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Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeNominationsWednesday, June 24, 2026 Today, we’ll have two panels. The first panel features Daniel Domenico, who is nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Our second panel has two nominees: Matthew Byrne, to be a judge on the U.S. District...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“E15 is National Security”Wednesday, June 24, 2026 VIDEO I am here, once again, like I’ve done at least once a week, every week, since the House passed year-round E15. I do it to communicate the importance of the Senate passing year-round E15. I’ve talked about the importance of...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Religious Persecution in Ukraine by Russia”Tuesday, June 23, 2026 VIDEO I’m here today to condemn another attack by Vladimir Putin's regime on Ukraine’s religious and cultural heritage. On June the 15th, Russia[n] strikes set fire to and damaged the Dormition Cathedral in Kyiv. This...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“The State of Iran Demands Accountability in U.S.-Iran Deal”Monday, June 22, 2026 VIDEO One [more] week in June, four in July, three in September – that’s the number of weeks the Senate is in session between now and the election. A lot of people think a lot of things need to be done...

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeExecutive Business MeetingThursday, June 18, 2026 Good morning. On today’s agenda, we have eight nominations and three bills. We’ll vote on two circuit court nominees: Benjamin Flowers, for the Sixth Circuit; and Matthew Schwartz, for the Second Circuit. We’ll...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Congress Needs to Pass Bipartisan Prescription Drug Legislation to Lower Drug Costs”Wednesday, June 17, 2026 VIDEO Last year, the Senate Judiciary Committee marked up and passed out of committee six bipartisan bills that address the high cost of prescription drugs and the abusive...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Recognizing an Iowa Elementary Student for America250 Student Writing Contest”Wednesday, June 17, 2026 VIDEO Fifty years ago, on June 18, 1976, as a member of the House of Representatives, I submitted an essay by a student from Dike, Iowa, in celebration of America’s 200th...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong family farmer, today hosted the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers in Action for an event welcoming the organization’s new report on the benefits of biofuels, where he delivered a keynote address. Grassley is a longtime champion of year-round, nationwide E15, and has repeatedly advocated on the Senate floor for...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“E15 Supports the Rural Economy”Tuesday, June 16, 2026 VIDEO A top issue for Iowans, and particularly an issue in this midterm election, is the farm economy, which isn’t very good. Farmers continue to face stronger headwinds. It’s not profitable today, particularly in grain farming....

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Upcoming United States – Mexico Bilateral Meeting on USMCA”Monday, June 15, 2026 VIDEO The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) has been in force for six years. It’s scheduled for review and renewal, I hope, now, and that process is going on. I’ve been here two or three...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“What’s on the Minds of Iowa Farmers”Thursday, June 11, 2026 VIDEO As I hold my annual 99 county meetings, I always hear from the farmers about the ag economy, and it’s a top concern for all Iowans...because Iowa is the number one state in the nation for food production. Yesterday, I...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Iowan Daniel Umemzie is Named National Youth Poet Laureate”Thursday, June 11, 2026 VIDEO I want to honor a young Iowan. So, I’m here to recognize Daniel Umemezie, who was recently named the tenth National Youth Poet Laureate. Daniel is a recent graduate of Cedar Falls High School in...

Opening Statement for the Record by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeNominationsWednesday, June 10, 2026 Today, [we] have two panels. The first panel features Daniel Traynor, who is nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Our second panel has four district court nominees: Angela Colmenero, for the...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Implementing Commonsense Medicaid Work Requirements”Tuesday, June 9, 2026 VIDEO During the mid to late 1990s, President Clinton and a Republican Congress worked hard to do a bipartisan reform package. It required work requirements for people who were on welfare. It was a great...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“D-Day Anniversary Serves as Reminder for Foreign Policy Today”Monday, June 8, 2026 VIDEO On June the 6th, 1944, the United States and Allied Nations led that historic invasion on the beaches of Normandy, France. Two days ago, there was a remembrance of that occasion at a place...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary Committee“FISA Section 702 Reauthorization”Monday, June 8, 2026 VIDEO Eighty-seven thousand. That’s how many lives were at risk in August 2024 when Austrian security services thwarted a devastating terrorist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna. Many of these lives [that could...

Prepared Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Expanding Access to Services for People with Disabilities”Wednesday, June 3, 2026 VIDEO The Medicaid Program is an important resource to support the most vulnerable. The Working Families Tax Cuts Act strengthened the Medicaid program by cracking down on fraud, waste and...

Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary Committee“Democrats and the Partisan Media Ignore More Evidence of Special Counsel Mueller Weaponization”Tuesday, June 2, 2026 VIDEO On March the 15th, 2026, I made public an FBI agent’s interview statement. That agent was involved in a conspiracy called “Crosswind,” which was the...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“C-SPAN 2’s 40th Birthday”Tuesday, June 2, 2026 VIDEO I’m here to say “happy 40th birthday” to C-SPAN, broadcasting democracy in the Senate to the American people... I’m glad that the Senate is televised to make government more real to the American people... [F]or four decades,...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“E15 is Not a Mandate”Monday, June 1, 2026 VIDEO Iowa is the leading producer of ethanol. About 43,000 jobs are connected with that production. Ethanol is produced from corn. Iowa is the number one producer of corn in the United States. The House of Representatives has passed a bill...