deep concern over Republika Srpska leader...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy (R-La.), along with over 60 House and Senate Republicans, filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Mahmoud v. Taylor. The brief supports parents’ constitutional right to be notified of, and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pressing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for answers regarding the serious security concerns caused by the Biden-Harris administration’s failure to fully vet Afghan evacuees in the wake of the United States’ disastrous 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, including the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is renewing his sweeping review of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) unaccompanied migrant children (UC) program. Grassley is demanding answers from 23 HHS contractors and grantees regarding their facilitation of the program – which, under the Biden-Harris...
Senator Grassley's Capitol Hill Report is linked HERE.
Topics include: egg prices, market regulation, tariffs, measles, HALT Fentanyl Act and vaccines.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), along with Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.), to introduce the Arsenal Workload Sustainment Act to boost workload at Army arsenals, including Rock Island Arsenal. The bipartisan legislation incentivizes private industry to partner with...
Q: Why did President Trump address a joint session of Congress?
A: Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution says the president “shall from time to time” give Congress information about the state of the union. George Washington set the precedent by fulfilling this duty in person. Although his successors from 1801 to 1913 sent their messages to Congress in...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and a lifelong family farmer, released the following statement following President Trump's executive action on the proposed duty on Canadian potash. Potash is a key ingredient in fertilizer. Tariffs on Canadian imports are now expected to begin April 2.
“President Trump...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gary Peters (D-Mich.) reintroduced two bipartisan bills to prevent foreign governments, including adversaries like China and Russia, from shadow influencing U.S. policy. The legislation would help close loopholes...
WASHINGTON – Major law enforcement organizations representing over 1,000,000 officers nationwide, are calling on the Senate to pass the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of (HALT) Fentanyl Act immediately and without amendments. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is leading the push to permanently classify illicit fentanyl-related...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined the entire Iowa congressional delegation to urge Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins and Farm Service Agency Acting Administrator Kimberly Graham to deliver critical financial relief for Iowa’s turkey producers who have been severely impacted by avian metapneumovirus (aMPV).
Specifically,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is pushing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide clear and accessible information on inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs) to better support patients and their families. While CMS has supported web-based tools to find...
WASHINGTON – During today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the rising tide of antisemitism, Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) entered into the hearing record a letter from The Simon Wiesenthal Center applauding Grassley’s efforts to “expose the hidden truth about Swiss banks’ collaboration with the Nazis before, during, and after World War...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced the bipartisan Reduce Food Loss and Waste Act to prevent and reduce food waste across the country. Each year, the U.S. produces and imports 237 million tons of food, but 31 percent of this food is never sold or eaten, while millions of Americans experience food insecurity.
“Too...
