WASHINGTON – The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has awarded Iowa three grants totaling over $5 million to help expand high-speed internet access. The investment comes from the bipartisan infrastructure law that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) supported last year. The critical infrastructure funding from this legislation is now...
WASHINGTON – Roughly 80 percent of nursing home residents on Medicare received psychotropic drugs between 2011 and 2019, according to a Health and Human Services watchdog report. The report followed concerns raised by then-Senate Finance Committee chairmen Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and then-Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
“Nursing home residents...
WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore) and Senate Finance Committee members Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) raised concerns regarding conflicts of interest at the National Academy for Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) after it published a report on the organ procurement and transplantation...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA - Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) regional directors based in Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo will hold traveling office hours in 32 counties around Iowa the last week of November and beginning weeks of December. Iowans seeking assistance regarding a personal issue with a federal agency or wishing to share...
Q&A: Celebrating Thanksgiving
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: How is Iowa integral to Thanksgiving?
A: As Iowa’s senior U.S. Senator and lifelong family farmer, I take pride in our state’s bountiful harvest and the work put in year round by Iowa farm families and workers along the supply chain to put food on the table. At Thanksgiving time, it’s...
WASHINGTON – On behalf of Iowa auto dealers and truck drivers across the country, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are working to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from placing overly burdensome emissions regulations on commercial motor vehicles. As inflation continues eating into Americans’ pocketbooks, overbearing...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) released the following statements after the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2022, which would reauthorize the Internet...
WASHINGTON – Today, Senate Judiciary
Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and committee member Jon
Ossoff (D-Ga.) introduced 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...
WASHINGTON – The Senate passed by voice vote the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act, a bill introduced by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) to expand research into medications derived from the marijuana plant.
The goal of the bill – which passed the House of Representatives in...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, has joined Sen. Sherrod
Brown (D-Ohio) and several of their colleagues to introduce the Prevent Exposure
to Narcotics and Toxins (PREVENT) Act, which will provide drug containment devices to frontline border
patrol agents. The bipartisan legislation ensures law enforcement...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) led their colleagues to unanimously pass a resolution designating October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
“Unfortunately, too many Americans face violence and abuse from within their own home. It’s critical that we continue to amplify the voices of victims and...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.),
chair of the Judiciary Committee, today sent a letter to the Department of
Justice (DOJ) urging the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to fully implement the
Earned Time Credit (ETC) provisions of their bipartisan First Step Act of 2018 (FSA).
The...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), today issued the following statement regarding the Senate’s vote on interracial and same-sex marriage:
“Interracial and same-sex marriages are not under threat, and I don’t support reversing the federal recognition of these marriages. Of course I believe that all married couples should be able to continue to...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), former chairman of the Finance Committee and a current member of the
Subcommittee on Taxation and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Oversight, and John
Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS
Oversight, today led their Republican colleagues on the Senate Finance
Committee in introducing...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 11-14-22Topics include: priorities moving
forward, gas prices, Taiwan & China, the 2022 midterm election results, ATF
priorities, the Seeding Rural Resilience Act,
the fentanyl drug caucus hearing and thankfulness.
WASHINGTON – After hearing directly from
Iowa farmers, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), both
members of the Agriculture Committee, are urging U.S. Trade Representative
(USTR) Katherine Tai to intervene in Mexico’s plan to end genetically-modified
corn imports. The country’s proposed ban would effectively phase out the import
of 90...
WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) regional director based in Sioux City will hold traveling office hours in three counties around Iowa next Monday, November 21. Iowans seeking assistance regarding a personal issue with a federal agency or wishing to share views on matters of federal policy may stop by during the scheduled hours.
Grassley will be...
Q&A: Veterans Day
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Can you tell us about the Veterans History Project?
A: The Veterans History Project is a collection of oral histories curated and archived at the Library of Congress American Folklife Center. The collection makes accessible to the public the personal accounts of American war veterans to...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Ahead of Black Friday, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are asking the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to make additional staffing preparations to handle the influx of legal gun purchases and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released internal FBI reports detailing its sordid response to sexual misconduct by FBI employees. The previously-undisclosed records, provided to Grassley by a whistleblower, accompany a letter Grassley sent to the Justice Department Inspector General, seeking an immediate review...
