WASHINGTON – Bipartisan legislation to shine a light on secret foreign lobbying efforts unanimously passed the Senate last night. The Disclosing Foreign Influence in Lobbying Act is led by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Chairman of Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...
Q&A: Stop Subsidizing Foreign Investments of U.S. Farmland
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What is the Farm Credit for Americans Act?
A: As part of my ongoing crusade to protect the family farm and U.S. food security, I introduced this bipartisan legislation with Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who also serves on the Senate Agriculture Committee and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on a letter to Seileen Mull, the Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, seeking answers about TRICARE beneficiaries’ ability to maintain access to local pharmacies. The letter expressed concern that Express Scripts will reduce prescription reimbursements for 9.6...
WASHINGTON - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to improve our nation’s ability to prevent foreign governments, including adversaries like the Chinese and Russian Governments, from attempting to influence U.S. policy without making appropriate disclosures has advanced in the Senate. The legislation...
WASHINGTON – On September 23, 2022, the United Nations’ Independent International Commission of
Inquiry on Ukraine released findings that Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine. After visiting 27
towns and interviewing 150 witnesses, the commission reported that Russian
troops have committed brutal executions, indiscriminate attacks and sexual...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, discussed the havoc deadly fentanyl analogs are causing on families and communities across the United States, including in Iowa. In floor remarks today, Grassley pushed his colleagues to fast-track a bipartisan extension of a tool allowing rapidly-changing fentanyl...
WASHINGTON – A group of Senate Republicans is today demanding an explanation from the Justice Department and FBI for the abnormal and aggressive dawn raid on the home of a pro-life advocate in Pennsylvania last week. The senators include members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has legislative and oversight jurisdiction over the Justice Department,...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)
this week met with Davenport Mayor Mike Matson, Police Chief Jeffery Bladel and
other city and law enforcement officials from the Quad Cities to discuss public
safety priorities. The meetings focused on how federal law enforcement
resources can...
WASHINGTON – As violent crime sweeps the nation, Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) are introducing the Gang Activity Reporting Act. The bipartisan bill requires the Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, and the FBI to resume regular reporting on criminal gang trends across the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is today introducing legislation to require greater transparency of think tanks and other non-profit entities that inform and influence American public policy. The Think Tank Transparency Act was also introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Jack...
WASHINGTON – Bipartisan legislation led by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to reauthorize the National Computer Forensics Institute, which provides training to state and local law enforcement agencies, passed the Senate unanimously last night. The National Computer Forensics Institute Reauthorization Act of 2022 builds on the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), a member of the Agriculture Committee and lifelong family farmer, and
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), a member of the Agriculture Committee and chairman
of the Banking and Housing Committee, today introduced a new bill that would
prevent foreign individuals from obtaining credit and financial services
through the Farm...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 09-26-22Topics include: the Farm Bill, the
closure of the Keokuk hospital, Kevin and
Avonte’s Law, Alexis Taylor, 2022 election debates, abortion, the 2022 election
campaign and the Biochar Research Network
Act.
WASHINGTON – Years before it paid the rumor peddler at the center of the debunked anti-Trump dossier, the FBI considered him a counterintelligence threat. Payments from the FBI to Igor Danchenko, the dossier’s primary sub-source, continued from March 2017 to October 2020 despite his problematic history and ongoing congressional investigations into the FBI’s...
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) presented Cedar Rapids resident David Clark with the award of a Purple Heart for his service in the Vietnam War. Grassley provided casework assistance to help Mr. Clark in his effort to officially document his combat-related wound. Clark also received the Valorous Unit Award and Vietnam Service Medal with...
WASHINGTON – Just four days after it was introduced, legislation to help families locate missing loved ones with Autism, Alzheimer’s disease and related conditions unanimously cleared the Senate Thursday. The bill to extend Kevin and Avonte’s Law, was introduced Monday by Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Amy Klobuchar...
WASHINGTON – Since
assuming office, Colombian President Gustavo Petro has initiated peace talks
with the National Liberation Army (ELN), a left-wing Foreign Terrorist
Organization, called for delisting Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of
terrorism, and resumed diplomatic relations with the Maduro narco-regime in
Venezuela, all while he called on...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined his Republican Senate Finance Committee colleagues, led by ranking member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), on a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig requesting detailed plans for how the agency will spend the massive $80 billion injection of mandatory funding recently granted to it under...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), president pro tempore emeritus of the U.S. Senate, met with
superintendents and chief administrators from Iowa’s Area Education Agencies
(AEAs). The group presented Grassley with a “Friend of the AEA” award to
recognize his longtime work to support Iowa students, including by ensuring all
students have access...
Q&A: “Rainbow” Fentanyl Targets Kids
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What do parents need to know about “rainbow” fentanyl?
A: As students headed back to school, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued an alert about candy-colored, “rainbow” fentanyl produced and marketed by the drug cartels to entice young people. When parents across...
