News Releases

  • 10.26.2022

    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...
  • 10.26.2022

    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...
  • 10.25.2022

    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...
  • 10.25.2022

    DALLAS COUNTY, IOWA – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman and current member of the Finance Committee, held a question-and-answer discussion with employees and community members at Sumpter Pharmacy in Adel. They discussed the bipartisan bills Grassley is leading to lower insulin costs, hold pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) accountable and...
  • 10.24.2022

    Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 10-24-22Topics include: priorities in the Senate, GAO investigation into the IRS, COVID-19 vaccine mandates, the USTR Section 301 probe, fentanyl as a Schedule I drug, Hunter Biden finances, RVO standards and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
  • 10.24.2022

    WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote to the DoD and the DoD OIG seeking an explanation for its failure to identify relevant information during their conflicts review for Sally Donnelly, a former aide to Secretary of Defense James Mattis.   “The American people must have confidence that their government isn’t plagued by...
  • 10.21.2022

    BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Agriculture Committee, was joined by Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) in urging United States Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Katherine Tai to reject a new petition that could adversely impact U.S. export products. As USTR is set to...
  • 10.21.2022

    Q&A: Salute to Iowa Manufacturing With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley   Q: How important is manufacturing to the Iowa economy?   A: The manufacturing sector employs more than 200,000 Iowans whose labor and productivity produce a range of goods that keep the economy thriving and whose paychecks help pay the bills for Iowa families, circulate through the...
  • 10.21.2022

    BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Finance Committee member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and his Republican colleagues on the committee are requesting information from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding outstanding issues at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). With $80 billion in Democrat-passed funding heading to the agency, the senators are asking GAO to...
  • 10.20.2022

    POLK COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has received the Congressional Champion Award from Family Leadership, a coalition of organizations dedicated to improving learning outcomes for children with disabilities.  “I’m honored to receive the Congressional Champion Award for my bipartisan work to improve the lives of kids with special needs. I’d like...
  • 10.20.2022

    POLK COUNTY, IOWA – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Finance Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Small Business Committee, today hosted a roundtable with business leaders to discuss the critical need for child care in communities across Iowa. During the roundtable, Grassley and Ernst highlighted their new...
  • 10.19.2022

    WASHINGTON – Today, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and senior member of the Agriculture Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a fellow member of the Agriculture Committee, joined Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and several of their colleagues in urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish expanded...
  • 10.18.2022

    WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has secured the inclusion of new protections for survivors of sexual violence in an upcoming must-pass defense spending bill. The bipartisan Survivors’ Bill of Rights in the States Act, authored by Grassley and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), builds upon their previous...
  • 10.17.2022

    Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 10-17-22Topics include: rural health care, China, law enforcement, election integrity, NOPEC and the Farm Bill.
  • 10.17.2022

    BREMER COUNTY, IOWA – Today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) held a Q&A at the Rohlf Memorial Clinic and Waverly Health Center to learn more about the issues facing rural health care providers. They also discussed the Rural Health Clinic Protection Act – a bipartisan bill led by Grassley that was signed into law last year – which has helped several rural health...
  • 10.17.2022

    WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley is calling on the FBI to produce specific records in its possession indicating potential criminal activity in the Biden family’s foreign business deals. It remains unclear whether those FBI records, which have been reviewed by Grassley’s investigative staff, have been...
  • 10.14.2022

    Q&A: What You Need to Know to Vote With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley   Q: What’s your message to Iowans as Election Day approaches?   A: On Nov. 8, voters across the country will cast ballots in the midterm elections for federal, state and local offices. Here in Iowa, voters will determine representatives in newly redrawn districts for four...
  • 10.14.2022

    WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) criticized the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Labor for announcing the issuance of  65,000 H-2B visas above the statutory cap without effectively addressing vulnerabilities in the program.   “In its current form, the H-2B program lacks the necessary...
  • 10.12.2022

    WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced 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...
  • 10.12.2022

    POLK COUNTY, IOWA – Today, Senate Finance Committee member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined his Republican colleagues on the committee in urging the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) to implement a comprehensive oversight plan for the new $80 billion in Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding.  The Democrats’ so-called Inflation...