WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has once again been recognized for his legislative effectiveness by a non-partisan research organization. The Center for Effective Lawmaking released its latest Legislative Effectiveness Scores (LES) for the 117th Congress, which ranked Grassley among the most effective lawmakers in the U.S. Senate.
"I take my...
WASHINGTON – The bipartisan PBM Transparency Act would save taxpayers $740 million over 10 years, according to a preliminary estimate by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The savings report comes as the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee prepares to consider the legislation later this week. The bill, which enjoys broad support...
Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here.Topics discussed include: China’s
President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meeting, Farm Bill
discussion and areas of focus moving forward (crop insurance, CRP, food stamp
expansion, etc.), E-15 year round availability, cameras and media in the court
rooms and veteran...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pressing the Secretaries of Agriculture and Health and Human Services on their handling of potential conflicts of interest arising from the appointment of a former pharmaceutical industry consultant to the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC). Grassley also made the following comment:
“We need...
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA -- Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will?host his fourth Federal Judiciary Youth Summit for high school juniors and seniors on Friday, May 12, from 8:30 – 10:30 a.m. CT at the Council Bluffs Federal Courthouse. Thirty-eight high schools from the Southern District of Iowa are invited to participate in the program.??
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WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a fierce advocate of rural healthcare, wrote to four private companies with investments in the Ottumwa Regional Health Center in Ottumwa, Iowa, following the egregious assault of nine female patients by a nurse practitioner at the hospital. In the letter, Grassley asks each company for a review of their financial...
Q: How would President Biden’s budget impact the U.S. economy?
A: The president’s budget blueprint shows how unserious the Biden administration is about restoring fiscal sanity to the federal government. It was delivered to Congress 31 days late and falls trillions of dollars short of balance. As the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee in the...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today introduced the Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2023 to allow the public further transparency into the judicial system by allowing television cameras in federal courtrooms. Grassley also joined Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in introducing...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, today questioned Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about Social Security sustainability and inflation at a Finance Committee hearing on President Biden’s FY2024 budget.
Grassley’s Questions follow:
Social...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today questioned U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack about farm payment limitations, the administration’s misuse of the Commodity Credit Corporation and Congress’s Farm Bill reauthorization process at a hearing on USDA...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) reintroduced legislation to strengthen whistleblower protections at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The bipartisan SEC Whistleblower Reform Act of 2023 would ensure timely processing of whistleblower claims and protect whistleblowers from retaliation. The bill’s...
Senator
Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here.Topics
discussed include: Farm Bill update and what more could be included, bank
collapse and the federal government role, train derailment and disaster
prevention, FY2024 POTUS’s budget, debt ceiling, and southern border security.
Q: What is Sunshine Week?
A: Sunshine Week celebrates the public’s right to know what its government is doing. As a watchdog for good government, I put a high priority on strengthening sunshine laws to hold the government accountable to the American people. Transparency brings accountability. Too often, the federal bureaucracy forgets that government...
WASHINGTON – Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) are raising the alarm that changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) could reduce or even eliminate farm families’ access to need-based student aid that they are currently eligible to receive. The longstanding FAFSA...
WASHINGTON – The 118th Senate, which first convened more than two months ago, has passed a sum total of six bills that carry the force of law. All six pieces of legislation were led and introduced by Republican senators, three of which were spearheaded by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). “When we do come into session, the Senate only works...
WASHINGTON – On March 9, 2023, President Biden released an overview of his fiscal
year (FY) 2024 budget request. The Biden Budget attempts to build on the
Administration’s false claims of deficit reduction by repackaging unpopular
proposals to raise trillions in taxes to cover its continued reckless spending
binge. Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) welcomed the unanimous Senate passage of their legislation to improve justice for young survivors of sex crimes. The Preventing Child Sex Abuse Act strengthens a federal sex tourism prevention law that prosecutors feared was too vague to convict former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, was joined by Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) in reintroducing legislation to study the effectiveness of biochar, a carbon-rich material produced from biomass. The bipartisan Biochar Research Network...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of Senate Judiciary Committee members are reintroducing legislation to improve fairness and stability in the global oil market by allowing the federal government to take action against price fixing by OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act, or NOPEC, is led by...
