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Chuck Grassley

January 01, 1970

Charles Ernest Grassley (born September 17, 1933) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Iowa, having held the seat since 1981. Grassley was first elected to the Senate in 1980 and has been reelected seven times. He is the longest-serving Republican in Congressional history and the sixth-longest-serving U.S. senator in history.

Chuck Grassley
Official portrait, 2017
President pro tempore of the United States Senate
In office
January 3, 2019 – January 20, 2021
Preceded byOrrin Hatch
Succeeded byPatrick Leahy
Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee
Assumed office
January 3, 2023
Preceded byLindsey Graham
Ranking Member of the Senate Narcotics Caucus
Assumed office
January 3, 2023
Preceded byJohn Cornyn
President pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate
Assumed office
January 20, 2021
Preceded byPatrick Leahy
United States Senator
from Iowa
Assumed office
January 3, 1981
Serving with Joni Ernst
Preceded byJohn Culver
Committee positions
1997–⁠2023
Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee
In office
February 3, 2021 – January 3, 2023
Preceded byDianne Feinstein
Succeeded byLindsey Graham
In office
January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2015
Preceded byJeff Sessions
Succeeded byPatrick Leahy
Chair of the Senate Finance Committee
In office
January 3, 2019 – February 3, 2021
Preceded byOrrin Hatch
Succeeded byRon Wyden
In office
January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007
Preceded byMax Baucus
Succeeded byMax Baucus
In office
January 20, 2001 – June 6, 2001
Preceded byMax Baucus
Succeeded byMax Baucus
Chair of the Senate Narcotics Caucus
In office
January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2019
Preceded byDianne Feinstein
Succeeded byJohn Cornyn
Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee
In office
January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2019
Preceded byPatrick Leahy
Succeeded byLindsey Graham
Chair of the Senate Aging Committee
In office
January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2001
Preceded byWilliam Cohen
Succeeded byJohn Breaux
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Iowa's 3rd district
In office
January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1981
Preceded byH. R. Gross
Succeeded byCooper Evans
Member of the
Iowa House of Representatives
from Butler County
In office
January 12, 1959 – January 3, 1975
Preceded byWayne Ballhagen
Succeeded byRaymond Lageschulte
Constituency
Personal details
Born
Charles Ernest Grassley

(1933-09-17) September 17, 1933 (age 90)
New Hartford, Iowa, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
Barbara Speicher
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(m. 1954)​
Children5
RelativesPat Grassley (grandson)
EducationUniversity of Northern Iowa (BA, MA)
Signature
WebsiteSenate website
Chuck Grassley's voice
Chuck Grassley on his support for confirming John Roberts as chief justice of the United States
Recorded September 28, 2005

Before becoming a senator, Grassley served eight terms in the Iowa House of Representatives (1959–1975) and three in the United States House of Representatives (1975–1981). He has served three stints as Senate Finance Committee chairman during periods of Republican Senate majority.[1][2] Upon the retirement of Orrin Hatch on January 3, 2019, Grassley became the Senate's most senior Republican and its president pro tempore.[3][4] Upon Patrick Leahy's retirement in January 2023, Grassley became the most senior member of the Senate. At 90 years, 7 months and 20 days of age, Grassley is the oldest sitting United States senator. He is the president pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate.

During his four decades in the Senate, Grassley has chaired the Senate Finance Committee, the Senate Narcotics Caucus, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate Aging Committee.

