WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member and Chairman, respectively, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led a group of nine bipartisan House and Senate colleagues in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlining their deep concern over Republika Srpska leader...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy (R-La.), along with over 60 House and Senate Republicans, filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Mahmoud v. Taylor. The brief supports parents’ constitutional right to be notified of, and...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pressing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for answers regarding the serious security concerns caused by the Biden-Harris administration’s failure to fully vet Afghan evacuees in the wake of the United States’ disastrous 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, including the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is renewing his sweeping review of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) unaccompanied migrant children (UC) program. Grassley is demanding answers from 23 HHS contractors and grantees regarding their facilitation of the program – which, under the Biden-Harris...
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Topics include: egg prices, market regulation, tariffs, measles, HALT Fentanyl Act and vaccines.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), along with Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.), to introduce the Arsenal Workload Sustainment Act to boost workload at Army arsenals, including Rock Island Arsenal. The bipartisan legislation incentivizes private industry to partner with...
Q: Why did President Trump address a joint session of Congress?
A: Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution says the president “shall from time to time” give Congress information about the state of the union. George Washington set the precedent by fulfilling this duty in person. Although his successors from 1801 to 1913 sent their messages to Congress in...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and a lifelong family farmer, released the following statement following President Trump's executive action on the proposed duty on Canadian potash. Potash is a key ingredient in fertilizer. Tariffs on Canadian imports are now expected to begin April 2.
“President Trump...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gary Peters (D-Mich.) reintroduced two bipartisan bills to prevent foreign governments, including adversaries like China and Russia, from shadow influencing U.S. policy. The legislation would help close loopholes...
WASHINGTON – Major law enforcement organizations representing over 1,000,000 officers nationwide, are calling on the Senate to pass the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of (HALT) Fentanyl Act immediately and without amendments. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is leading the push to permanently classify illicit fentanyl-related...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined the entire Iowa congressional delegation to urge Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins and Farm Service Agency Acting Administrator Kimberly Graham to deliver critical financial relief for Iowa’s turkey producers who have been severely impacted by avian metapneumovirus (aMPV).
Specifically,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is pushing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide clear and accessible information on inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs) to better support patients and their families. While CMS has supported web-based tools to find...
WASHINGTON – During today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the rising tide of antisemitism, Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) entered into the hearing record a letter from The Simon Wiesenthal Center applauding Grassley’s efforts to “expose the hidden truth about Swiss banks’ collaboration with the Nazis before, during, and after World War...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced the bipartisan Reduce Food Loss and Waste Act to prevent and reduce food waste across the country. Each year, the U.S. produces and imports 237 million tons of food, but 31 percent of this food is never sold or eaten, while millions of Americans experience food insecurity.
“Too...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today stood up for the constitutional system of checks and balances and called out Democrats’ years long crusade against the federal court system.
In response to Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dick Durbin's (D-Ill.) request for unanimous consent on a resolution affirming the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released investigative findings detailing the full scope of the Obama-Biden State Department’s pervasive obstruction of FBI law enforcement efforts before, during and after the Iran Nuclear Deal negotiations. According to legally protected whistleblower disclosures, FBI arrest...
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WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Committee member Chris Coons (D-Del.) are reintroducing bipartisan legislation to help enhance mental health services for first responders nationwide. The Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Act (S.825) would direct the Justice Department (DOJ) to...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued a statement regarding President Donald Trump’s upcoming joint address to Congress.
“Last November, the American people delivered a mandate for President Trump to secure the border, scrutinize federal spending, restore American leadership, end the politicization of the Justice Department and bring common sense...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reintroduced the Federal Prisons Accountability Act. The legislation would bring greater accountability to federal prisons by requiring the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to be confirmed by the Senate. Currently, the BOP Director is not subject...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE.
Topics include: Ukraine, the Department of Education, the Presidential Address to the Joint Session of Congress, the HALT Fentanyl Act and immigration.
