Q&A: National Adoption Month
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What is National Adoption Month?
A: Nearly four decades ago, President Ronald Reagan launched a national awareness campaign to reaffirm the central importance of family in American society and bring attention to tens of thousands of children in foster care who yearn for the permanency...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of 41 senators, led by senior Finance Committee member and former chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Finance Committee member Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), are calling for equitable tax treatment of pandemic aid provided to the still-struggling motorcoach and passenger vehicle industries.
Several...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 11-23-21Topics include: Opening of strategic oil reserve, cattle market bill, supply chain issues, Protecting America's First Responders Act, social spending bill and the omnibus appropriations bill.
WASHINGTON – In light of an upcoming U.S. District Judgeship opening in the Southern District of Iowa, Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst are inviting members of the Iowa legal community to submit applications for the vacancy between now and December 31 in order to be considered for a recommendation by the senators to President Joseph R. Biden.
“It’s...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a family farmer, completed his two social media series called #CornWatch and #SoybeanWatch for 2021. The annual series gives followers an inside look at farming operations on the Grassley family farm in New Hartford, Iowa. Over the course of 28 weeks, he highlighted the progression, from planting to...
Q&A: Border Security
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: How has the Biden administration created a “seismic shift” in border security?
A: In less than one year in the Oval Office, an unprecedented migrant surge at our southern border is taking place on President Biden’s watch. U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently announced it had a historic...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), president pro tempore emeritus of the U.S. Senate, made the following comments regarding the passage of the partisan budget reconciliation bill in the U.S. House of Representatives.
“Taken all together, the policies represented in this legislation are just plain bad for the country. Massive government...
WASHINGTON – Three pro-law enforcement measures backed by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) were signed into law this morning. Grassley shepherded all three bills through the Senate Judiciary Committee during National Police Week in May, and subsequently passed both houses of Congress with his support.
“Supporting law enforcement is just common sense. And it’s...
WASHINGTON – A bill to support law enforcement officers seeking mental health services was signed into law today. The Confidentiality Opportunities for Peer Support (COPS) Counseling Act was co-authored by Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.).
“Law enforcement officers across the...
WASHINGTON – After recently released FOIA documents reveal significant obstruction of basic questions relating to potential criminal conflicts of interest and whistleblower retaliation at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is demanding fresh answers from Secretary Denis McDonough about the underlying allegations and VA’s...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), co-chair of the Congressional Law Enforcement Caucus and Congressional Fire Services Caucus, and today celebrated the signing into law of their Protecting America’s First RespondersAct of 2021 (PAFRA) at the White House by...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and several colleagues today introduced legislation to return fairness to the cattle marketplace dominated by four major meat packers. Last week, the authors announced the framework of this legislation.
“I frequently hear from Iowa’s independent cattle producers about their struggle to get a...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and several colleagues in formally challenging President Biden’s vaccine mandate under the Congressional Review Act (CRA). This move to overturn President Biden’s vaccine or test mandate for private employers is guaranteed a vote on the Senate floor. The rule was transmitted to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, took the FBI to task and is demanding records relating to the search warrant execution at the home of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe and against other employees.
“The Department’s heavy-handed treatment of Project Veritas is notably different from the...
WASHINGTON – In the wake of multiple watchdog reviews and whistleblower allegations, Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) are pushing the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for answers about the agency’s failure to conduct sufficient oversight of its foreign operations and work with foreign law...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, are calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to correct conflicting public statements by the Justice Department about whether it had used extraordinary surveillance...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 11-15-21Topics include: Infrastructure, cattle market bill, supply chain issues, 2022 election, Russian aircraft and immigration payments.
DES MOINES, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today held his second Federal Judiciary Youth Summit at the Des Moines Federal Courthouse. Nineteen high schools from eight counties in central Iowa participated in the program. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger and Senior District Judge James E. Gritzner spoke on their involvement in the federal...
Q&A: Medicare Open Enrollment
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What do Iowans need to know about Medicare Open Enrollment?
A: Don’t dilly dally. The deadline for Medicare recipients to update their health insurance coverage for next year is Dec. 7, 2021. More than 644,000 individuals are enrolled in Medicare in Iowa. During open enrollment,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, are calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to clear up inconsistencies in his responses to oversight inquiries regarding potential conflicts of interest in two ongoing...
