WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is calling on the Justice Department to reconsider its announced plans to cancel its China Initiative, despite the continued barrage of espionage and intellectual property theft originating from the Chinese Communist Party. The China Initiative was established during the Trump...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold a town meeting this Friday, March 4 in Lucas County as part of his annual 99 county meetings.
“You can’t have representative government without dialogue between elected officials and the people we represent,” Grassley said. “I appreciate the opportunity to hold town meetings, answer questions and take...
Q&A: Tax Season 2022
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What concerns are you hearing from Iowans about tax filing season?
A: Tax filing season is notoriously a stressful time for households, farms and businesses to get their financial information, receipts and documents in order. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the federal agency charged with...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and a bipartisan group of Senate Judiciary Committee members today called on FBI Director Christopher Wray to provide additional details about the FBI’s approach to child sex abuse cases following its failures to properly investigate the Larry Nassar case.
In...
BUTLERCOUNTY, IOWA – During Q&As with Iowans this week, Sen. Chuck Grassley(R-Iowa) condemned Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the unnecessarybloodshed it has caused.
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BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement on the president’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
“I congratulate Judge Jackson on her nomination to the high court.
“The judgments of a...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Reps. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, James Comer (R-Ky.), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)...
BOONE, IOWA – In a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) requested that CMS quickly permit transitional health plans for Calendar Year (CY) 2023 to provide Iowans predictability and stability in their health care.
“Over 65,000 hard-working...
BOONE, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in calling on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan to redirect the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs away from their current propensity for overly cautious blanket bans and severe restrictions of...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today praised the selection of Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds to provide the Republican national address following the State of the Union on March 1, 2022.
“As the nation struggles under crushing federal edicts, Americans are looking to state leaders to restore liberty and prosperity. Under Governor Reynolds’...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 02-21-22Topics include: Russia/Ukraine tension, Economic impact from conflict, Renewable energy, SC nominee, Inflation, Infrastructure, 2022 Election and Supply chain issues.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg regarding the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) December 16, 2021 memorandum, “Policy on Using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is demanding clarity and accountability in the Optional Practical Training program for foreign students studying in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields. The STEM OPT program, of which Grassley has long been a critic, was originally designed to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement regarding the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (OIG) report released today titled, “Evaluation of the Screening of Displaced Persons from Afghanistan.”
“Following the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) introduced the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Finance and Counterfeiting Act of 2022. Their bipartisan legislation modernizes and strengthens...
Q&A: Crack Pipes
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: How should America address its opioid crisis?
A: The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reports America is experiencing an “unprecedented overdose epidemic.” Overdose deaths are claiming an average 275 lives every day. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), deaths by...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) today, to introduce The Return Employees To Understaffed Worksites to Reopen Now (RETURN) Act. This bipartisan legislation would direct federal agencies to submit a comprehensive plan to resume in-person operations and address...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) to reintroduce the Improving Social Security’s Service to Victims of Identity Theft Act to provide more efficient help to Americans whose social security numbers have been misused following an identity theft.
“Millions of Americans are affected by identity theft every year, and...
WASHINGTON – Sen.
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and a majority of his
Republican colleagues in introducing the Never Yielding Europe’s Territory
(NYET) Act to
provide the critical support Ukraine needs to defend itself and deter Russian
aggression today, while imposing real costs on the Kremlin for its ongoing and
potential future...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) and 26 of their Senate colleagues to introduce a resolution in support of re-opening the U.S. Capitol Building and Senate office buildings to public visitation under pre-COVID policies.
“With businesses and schools back open, it is past time to let the people back into the...
