{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/icymi-grassley-discusses-bipartisanship-and-bringing-iowans-messages-to-washington", "ICYMI: Grassley Discusses Bipartisanship & Bringing Iowans\u2019 Messages to Washington", "2024-09-30", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "IA", "Chuck Grassley", "G000386", "www.grassley.senate.gov", "grassley", "https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined the 13th and Park podcast to discuss bipartisanship, food security and more.\n\nWatch the full episode HERE. Subject-specific excerpts follow.\n\nOn the Top Concerns Iowans Raised at This Year\u2019s 99 County Meetings: \u201cIn two-thirds of the 99 counties, the Farm Bill came up \u2013 \u2018Why aren\u2019t we passing a five-year Farm Bill?\u2019 Beyond that, the irritation that Iowans have, and I think in the entire country, with Biden deciding to do different than Trump was doing, have an open border \u2013 having 10 million people illegally enter our country because, you know, you can\u2019t enter America without our permission, that\u2019s what the law says, but the president doesn\u2019t enforce the law. Then beyond that, and maybe even more so, is the high cost of living. For a family of four in Iowa, that\u2019s $7,500 more a year that they\u2019re spending, and that\u2019s burned into their budget for the rest of their life.\u201d\n\nOn Bipartisanship: \u201cPartisanship is greater now than it\u2019s ever been in the 44 years I\u2019ve been in the Senate, but I think people get the view that it\u2019s really bad \u2013 and so bad that Democrats don\u2019t talk to Republicans and vice versa. I like to explain to my constituents: to get to finality on an issue, you have to have bipartisanship.\u201d\n\n\u201cYou get an awkward view of it from the media, because they like to always talk about the fighting that\u2019s going on in Washington. So when people get together and get something done, you never read about it, because it isn\u2019t fighting. You\u2019ve got to have credibility. Journalism always emphasizing disagreement hurts the credibility of Congress.\u201d\n\nOn Amplifying Farmers\u2019 Voices in Washington: \u201cIt\u2019s important that the two percent of people that are actually family farmers speak up, so people know that food grows on farms and not in grocery stores, or milk comes out of a cow instead of out of a bottle. I think 98 percent of the people don\u2019t really realize that. So, speak up for it. In the United States Senate, those of us who are crop farmers have to speak up in the same way.\u201d\n\n\"I\u2019m not the only one that knows something about agriculture, but I think I\u2019m one of the few that have dirt under our fingernails, and that\u2019s what\u2019s so important \u2013 to get the word out. Because food security is a part of national security.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/icymi-grassley-discusses-bipartisanship-and-bringing-iowans-messages-to-washington"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5316978096961975, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}