Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaAt the 2019 Global Insurance SymposiumOn Prescription Drug Pricing and the Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2019Thursday, April 25, 2019 Good morning. I’m honored to be speaking today in Des Moines. It’s not lost on me that the Global Insurance Symposium is happening...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Mike Lee (R-UT), the lead sponsors of the recently-enacted
First Step Act, voiced bipartisan opposition to the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) proposal to require applicants for federal jobs and contracting work to divulge their participation in criminal...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa released the following statement to encourage Iowans to participate in the 17th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27, 2019. “Tragically, the opioid epidemic impacts millions of Americans and countless Iowans, either directly or indirectly, and claims more...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today issued the following statement regarding the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees’ annual reports.“Increased growth in the economy, wages and additional employment stemming from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, along with an end to the prior...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report of investigation. “I’m encouraged by the level of transparency that we saw today. Attorney General Barr went above and beyond what was required to give...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today released the following statement regarding the U.S. International Trade Commission’s report on the economic impact of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the renegotiated trade deal to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).“I appreciate...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa joined U.S. Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan in sending a bipartisan letter urging U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue to utilize a department-wide National Water Quality Initiative to prioritize conservation measures in the 2018 Farm Bill to address water...
Taxpayer First Act is a bipartisan achievement that deserves more attentionBy U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Congressman Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania Today’s political environment rarely lends itself to bipartisanship and cooperation. So when congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle come together to deliver a legislative...
Prepared Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa“Oversight Hearing on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Management of the 2019 Missouri River Basin Flooding”Wednesday, April 17, 2019 I thank the Environment & Public Works Committee for holding and Sen. Ernst for chairing this important field hearing on oversight of...
WASHINGTON – Three Senate committee chairmen are calling on the Justice Department to provide
previously-sought information related to the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email server investigation. DOJ initially refused to furnish the information, citing the ongoing special counsel investigation. Following the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa sent a letter to National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France A. Córdova seeking information regarding the processes in place at NSF to detect and deter threats to NSF-supported research.
“The threats to our academic and research institutions from foreign governments are well...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa released the following statement in response to the European Union’s announcement that its mandate for a trade agreement with the United States excludes agriculture.“The U.S.-E.U. trade relationship is a significant one. The decisions made in any bilateral agreement...
Senators Durbin and Cramer have joined as new cosponsors WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced that U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) have joined their bipartisan legislation to bring down the skyrocketing prices of prescription...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa joined Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming and a group of colleagues in introducing legislation to prevent thousands of people from losing their health care coverage after a federal judge struck down the Department of Labor’s Association Health Plans rule. This rule made it easier for small...
Americans continue to see and feel the benefits of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.American workers and a market economy succeed when crushing regulation is replaced with smart regulation.The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act cut taxes for households in every state and in every congressional district across the country.The typical family of four earning the 2017 median family...
Foreign Thieves Threaten America’s Prosperity
By U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa
American innovation is second to none. Our creativity and forward-facing approach to everything from health care to telecom to artificial intelligence has made and kept us a world leader. It didn’t happen by accident. It’s been achieved through American ingenuity and, in...
WASHINGTON – Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao today announced the immediate availability of $9 million in Emergency Relief “Quick Release” funds from the Federal Highway Administration to the state of Iowa to help repair road damages caused by flooding in Iowa. “This money will help with the emergency repairs and...
WASHINGTON – In March, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley was joined by Sens. Tina Smith of Minnesota and Joni Ernst of Iowa in introducing the Net Price Calculator Improvement Act, the Understanding the True Cost of College Act and the Know Before You Owe Federal Student Loan Act to help students better understand the cost of college. Since the introduction of...
