WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and colleagues to introduce the bipartisan Medicare Audiology Access Improvement Act. The bill would ensure that seniors and people with disabilities on Medicare are able to access?a full range of hearing and balance health care services provided by...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today joined Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) to introduce a bipartisan bill to increase transparency and oversight of foreign investments in the American agricultural industry. The Farmland Security Act of 2023 requires all foreign investors,...
WASHINGTON?– Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) partnered with Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) on legislation to improve access to life-saving care for children with complex medical conditions. The Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care Act?simplifies out-of-state Medicaid screening and enrollment...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 07-18-23
Topics include: cattle market transparency, U.S. aid to Ukraine, NATO, Farm bill and Biden's student debt transfer plan.
WASHINGTON – Today, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) led a group of twenty-three Republican senators in calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to commit to protecting agency whistleblowers who disclosed the existence of FBI records alleging a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) are seeking information regarding potential and actual conflicts of interest within the Department of Defense (DOD) during its JEDI cloud procurement. Had JEDI not been terminated, it would have been the one of the largest federal contracts in history.
Prior to joining DOD in 2017 as a...
Q: What do you advise Iowans planning international travel?
A: Before planning a trip or booking a flight for an international destination, be sure to check the expiration date on the passports for all members of your travel party, including infants. If you don’t have a passport, do not delay submitting an application. Find the nearest acceptance facility...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.), reintroduced legislation to protect U.S. agricultural interests facing foreign acquisition. The bipartisan Food Security is National Security Act give top U.S. agriculture and food officials permanent...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today joined Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and eight of his bipartisan colleagues in introducing legislation to bring greater accountability to our nation’s federal prisons. The Federal Prisons Accountability Act of 2023 would require...
WASHINGTON – New government accountability legislation authored by Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-Mich.) would improve access to executive branch ethics records that are often shrouded by layers of bureaucracy. The Executive Branch...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) partnered with a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers to introduce the Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act. Other sponsors include Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.).
The?bill amends Title V, the Maternal and Child...
WASHINGTON – Building on a nearly two decades-long push to conduct oversight of the U.S. organ procurement and transplant system, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, today spoke with administration officials during a bipartisan Senate Finance roundtable regarding modernization of the Organ...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and committee members Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) today issued a statement following a Senate Finance roundtable with Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Administrator Carole Johnson and...
WASHINGTON – On the heels of the unanimous Senate passage of two Grassley-Peters bills to crack down on undisclosed foreign lobbying efforts, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) are again leading the fight to expose foreign influence in U.S. policy.
The bipartisan senators, along with Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Todd Young (R-Ind.) and...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) today introduced legislation to curb wasteful spending at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA Spending Accountability Act would limit the disbursal of funds through the USDA’s financing institution, known as the Commodity Credit Corporation...
WASHINGTON – Today, after introducing the bipartisan Whistleblower Appreciation Day Resolution, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business to address an FBI oversight matter brought to light thanks to whistleblowers. Grassley discussed the unclassified document alleging then-Vice President Joe Biden was involved in a foreign bribery...
WASHINGTON -- Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), co-founders and co-chairs of the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus, today led 20 of their colleagues in introducing a resolution designating July 30, 2023 as “National Whistleblower Appreciation Day.”
The bipartisan resolution celebrates whistleblowers’ courageous contributions to...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 07-10-23.
Topics include: the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Biden’s student debt transfer scheme; the EATS Act; the Farm Bill; market consolidation in the meat processing sector; and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
Q: Why do you embrace social media as a federal lawmaker?
A: When pioneering platforms emerged on the online social networking space two decades ago, I was among the first lawmakers to adopt social media as a tool for direct dialogue. Using an unfiltered communications pipeline via the internet gave me another way to communicate with Iowans. Dialogue is the...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics discussed included: burdensome EPA regulations, the United States' decision to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine, the EATS Act, efforts to pack the Supreme Court and the Department of Defense’s sloppy bookkeeping.
