WASHINGTON DC (December 16, 2019) — Prepared floor remarks by US Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley, Chairman, Senate Finance Committee:

I recently heard from an 81-year old Iowan who is battling cancer.

She told me that one test cost more than $12,700, almost an entire year’s income.

On top of that, her medication is more than $4,700 a month.

She’s on Humana and Medicare, but that’s not enough for her to afford her medical bills.

WASHINGTON DC (December 16, 2019) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today released the following statement after successfully securing the inclusion of legislation based on his bipartisan bill with Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) in the year-end appropriations package. The SECURE Act includes the Re

“Once upon a midnight clear, there was a child’s cry, a blazing star hung over a stable, and wise men came with birthday gifts. We haven’t forgotten that night down the centuries. We celebrate it with stars on Christmas trees, with the sound of bells, and with gifts… We forget nobody, adult or child. All the stockings are filled, all that is, except one. And we have even forgotten to hang it up. The stocking for the child born in a manger. It’s his birthday we’re celebrating.

WASHINGTON DC (December 16, 2019) — Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA) and Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Monday hailed the inclusion of their legislation to combat anticompetitive practices used by some brand-name pharmaceutical and biologic companies to block entry of lower-cost generic drugs in the domestic appropriations package filed today in the House.