President Barack Obama says American values mean not slamming the door on the thousands fleeing Syria’s violence and devastation, but Sen. Chuck Grassley sees it differently. “He’s in denial,” Grassley said of Obama, speaking with The World-Herald on Tuesday. Read More
Senator Grassley runs laps across, around, and up and down Iowa every year. He visits each of the 99 Iowa counties during recesses from the Senate. When Congress is in session, Grassley has been there for 4 decades voting for what he feels will best serve Iowa. Senator Grassley runs laps across, around, and up and down Iowa every year. He visits each of the 99 Iowa counties during recesses from the Senate. When Congress is in session, Grassley has been there for 4 decades voting for what he feels will best serve Iowa. He's in the top one-tenth of 1 percent of U.S. Senators for vote casting. Of the 2,000 men and women who have been senators in U.S. history, only 17 of them have cast more votes than Senator Grassley (and only 3 of the 100 serving today: Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Orrin Hatch of Utah and Patrick Leahy of Vermont). No senator now serving has had as many consecutive votes (never missing one) as Grassley's 7,474. Read More
Once again, President Obama, the self-professed professor of constitutional… Read More
In our nation's history, nearly 2,000 men and women have served in the United States Senate. Only 17 of them have cast more votes than Iowa Republican Charles Grassley. No senator serving today has gone as long as Grassley without missing a vote. Our state's senior senator has cast 7,474 consecutive votes. Read More
Charles Grassley’s long-standing dismay of government waste is now fueled by a natural gas filling station in Afghanistan that cost $43 million. What’s more, the flow of details on this isn’t coming out, the Iowa’s senior senator added during his weekly press call Wednesday. “I don’t know if any laws were broken, but $43 million spent on a gas station? In Iraq, a similar one was built for a half-million dollars, so where did the other $42.5 million go? That’s what my question is to the Defense Department,” he said on the call. Read More
"I think of Senator Grassley's 12,000 votes, hundreds of hearings, countless numbers of tweets. Probably four-dozen sweater vests later, he's still the same down-to-earth Iowa farmer who visits every one of the state's 99 counties every year," Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said from the Senate floor. Read More
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA -- Meth has been called one of the most dangerous drugs, and with 1.2 million admitted users in the United States, experts believe the danger is real. Here in Iowa, the numbers are down, but experts said the drug still poses a real danger, so much so that one senator said something has to be done to keep our citizens safe. People who have been involved with the drug, like Stephanie Beliel, said it was one of the strongest drugs she’d tried. "I've tried numerous times to quit meth and for some reason it just kept pulling me back,” Beliel said. Right now, she’s 76 days sober, but she said it’s been a long journey. Read More
Senator Charles Grassley wants to know why a college student was awarded $4.1 million in a settlement with the DEA. In 2012, a 20-year-old college student from the UC San Diego was found locked up in handcuffs in a DEA detention cell five days after he was mistakenly arrested. He had received no food or water for the previous 120 hours. For more than two years, Sen. Grassley sought answers and accountability from the DEA through letters, congressional hearings, and speeches on the Senate floor. Read More
MAPLETON, IA - Iowa's senior US Senator is back in the state while Congress takes its Columbus Day recess. Chuck Grassley held town hall meetings Monday in Storm Lake, Ida Grove, and Mapleton. A couple dozen people met with the Senator in Mapleton talking about topics ranging from healthcare to defunding Planned Parenthood. Read More
The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he is delaying another one of President Barack Obama's nominees to the State Department to protest what he calls the administration's continued failure to respond to inquiries about the department's use of private emails and other questions. Read More
