WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to address reported failures to provide follow-up care for children on Medicaid who have experienced suicidal thoughts or behaviors. Patients with an identified suicide risk history...
WASHINGTON – Today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Nazi-linked accounts at Credit Suisse, inspired by an ongoing oversight investigation led by Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), brought new facts about the bank’s past to light and increased pressure on Credit Suisse’s successor bank, UBS, to ensure the investigation isn’t stifled.
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WASHINGTON – Legislation from Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) is now law after President Trump signed a Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding package today. Grassley’s bipartisan Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care Act, which was included in the package, improves health care access for children with complex medical conditions by simplifying...
WASHINGTON– The OPTN Fee Collection Authority Act from Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) today became law as part of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding package signed by President Trump. The law enables the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)’s continued implementation of Grassley’s life-saving reforms to the U.S. organ...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and John Fetterman (D-Pa.) sent a letter to Department of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Director Andrea Gacki, urging them to implement the Grassley-authored Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Improvement Act. The law created FinCEN’s whistleblower program to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today chaired a hearing to examine Swiss banks’ hidden Nazi ties. The hearing provided an update on Grassley and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-R.I.) ongoing investigation into Credit Suisse’s historic servicing of Nazi-linked accounts.
In response to Grassley’s questions, Neil Barofsky –...
Audio from this afternoon’s call is available HERE.
Topic’s discussed: ICE, Gaza ceasefire agreement, government funding, DOJ, the Federal Reserve and midterms.
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) are introducing the Student Loan Bond Expansion Act of 2026 this week to reduce financial barriers for college students looking for lower interest loans. The legislation would exempt Qualified Student Loan Bonds (QSLB) from the private activity bond volume cap and the alternative minimum tax,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) in introducing the Veterans Hearing Aid Improvement Act to improve access to over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids for eligible veterans through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
“Hearing loss limits a person’s ability to participate in...
Q: How widespread of a problem is human trafficking in our country?
A: Although exact numbers are difficult to nail down – estimates of victims trafficked within the United States range up to a million people every year – the crime of forcing a human being to provide labor, sex or domestic servitude occurs in communities across the entire country. It’s even...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced a resolution designating January as National Stalking Awareness Month. The bipartisan and bicameral resolution seeks to raise awareness of the dangers of stalking and boost prevention efforts. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Debbie Dingell...
WASHINGTON – Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, descendants of Holocaust survivors, Jewish faith leaders and global advocates are applauding Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) efforts to shine light on Credit Suisse’s financial servicing of Nazis and their enablers. Grassley next week will chair a bipartisan...
Audio from this afternoon’s call is available HERE.
Topics include: ICE enforcement in Minnesota, E15, the government funding deadline, prevented planting coverage, Greenland and tariffs.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), co-founder of the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus, has successfully secured new employment and a financial settlement for a whistleblower who was severely retaliated against by the Biden administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Whistleblower Afolabi Siwajuola came forward to...
Q: What is the federal government’s #1 tool to fight fraud?
A: More than a century after President Lincoln first signed the False Claims Act into law, I never could have predicted how effective the Civil War-era amendments I updated in 1986 would become on behalf of the American taxpayer. The so-called Lincoln’s Law was enacted in 1863 to combat unscrupulous...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong family farmer and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, joined Sens. John Boozman (R-Ark.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the committee, respectively, along with Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and 15 of their colleagues, in urging Department of Agriculture (USDA)...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to renew Robinson-Patman Act enforcement and prevent economic discrimination against small and medium-sized businesses, particularly in the grocery and agriculture...
WASHINGTON – Under a law championed by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the federal government recovered over $6.8 billion in fraudulent payments in fiscal year 2025 (FY25), the largest single-year recovery in the history of the False Claims Act. Whistleblowers were responsible for helping recover a vast majority of this amount, over $5.3 billion. During that...
Q: What changes can Iowans look forward to this tax season?
A: Mark your calendars. Iowans can start filing their 2025 tax returns starting Monday, Jan. 26 through April 15. This year, more taxpayers will have something to look forward to – getting cash back from Uncle Sam. The U.S. Treasury Secretary says the lion’s share of middle-income taxpayers can...
