WASHINGTON DC (October 31, 2019)  Senators Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Chris Coons (D-DE), and Roy Blunt (R-MO) introduced a bill to track law-enforcement suicides. The Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act requires the FBI to collect voluntary, anonymous data on police suicides and attempted suicides from local, state, and federal law-enforcement agencies.

WASHINGTON DC (October 31, 2019) — Lawmakers from both houses of Congress today introduced a new framework to fight the rapid spread of deadly synthetic drugs, which can quickly be re-engineered to circumvent federal laws designed to outlaw them.

WASHINGTON DC (October 31, 2019) — Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley is highlighting Iowan Teresa Lynn Davison of Cedar Rapids who was appointed by President Trump to be a member of the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Council to End Human Trafficking. As Senate president pro tempore, Grassley recommended Davison for this role.

WASHINGTON DC (October 31, 2019) — Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley, president pro tempore of the United States Senate, today released the following statement regarding the House of Representatives vote on a resolution outlining impeachment proceedings.

WASHINGTON DC (October 31, 2019) — Prepared floor remarks by Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley, Chairman, Senate Finance Committee:

 

Today is Halloween.

This may sound a little candy corn-y, but this Iowan wants to talk about the scary prices of prescription drugs.

Since January, I’ve joined bipartisan forces to drive a stake in the heart of ghoulish price-gouging.

WASHINGTON DC (October 31, 2019) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA) and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) wrote to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma seeking an update on the status of a congressionally-mandated report which requires CMS to detail the circumstances in which CMS may be funding entities that process Americans’ genome or exome data in China or R

DES MOINES, IOWA (October 30, 2019) — Prepared floor remarks by Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley on the impeachment campaign:

 

On January 20, 2017, President Trump was sworn into office and became our nation’s 45th president.

Now, most presidents enjoy what political scientists refer to as a “honeymoon” period, where they are given a chance to push their agenda and partisan politics take a backseat.

WASHINGTON DC (October 29, 2019) — Prepared floor remarks by Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley on the bipartisan effort to address prescription-drug costs:

 

As Democrats in the House of Representatives work to pass Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi’s prescription-drug bill, I remind my colleagues that for any bill to become law, it must be bipartisan and President Trump must sign it into law.

WASHINGTON DC (October 28, 2019) — Last Thursday, the Senate unanimously approved bipartisan legislation cosponsored by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to address the shortage of agricultural inspectors who protect the nation’s food supply and agricultural industries at the border. The Protecting America’s Food and Agriculture Act of 2019 would ensure the safe and secure trade of agricultural goods across our nation’s borders by authorizing US Customs and Border Protec

DES MOINES, IOWA (October 28, 2019) — Members of Congress representing Middle America have been talking about the challenges facing the Midwest for years, but our warnings have largely fallen on deaf ears.

Why? Because too often, Congress doesn’t act on a problem until it becomes a crisis.

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