Early life and education

On September 17, 1933, Charles Ernest Grassley was born in New Hartford, Iowa.[5] He is the son of Ruth (née Corwin) and Louis Arthur Grassley.[6] Grassley was raised on a farm;[7] his childhood home did not have electricity or indoor plumbing.[8] He graduated from New Hartford Community High School in 1951.[9][10] At Iowa State Teachers College (now the University of Northern Iowa), he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1955 and a Master of Arts in political science in 1956. He pursued a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Iowa, but did not complete the degree.[8][5][11] During his time as a student, Grassley joined the social-professional Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity.[12]

Early career

In the 1950s, Grassley farmed and worked in factories in Iowa, first as a sheet metal shearer and then as an assembly line worker. From 1967 to 1968, he taught at Charles City College.[9]

Grassley represented parts of Butler County in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1959 to 1975.[9] He then served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981.[5]

U.S. Senate

Elections

1980

Main article: 1980 United States Senate election in Iowa

Grassley was first elected to the Senate in 1980, defeating Democratic incumbent John Culver.[13]

1986

Main article: 1986 United States Senate election in Iowa

Grassley was reelected in 1986, defeating the Democratic nominee, attorney John P. Roehrick, in a landslide.[14]

1992

Main article: 1992 United States Senate election in Iowa

Grassley was reelected in 1992, defeating Democratic State Senator Jean Hall Lloyd-Jones.[15]

1998

Main article: 1998 United States Senate election in Iowa

Grassley was reelected in 1998, defeating former State Representative David Osterberg, who won the Democratic nomination unopposed.[16]

2004

Main article: 2004 United States Senate election in Iowa

Grassley was reelected in 2004, defeating former State Senator Arthur A. Small.

2010

Main article: 2010 United States Senate election in Iowa

Grassley sought a sixth term in the 2010 election. He was challenged by Democrat Roxanne Conlin, a former United States attorney, and Libertarian John Heiderscheit, an attorney.

Grassley was unopposed in the Republican primary, although conservative Iowans such as Bill Salier and Craig Robinson said he had drifted "too far to the left".[17]

Grassley was reelected with 718,215 votes to Conlin's 371,686. Heiderscheit received 25,290 votes.[18] Grassley is only the second Iowan to serve six terms in the Senate, the other being Iowa's then-longest-serving senator, William B. Allison.[citation needed]

2016

Main article: 2016 United States Senate election in Iowa
 
Grassley speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.

Grassley sought a seventh term in the 2016 election. He was expected to face a strong challenge from former Democratic lieutenant governor Patty Judge,[19] but won his seventh term with over 60% of the vote as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump won Iowa with over 51% of the vote.[20]

2022

Main article: 2022 United States Senate election in Iowa

In May 2021, Grassley said that he would not decide whether to run for reelection in 2022 until between eight and 12 months before the election.[21] Given Iowa's swing nature and Grassley's strong results in past elections, many believed that an open seat in Iowa would benefit the Democrats as they could convince many Grassley supporters to vote for their nominee. In July 2021, former U.S. Representative Abby Finkenauer announced that she would run for the seat regardless of Grassley's decision and criticized him and Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell for being "obsessed with power" and not taking a strong stance against those who breached the Capitol in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.[22][23]

In September 2021, Grassley announced his intention to run for an eighth term.[24] His announcement was viewed as advantageous to Republicans seeking to hold Grassley's seat and to retake the Senate majority in 2022.[25] He won the general election, defeating Democratic nominee Michael Franken on November 8, 2022.[26]

Tenure

1980–1989

 
Grassley with President Ronald Reagan in 1981

In November 1981, Grassley was one of 32 senators to sign a letter to President Reagan supporting Director of the Office of Management and Budget David Stockman.[27] In August 1982, while the Reagan administration tried persuading senators to approve legislation authorizing the creation of a radio station for broadcasting to Cuba, Grassley joined fellow Iowa senator Roger Jepsen and Edward Zorinsky in seeking an amendment to the bill barring the Reagan administration from operating Radio Marti on that frequency or other commercial AM frequencies.[28]

In October 1983, Grassley voted against establishing a legal holiday to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.[29] In 2015, an aide to Grassley said that he voted against the holiday due to an "economic decision both in the cost to the broader economy in lost productivity, and the cost to the taxpayers with the federal government closed".[30] In 2004, Grassley co-sponsored legislation giving King a posthumous award, which became law on October 25 that year.[31][32]

