WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and U.S. Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, led 20 of their Senate colleagues in sending a bipartisan letter to the U.S. Department of Health and...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is calling on the U.S. Olympic Committee to outline steps being taken to support athletes affected by the recent sexual assault scandal and prevent future abuse of athletes.
Recent legislation passed by Congress expanded the Olympic Committee’s purpose to include...
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today announced a hearing titled “Drug Pricing in America: A Prescription for Change, Part I” scheduled to convene at 10:15 a.m. ET on Tuesday, January 29, 2019. The hearing will be the first in a series of hearings scrutinizing prescription drug pricing and considering...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa released the following statement regarding President Trump’s proposal today to address the humanitarian and security crisis at the border and re-open closed portions of the federal government.“President Trump’s latest proposal to address the humanitarian crisis on our...
Q&A: New Medicare Cards and Medicare FraudWith U.S. Senator Chuck GrassleyQ: Why are Iowans receiving new Medicare cards?A: Congress passed legislation requiring the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to remove Social Security Numbers from all Medicare cards. This common sense step will help thwart wrongdoers from bilking Medicare...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today called on three federal agencies to investigate allegations of human trafficking and child labor. Allegations brought to the senators’ attention by constituents raise concerns that trafficking networks may be operating in Iowa, exploiting...
WASHINGTON – Iowa’s U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst today joined colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee in reintroducing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.The legislation would provide commonsense protections for unborn children at 20 weeks after fertilization, a point at which there is significant scientific evidence...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General (IG) requesting information about the threats posed by foreign actors seeking to steal...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa received the E15 award from the Iowa Corn Growers Association for their work in the Senate championing year-round sales of E15.Grassley and Ernst have been steadfast advocates for ethanol and environmentally-friendly alternative energy. Last year, Grassley and Ernst joined a bipartisan group...
WASHINGTON – Ahead of this week’s March for Life in Washington, D.C., Iowa’s U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst joined their colleagues to introduce the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2019” (S.109). The measure would establish a permanent, government-wide prohibition of...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa will begin holding meetings with Iowans in every county this year starting on Tuesday, January 22 in Worth County and Thursday, January 24 in Franklin County.These meetings will kick off Grassley’s 39th year of holding meetings in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties. Grassley has held at least one...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Finance CommitteeOn Tax Filing Season Amid Partial Government ShutdownWednesday, January 16, 2019VIDEO Mr. President, Tax filing season is just around the corner. This has never been anyone’s favorite time of year. But, the uncertainty created by the current partial...
Grassley deserves praise for his handling of judicial appointeesTwo non-lawyers, the Iowa senator and Trump, bested two Harvard lawyers in seating federal-level juristsBy Jonathan YatesThe Des Moines Register …Leaving to head the Senate Finance Committee, Chairman Grassley posted an unprecedented record for moving judicial appointees through the...
Grassley: Top priority is reducing health care costsU.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa As Americans, we’re blessed to live in a nation where investments and innovations in health care help millions of people every day to manage and overcome their illnesses. Yet the escalating prices of prescription drugs are a daily concern for every American in...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, along with U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, have introduced S. 85, legislation to aid victims of domestic violence by directing federal resources to emergency shelters, support programs and the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
“A home should provide safety and...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, discussed trade, health and tax issues as well as his top priorities for the Senate Finance Committee this morning on Squawk Box on CNBC and Daybreak on Bloomberg TV. Video of the interviews can be found here and here and below. Grassley’s agenda for the Senate...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley along with Sens. Rob Portman of Ohio, Steve Daines of Montana, Johnny Isakson of Georgia, Mike Enzi of Wyoming, John Barrasso of Wyoming, Jim Risch of Idaho, Mike Lee of Utah and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska introduced the End Government Shutdowns Act to permanently prevent the federal government from shutting down,...
Q&A: Access to Affordable RxWith U.S. Senator Chuck GrassleyQ: How can transparency help lower drug prices?A: Affordable health care ranks high among kitchen table concerns for millions of Americans. Paying for prescription medications and sorting out medical bills swallow a disproportionate amount of time and money for so many families. That explains...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today joined Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Todd Young of Indiana, Ted Cruz of Texas and 29 other cosponsors, in reintroducing the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act to increase accountability and transparency in the federal regulatory...
