WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold public town meetings in Ocheyedan on August 19 and Sioux Center on August 20 as part of his annual 99 county meetings across Iowa. These stops will round out Grassley's annual tradition of holding at least one question-and-answer session in each of Iowa's 99 counties every year. "Representative government relies on open dialogue between ele  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Senate Agriculture Committee members Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to improve its process for the electronic submission and retention of foreign-owned farmland disclosures. The letter follows alleged inaccuracies posted online by the Farm Service Agency, pursuant to the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosur  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) issued the following statement praising the announcement from Attorneys General Mike Hilgers of Nebraska and Brenna Bird of Iowa that the states are leading a petition to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the regulation of commonly-used pesticides: "California's glyphosate labeling mandate is anti-science and anti-agriculture," Ricketts said. "Far-  more