On November 1, 1984, Grassley signed a one-page citation of contempt of Congress against Attorney General William French Smith due to Smith's not turning over files on an investigation into Navy shipbuilding. Assistant Attorney General Stephen S. Trott called the citation "out of place" since Grassley was not acting at a session of the Judiciary panel he led.[33]

In May 1987, the Senate Appropriations Committee defeated an attempt by Grassley to hasten payments of corn and other feed grain subsidies ahead of the scheduled payment taking place after October 1. Grassley's measure was also designed to unravel an accounting device lawmakers had used to make it appear that they were reducing spending for the incoming fiscal year.[34]

In October 1987, during a press briefing, Grassley accused Reagan of being "asleep at the switch" and botching the handling of Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination, adding that Bork's nomination had convinced him that the Reagan administration "has been terribly lucky for the last seven years" in other matters, including the economy and foreign policy.[35] Later that month, Grassley likened the groups lobbying against Bork's nomination to the McCarthyism of the 1950s: "The big lie is standard operating procedure for some of these groups. All you have to do is repeat the same outrageous charges, and repeat them so often that people believe they are true."[36] In November, as party leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee met on the Supreme Court nomination of Douglas H. Ginsburg, Grassley released the text of a letter he intended to send to the American Bar Association suggesting the association was dragging its feet in reviewing Ginsburg's record.[37] After Ginsburg admitted having smoked marijuana, Grassley said, "You like to think people who are appointed to the Supreme Court respect the law."[38] Grassley joined Jesse Helms in resisting the nomination of Anthony Kennedy, Reagan's next choice for the Supreme Court; he indicated that he would have preferred that Reagan instead nominate Judge Pasco Bowman II or Judge John Clifford Wallace.[a] Grassley expressed distaste for "the people who are committed to changing the judiciary" and taking "the path of least resistance".[41]

In January 1989, as the Senate voted to schedule a vote within a month on a pay increase, Grassley asked how senators would decline federal program increases "come March and April if the first thing out of the box is a pay raise".[42] In February, he was one of six senators to testify against the 50% pay increase scheduled to take effect the next week.[43] In October, he was one of nine senators to vote against legislation intended to outlaw flag burning and other forms of flag defacement and joined Bob Dole and Orrin Hatch, the other two Republicans to vote against the bill, in voicing a preference for a constitutional amendment.[44]

1990–1999

 
Senators Grassley and Max Baucus (D-MT), and Representative Clay Shaw (R-FL) (left to right) address the media after a meeting at the White House with President Bill Clinton

In January 1991, Grassley was one of only two Republican senators to vote against joining the international coalition to force Iraq out of Kuwait, the other being Mark Hatfield of Oregon.[45] In August 1991, he became one of six Republicans on the Select Senate Committee on POW-MIA Affairs that would investigate the number of Americans still missing in the aftermath of the Vietnam War following renewed interest.[46] In July 1998, President Bill Clinton listed Grassley among the members of Congress who had made it possible "for me to sign into law today the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act".[47] On February 12, 1999, Grassley was one of 50 senators to vote to convict and remove Bill Clinton from office.[48]

2000–2009

 
Grassley meets with President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in 2001

In May 2001, Grassley met with Democratic senator Max Baucus over the allocation of finances in tax cuts and both reported they were making progress in reaching a bipartisan deal, Grassley adding that the bill would contain all four of the main elements proposed by the Bush administration and the Senate Finance Committee would modify the components of the Bush proposal.[49]

In August 2002, Grassley sent a letter to president and chief executive of the United Way of America Brian Gallagher requesting a detailed explanation on the overseeing of both finances and management of the organization's affiliates. Grassley also wrote to chief executive of the United Way of the National Capital Area Norman O. Taylor in regards to allegations of affiliates misappropriating money as well as withholding information the board needed to allow its conducting of oversight.[50]

