Articles Tagged: Chuck Grassley

Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley pressed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on a wide range of oversight and policy issues during a hearing Thursday.

President Donald Trump says the Senate’s century-old tradition of allowing home state senators to sign off on some federal judge and U.S. attorney nominees is “old and outdated.” Republican senators, including Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, disagree.

Amid federal budget cuts, the U.S. Energy Secretary on Thursday in Iowa provided assurances that the Ames National Laboratory that he was touring will continue to receive financial support but said wind energy production will need to start standing on its own.

If their true motivations were to organize troops of angry demonstrators to wave signs, shout chants and sing songs, two …

Plus, we discuss the continued messaging battle over the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” and Iowa Republicans taking on Rob Sand.

President Donald Trump wants Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley to sidestep the ‘blue slip’ process by which home-state senators get a say in judicial nominees

Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Jeff Kaufmann kicked off a party fundraiser Friday by stressing to the crowd that Rob Sand, the Iowa State Auditor and only statewide elected Democrat, is “running away from his left-wing views” as he runs for governor in the 2026 election, which is more than 15 months away.

Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley on Wednesday dismissed concerns that he cut off debate before a vote to nominate an attorney who previously represented President Donald Trump to federal district court last week. The action caused Senate Democrats to walk out of a committee meeting earlier this month.

The bill will immediately cut 10 percent of Iowa Public Radio’s budget, and 18 percent of Iowa PBS’. Rep. Ashley Hinson, of Marion, celebrated the bills’ passage Friday, accusing public broadcasting of having “pushed biased narratives and forced inappropriate content on children."

A spokesperson for Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who chairs the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, told States Newsroom the panel approved Bove’s nomination in a 12-0 vote — that is, despite panel rules that state “at least two members of the minority” must be present to transact committee business.

Funds will support new levee in NW Cedar Rapids, road reconstruction and more.

Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday he is committed to investigating the members of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation who served during the Biden administration over indictments against President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump in Iowa on Thursday promised to keep the state a central part of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration, celebrated Congressional approval of his sweeping tax and spending legislation, and snuck in a few of his greatest campaign-style rally hits.

State and local leaders gathered Tuesday to celebrate the grand reopening of a wind turbine factory in West Branch, just hours after U.S. Senate Republicans passed Trump’s “one big beautiful bill” that would roll back federal green energy tax credits that spurred the company to restart production that had been idled since 2013.

Following the U.S. Senate’s passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Iowa Hospital Association says it is ‘deeply concerned’ with the impact Medicaid spending reductions will have on Iowa hospitals