Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman of the Senate Finance CommitteeOn Tax Treaties and ProtocolsTuesday, July 16, 2019VIDEO I rise today to express my support for passage of the resolutions of advice and consent that the Senate is considering this week with respect to the protocols to our tax treaties with Spain,...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenior Member and Former Chairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOn Critical Regulatory Reforms to the EB-5 Investor Visa ProgramTuesday, July 16, 2019VIDEO I want to talk today about the deeply flawed EB-5 green card program. Several weeks ago, we learned that the Office of Management and Budget...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 MissionTuesday, July 16, 2019VIDEO July 20th marks 50 years since Neil Armstrong took, “one small step for man” and for the first time in human history, walked on the moon. The Apollo missions should be remembered for generations to...
Opening Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeHearing on the President’s 2019 Trade Policy Agenda and the United States-Mexico-Canada AgreementTuesday, June 18, 2019VIDEO I am pleased to welcome our witness, Ambassador Lighthizer, and thank him for being here. We have been eager to have you before the committee...
Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman of the Senate Finance CommitteeSwearing-In Ceremony for the Honorable Andrew Saul, Commissioner of Social SecurityMonday, July 15, 2019 The first Commissioner of Social Security began his tenure on July 16, 1946. Today, a day shy of 73 years later, I’d like to introduce...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the 24th Anniversary of the Srebrenica MassacreMonday, July 15, 2019VIDEO Twenty-four years ago, radical Serb forces committed the worst genocide on European soil since the Holocaust. In and around that hallowed ground at Srebrenica, over 8,000 Bosnians were murdered out of ethnic and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to Department of Defense (DoD) Acting Secretary Mark Esper seeking more information about contracting practices in the DoD Office of Net Assessment (ONA). It comes after an audit released by the DoD Office of Inspector General (DoD IG), which Grassley requested in a letter earlier this year.
“The...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released the following statement regarding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) use of the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) with the European Union (EU) to help ensure the safety and quality of prescription drugs in the United States.“Anytime the federal...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) released the following statements regarding a federal judge’s ruling that direct-to-consumer (DTC) prescription drug advertisements do not have to include the list price of the drug.“The ever-rising cost of prescription drugs is one of the...
Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaTo the Autism Society of AmericaDirksen Senate Office Building, Washington D.C.Thursday, July 11, 2019 Good morning. It’s good to be here. I want to especially thank the Director of the Autism Society of Iowa, Kris Steinmetz, for the very good work you do. Let me start out with a...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today released the following statement regarding an announcement from Sanofi to reduce the price of insulin for qualifying patients to $99 a month. “Sanofi’s announcement is a step in the right direction. Millions of Americans with diabetes need insulin to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released the following statement regarding the release of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Special Compliance Personnel Program Annual Report.“Data continue to show that the Private Debt Collection program is working. In fact, this report shows that as a direct result of the success...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, are expressing concern about the increased volume of methamphetamine being smuggled from Mexico into the United States. As the nation continues to grapple with an ongoing opioid epidemic, the Senators urged the Department of Homeland Security and Office...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of IowaOn the EAGLES Act and National Threat Assessment CenterWednesday, June 10, 2019VIDEO Understanding the common factors of past acts of mass violence can help us prevent future tragedies. The Secret Service, through its National Threat Assessment Center, compiles and studies data on these risk...
EAGLES Act Expands Reach of Important Threat Assessment & Training Program WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is urging congressional colleagues to support legislation enhancing an existing threat assessment program to prevent acts of mass violence. The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) today released its...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) to introduce the Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act, legislation that holds sanctuary jurisdictions accountable for failing to comply with lawful detainer and release notification requests made by federal authorities and jeopardizing public safety....
Grassley Statement on DoD Watchdog’s Investigation into TransDigm
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released the following statement regarding the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General’s (DoDOIG) announcement that it has re-opened its investigation into the contracting firm TransDigm Group, Inc.
“Earlier this year, we...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai regarding the FCC’s role in ensuring the accuracy of broadband maps.
“According to your 2018 Broadband Deployment Report, more than three in four rural Iowans have access to broadband. More broadly, the...
