WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Co-Chair of the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus, is cosponsoring bipartisan legislation alongside Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gary Peters (D-Mich.) to expand whistleblower protections for government contractors and grantees.
The Expanding Whistleblower...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today is bringing to light the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) findings that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) failed to fully investigate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and mishandling of highly classified information during her...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is applauding an announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that the agency will stop duplicative enrollment in government health programs, which could save taxpayers approximately $14 billion a year.
CMS found that an average of 1.2 million Americans were enrolled in Medicaid/CHIP...
WASHINGTON – Following a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on organized retail crime, Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) welcomed growing support for his bipartisan Combating Organized Retail Crime Act (CORCA) from retail industry leaders, law enforcement organizations and hundreds of affected businesses.
Grassley and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev)...
Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: Government Investigations, Wind and Solar Tax Credits, Biofuels, Social Security Income, Combating Organized Retail Crime Act and Social Media Drug Trafficking.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) staff will hold traveling office hours in 31 counties from July 28 to August 4. Iowans seeking assistance with a federal agency or wishing to share their views may stop by during the scheduled hours listed below.
NOTE: Senator Grassley will not be in attendance. He will be represented by his regional directors:...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) in reintroducing the Cooper Davis and Devin Norring Act.
The bipartisan legislation would require social media companies and communication service providers to take an active role in reporting the illegal sale and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), co-chairs of the Congressional Trademark Caucus, welcomed the Senate’s unanimous passage of their resolution designating July as “National Anti-Counterfeiting and Consumer Education and Awareness Month.” The bipartisan effort aims to drive awareness of the...
Q: How does organized retail crime impact Main Street businesses and customers?
A: Organized crime syndicates are rampaging retail stores and cargo fleets across the country through sophisticated criminal schemes. It’s costing businesses and consumers billions of dollars a year. We’re not talking about a kid stealing a candy bar or pack of gum near the...
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WASHINGTON – The City of Cedar Rapids will receive $25 million from the Department of Transportation (DOT) to fund flood resilience efforts and infrastructure improvements at I-380 through the Union Pacific (UP) Railroad Project. Funding for this project comes from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), legislation Sen. Chuck...
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump today signed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of (HALT) Fentanyl Act into law, permanently classifying illicit, fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I. The bipartisan and bicameral legislation was led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Bill...
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WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) reintroduced the Healthy Moms and Babies Act to improve maternal and child health care across the nation. The maternal health crisis in the United States particularly affects those living in rural America and women of color. Grassley previously chaired the Senate...
WASHINGTON – Citing Senate Judiciary Committee precedent, Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today announced the Committee will not hold a second hearing on Emil Bove’s nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The Committee will vote on Bove’s nomination on Thursday, July 17.
During the last administration, then-Chairman Dick...
WASHINGTON – In response to questioning from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) at a hearing today, witnesses urged congressional action to address the nationwide scourge of organized retail crime and endorsed the Grassley-led, bipartisan Combating Organized Retail Crime Act.
The witnesses discussed the dangers of organized retail...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) welcomed the Senate’s confirmation of Whitney D. Hermandorfer to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit. Hermandorfer was confirmed by a vote of 46-42 and is the first judicial nominee to be confirmed during the 119th Congress.
“Whitney Hermandorfer’s confirmation is...
Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: Russia/Ukraine War, Farm Bill, Tariffs, Biodiesel Supply in Iowa, National Injunctions and the Epstein Client List.
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report compiled at his request in the wake of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024.
The Grassley-requested report states senior-level U.S. Secret...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined a group of his colleagues in releasing a statement to mark the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide.
In addition to Grassley, the group of senators releasing the statement includes Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member and Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,...
Q: How did you leverage your leadership for alternative energy?
A: More than three decades ago, I helped launch Iowa’s rise to dominance in alternative energy with the first-ever federal wind energy tax credit. Wind energy supports more than 9,000 jobs in Iowa and generates more than 60% of our state’s electricity, making it the largest source of electricity...
WASHINGTON – Clean energy advocates are applauding Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) leadership to support the wind and solar energy industries in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Grassley successfully got the wind energy industry off the ground by instituting America’s first-ever federal wind energy tax credit in 1993, earning him recognition as the “father” of...
