Grassley
Direct
On
my
weekly
“Capitol
Hill
Report,”
I spoke
with
AJ
Taylor
of
KIOW
in
Forest
City
and
Dale
Wegner
of
the
Sac
Sun
about
tariffs,
the
Farm
Bill,
border
security,
social
media
privacy
and
my
Federal
Judiciary
Youth
Summit.
Q&A:
Rx
Take-Back
Day
Q.
What
is National
Take-Back
Day?
Q.
Is
National
Take-Back
Day
working
as
Congress
intended?
Quick
Links
The
Senate
Judiciary
Committee,
which
I
chair, held
a
joint
hearing
with
the
Senate
Commerce
Committee
to
examine
Facebook,
social
media
privacy
and
the use
and
abuse
of
data.
Facebook
CEO
Mark
Zuckerberg
testified
on
what
he
sees
as
Facebook’s
most
pressing
problems
and
what
his
company
is
doing
to
fix
them.
I
also wrote
an
op-ed
in Fortune
Magazine
about
why
this
hearing
was
important: to
gather
information
and
begin
an
open
dialogue
about
how
we
address
growing
consumer
privacy
concerns.
From
rural
America
to
the
coasts
and
everywhere
in
between,
the
opioid
epidemic
ruins
lives,
families
and
entire
communities. I
joined
Senators Richard
Blumenthal
and
Joni
Ernst
in
introducing
the Access
to
Increased
Drug
Disposal
Act
of
2018.
The
bipartisan
bill
is
designed
to
increase
participation
in
federal
prescription
drug
take-back
programs
to
help
combat
prescription
drug
abuse
and
the
growing
opioid
epidemic.
In
response
to
a January
letter
I
sent
with
Senators John
Thune, Roy
Blunt, Deb
Fischer
and
Joni
Ernst,
the
EPA again
confirmed
that
oil
refiners
aren’t
negatively
impacted
by compliance
with
the
Renewable
Fuel
Standard. EPA’s
response
to
our
letter
should
put
to
bed
any
argument
that
the
RFS
is
hurting
small
oil
refiners.
Biofuels
help
make
our
air
cleaner,
energy
cheaper
and
country
stronger
with
more
domestic
energy
production.
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