DES MOINES, IOWA (February 11, 2020) — Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate is encouraging Iowa high schools to conduct voter registration drives on Tuesday, March 3. Every school that registers at least 90 percent of its eligible students to vote receives the Carrie Chapman Catt Award, named after the Iowan who was a national leader in the women’s suffrage movement. Nine schools across the state have already qualified for the Catt Award. The deadline for this school year is April 1, 2020.

WASHINGTON DC (February 11, 2020) — Prepared floor remarks by Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley, Chairman, Senate Finance Committee:

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Yesterday, Sen Martha McSally announced her support for the bipartisan Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act.

Sen McSally and I worked together on several parts of the bill. Arizonans should know that Sen McSally’s leadership is making all the difference in moving this bill forward.

WASHINGTON DC (February 10, 2020) — Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley will begin his annual tradition of holding question-and-answer sessions with Iowans in every county this year for the 40th year in a row on Friday, February 14, with meetings in Johnson County, Cedar County, and Jones County.

WASHINGTON DC (February 10, 2020) — Prepared floor remarks by Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley on the retirement of Evelyn Birkby:

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Today, I’d like to pay tribute to a remarkable Iowan. She’s one of the longest-serving newspaper columnists in America.

She has an uncommon work ethic, having never missed a deadline in seventy years.

Her weekly commentary in the Shenandoah Valley News blanketed her close-knit community in Southwest Iowa for seven decades.