WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) slammed the Biden administration for pushing electric vehicle (EV) mandates that enrich our adversaries. She pointed out that China and Russia reap the benefits of EV expansion, even though they enslave children and commit atrocities against Ukrainians to gain access to minerals critical to EV production. Click here or above to watch. Background: Last year, Ernst exposed  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today co-chaireda Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Controlhearing to examinehowshell companies facilitate transnational criminal activity. During questioning, Government Accountability Office's (GAO) Rebecca Shea, who leads its Forensic Audits and Investigative Service department, confirmed findings of the report Grassley issued yesterday exposing gaps in the Federal  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and eight Senate Budget Committee Republicans shared with Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) pressing facts about the U.S. economic outlook, calling on him and majority committee members to focus on fiscal matters. Under Democrat leadership, the committee this Congress has convened 15 hearings on climate and just three on the budget. The minority members' corresp  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, is calling on Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Democrats to move forward with a bipartisan Farm Bill in short order. In a letter today to Schumer, Grassley pointed out the Farm Bill's notable absence from Schumer's recent outline of the Senate's agenda. Grassley is urging the Majority   more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) contacted seven federal agencies with open Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommendations for improving the cybersecurity of U.S. critical infrastructure. In addition to urging administrators to close the recommendations - some of which are years old - Grassley is demanding records on their departments' cybersecurity testing practices and their protocols for reportin  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks, M.D. (IA-01), along with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Rep. Eric Sorensen (IL-17), and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced the bipartisan Arsenal Workload Sustainment Act which would establish a fifty percent minimum workload requirement at Army arsenals nationwide. Army depots have a guaranteed workload; however, no workload requirement currently exists  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on offshore tax evasion by the wealthy and corporations, on April 10, 2024: * * * Mr. Chairman, I appreciate your holding today's hearing on offshore tax evasion and closing the tax gap.I have some experience in this area. Talking about the tax gap, I remember how my late friend and former Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch used to  more