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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Aug 6, 2022

Madam President, I have long fought to protect victims of violent crime. Victims of sexual assault, especially children who are victimized by sexual predators, must be safeguarded. I have worked to ensure the Violence Against Women Act is…

Congressional Record · 2022-08-06
Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Aug 6, 2022

Do I have some time left? The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired. Vote on Amendment No. 5421 The question is on agreeing to the amendment.

Congressional Record · 2022-08-06
Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Aug 6, 2022

Mr. President, this body has a long record of coming together to improve healthcare for Americans. In 2003, we worked in a bipartisan manner to establish the Medicare Part D benefit. More recently, I have worked with my Finance Committee…

Congressional Record · 2022-08-06
Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Aug 6, 2022

Madam President, this body has a long record of coming together to improve healthcare for Americans. In 2003, when I was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, we worked in a bipartisan manner to establish the Medicare Part D benefit…

Congressional Record · 2022-08-06
Joni Ernst
@joniernst· Republican · IA· Aug 6, 2022

Mr. President, this one should be simple. My amendment eliminates subsidies for slave and child labor. The price of buying a car has reached a record high, and what is the Democrats' answer? A tax break for wealthy coastal elites to buy…

Congressional Record · 2022-08-06
Joni Ernst
@joniernst· Republican · IA· Aug 3, 2022

Mr. President, today, I come to the floor to urge President Biden to turn his attention to his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan 1 year ago. I want to direct the Commander in Chief to reflect on a series of commitments he made to the…

Congressional Record · 2022-08-03
Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Aug 1, 2022

Madam President, we all know that Congress has a constitutional responsibility to ensure that the executive branch executes the laws and uses taxpayers' money appropriately in accordance with congressional intent. It doesn't matter whether…

Congressional Record · 2022-08-01
Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jul 30, 2022

We're in a recession, and it's not the time to increase taxes or spending. It's going to feed the fires of inflation.

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Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jul 28, 2022

Madam President, today is a very important date for the relations between the United States and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Today marks 100 years of continuous, uninterrupted diplomatic relations between our…

Congressional Record · 2022-07-28
Mariannette Miller-Meeks
@mariannettemillermeeks· Republican · IA· Jul 27, 2022

Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 4040. This bill would extend telehealth flexibilities under Medicare until 2024. These flexibilities allow physicians to be more widely available to patients who no longer need to wait weeks…

Congressional Record · 2022-07-27
Mariannette Miller-Meeks
@mariannettemillermeeks· Republican · IA· Jul 27, 2022

Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this question will be postponed. ____________________

Congressional Record · 2022-07-27
Joni Ernst
@joniernst· Republican · IA· Jul 27, 2022

Mr. President, the mountain Americans have to climb to make ends meet keeps getting steeper and steeper as a result of Bidenomics. Since President Biden began his reckless tax-and-spending spree, prices are sky-high for gas, food, housing…

Congressional Record · 2022-07-27
Mariannette Miller-Meeks
@mariannettemillermeeks· Republican · IA· Jul 27, 2022

Madam Speaker, I thank Representative Carter for yielding me time. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of the Republican motion to recommit H.R. 3771. We can all agree that preventing myocardial events in Asian Americans and all…

Congressional Record · 2022-07-27
Mariannette Miller-Meeks
@mariannettemillermeeks· Republican · IA· Jul 27, 2022

Madam Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mrs. Miller-Meeks of Iowa moves to recommit the bill H.R. 3771 to the Committee on…

Congressional Record · 2022-07-27
Joni Ernst
@joniernst· Republican · IA· Jul 27, 2022

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S. 4638, which is at the desk; further, that the bill be considered read a third time and passed; and that the motion to reconsider be…

Congressional Record · 2022-07-27
Joni Ernst
@joniernst· Republican · IA· Jul 27, 2022

Madam President, reserving the right to object, here we are again--another day, another sympathetically titled bill offered by my Democratic colleagues wherein the talking points don't really give you the full story--case in point, the…

Congressional Record · 2022-07-27
Mariannette Miller-Meeks
@mariannettemillermeeks· Republican · IA· Jul 26, 2022

Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Dr. Michael Welsh of the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Dr. Welsh recently won the 2022 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine for his discoveries of defects causing cystic fibrosis and…

Congressional Record · 2022-07-26
Chuck Grassley
@chuckgrassley· Republican · IA· Jul 26, 2022

Madam President, I don't know how many years in a row I have been doing this, but this week in July, I always come to the Senate floor to honor whistleblowers. I expect this week that the Senate will unanimously pass my resolution…

Congressional Record · 2022-07-26