Trump Gives Farmers a Jolt of Fuel Wall Street JournalBy Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of IowaPresident Trump’s decision last week to allow the year-round sale of E15 is a promise made and kept to farmers throughout rural America. E15 is shorthand for gasoline blended with 15% ethanol, instead of the more common E10, and was prohibited for sale...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley requested details on a Justice Department Inspector General investigation into a former Senior FBI official who inappropriately accepted tickets to sporting events from TV news correspondents who frequently cover the Justice Department and FBI. According to the IG’s investigative summary,...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, along with Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, led a bipartisan group of senators in sending a letter to Assistant Secretary for Family Support Lynn Johnson, urging her to implement recommendations from a recent Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report that would help foster children...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today released the following statement regarding the new guidelines put forward for pharmaceutical companies to provide additional information on prescription drug prices.“I applaud Secretary Azar’s announcement to provide patients and their doctors with more information on prescription drug...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. State Department recently confirmed that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s security clearance has been withdrawn at her request. Clearances for five other individuals whom Clinton designated as researchers have also been withdrawn, including close aide Cheryl Mills, according to the State Department’s update...
Q&A: E15 Year-RoundWith U.S. Senator Chuck GrassleyQ: What is the Renewable Fuel Standard?A: In 2005, Congress amended the Clean Air Act with passage of the Energy Policy Act to create the renewable fuel standard (RFS). This came after revelations that a common fuel additive to help gasoline burn more completely, MTBE, was contaminating water and linked...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa called on Google to explain what steps it is taking to protect the personal information of its platform users following revelations that glitches exposing personal information on the social platform Google+ went unaddressed for three years.In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai,...
WASHINGTON – President Trump signed into law legislation authored by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa to help states prevent and respond to crimes targeting vulnerable children. The Missing Children’s Assistance Act of 2018 extends and updates law that makes resources available to the National Center for Missing and...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa joined Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith of Minnesota in sending a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urging them to investigate and respond to recent cases of AFM, a serious nervous system condition that causes patients’ muscles to weaken and other...
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump nominated Iowan Douglas J. Strike to serve as the United States Marshal for the Northern District of Iowa after a joint recommendation from Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa.“Mr. Strike has served Iowa as a law enforcement officer for more than 34 years, most recently as the Chief of Police for the...
WASHINGTON — Landmark legislation reforming the music licensing laws, which Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley steered through the committee process, was signed into law today. The bipartisan Music Modernization Act, brings outdated music licensing laws into the 21st century and creates a fairer marketplace for songwriters and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa joined Martha MacCallum on “The Story” on Fox News Channel, Hugh Hewitt on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” on Salem Radio Network, Laura Ingraham on “The Laura Ingraham Show” and Tony Perkins on “Washington Watch” to discuss the confirmation...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today wrote to Federal Trade Commission Chairman Joseph Simons requesting the FTC conduct an assessment of potentially anticompetitive contracting practices between insurers and hospital systems in the United States deliberately designed to prevent consumers’ access to quality, lower...
Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaReligious Freedom in China and TaiwanTuesday, October 9, 2018VIDEO Mr. President, Tomorrow, October 10th, is the 107th national day of the Republic of China on Taiwan. I would like to extend my congratulations to the people of Taiwan on this occasion and to express my appreciation for U.S.-Taiwan...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a family farmer, made the following statement today regarding President Trump’s announcement that he has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to begin the process of allowing year-round use of E15 gasoline.“Opening the door for year-round sales of higher blends of ethanol is a...
Prepared Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOn the Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominee Judge Brett M. KavanaughOctober 6, 2018VIDEO I rise one final time in support of Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.Democratic leaders did...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa discussed the final floor vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on “America’s Newsroom” with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino on Fox News Channel. Video can be found here. -30-
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following statement ahead of the final confirmation vote for Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to be an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. Audio of the full statement can be found here and the text can be found below.It’s a great day to get Judge Kavanaugh...
