News Releases

12.04.2025

Key Grassley Provisions Included in New Bipartisan Legislation to Lower Prescription Drug Costs and Make Health Care More Affordable

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is cosponsoring legislation alongside Finance Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and 18 senators to improve accountability and oversight of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and bring down the price of prescription...

12.03.2025

Grassley, Bipartisan Colleagues Reintroduce Inspector General Access Act

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) reintroduced the bipartisan Inspector General Access Act to allow the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (DOJ OIG) to investigate alleged DOJ attorney misconduct. “Federal prosecutors have significant...

12.01.2025

Capitol Hill Report, 12-01-25

Senator Grassley’s weekly Capitol Hill Report is available HERE. Topics include: the D.C. National Guard shooting, Arctic Frost, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, the National Defense Authorization Act and staff traveling office hours.

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Remarks

12.04.2025

Grassley Urges Support for Fertilizer Research Act

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“Fertilizer Research Act”Thursday, December 4, 2025 VIDEO There’s real concern in rural America, particularly among family farmers. Farmers know that margins matter. Farmers don’t want to see their revenue continue being eaten up by input suppliers. So, we need to do what we can to...

12.03.2025

Grassley Condemns the Persecution of Christians in Nigeria

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate President Pro Tempore“The Persecution of Christians in Nigeria”Wednesday, December 3, 2025 VIDEO If you watch television, you’re hearing a lot of reports from Nigeria about kidnappings and murders [and] other reports of violence. And particularly, you’re hearing it about Christians in Nigeria. This...

12.02.2025

Grassley Exposes Biden Admin’s Failure to Vet Afghan Evacuees Following Tragic Attack on National Guard

Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaSenate Judiciary Committee Chairman and President Pro Tempore“Oversight of Afghan Evacuee Vetting”Tuesday, December 2, 2025 VIDEO Last week, two members of the West Virginia National Guard were tragically shot here on duties in Washington, D.C. They were attacked by an Afghan national brought here under the...

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Commentary

09.18.2025

Grassley, Klobuchar Op-Ed | No Peace is Just Until the Kidnapped Ukrainian Children are Back Home

Last winter, a Ukrainian mother received the call she had been waiting for: her daughter, taken across the border to Russia months earlier, was finally coming home. When they embraced, the girl hugged tightly, afraid she might be pulled away again. She hardly spoke, afraid to use the Ukrainian language after being forced to speak only Russian. That reunion...

07.30.2025

Safeguarding lives: The urgent need for congressional action on illicit Xylazine

America’s opioid epidemic has entered a new and especially dangerous phase, as synthetic fentanyl and deadly additives devastate families and communities across the country. Congress must act now to equip law enforcement with the resources and tools they need to keep communities safe, while preventing unintended consequences on hardworking veterinarians,...

06.13.2025

How Senate Republicans are restoring the rule of law and securing the border for years to come.

America is at a crossroads. During the Biden-Harris administration, over 10 million illegal immigrants – including violent criminals and potential terrorists – poured over our nation’s border. After four years of chaos, Americans overwhelmingly elected President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a platform of securing the border, removing dangerous criminals...

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Official Correspondence

12.01.2025

AO to Grassley, Johnson, Jordan - Nondisclosure Orders

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11.25.2025

DOJ to Grassley, Johnson - PIN Consultation

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11.21.2025

Grassley, Delegation Letter of Support - RHTP Application to CMS

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11.20.2025

Grassley, Johnson, Jordan to Boasberg - Nondisclosure Orders

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11.20.2025

Schoffstall to Grassley - Reinstatement

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HIStory Series

11.24.2025

Thanksgiving Day, A Day for Unity in America

Thanksgiving Day took root in our nation’s history as a “day of public thanksgiving and prayer” when George Washington issued a proclamation in 1789, calling upon freshly minted Americans to celebrate ratification of the Constitution and coalesce around the bounty of hard-fought freedom. Having secured the right of self-governance, our nation’s first...

10.30.2025

Government Shutdowns Fail the American People

This week the American people enter the fifth week of a federal government shutdown. Starting Nov. 1, more than 40 million Americans who rely on food stamp benefits will not have their debit-style cards replenished to buy groceries. That’s nearly 1 in 8 Americans, including 131,000 Iowa families. It’s shocking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said every...

09.25.2025

A Turning Point in America

It was a week before Thanksgiving Day in 1963. I was halfway through my shift at the punch press at Waterloo Register. A manager came up to me on the assembly line and said, “JFK was shot.” I was 30 years old, moonlighting at the furnace factory to make ends meet between my other jobs as a state legislator and family farmer. Five years later, I was finishing...

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