WASHINGTON – The Senate today unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution introduced by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) alongside other colleagues designating January as “National Trafficking and Modern Slavery Prevention Month.”
“It takes all eyes and ears to fight human trafficking and slave labor. This resolution is an...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 01-31-23Topics include: the debt ceiling, Department of Health and Human Services funding for Wuhan, China, tanks to Ukraine, IRS accountability, Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2023, Farmland Security Act.
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) are leading the introduction of the Drone Act of 2023. Their bipartisan proposal seeks to criminalize dangerous drone activity – including by drug and human traffickers who have embraced drone technology to facilitate their operations. Alarmingly, criminals have started attaching weapons to...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reintroduced legislation to help businesses comply with immigration laws by certifying the legal status of their workforce. The Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act would permanently authorize and expand the E-Verify program, an internet-based system that assists employers in determining whether...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee members Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) today reintroduced the Justice for Murder Victims Act. Their bipartisan proposal seeks to eliminate the 13th century “year-and-a-day” rule, which prohibits homicide prosecutions if the victim died more than a year-and-a-day from the date of the defendant’s assault....
WASHINGTON – Legislation Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) targets the rise in flash mob robberies and intricate retail theft schemes sweeping the nation. The Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2023 establishes a coordinated multi-agency response and creates new tools to...
Q: What should taxpayers know before filing their 2022 tax returns?
A: As lawmakers roll up their sleeves and get to work in the new session of Congress, taxpayers are getting their ducks in a row for tax season that got underway on Jan. 23. That’s the first day the IRS began accepting and processing returns for the 2022 tax year. The federal agency...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary and Finance committees, and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash), chair of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, are continuing to press for transparency and fairness in the prescription drug supply chain. They partnered on several efforts to hold pharmacy benefit...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced the Senate passage of their bipartisan, bicameral resolution designating January as National Stalking Awareness Month. The resolution raises awareness of the dangers of stalking and highlights the need for law enforcement to prevent this predatory behavior. Approximately...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is partnering with Sens. Dick
Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and
Chris Coons (D-Del.) to introduce bipartisan legislation that would establish a
task force between the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reintroduced legislation aimed at cracking down on foreign adversaries’ efforts to secretly influence U.S. policy. The Disclosing Foreign Influence in Lobbying Act closes a loophole, frequently exploited by the Chinese Communist Party, which allows some entities to conceal their...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators, led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), re-introduced legislation to help police, fire, emergency medical and 911 personnel cope with the stresses of responding to crisis situations. The Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act of 2023 would establish mental health programs for America’s first responders who often...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the senior
Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.)
reintroduced legislation to improve justice for young survivors of sex crimes.
The Preventing Child
Sex Abuse Act strengthens a federal sex tourism law
that prosecutors feared was too vague to convict former USA Gymnastics...
WASHINGTON – On Monday, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), senior member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to Debra Steidel Wall, Acting Archivist at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), requesting information related to the...
WASHINGTON - On Monday, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), senior member of the Committee on the Judiciary and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle requesting a complete list of all individuals who entered locations where classified...
Q&A: Veterans in Crisis
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s the new benefit now available to veterans in crisis?
A: In 2020, the Senate unanimously passed the Veterans Comprehensive Prevention, Access to Care and Treatment (COMPACT) Act to expand access to mental health services for veterans experiencing acute suicidal crisis. Signed by...
DES MOINES, IOWA – Two Iowa hospitals will be able to recruit and train additional doctors thanks to a 2020 law championed by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines and MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center have received additional Medicare funds to cover nearly six additional graduate medical education (GME) residency...
Q&A: Foreign Ownership of U.S. Farmland
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s new with your efforts to boost transparency in foreign investment of farmland?
A: Last year, Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and I teamed up and introduced the Farmland Security Act to shine a spotlight on foreign investment of U.S. farmland. Our bill requires the USDA...
WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to Richard Sauber, Special Counsel to the President, regarding Joe Biden’s compliance with federals records storage and archival...
WASHINGTON –Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today hurt his hip and will have surgery this week. He is otherwise in good spirits and is expected to make a full recovery.
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