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Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary Committee Executive Business MeetingThursday, June 12, 2025 Good morning. On today’s agenda, we have seven nominations. The nominations of Bart Davis and David Metcalf to be U.S. Attorneys are listed for the first time, and will be held over. We’ll vote today on the...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Anniversary of Reagan’s ‘Tear Down This Wall’ Speech” Wednesday, June 11, 2025   VIDEO   Thirty-eight years ago, on June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and called for the General Secretary of the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall. That wall...

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary Committee23 and You: The Privacy and National Security Implications of the 23andMe BankruptcyWednesday, June 11, 2025 Good morning.  Genetic data is the blueprint to a person. It is sensitive, it is personal and in the wrong hands, it is dangerous.  As technology and...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “TSA Quiet Skies Program” Tuesday, June 10, 2025   VIDEO   Last week, Secretary Noem ended a program that is called the Quiet Skies program.  It’s a program that was well intended when it was set up, but the Biden administration weaponized to target its opposition, including the...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Oversight of the Unaccompanied Alien Children Program” Tuesday, June 10, 2025   VIDEO   Mr. President, I would like to discuss a long-running oversight project of mine. Particularly during the last two Congresses, my oversight showed the many ways that the Biden administration...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “The University of Iowa’s Department of Ophthalmology Centennial Celebration” Thursday, June 5, 2025   VIDEO   I come to the Senate to congratulate the University of Iowa’s Department of Ophthalmology. It’s the 100th anniversary of this famed department. For a century, this...

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary Committee Executive Business MeetingThursday, June 5, 2025 Good morning. On today’s agenda, we have six nominations. Five are listed for the first time and will be held over. Our only vote today will be on David Waterman to be United States Attorney for the Southern...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act” Wednesday, June 4, 2025   VIDEO   The month of June is considered National Dairy Month, and this has been going on for decades and decades.  And to kick things off, the Senate Agriculture Committee passed a bill that’s entitled the Whole Milk for...

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeNominations HearingWednesday, June 4, 2025 Good morning,  I’d like to welcome everyone to our first judicial nominations hearing of the 119th Congress.  Today, we’ll consider five impressive judicial nominees.  On our first panel, we’ll hear from Whitney...

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined The Record with Greta van Susteren on Newsmax to discuss ongoing efforts to tackle universal injunctions. Grassley is leading legislation to limit federal court orders to parties directly before the court – ending the practice of universal injunctions and clarifying the...

Statement for the Record by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeJoint Subcommittee Hearing titled “The Supposedly ‘Least Dangerous Branch’: District Judges v. Trump”Tuesday, June 3, 2025 As Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, I am pleased that two of its Subcommittees are holding a hearing on the pressing issue of judicial...

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined the RealClearPolitics podcast to discuss his oversight exposing the Biden Justice Department’s (DOJ) targeting of President Donald Trump and his associates, including records showing Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents planning and celebrating the indictment of Trump...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “National Cancer Survivors Day” Tuesday, June 3, 2025   VIDEO   The first Sunday in June is National Cancer Survivors Day. According to the National Cancer Institute, there are 18.1 million cancer survivors in the United States. We’ve made great strides in recent decades to prevent...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong family farmer and a member of the Senate Finance and Agriculture Committees, joined Iowa Appraisal's “Land Talker TV” with Jim Rothermich to discuss tariffs, safety nets for farmers and the importance of agriculture. Video and excerpts of Grassley's remarks follow. VIDEO   On Tariffs and the U.S-UK Trade...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Boulder, Colorado Antisemitic Incident” Monday, June 2, 2025   VIDEO   I’m here to draw attention and to condemn another outrageous attack that was aimed at the Jewish community here in the United States, specifically Boulder, Colorado.  Yesterday, a deranged individual took a...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “The Make America Healthy Again Commission Report” Wednesday, May 21, 2025   VIDEO   I come to the floor today to express concerns that I have heard from many stakeholders regarding Make America Healthy Again. For short, this is called the MAHA Commission. Their report will be...

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeNominations HearingWednesday, May 21, 2025 Good morning.  I’d like to welcome everyone to this hearing to consider the nominations of Stanley Woodward, to serve as Associate Attorney General; Elliot Gaiser, to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Need to Support Rural Hospitals” Tuesday, May 20, 2025   VIDEO   Rural hospitals in America are under the gun – some of them are closing.  We have about 90 rural hospitals in the state of Iowa. For a change, I have some good news for rural hospitals. For years, I’ve been pressing...

WASHINGTON – During a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the committee, secured the commitment of Billy Long, President Trump’s nominee for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner, to support the IRS Whistleblower Program and utilize its full potential. Grassley noted the program...

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary Committee“Defending Against Drones: Setting Safeguards for Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Authorities”Tuesday, May 20, 2025 Good morning, all.  Today’s hearing will highlight the challenges faced by state and local law enforcement when they encounter drones that pose...