Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Ranking Member, Senate Budget Commitee
Hearing on “The Rich Get Richer, Deficits Get Bigger: How Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and Corporations Drive the National Debt”
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
VIDEO
Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding today’s hearing. It’s a welcome break from the series of...
Prepared Senate Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Accountability for Brett Blanton Theft
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
VIDEO
Congressional oversight is a constitutional demand. We must ensure that our government truly does work for, of, and by the people. When fraud, waste, and abuse is discovered, Congress has a responsibility to the American...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Ranking Member, Senate Committee on the Budget
Hearing titled “Lessons Learned: Leadership Perspectives and Experience
on the National Costs of Climate Change”
May 10, 2023
VIDEO
Today marks our eighth hearing on climate change. Today’s hearing is in a much bigger room, with a larger audience, more...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Grassley: Recognizing May as National Foster Care Month
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
VIDEO
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan first recognized May as National Foster Care Month.
Every year since, the month of May has been recognized as a time to bring awareness to the...
Prepared Floor Remarks
Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa
Transparency Brings Accountability: The Justice Department Must Come Clean To The American People
May 4, 2023
VIDEO
Mr./Madame President,
In the past several years, I’ve taken to this floor to discuss my constitutional oversight of the Justice Department...
Prepared Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Ranking Member, Senate Committee on the Budget
Hearing Titled “The Default on America Act: Blackmail, Brinkmanship, and Billionaire Backroom Deals”
May 4, 2023
VIDEO
Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding today’s hearing on the House-passed Limit, Save, Grow Act....
Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Ranking Member, Senate Budget Committee
Hearing on “Who Pays the Price: The Real Cost of Fossil Fuels”
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
VIDEO
Last week’s hearing on climate change and public health was another missed opportunity to discuss our nation’s...
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Grassley: President Biden Should Remember His Words 39 Years Ago: Do Something About National Debt
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
VIDEO
Mr./Madame President
I come to the floor today referring to a speech that Senator Biden gave on this Senate floor 39 years ago today....
Prepared Floor Remarks by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Grassley: The Pentagon Can’t Count
Monday, May 1, 2023
VIDEO
Mr. President, I come to the floor today to speak about Defense Department financial audits. My colleagues know that I’m as stubborn as a mule when it comes to my oversight work of the...
Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Ranking Member, Senate Budget Committee
Hearing on “Under the Weather: Diagnosing the Health Costs of Climate Change”
April 26, 2023
VIDEO
Last week’s hearing on tax policy was really refreshing. Revenues are a critical part of the federal budget, and we should remain very focused on the pressing...
Prepared Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Democrats Offer a Political Resolution That Ignores Their Past Political Weaponization of the FBI
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
VIDEO
Leader Schumer has said since last week that he intends to introduce a resolution purporting to support law enforcement.
In 2020 “defund the...
Prepared Statement for the Record by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa On the Nomination of Joshua Jacobs to the Dept. of Veterans AffairsTuesday, April 25, 2023
I’ll vote no on the nomination of Joshua Jacobs to be Under Secretary for Benefits at VA. I’ll do so for reasons I’ve already stated publicly in the record when I paused consideration of his...
Statement
for
the Congressional Record by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa)
Iowa Hawkeyes: Making History, Advancing Future of Women’s Basketball
April 19, 2023
On behalf of the
Hawkeye State, I am proud to congratulate the Iowa Women’s Basketball team for
a historic run in the NCAA Division I basketball tournament. All season long,
the Hawkeyes...
Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Ranking Member, Senate Budget Committee
Hearing on “A Rigged System: The Cost of Tax Dodging by the Wealthy and Big Corporations”
April 18, 2023
Revenues to the federal government are a fundamental part of the budget and a subject that this committee ought to be studying. However, I want to...
Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Ranking Member, Senate Budget Committee
Hearing: “Left Holding the Bag: The Cost of Oil Dependence in a Low-Carbon World”
March 29, 2023
Mr. Chairman, I’ve had the honor of serving Iowa in the Senate for over 40 years. I’ve been in your shoes when I chaired the Finance and Judiciary Committees....
Prepared Statement by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
Ranking Member, Senate Budget Committee
Hearing titled “Risky Business: How Climate Change is Changing Insurance Markets
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
The audience for today’s hearing on private insurance is different than last week’s hearing on the President’s 2024 Budget. As such, I would like to...
Prepared Statement by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
Ranking Member, Senate Budget Committee
Hearing on the President's Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Proposal
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Mr. Chairman, I appreciate your holding today’s hearing on the President’s fiscal year 2024 budget. I hope that it will be the first of many hearings focused on our...
Statement for the Senate
Record by Sen. Chuck Grassley of IowaNomination of Eric
Garcetti to be Ambassador to IndiaMayor Garcetti is
Unfit for OfficeMarch 14, 2023 Last
Congress, I spoke of my strong opposition to the nomination of Eric Garcetti to
be Ambassador to the Republic of India. I opposed the nomination due to the
serious and credible...
I have been glad to see that Lena Santos Ferguson is finally gaining recognition for her work to desegregate the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). In 1980, Mrs. Ferguson was turned away when she tried to join DAR. She was discriminated against even though she could trace her ancestry to Jonah Gay, who had supported the Revolution through the town...
Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
Ranking Member, Senate Committee on the Budget
Hearing titled “A Burning Issue: The Economic Costs of Wildfires”
March 8, 2023
Mr. Chairman, tomorrow the President will submit a portion of his 2024 Budget to Congress. Like his first two Budgets, this one will arrive over a month late.
When the...
