WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is among 167 U.S. lawmakers urging President Obama to involve himself personally in resolving an impasse with the Congolese government in processing the pending adoptions of hundreds of children to U.S. parents. Diplomatic efforts so far have not resolved the situation, continuing to leave many children and...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today said that the cellphone unlocking bill passed the Senate last night by unanimous consent. The bipartisan bill would restore the ability of consumers to more easily transfer their cellphones to other wireless carriers.
Grassley, the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, cosponsored the bill with the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said today that fall internships for college-age Iowans are available, and applications are due August 1.
Internships are available in Grassley’s Washington, D.C., office as well as his offices in Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo. The semester-long internship will run...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today emphasized the need for a cultural change within the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs in a meeting with Robert McDonald, the President’s nominee to become secretary of the department. “From everything that’s come to light, we’re hearing about a department in which a lot of people go along to get...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa has asked the President to grant the request made by Governor Terry Branstad for a declaration of a major disaster in response to damaging winds, tornados, rain accumulation, hail, and thunderstorms last month.
In a request letter, Grassley wrote, “The Governor determined that this incident is of such severity and...
Senator Chuck Grassley made the following statement after the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General released, “An Assessment of the 1996 Department of Justice Task Force Review of the FBI Laboratory.” Grassley led an investigation of the crime lab in the mid-1990s after an agent and scientist in the lab, Dr. Fred Whitehurst, blew the...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaRanking Member, Senate Judiciary CommitteeThe Nomination of Ronnie L. Whiteto be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of MissouriWednesday, July 16, 2014
Today I’d like to spend a few minutes discussing the nomination of Justice Ronnie White to the Eastern District of Missouri and...
Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week. The Senate is in session. Senator Grassley will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the Huntington’s Disease Society of America, the Prison Fellowship Ministry, the Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy, the Iowa Corn Growers Association, Iowa Farm Bureau, and Innovate...
Floor Speech of Senator Chuck Grassleyon the Outlook for U.S. SuccessDelivered Monday, July 14, 2014
I would ask my colleagues to think about how many times they have made pessimistic sounding statements about America’s future. I want to talk about what I see as excessive pessimism about our great country because as public figures, what we say...
Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaRanking Member, Senate Judiciary CommitteeStatement Opposing the Smarter Sentencing ActMonday, July 14, 2014
Mr. President, a few weeks ago, some were calling for the Majority Leader to bring the so-called Smarter Sentencing Act to the Senate floor for a vote. I rise again today to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and senior Finance Committee member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, today requested detailed pricing information on a costly new Hepatitis C virus (HCV) drug.
Wyden and Grassley, who have long championed transparency in health care, have asked Gilead Sciences Inc. for information about Sovaldi, a drug...
Senator Chuck Grassley made the following comment after the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General released a summary of findings on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s alleged mistreatment and detainment of a University of California-San Diego student in 2012. Grassley began asking questions in May 2012, in a letter to the Drug Enforcement...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today said the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously cleared the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act. The bipartisan bill would restore the ability of consumers to more easily transfer their cellphones to other wireless carriers.
“This bipartisan bill is pro-consumer and pro-competition. ...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and co-chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, today made the following comment on the 2014 National Drug Control Strategy released today by the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
“The Administration has a large challenge in combating illicit drug...
Report from the Renewable Fuels Association found that unbranded or independent stations are roughly four to six times more likely to offer E85 and 40 times more likely to offer E15 than stations carrying a “Big Five” oil brand Klobuchar and Grassley have called on the Federal Trade Commission to evaluate concerns that oil companies may be...
Floor Statement of Sen. Chuck Grassley on Foster Youth and an Individual ExperienceDelivered Monday, July 7, 2014
Mr. President, for many years, I have been an advocate for reforming the foster care system and making sure the government is doing the best it can to protect and care for those who are abused, neglected, and removed from their families. ...
Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck GrassleyThe Importance of Federal Research Spending IntegrityDelivered Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Earlier this year, I learned about a case of research misconduct that happened at Iowa State University. A team of scientists was working on a vaccine to fight HIV. One of the researchers, Dr. Han, committed fraud to make it...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today asked the President to grant the request made by Governor Terry Branstad for a declaration of a major disaster in response to damaging winds, tornadoes, heavy rains, hail, and thunderstorms last month. In a letter of request, Grassley wrote, “The Governor determined that this incident is of such severity and...