As a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, Grassley has spearheaded many probes into alleged misuse and lack of accountability of federal money. In July 2007, a Grassley-commissioned report was released claiming that more than US$1 billion in farm subsidies were sent to deceased individuals.[51] Grassley was called a "Taxpayer Super Hero" in 2014 by the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste. He received a 100 percent rating from the group that year and has a lifetime rating of 78 percent.[52] Grassley was ranked the 5th most bipartisan Senator of the 114th United States Congress and the 7th most bipartisan Senator in the first session of the 115th Congress by the Bipartisan Index, a metric created by the Lugar Center for the Lugar Center and Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy to rank members of the United States Congress by their degree of bipartisanship.[53][54]

In February 2004, Grassley released an internal report composed by the FBI in 2000 that examined 107 instances of either serious or criminal misconduct by its agents over a 16-year period. In a letter to the FBI, Grassley called the report "a laundry list of horrors with examples of agents who committed rape, sexual crimes against children, other sexual deviance and misconduct, attempted murder of a spouse, and narcotics violations, among many others" and added that the report's findings raised questions about whether the FBI handled agents "soon enough and rigorously enough".[55]

On June 28, 2006, Grassley proposed legislation[56][57] intended to curb sex trafficking and sexual slavery in the United States by means of strict enforcement of tax laws, for example by requiring a W-2 form be filed for each prostitute managed by a pimp or other employer.

Since 1976, Grassley has repeatedly introduced measures that increase the level of taxation on American citizens living abroad, including retroactive tax hikes. Grassley was eventually able to attach an amendment to a piece of legislation that went into effect in 2006, which increased taxes on Americans abroad by targeting housing and living incentives paid by foreign employers and held them accountable for federal taxes, even though they did not currently reside in the United States. Critics of the amendment felt that the move hurt Americans competing for jobs abroad by putting an unnecessary tax burden on foreign employers. Others felt that the move was only to offset the revenue deficit caused by domestic tax cuts of the Bush Administration.[58][59][60]

In March 2009, amid a scandal that involved AIG executives receiving large salary bonuses from the taxpayer-funded bailout of AIG, Grassley suggested that those AIG employees receiving large bonuses should follow the so-called 'Japanese example', resign immediately or commit suicide. After some criticism, he dismissed the comments as rhetoric.[61][62][63]

In May 2009, Grassley cosponsored a resolution to amend the US Constitution to prohibit flag burning.[64]

 
Grassley in 2009

When President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party proposed a health reform bill featuring mandated health insurance, Grassley opposed the health insurance mandate, saying that it was a deal breaker.[65] In response to an audience question at an August 12, 2009, meeting in Iowa, about the end-of-life counseling provisions in the House health care bill, H.R. 3200, Grassley said people were right to fear that the government would "pull the plug on grandma".[66][67][68][69] Grassley had previously supported covering end-of-life counseling, having voted for the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, which stated: "The covered services are: evaluating the beneficiary's need for pain and symptom management, including the individual's need for hospice care; counseling the beneficiary with respect to end-of-life issues and care options, and advising the beneficiary regarding advanced care planning."[70] In December 2009, he voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly called Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act). It was later reported that Grassley had notified Obama that he would vote against the Affordable Care Act even had the bill been modified to include all of the proposed modifications Grassley had proposed.[71]

2010–2020

In January 2010, Grassley was one of seven Senate Republicans to sign a letter warning the White House about their serious reservations with Director of the Transportation Security Administration nominee Erroll Southers due to conflicting accounts Southers gave the Senate about his previous tapping of databases for information about his ex-wife's boyfriend in the late 1980s.[72]

In December 2010, Grassley was one of 26 senators who voted against the ratification of New START,[73] a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russian Federation obliging both countries to have no more than 1,550 strategic warheads as well as 700 launchers deployed during the next seven years along with providing a continuation of on-site inspections that halted when START I expired the previous year. It was the first arms treaty with Russia in eight years.[74]

In April 2013, Grassley opposed a gun control amendment authored by Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey, and instead proposed alternative legislation to increase prosecutions of gun violence and increase reporting of mental health data in background checks.[75]

