WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley is calling on the FBI to produce specific records in its possession indicating potential criminal activity in the Biden family’s foreign business deals. It remains unclear whether those FBI records, which have been reviewed by Grassley’s investigative staff, have been...
Q&A: What You Need to Know to Vote
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s your message to Iowans as Election Day approaches?
A: On Nov. 8, voters across the country will cast ballots in the midterm elections for federal, state and local offices. Here in Iowa, voters will determine representatives in newly redrawn districts for four...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) criticized the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Labor for announcing the issuance of 65,000 H-2B visas above the statutory cap without effectively addressing vulnerabilities in the program.
“In its current form, the H-2B program lacks the necessary...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced a resolution designating October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
“Unfortunately, too many Americans face violence and abuse from within their own home. It’s critical that we continue to amplify...
POLK COUNTY, IOWA – Today, Senate Finance
Committee member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined his Republican colleagues on
the committee in urging the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
(TIGTA) to implement a comprehensive oversight plan for the new $80 billion in
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding. The Democrats’ so-called Inflation...
HENRY COUNTY, IOWA – Today, Sen. Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa) met with Iowa Audiology President and CEO Dr. Jason Aird to
discuss the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) finalization of a key rule
allowing hearing aids to be sold over-the-counter – a bipartisan effort Grassley has led for over five years. They also discussed
Grassley’s support for the...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 10-11-22Topics include: the war in Ukraine,
abortion, Healthy Moms and Babies Act,
NOPEC, Prop 12 and 2022 priorities.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
has introduced the Healthy Moms and
Babies Act to improve maternal and child health care. The United States has
a maternal health crisis that particularly affects women of color and those
living in rural America. The Healthy Moms
and Babies Act builds on Grassley’s longstanding efforts to improve maternal
and child...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA - Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) regional directors based in Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo will hold traveling office hours in 21 counties around Iowa the last two weeks of October. Iowans seeking assistance regarding a personal issue with a federal agency or wishing to share views on...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has announced Iowa City will receive a $300,000 grant for highway and bridge improvements. The grant comes from the Bridge Investment Program (BIP) created by the bipartisan infrastructure law, which Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) supported last year. The critical infrastructure funding from this...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee and a leading advocate on
the Finance Committee for lowering prescription drug costs and holding pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) accountable, was joined by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and five of their
colleagues in urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to complete...
Q&A: Medicare Open Enrollment
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What do Iowans need to know about Medicare open enrollment?
A: The open enrollment period for joining a Medicare health or drug plan for the upcoming year starts Oct. 15. The deadline to join, switch or drop a plan is Dec. 7. Coverage begins on Jan. 1, 2023. In Iowa, 653,534...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), author of the bipartisan No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels (NOPEC) Act, is calling for action to hold foreign oil producers accountable for colluding to fix global oil prices.
“Since day one, the Biden administration has pursued policies that have limited or discouraged U.S. energy production,...
WASHINGTON – Hundreds of FBI employees under investigation for sexual misconduct quit their jobs before facing discipline from 2004-2020, according to internal Justice Department records obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The records, provided via whistleblower disclosures, also illuminate concerns that...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
and Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) are seeking assurances from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding
the agency’s pending guidelines for rural emergency hospital (REH)
designations. Specifically, the lawmakers are seeking assurance from CMS that
the Keokuk hospital, which closed its...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement on newly released national crime data.
“The sad reality is that this new information confirms what we already knew. Crime, particularly violent crime, is up across the country at rates far above 2019 levels....
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) have reintroduced the bipartisan,
bicameral Campus Accountability and
Safety Act (CASA) to combat sexual assault on college campuses. The measure
seeks to protect students by providing them with additional resources and by
strengthening colleges’ accountability and transparency...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), a lifelong resident of rural Iowa, joined Sens. Tammy Baldwin
(D-Wis.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) in pushing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to take action to increase broadband speed
requirements in its existing programs. The senators argue that improving these
programs would help ensure that...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 10-04-22Topics include: Hurricane Ian clean-up, North Korea, border crisis, public safety, wind energy and prescription drug pricing.
WASHINGTON — Sen.
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.),
Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) in urging the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to clarify whether federal funds can
be used to pay for crisis stabilization programs in facilities with more than
16 beds. These...
