Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 11-08-22Topics include: term limits, women,
CRP in the Farm Bill, the Republican party, 2022 reelection and the future.
LINN COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck
Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and member of the Agriculture Committee,
is requesting an update from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on efforts to implement the Seeding
Rural Resilience Act.
In 2020, Grassley and Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) successfully...
DUBUQUE COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are demanding answers from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) after receiving reports that licensed firearm businesses across the country, including in Iowa, are being forced to forfeit their federal firearms...
DES MOINES COUNTY, IOWA
– Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen.
Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide the
Quad Cities with additional resources to combat rising crime. The Iowa senators
urge DOJ to establish a violent crime task force and to assign agents to the
Quad Cities to support...
Q&A: More IRS Auditors?
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why did Congress double the size of the IRS budget?
A: President Biden and big spenders in Congress want more revenue to pay for big government programs. Under this administration, the gross federal debt has reached an unprecedented $31 trillion. That’s $93,000 for every man, woman and child...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on a letter to 51 law firms detailing the possible antitrust violations the law firms’ clients may commit if they pursue Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives. The letter advises the law firms...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a family farmer, completed his two social media series called #CornWatch and #SoybeanWatch for 2022. The annual series gives followers an inside look at farming operations on the Grassley family farm in New Hartford, Iowa. Over the course of 28 weeks, he highlighted the progression, from planting to...
DENVER, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and the History Channel partnered to feature the service of Korean War veteran and Denver, Iowa, native Bill Rector. Rector, a retired Gunner’s Mate on the USS Los Angeles, captured images from the war on an 8mm video camera, which are now available to help future generations better understand that piece of...
POLK COUNTY, IOWA – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced that Iowa has been awarded $60 million in funding from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). This program, administered by the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is designed to help low-income individuals and...
POLK COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) applauded the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for
finalizing regulations for the new rural emergency hospital (REH) designation,
a voluntary Medicare payment for rural hospitals that ensures minimal administrative
burden, maximum flexibility and timely implementation while maintaining...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is seeking clarification of the Justice Department’s (DOJ) decision not to charge FBI agents who repeatedly lied about their failure to adequately respond sexual abuse of young athletes in light of new information recently provided to the Senate. In a letter today to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Grassley...
WASHINGTON – Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Taxation and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Oversight, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a current member of the Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight, today announced that they intend to introduce legislation that responds to the...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 10-31-22Topics include: abortion, President
Trump’s Iowa rally, lowering prescription drug prices, the SPEAK OUT Act, the Farm Bill and the Campus Accountability and Safety Act.
Q&A: Overdose Deaths in Iowa
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: Why did you hold a Senate field hearing in Des Moines?
A: Counterfeit prescription pills laced with deadly fentanyl are contributing to historic drug overdose deaths in the United States, including here in Iowa. According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, drug overdose deaths...
POLK COUNTY, IOWA – The U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced businesses in Allamakee, Hamilton, Washington and Winneshiek counties will receive a total of over $5 million in new financing
through the ReConnect Loan and Grant Program to expand internet access. The
investment comes from the bipartisan infrastructure law that Sen. Chuck
Grassley...
DES MOINES, IOWA – Parents of Iowans lost to fentanyl poisoning joined state and federal officials to shine a light on the deadly epidemic that has is claiming lives in Iowa and across the country at an alarming rate. The discussion was part of a U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control field hearing in Des Moines convened by caucus...
POLK COUNTY, IOWA – Senate Finance
Committee member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined over a dozen of his colleagues
in urging the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to complete a thorough
assessment of the impact higher interest rates will have on the federal debt.
The senators express concern that higher inflation, caused by Democrats’ $4.8
trillion in...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are sharing documents and banking records obtained in the course of their multi-year investigation into the Biden family’s foreign business entanglements with the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s office, which has an ongoing criminal investigation into Hunter Biden. The production...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – The office of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will host a Library of Congress “Veterans History Project” event in honor of Veterans Day for the fifth year in a row. The event will take place on Friday, November 4, 2022 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. CT at the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum. The museum is located in...
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, joined Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and eight other Republican senators on a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) seeking answers on recent baby formula shortages and asking for an investigation into the impact sole-source contracts in the...