 
Senator Grassley in 2016

On March 9, 2015, Grassley was one of 47 senators to sign a letter to Iran led by Tom Cotton to rebuke the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.[76] In June 2015, Grassley introduced legislation to help protect taxpayers from alleged abuses by the Internal Revenue Service. The legislation was proposed in response to recent events involving alleged inappropriate conduct by employees at the IRS but was opposed by Democrats.[77]

Since first taking office in 1981, Grassley has held public meetings in all of Iowa's 99 counties each year, even after losing honorarium payments for them in 1994.[78] This has led to the coinage of the term "full Grassley" to describe a presidential candidate visiting all 99 counties of Iowa before the Iowa caucuses.[79]

In 2018, Grassley suggested that no women were serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee because of the heavy workload.[80] The following week, Grassley added that he would "welcome more women" to serve on the Committee "because women as a whole are smarter than most male senators. And they work real hard, too".[81]

In July 2018, after President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court,[82] Grassley lauded Kavanaugh as "one of the most qualified Supreme Court nominees to come before the Senate",[83] and said that critics of Kavanaugh should lessen their confidence in how he would vote given past surprises in voting by members of the Court.[84]

In 2016, Senate Republicans refused to consider Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. At the time, Grassley said that the "American people shouldn't be denied a voice" in the nomination, which was "too important to get bogged down in politics". In 2020, after a Supreme Court vacancy arose due to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, Grassley supported a prompt vote on Trump's nominee, backing the decision of "the current chairman of the Judiciary Committee and the Senate Majority Leader".[85]

2021–present

 
Grassley meeting with President Joe Biden, February 2022

Grassley was participating in the certification of the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count when Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol. He was removed from the Senate chamber and taken to a secure location when rioters entered the building.[86] In the wake of the attack, Grassley said that Trump "displayed poor leadership in his words and actions, and he must take responsibility".[87] He said efforts to impeach Trump would risk "further disunity" and that "the country must take steps to tone down political rhetoric and mend divisions".[88] In response, The Gazette editorial board wrote that Grassley and other Iowa Republicans "must reckon with why they did the wrong thing for so long".[89]

Senate record for consecutive votes

As of November 2015, Grassley had cast 12,000 votes,[90] and as of July 2012, he had missed only 35 votes in his Senate career.[91] In January 2016, he set a record for the most time without a missed roll-call vote, having not missed one since July 1993, when he was touring Iowa with President Bill Clinton to survey flood damage.[92] In November 2020, this streak came to an end after over 27 years and 8,927 votes[93] when he quarantined after being exposed to COVID-19.[94] Grassley broke Senator William Proxmire's record for most time without a missed vote, but Proxmire holds the record for most consecutive roll-call votes, with 10,252.[92]

Committee assignments

Grassley's committee assignments for the 118th Congress are as follows:[95]

Caucus membership

Political positions

Abortion

Grassley has said that he considers himself pro-life and has expressed concern about the potential for abortions to be paid for with federal funds.[96] In December 1981, he voted for a proposed constitutional amendment by Orrin Hatch that would allow both Congress and the states to ban or regulate abortion.[97] In 2019, he co-sponsored reintroducing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.[98] Grassley approved of the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, saying it empowered people through their elected representatives to make "commonsense policy decisions".[99]

Agriculture

In April 2019, Grassley was one of seven senators to sign a letter led by Debbie Stabenow and Joni Ernst to United States secretary of agriculture Sonny Perdue urging the Agriculture Department to implement conservation measures in the 2018 Farm Bill "through a department-wide National Water Quality Initiative, which would build off the existing initiative housed at the Natural Resource Conservation Service".[100]

Antitrust

In October 2021, Grassley and Senator Amy Klobuchar introduced the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S.2992) .[101] The legislation aims to prevent Big Tech companies from engaging in anti-competitive behavior by "self-preferencing" their products.[102] Grassley voted to confirm Jonathan Kanter as Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.[103]

