Remarks

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa “Confirmation of Scott Bessent to be Treasury Secretary” Monday, January 27, 2025   VIDEO  As the Leader has just said, I come to the floor for the same purpose – to talk about my vote in favor of Mr. Bessent to be Secretary of Treasury. This cabinet position is one of the most important positions in any...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “International Holocaust Remembrance Day” Monday, January 27, 2025   VIDEO Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. We commemorate this day through International Holocaust Remembrance Day.  Today, we...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa “Confirmation of Kristi Noem to be Secretary of DHS” Saturday, January 25, 2025 VIDEO Everybody knows that, except for Native Americans, this great nation of ours is a nation of immigrants. We're one of the most welcoming nations in the world, maybe the most welcoming to immigrants – because about a million...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “52nd Annual March for Life” Friday, January 24, 2025   VIDEO Today is the 52nd annual March for Life, right here in our nation’s capital.  Folks from all over the nation and world are in Washington to offer a joyful witness to the beauty and dignity of every human person. They...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa “Congressional Accountability Act Marks 30 Years on the Books” Thursday, January 23, 2025   VIDEO A lot has happened during the very first week of the second Trump administration.  Within just three days in the White House, President Trump has put a pedal to the metal, delivering on the mandate voters expected...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “China’s Halt on Intercountry Adoptions” Thursday, January 23, 2025   VIDEO Today marks five years since the Robinson family of Iowa City, Iowa [was] matched with their adoptive child way over in China.  Sadly, this is not a celebratory anniversary of that date, as the Robinson...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa “Born-Alive Abortion Survivor’s Protection Act” Wednesday, January 22, 2025   VIDEO Fifty-two years ago today, Roe v. Wade was decided by the United States Supreme Court. Approximately one year before that, I was a member of the Iowa legislature. That legislature attempted to appeal Iowa’s law, of decades...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “52nd Anniversary of Roe v. Wade” Wednesday, January 22, 2025 VIDEO In early February of 1972, when abortion was not the issue it is today, and probably after California had changed its abortion laws under then-Governor Reagan, the Iowa legislature considered appealing Iowa’s law...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Four Years of the Biden Administration” Tuesday, January 21, 2025   VIDEO On his watch, President Biden wiped away student debt for more than five million borrowers, stiffing taxpayers with a heavier burden.  That’s on top of trillions of dollars in partisan, deficit spending that...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa “Laken Riley Act and Sarah’s Law” Monday, January 20, 2025   VIDEO Last week, you heard me speak in support of the Laken Riley Act – the vote that we’re going to have later this afternoon.  Today, I’d like to discuss a related bill called Sarah’s Law.  Sarah Root was a young woman from Iowa, who had a bright...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Inauguration Day” Monday, January 20, 2025 VIDEO Today, we have a new president.   So, I say congratulations to President Trump. As we turn a new page from one administration to another, we can put a contentious campaign and all the negative rhetoric behind us. There will be...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Inauguration Day” Monday, January 20, 2025   VIDEO Today, we have a new president.   So, I say congratulations to President Trump. As we turn a new page from one administration to another, we can put a contentious campaign and all the negative rhetoric behind us. There will be...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Biden’s Abuse of the Commodity Credit Corporation” Friday, January 17, 2025    VIDEO  I’m an advocate of having an absolute limit on the amount of money that one farmer can get from the farm program, so we target it towards medium and small-sized farmers and don’t subsidize big...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa “National Pharmacists Day” Thursday, January 16, 2025   VIDEO On Sunday, January 12, it was National Pharmacists Day. I think it’s quite appropriate that we pay attention and give reward to the work that pharmacists do.  I would like to extend a warm ‘thank you’ to Iowa pharmacists for their dedication and for...

WASHINGTON – Amid reports of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today delivered a floor speech regarding Israel’s rightful actions to defend itself. Learn more about Grassley’s work to support Israel HERE. Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa “Israel Genocide Libel” Wednesday, January 15,...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa “Opening the 91st Iowa Legislative Session” Tuesday, January 14, 2025 VIDEO I served 16 years in the Iowa House of Representatives before I came to the Congress of the United States. Frequently, I visit that body. Yesterday, I participated in the opening of the 91st session of that Iowa House of...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa “National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day” Thursday, January 9, 2025   VIDEO January the 9th is National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. Today, as well as every day, we should give our thanks to the nation’s men and women in blue. I make this practice – whenever I see a police officer, I always try to stop...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa “Laken Riley Act” Thursday, January 9, 2025 VIDEO I’m here to support the Laken Riley Act. This legislation comes within the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Committee, which is the committee I will chair this Congress. We all know that a result of the last election was a mandate for the president to carry out...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa “Former President Jimmy Carter” Wednesday, January 8, 2025   VIDEO This week our nation mourns the loss of our 39th president, Jimmy Carter.  With grief comes reflection on a life well lived.  There’s no doubt President Carter made an impact on [millions] of Americans.  As for this senator, in 1976, I was on...

WASHNGTON – Senate President pro tempore Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today resumed his practice of opening the Senate floor for business as part of his constitutional role in the 119th Congress. Grassley delivers brief remarks upon the Senate’s opening. Today, he highlighted the start of the 119th Congress, as well as Vladimir Putin’s religious persecution of...