WASHINGTON DC (March 27, 2019) —

Thank you Chairman [Michael] Enzi [R-WY].

I’d like to begin by commending you for putting forward a realistic and responsible budget.

I know that many competing priorities were taken into account.

You made difficult choices and came up with a plan with necessary spending restraint to put us on a path to budget balance.

The budget provides a reasonable and realistic path to budget balance, which we do need to reach.

WASHINGTON – Senators Charles "Chuck" Grassley of Iowa and Tina Smith of Minnesota, along with Joni Ernst of Iowa, today introduced three bills that would empower students and their families with better information about the costs of college from the initial college search, through the application process, to accepting financial aid.

WASHINGTON DC (March 27, 2019) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon are seeking information from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) regarding recent federal investigations into potential illegal kickback schemes by some pharmaceutical companies to exploit charitable organizations by giving them money to pay the copays of Medicare patients while encouraging the use of the com

WASHINGTON DC (March 26, 2019) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley of Iowa is leading a bipartisan effort within the Finance Committee to reform the process by which the executive branch could use national security as a basis to restrict imports under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.