Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is introducing legislation he says is designed to reform an economic development program which he describes as “out of control” with fraud and national security threats. The program, called EB-5, was created in 1990 to prompt foreign investors into putting between 500-thousand and a million dollars into capital investment projects in rural America and in other job-starved areas. Read More
DES MOINES — A new Iowa-based poll on the state’s U.S. Senate race shows Republican incumbent Chuck Grassley with a bigger lead over Democratic challenger Patty Judge than most other recent polls have found. In a poll published Monday by Simpson College and RABA Research, Grassley leads Judge by 13 percentage points. Fifty percent of likely Iowa voters said they plan to vote for Grassley, and 37 percent said they plan to vote for Judge. Most other polls on the race have showed Grassley leading Judge by roughly 7 to 10 percentage points. Real Clear Politics’ average of polls on Iowa’s U.S. Senate race shows Grassley with an average lead of 8.6 percentage points. Read More
Mylan Pharmaceuticals’ attempt to explain the $600 price tag for life-saving allergy drug EpiPen hasn’t satisfied a leading Republican senator. Sen. Chuck Grassley blasted Mylan for insufficient answers to a series of questions he gave the drug maker about the EpiPen price hike. Grassley is part of a slew of lawmakers starting probes into the hike. It is the first detailed response from Mylan made public by a lawmaker. Read More
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) — Claim: “Best attendance record in the Senate” Source: “Chuck”, campaign ad by the Charles Grassley campaign. Analysis: In this profile ad, the Grassley campaign paints a portrait of Iowa’s longtime Senator as an experienced, tireless worker for Iowans. The ad notes the claim that Sen. Grassley has the “best attendance record in the Senate”. The claim is based on a January 2016 article from the political site “Roll Call” about Sen. Grassley setting the record for most time without missing a vote in the history of Congress. A check of voting records on GovTrack also confirms Iowa’s senior senator has not missed a vote since July 14, 1993 when he was touring flood damage along the Mississippi River. That streak is still going, now at 23 years and a month. Read More
Democrat Patty Judge’s campaign to defeat Iowa’s long-time incumbent U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley is built around the slogan that she is “the Judge Grassley can’t ignore.” It’s a memorable phrase, particularly in light of Grassley’s decision not to hold Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on any of President Obama’s appointments to the Supreme Court this year. But it’s a toothless threat. Read More
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is asking the maker of EpiPens to explain sharp increases in the device's price. Grassley wrote a letter to Mylan, the company that makes EpiPens, asking for an explanation of a 400 percent increase in the price since 2007. Read More
Battle to investigate truckers’ pension fund one of the topics of the visit Senator Chuck Grassley’s visit to Woodbine was warmly greeted by one woman who has been impacted by cuts to a truckers pension fund due to allegations of mismanagement. Mary Packette, Director of Iowa/Nebraska Committee to Protect Pensions, attended the Aug. 10 Town Hall meeting at Main Street Station in Woodbine to give Grassley a t-shirt on behalf of the committee and to thank Grassley for work he has done on the group’s behalf. Read More
MEMORANDUM TO: Patty Judge FR: The Grassley Committee RE: Please… Read More
WASHINGTON — Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said Tuesday he will hold a hearing next month to discuss a wave of consolidation among seed and chemical producers, including the merger of Dow and DuPont. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he is calling the hearing because some producers have expressed a "great deal of concern” about the mergers. It is still being determined who will testify in late September. Consumers, companies affected by the mergers and antitrust experts are among those expected to appear. Read More
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley isn’t happy about one of President Barack Obama’s most recent vetoes. He’s also upset with the way Congress blocked one of his Iowa colleague’s attempt to reign in the control of the EPA. A joint resolution introduced in September and sponsored by Sen. Joni Ernst, S.J.R. Res. 22, was vetoed by President Barack Obama on Jan. 19. The resolution would have blocked the new federal “waters of the United States” regulations that would affect the streams, ponds and rivers in Jasper County and across Iowa. Read More
