Remarks

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Oversight of Department of Defense Financial Audit”Wednesday, October 15, 2025 VIDEO I come to the floor to speak about the Pentagon’s unending audit failures and to once again call for corrective action. People who have been in the Senate a while know I’ve been continually talking...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“National Human Trafficking Hotline”Wednesday, October 15, 2025 VIDEO We senators disagree on a lot of issues in this body. However, there’s one topic that we should all agree on, and that is the effectiveness of the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Recently, the Department of...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Israel- Hamas Ceasefire”Tuesday, October 14, 2025 VIDEO As we all know, the last of the living hostages taken into Gaza by terrorists on October 7, 2023 have now been returned to their families. We can all say “Praise the Lord!” I think that we all know that this would not have...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “United States Postal Service Mail Carriers” Thursday, October 9, 2025 VIDEO Once again, in the chaplain’s prayer, he brought up the issue before the United States Senate and presented it to the Lord about the problems created by the shutdown of the government. Not only are the...

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeExecutive Business MeetingThursday, October 9, 2025 Good morning. On today’s agenda, we have seventeen nominations listed; we’ll vote on eleven of them. We’ll vote on Rebecca Taibleson to be a circuit judge and on David Bragdon, Lindsey Ann Freeman, Matthew Orso...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Arctic Frost Oversight” Wednesday, October 8, 2025 VIDEO On Monday of this week, I invited eight of my colleagues to be briefed on an issue that we just found out about from [Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)] Deputy Director Dan Bongino. What we learned is very disturbing and...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary Committee“Nomination of Jennifer Mascott to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit”Wednesday, October 8, 2025 VIDEO Today, we’re going to move to our first vote on Professor Jennifer Mascott’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Court. I want to take...

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOversight of the Department of JusticeTuesday, October 7, 2025 Good morning. I’d like to welcome everyone to the Judiciary Committee’s annual Justice Department oversight hearing. Attorney General Bondi: since your confirmation, you’ve now had the opportunity to...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore "The Agricultural Economy: Congress Can’t Wait” Monday, October 6, 2025 VIDEO There is a not-so-perfect storm brewing for farmers in my state of Iowa and in agricultural states generally. Many factors are coming together and all at once, like low grain prices, high input costs,...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “The Agricultural Economy: Year-Round, Nationwide E15” Wednesday, October 1, 2025 VIDEO So again, for the third time this week, I want to talk about the agricultural situation. This week, I’ve been talking much about the dire situation in real America where corn farmers are facing...

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeExecutive Business MeetingWednesday, October 1, 2025 Before we begin, I’ll note that the government is now shut down. This is unfortunate and unnecessary. Republicans in the House and Senate have tried to pass a simple, nonpartisan resolution to keep the...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “The Agricultural Economy: Trade and Tariffs” Wednesday, October 1, 2025 VIDEO I come to the floor once again to speak about the agricultural economy, and [about] trade and tariffs in this particular instance today. You’ve heard me talk about the high input costs that farmers are...

Prepared Opening Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeBlue City Chaos and Tragedy: How the Trump Administration is Addressing the Human Cost of Soft On Crime PoliciesTuesday, September 30, 2025 Today’s hearing will examine the human costs of soft-on-crime policies and the Trump Administration’s efforts to reduce...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “The Agricultural Economy: High Ag Inputs” Monday, September 29, 2025 VIDEO I come to the floor to talk about the agricultural economy. There are many big issues facing our nation’s farmers this season. There is stress in the grain producing areas of the United States. That’s true...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “Report on the Russian Orthodox Church by the Free Russia Foundation” Friday, September 19, 2025 VIDEO What I’m going to say – remember the history of Putin saying 20 years ago that the breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century. And,...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“National Stillbirth Prevention and Awareness Day”Thursday, September 18, 2025 VIDEO September 19th is National Stillbirth Prevention and Awareness Day. This day is set aside to recognize the tens of thousands of families in the United States that have endured a stillbirth. More than...

Prepared Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeNominations HearingWednesday, September 17, 2025 Good morning, I’d like to welcome everyone to today’s hearing. Our first panel features Rebecca Taibleson, nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. On panel two, we’ll hear from four district...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Senate President Pro Tempore “September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month” Wednesday, September 17, 2025 VIDEO September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. In the United States this year, over 9,000 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed among children from birth to age 14. While cancer … death [rates] for...

Prepared Opening Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaChairman, Senate Judiciary CommitteeOversight of the Federal Bureau of InvestigationTuesday, September 16, 2025 I’d like to welcome everyone to the Judiciary Committee’s annual FBI oversight hearing. We meet today in the aftermath of the political assassination of Charlie Kirk, a school shooting and...

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew”Monday, September 15, 2025 VIDEO This week, we are privileged to welcome Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to Washington, D.C. He is the spiritual leader and the First among Equals of Orthodox Christianity worldwide. The Patriarch is coming...