WASHINGTON – More than a year after then-President Trump directed details of the government’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation to be declassified, the Justice Department continues to hide those important records. Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Ranking Member Ron Johnson...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) led a dozen of his colleagues in denouncing the Biden administration’s plan to expand access to resources for consuming deadly and illegal drugs. Their letter comes after reports indicated that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has considered supporting the use of so-called safe injection sites.
As the letter...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold town meetings next week in Sac County on Monday, February 21, Greene County on Tuesday, February 22, Audubon County on Wednesday, February 23 and Monroe County on Thursday, February 24 as part of his annual 99 county meetings.
“You can’t have representative government without dialogue between elected...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today slammed the Justice Department’s misguided proposal for fighting the spike in violent crime across the country as “ineffective, partisan gun control” that will have “little to no effect on violent crime.”
“Despite this continued rise in violent crime, the DOJ has decided...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 02-14-22Topics include: Foreign owned farmland, Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS), immigration, prescription drug pricing bill, Postal Service Reform Act and the STOCK Act.
Q&A: COVID-19 & Mental Health
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why are you working to expand access to behavioral health care?
A: Even before the pandemic, Iowans at my 99 county meetings often brought up barriers to mental health care, particularly in rural areas of the state. The issue has gained even more urgency when lockdowns, remote...
MIAMI – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), president pro tempore emeritus of the U.S. Senate, today received the “America’s Fuel Award” for his significant work supporting America’s robust biofuels industry. The award is the highest and most prestigious honor given by Growth Energy, a national biofuel trade association. The award was presented to Grassley at...
WASHINGTON – On the heels of new inflation numbers released today, which showed a 7.5% spike in inflation over the past year under Democrat leadership, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in putting forward the Providing Reports on Inflation Costs and Economic Impact (PRICE) Act. The PRICE Act would require the nonpartisan...
WASHINGTON – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and several of his colleagues to introduce the Cutting off Rampant Access to Crack Kits (CRACK) Act. The bill would amend Section 2706 of the American Rescue Plan Act to prohibit any federal funds from directly or indirectly...
WASHINGTON – Legislation expanding access to courts for survivors of sexual assault and harassment in the workplace cleared Congress this week with the support of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act passed the Senate this morning by voice vote without objection. An earlier version of the...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) participated in a press conference and spoke on the Senate floor to continue shining a light on the rise in violent crime across the country. In 2021, a dozen major cities set all-time high homicide records – including several cities in the Midwest like St. Paul, Minnesota and Indianapolis, Indiana.
During...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led their colleagues in a letter to Janet Woodcock, Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), expressing support for key provisions in the FDA’s proposed rule for regulating over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. The FDA’s proposed rule is a result of the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Ranking Member Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are expressing concern that the State Department withheld information during the senators’ investigation into conflicts of interest involving Hunter Biden.
Many months after the senators released...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 02-07-22Topics include: Cattle market reform, big tech, rural broadband, Supreme Court nominee qualifications, WOTUS and the 2022 election.
DES MOINES, IOWA – Following unanimous
support from a Judicial
Selection Commission, Sens. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, and Joni Ernst have recommended Judge Stephen H. Locher of
Des Moines to President Joe Biden for an upcoming vacancy on the federal bench.
The seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and several of his colleagues in urging the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to prioritize funding for broadband projects in unserved rural areas. Instead of overbuilding existing broadband infrastructure in areas with reliable broadband service, the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and all of his Republican colleagues in urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to suspend the pending rulemaking to redefine the scope of waters protected under the Clean Water Act (CWA), specifically “waters of the United States”...
Q&A: Foreign Ownership of U.S. Farmland
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What are your concerns regarding foreign ownership of U.S. food companies and farmland?
A: Food security is national security. If foreign buyers, especially those backed by government regimes, are buying up prime farmland in America as a strategy to dominate food production,...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), Co-Chairs of the Senate Baltic Freedom Caucus, yesterday met with members of the Lithuanian Parliament and Lithuanian Ambassador to the U.S. Audra Plepyte to discuss President Biden’s newly announced decision to move 3,000 troops to Germany, Poland and Romania to deter Russian aggression...
WASHINGTON – Thanks to a law championed by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the federal government recovered $5.6 billion lost to fraud in 2021 – the second largest yearly amount on record. Whistleblowers, who Grassley has fought for and protected throughout his tenure in the Senate, accounted for $1.6 billion of those recoveries. Since it was modernized and...
