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...
WASHINGTON – Biodiesel producers, farmers and renewable fuel stakeholders say the One Big Beautiful Bill will revitalize and strengthen Iowa’s renewable fuels industry and deliver for Iowa farmers.
On July 4, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law. It improves and extends the Clean Fuels Production Tax Credit through 2029, including...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is renewing calls for accountability after receiving information that builds on independent reports of widespread Obamacare fraud. In 2024, taxpayers reportedly footed the bill for approximately $20 billion in improper Obamacare...
Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: Wind Tax Credits, Letter to USPS, Arms Shipments to Ukraine, Rural Hospital Closures, One Big Beautiful Bill and Social Security Taxes.
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) welcomed Steve Doocy from Fox & Friends for a walk and talk around his New Hartford farm. On their morning stroll, Grassley and Doocy discussed Grassley’s farming operation, his active social media presence and love for Iowa, as well as Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill and Grassley’s time in...
Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: One Big Beautiful Bill, Farmer and Renewable Fuel Benefits, Codifying Executive Orders, Supreme Court Denying Prop 12 Challenge and Biden’s Autopen.
Q: Why did Congress seek fiscal integrity changes to the Medicaid program?
A: Six decades ago, Congress added Title XIX to the Social Security Act that created a health care safety net for low-income individuals and families, with primary emphasis on dependent children and their moms, individuals with disabilities and low-income seniors. Since 1965, state...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released internal Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) emails revealing the FBI suppressed intelligence of alleged Chinese interference in the 2020 election to insulate then-FBI Director Christopher Wray from criticism, after Wray provided inaccurate and contradictory testimony...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today voted to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to protect Iowans from being hit with the largest tax increase in history and provide historic investments in border security and law enforcement. The legislation will now receive a vote in the House of Representatives before heading to President Trump’s desk to be...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released updated legislative text of the Judiciary Committee’s provisions in Senate Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as approved by the Senate Parliamentarian.
“Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to keep criminal illegal immigrants in our country and on the taxpayers’ dime....
Q: What border security measures did you lead in the Senate budget bill?
A: As chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I included significant upgrades for border security in the Senate’s budget bill that address the disastrous open border policies of the Biden-Harris administration. During the previous administration, more than 10 million illegal immigrants...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement in light of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Trump v. CASA, Inc., affirming universal injunctions “likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts.”
“Today’s decision is a significant...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote to the United States Postal Service (USPS) about concerns the institution is not fulfilling its service mission and sustaining financial self-sufficiency through its policies. Iowans from across the state have contacted Grassley’s office this year to share their challenges with the mail, prompting...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) was featured as the inaugural guest in YouTube’s new series, ‘YouTube in Session,’ which brings together members of Congress and YouTube content creators to foster conversation and civic engagement. Grassley sat down with Emily Jashinsky, host of UnHerd’s “Undercurrents”...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced the following nominations:
Whitney D. Hermandorfer, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, by a vote of 12-10;
Zachary M. Bluestone, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, by a vote of 12-10;
Joshua M. Divine, to be United States District...
Associated Press: Sen. Grassley calls delays at a benefits program for deceased officers ‘absolutely unacceptable’ By Ryan Foley June 24, 2025
A powerful U.S. senator on Tuesday called on the Trump administration to fix a growing backlog and longtime management problems at the program that promises benefits when police and firefighters die or become disabled...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced their bipartisan Abducted Ukrainian Children Recovery and Accountability Act. This legislation would support Ukraine’s efforts to investigate and track the nearly 20,000 Ukrainian children who have been abducted during Putin’s brutal invasion. The bill would assist with the...
Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: Iran Conflict, Budget Reconciliation Bill, Rural Electric Cooperative Youth Tour and the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act of 2019.
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) welcomed the Supreme Court’s 9-0 ruling today maintaining the constitutionality of the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act of 2019, a law Grassley authored alongside U.S. Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.). The law ensures American victims of international...
