Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 05-16-22Topics include: aid to Ukraine, nominee for USDA Under Secretary for Trade, infant formula shortage, avian bird flu, federal employees returning to work and the Supreme Court leak.
JASPER COUNTY, IOWA – Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) nominated Alexis Taylor, an Iowa State University graduate who grew up on a family farm in rural Iowa, to serve as Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, issued a statement applauding...
Q&A: Mental Health Matters
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What measures have you led in the 117th Congress to improve mental health services?
A: By all accounts, one of the crushing consequences resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic is the toll on mental wellness among Americans from all walks of life. From bereavement among those who lost loved...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
joined Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Mark Kelly
(D-Ariz.) to demand answers from President Biden’s top personnel heads regarding plans to bring
federal workers back into the office. In a letter to the heads of the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM), the General Services Administration...
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Senate Judiciary
Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) led several of his Republican
colleagues in a press conference to shine a light on rising crime rates across
the country. Noting that “violent crime is very much on the rise,” Grassley
pointed to soaring homicide rates and carjackings doubling or tripling in several...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), called on the Justice Department to prioritize the protection of Supreme Court Justices who’ve been the targets of sustained threats following the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion last week. In a letter early this afternoon to Attorney General Merrick Garland,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today introduced and led colleagues in the review of Des Moines native Judge Stephen Locher at the judge’s nomination hearing before the U.S. Senate. Locher is nominated to serve as U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa.
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WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), former chairman and current senior member of the Senate Finance
Committee, joined a bipartisan group of his colleagues in calling on the U.S. Trade
Representative (USTR) to dramatically improve transparency and consultation
with Congress on pending trade negotiations. The senators, including Finance...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today released the findings of a staff review examining whether Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, nominee to be ambassador to India, was aware of allegations of misconduct by a former senior advisor. The review comprises interviews with 15 witnesses as well as examinations of 26 depositions and other...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa),
a senior member of the Senate Finance and Agriculture committees, joined
Republican farm-state senators in urging
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai and U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to prioritize market access
initiatives as part of America’s trade agenda. “Advancing U.S....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), member of the Senate Finance Committee, joined Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) to send a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Acting Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement...
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) demanded answers from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Commissioner Robert Califf on steps they are taking to address the ongoing baby
formula shortage that has impacted families across the country. The letter
comes as reports indicate at least 40 percent of baby formula supplies in the
U.S. are...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, are seeking transparency on steps the Justice Department has taken to prevent interference with the ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax and foreign...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), members of the Senate Agriculture
Committee, led their colleagues in a bipartisan push for more funding to help
address the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak. As of Friday,
the HPAI outbreak has impacted around 19 sites across Iowa, affecting 13
million birds – more than...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 05-09-22Topics include: letter to the
Veterans Affairs, bipartisanship, Rural
Hospital Support Act, inflation, student loan forgiveness, potential Roe v.
Wade overturn and the disinformation governance board.
WASHINGTON – Last Thursday, the Senate
Commerce Committee held a hearing
on “Ensuring Fairness and Transparency in the Market for Prescription Drugs.”
The hearing looked at the opaque middlemen – known as pharmacy benefit managers
(PBMs) – and cited an investigation and legislation led by Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) to lower prescription drug prices and...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), co-chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control and
Judiciary Committee ranking member, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) led a
group of their colleagues on a Senate resolution designating May 10, 2022, as
National Fentanyl Awareness Day. Overdose deaths have skyrocketed in recent
years, largely...
Q&A: Student Loan Debt
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Do you support President Biden’s plan to wipe away student debt?
A: When something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Once again, the Biden administration is operating under the false assumption that money grows on trees. When the economy shut down in 2020, Congress passed a...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pressing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide updated data about how the VA has handled reporting of veterans to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), specifically with respect to veterans who have been assigned...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), co-chair of the Senate
Caucus on International Narcotics Control and Judiciary Committee ranking member, led Sens. Dianne Feinstein
(D-Calif.), John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) in introducing
bipartisan legislation to implement new penalties for counterfeit pill production. Recently,
there has been a...
