Articles Tagged: Chuck Grassley

On Sept. 27, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley stated a number of individuals making less than $400,000 a year could see tax increases under the Build Back Better Act. Is he correct?

Grassley also heard support from the chambers of commerce of the 10 or 12 largest Iowa cities and the Iowa Farm Bureau as well as commodity groups representing cattlemen, pork producers, and soybeans and corn growers.

“We have tremendous problems with opioids generally, but an increasing problem because of fentanyl,” the Iowa Republican said. “I think the problem is worse in Eastern Iowa than in other parts of the state.”

Sioux City Republican Jim Carlin is hinting he may step down from the state Senate before the new legislative session begins in January to concentrate full time on his U.S. Senate campaign.

“Today we are in the midst of a gathering storm against democracy,” Krause said, charging Republicans are setting the stage for a slow-motion legal coup in 2022 and 2024.

“This is just simply immoral and unethical that they will set up an environment that hurts kids,” the Iowa Republican said.

There could be some political danger in opposing the package, Grassley said, “but I'm not going to judge whether they should vote for it or not. That's up to them.”

Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been pushing a package of criminal justice reform measures that could reduce the sentencing difference, now 18 to 1, “but I don’t think one to one can pass.”

Kim Reynolds passed on the opportunity to make her re-election campaign official during her annual fall fundraiser Saturday night at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.

Iowa Republican first joined the U.S. Senate in 1981

Four years after Jeff Dettbarn raised concerns about veterans’ diagnostic exams being canceled without doctors’ orders at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City and two years after he testified about it before Congress, the VA ordered him back to the same unit with the same bosses and no protections as a whistleblower.

He was not approached by Trump associates attempting to convince him of their strategy should he be the one presiding over the certification, Grassley said.

Advocates for reform say harsher penalties for crack than powder disproportionately affect people of color.

People are ticked off, according to Ashley Hinson, who said voters think the country is going in the wrong direction and they are ready to engage.

While others speculate Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton’s visits to Iowa signal he’s running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Cotton said he’s concentrating on regaining GOP control of Congress in the 2022 elections.