Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Law Enforcement Reforms Passed by the Iowa State LegislatureTuesday, June 16, 2020VIDEO Too often Americans are cynical about our political system. When all they see is legislative gridlock. Yet, Iowans were able to set themselves apart by working together on law enforcement reforms in...
Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today wrote to each member of the committee seeking input and policy suggestions to complement ongoing efforts to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities. Following several comments from committee members, which have not included specific policy ideas or solutions, Grassley is...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the World Food PrizeMonday, June 15, 2020VIDEO This year’s World Food Prize laureate has been announced. Dr. Rattan Lal will receive the prize for his work on soil health at the annual ceremony in Des Moines in October. Often called the Nobel Prize for agriculture, the World...
In a letter to USDA, Senators Grassley and Ernst, along with Governor Reynolds and Ag Secretary Naig, urge the department to provide federal assistance to
farmer-owned cooperatives and independent turkey growers.
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), both members of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee, along with Iowa...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and 43 senators in sending a bipartisan letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Jovita Carranza urging the administration to ease paperwork requirements for small businesses seeking loan...
Q&A: World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s your greatest concern in 2020 regarding elder abuse?
A: The global pandemic has exposed grave concerns our society must confront to protect the nation’s most vulnerable citizens. Approximately 1.4 million Americans live in about 15,000 nursing homes across the country....
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today joined their colleagues Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) in introducing
legislation that would extend for two years the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) “
Temporary Policy for Preparation of Certain Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer Products During...
Finance Committee Chairman and Ranking Member Urge HHS to Establish A Single, Comprehensive and Publicly Available Data Source for CARES Act Provider Funds WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn China Stonewalling the World Health OrganizationThursday, June 11, 2020VIDEO On Wednesday, June 3, 2020, the Associated Press released an article detailing China’s stonewalling and delay tactics in withholding crucial data from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the novel...
WASHINGTON – The Senate passed the
Concerns Over Nations Funding University Campus Institutes in the United States (CONFUCIUS) Act by unanimous consent, legislation supported by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and introduced by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.). This legislation works to address concerns about Confucius Institutes’...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance Committee Thursday, June 11, 2020VIDEO The miracles of scientific innovation have cured illnesses that a generation ago delivered a death sentence to many Americans. Dr. Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine in 1953 eradicated the fatal effects of the virus that killed...
Officials knew early on that debunked dossier at heart of unlawful surveillance lacked verification well before Mueller took over Russia probe
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a
recently...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-Ore.) commended the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance Committee Wednesday, June 10, 2020VIDEO The coronavirus pandemic underscores the vital contribution pharmaceutical sciences make for the nation’s public health, economic prosperity and our way of life. It also confirms that we need a policy solution to treat...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a
letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue requesting that the Packers and Stockyards Division publicly release findings from its investigation into beef pricing margins following the fire at Tyson’s plant in Holcomb, Kansas. The USDA’s Packers and Stockyards Division was...
Prepared Opening Statement by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeHearing on Unemployment Insurance During COVID-19: The CARES Act and the Role of Unemployment Insurance During the PandemicTuesday, June 9, 2020VIDEO Welcome to today’s hearing. Before we start, I think it’s important again to note...
WASHINGTON
– Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are asking the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG) to issue alerts to providers and the public about the unlawful practices of some nursing homes that are requiring Medicaid recipients in their care to...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn Iowa’s Successful Primary ElectionTuesday, June 9, 2020VIDEO Last week, Iowans voted in record numbers for a June primary. In most elections, about forty percent of Iowans choose to vote by absentee ballot. In this election, understandably, the vast majority cast their votes...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeMonday, June 8, 2020VIDEO It’s no longer business as usual in America. Let’s end business as usual in Washington. We’re experiencing a deadly pandemic. The United States is firing on all cylinders to fight it and find a...
