WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today praised the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement of the newly proposed over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids regulations which implements the Grassley-Warren 2017 law. This comes after the senators pressed the FDA Commissioner last week to issue the regulations without...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and several of his Senate colleagues today called on the Biden administration to explain its delay in delivering financial assistance to Iowa’s biofuel industry negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In June 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced $700 million in aid to biofuel producers as...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 10-18-21Topics include: John Deere strike, unemployment, 2022 election, supply chain issues, Federal Judiciary Youth Summit, carbon pipelines and Colin Powell.
Q&A: Inflation Hits the Gas
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Is there end in sight to rising inflation?
A: Iowans keep getting slammed at the gas pump and when they check out at the grocery store. Inflation is climbing, pushing up prices on everyday goods and services with price increases for food, housing and energy swallowing up consumer...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced today that they will introduce bipartisan legislation to restore competition online by establishing commonsense rules of the road for dominant digital platforms to prevent them from abusing their market power to harm competition, online businesses and consumers.
“As Big Tech...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue new regulations for over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids without delay. This comes after President Biden issued an Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy in accordance with their bill, the...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Following a January 2021 order from then-President Trump to declassify records related to the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, the Justice Department has made no apparent progress toward transparency and has rebuffed numerous inquiries from members of Congress on the matter.
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is grilling the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the FBI about each agency’s work with the Commerce Department’s Investigations and Threat Management Service (ITMS)—which has operated as a federal law enforcement and intelligence unit without...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 10-12-21Topics include: Budget reconciliation, infrastructure, natural gas prices, the House Agriculture Committee hearing, Roe v. Wade, the Trump rally, 2022 election and goals for the remainder of the 2021 year.
Symposium Led By Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Will Include Federal Judges, Iowa High School Students and Educators
BUTLER COUNTY – As part of his longstanding effort to engage Iowans in our system of representative government, uphold the separation of powers and foster participation in civic life, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking...
Q&A: October is Manufacturing Month
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why do you push policies to help strengthen U.S. manufacturing?
A: A robust manufacturing sector supports good-paying, high-quality jobs. For 245 years, the pioneering spirit of the American people has propelled the United States to soaring heights of innovation and prosperity,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is seeking information from multiple government agencies on reported misclassification of positions at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that allowed staff in administrative positions to receive additional compensation reserved for law...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and all Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today demanded the Department of Justice (DOJ) not interfere with local school board meetings or threaten the use of federal law enforcement to deter parents’ free speech. This comes after DOJ issued a memorandum suggesting federal law enforcement may need...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the committee Republicans’ report on the committee’s review of former President Trump’s management of the Justice Department following the 2020 presidential election. The investigation was launched by Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in January. This...
WASHINGTON – Every year, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) selects 10 young Iowans to nominate to each of the U.S. service academies including the Military Academy at West Point, the Air Force Academy, the Naval Academy and the Merchant Marine Academy. Grassley encourages Iowa students to consider applying to all of the U.S. service academies because each one has...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and several of their colleagues in introducing the Better Enforcement of Grievous Offenses by un-Naturalized Emigrants (BE GONE) Act to give the Department of Homeland Security more authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to deport individuals in the U.S. who...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined colleagues at a press conference today to discuss the ongoing border crisis and its consequences for the country.
Grassley’s brief remarks are transcribed below and can be watched HERE or downloaded HERE.
“At my county meetings in Iowa, I hear...
WASHINGTON – Despite announcements of various inquiries and investigations, nothing is known about the source of the massive leak or hack of private taxpayer information ending up in the hands of advocates at ProPublica. Meanwhile, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has said it does not yet even know whether there has been a threat of a breach, even as it...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pushing nominees
to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to commit to supporting
a highly successful whistleblower program at risk of collapsing under the
weight of its own successes. “Because of its great success, the whistleblower
fund is at risk of being depleted. The increasing size...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) regional directors based in Sioux City, Des Moines and Waterloo will hold traveling office hours in 30 counties around Iowa throughout October. Iowans seeking assistance regarding a personal issue with a federal agency or wishing to share views on matters of federal policy may stop by during the scheduled...
