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Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “National Blood Donor Month” Monday, February 3, 2025   VIDEO January is National Blood Donor Month.  Every two seconds someone in the United States needs blood.  Yet, less than 10 percent of the eligible population donates blood annually.  Blood donations are especially critical...

Prepared Floor Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee The Partisan Media Again Parrots FBI Talking Points Monday, February 3, 2025 VIDEO Madame President, Today, I come to the floor to speak about a January 30, 2025, New York Times article from Adam Goldman and Alan Feuer about my and Senator Johnson’s...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Nomination of Christopher Wright to be Energy Secretary” Monday, February 3, 2025   VIDEO Later today, we’ll be working on the nomination of Christopher Wright of Colorado to be Secretary of Energy. I rise now to speak in support of that nomination.  In his confirmation hearing,...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee “Senate Cloture Vote on Pam Bondi’s Nomination to be Attorney General” Monday, February 3, 2025   VIDEO Later today we’re going to have the first set of votes on the nomination of Pam Bondi to serve as the Attorney General of the United States.  Before we do, I’d like...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Confirmation of Doug Burgum to be Secretary of Interior” Thursday, January 30, 2025   VIDEO Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota will soon be our next Secretary of the Department of the Interior.  I’m going to support that nomination. I think he will be confirmed, but until that...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa “Undocumented Payments at the Department of Defense” Thursday, January 30, 2025 VIDEO Every so often, I come to the Senate floor to bring my colleagues up to date on the lack of financial management systems in the Department of Defense. I’m here again to address what I consider a festering bureaucratic...

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley Chairman, Senate Judiciary Commitee Hearing on “The Nomination of Kashyap Pramod Patel to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation” Thursday, January 30, 2025   Good morning.  Before we begin, I’d like to say that our prayers are with the victims and first responders of the horrible tragedy at...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Confirmation of Lee Zeldin to be Environmental Protection Agency Administrator” Wednesday, January 29, 2025 VIDEO I’m here to back the nomination of Lee Zeldin of New York to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. My vote will be yes in a few hours from now. The...

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee Executive Business Meeting on the Nomination of Pam Bondi to be Attorney General Wednesday, January 29, 2025   Good morning and welcome to our first markup of the 119th Congress. I’d again welcome Senator Durbin as our new Ranking Member, as well as our new members,...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Confirmation of Sean Duffy to be Secretary of Transportation” Tuesday, January 28, 2025 VIDEO Today we’re confirming former Congressman Sean Duffy as the new Secretary of Transportation.   Our nation’s infrastructure is essential to the economy, trade and vitality of each of our...

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...