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Avalanche of Endorsements Roll in from Iowa Leaders 

For Immediate ReleaseFriday, September 24, 2021 Avalanche of Endorsements Roll in from Iowa Leaders  Ernst, Reynolds, Miller-Meeks, Hinson, Feenstra, Gregg, Naig, Pate Endorse Grassley on Re-Election Campaign Announcement Day  BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA — Iowa’s top elected officials today endorsed Sen. Chuck Grassley of New Hartford shortly after he announced his campaign for re-election and hit the trail running. […]

Grassley Announces He’s Running for Re-Election to Continue Serving Iowans

For Immediate ReleaseFriday, September 24, 2021 Grassley Announces He’s Running for Re-Election to Continue Serving Iowans BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA—After waking up at 4 a.m. for his morning run, Sen. Chuck Grassley of New Hartford, Iowa, a family farmer and Iowa’s longest serving U.S. senator, announced on Twitter he is running for re-election to continue his […]

A ‘Death Knell’ Tax Threatens Family Farms and Businesses

As former chairman and taxpayer watchdog serving on the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, I’m girding for my next dogfight. President Biden has set his sights on enacting a new death tax on top of the existing estate tax. Yes, it’s as unfair as it sounds. The Democrats want to reach into the grave and tax Americans’ lifelong savings to pay for cradle-to-grave entitlements.

Secretive pharmacy middlemen drive up Iowans’ drug costs

Iowa’s U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley again is turning his attention to exorbitant pharmaceutical prices. Grassley this year has filed a series of bipartisan bills meant to give Americans access to cheaper drugs. He’s calling special attention to an industry of secretive middlemen in the pharmacy business. Grassley and his fellow Republicans are firmly opposed to price-setting regulations, but they […]

Senator Chuck Grassley on Iowa Press

On this edition of Iowa Press, Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) discusses current and future legislation in the U.S. Senate. Joining moderator David Yepsen at the Iowa Press table are Kay Henderson, news director for Radio Iowa, and Brianne Pfannenstiel, chief political reporter for The Des Moines Register. Watch the full video HERE

Chuck Grassley is the 80-something everyone’s waiting on

OSSIAN, Iowa — Chuck Grassley still gets up at 4 a.m. every day and often goes for a 2-mile run. The 87-year-old does push-ups, too. “You want me to do 35 for you?” he responded when asked about his regimen as he waited for a burger at Bambino’s, a haunt in this town of about […]

Packing the court strikes out independent judiciary

Former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used his bully pulpit to try to pack the Supreme Court. He struck out, and in the 1938 midterm elections, his party lost 72 seats in the House of Representatives and seven seats in the Senate. As they say, history repeats itself. Perhaps that’s why Speaker Nancy Pelosi poured cold water on the […]