Energy and environment

Grassley has expressed concern about the impact of regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency on farming.[104] He said the EPA has a "public relations problem" with "the ethanol industry, corn farmers and [himself]",[105] and that the EPA has "screwed" farmers with 31 biofuel exemptions.[106] On December 19, 2019, after the EPA withdrew a new Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) rule, Grassley criticized the EPA for "playing games and not helping President Trump with farmers".[107]

In 1992, Grassley authored EPACT 1992, which created the federal wind energy tax credit.[108]

In 2005, Grassley authored the tax title of EPACT 2005 when he was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.[109] On June 28, 2005, he voted for the bill.[110] On June 19, 2007, Grassley helped expand tax incentives that produces energy from alternative sources including ethanol, wind, biomass, and biodiesel.[109] On June 21, 2007, Grassley voted for the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which expanded other energy tax incentives through 2013.[111][109]

In September 2015, Grassley received the Dr. Harold D. Prior "Friend of Iowa Wind Energy" award from the Iowa Wind Energy Association for his commitment to supporting wind energy development in Iowa.[112]

In 2017, the Environmental Working Group stated that Grassley received $367,763 in grain commodity subsidies over 21 years.[113]

Grassley supports federal ethanol subsidies.[114]

In 2017, of the Paris Agreement, Grassley said, "unequal terms put the U.S. economy at a significant disadvantage while letting large economies like China’s and India’s off the hook".[115] He also said he didn't like that the Senate had not voted on the agreement.[116]

Estate taxes

Grassley is in favor of repealing the estate tax, which is a tax on inherited assets above $5.5 million for individuals and $11 million for couples.[117][118] He has argued that the estate tax is potentially ruinous for farmers and small business owners.[118] According to the Des Moines Register, Grassley's argument does not "match the reality found in federal tax data – particularly for Iowa. The estate tax applies to around 5,000 taxpayers across the entire country each year, and very few of them come from Iowa. Of the Iowans subject to the tax, only a fraction are actually farmers, and a vanishingly small number of them face a tax bill requiring them to sell off farmland or other assets... The number of small businesses impacted by the estate tax is similarly small."[118]

Gun law

 
Grassley during his time in the U.S. House of Representatives

In 2010, Grassley had an "A" rating from the NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF),[119] rising to "A+" ratings and endorsements in 2016 and 2022.[120][121][122] According to a source from Splinter News, Grassley received $9,900 from the NRA during his 2016 election.[123]

Grassley is a staunch believer that gun laws will not prevent gun deaths or gun-related violence without improved mental health care.[124] Grassley opposed the Manchin-Toomey gun control amendment, and instead proposed alternative legislation to increase prosecutions of gun violence and increase reporting of mental health data in background checks.[75]

In 2016, one month after the Orlando nightclub shooting, Grassley proposed legislation to expand state-to-state access to background check data and to make it illegal for government officials to sell criminals guns as part of sting operations. Both proposals were rejected by the Senate.[125] Additionally, he voted against the Democrats' Feinstein Amendment, which would make it illegal to sell guns to individuals on the terror watchlist and a Republican-sponsored bill that expanded funding for background checks.[126]

In early 2017, Grassley sponsored legislation that expanded access to firearms by mentally disabled individuals, claiming that the previous ban against mentally ill individuals purchasing guns "mistreats disabled Americans".[127] In response to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, he said it was unlikely that gun laws would change in the wake of the shooting due to Congress being Republican-dominated.[128] A day after the Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, Grassley said the government had not done enough to prevent individuals with a mental illness from obtaining firearms.[129]

Health care

Grassley opposes the Affordable Care Act and has voted to repeal it.[130] Before its passage, he had supported the individual mandate in health care reform.[131][132][133] Grassley engaged in lengthy negotiations with the Obama administration, as it sought health care reform with support from Republican members of Congress. These negotiations produced nothing that Grassley would support, leading Democrats to characterize Grassley's efforts as intended to delay or scupper health care reform rather than produce compromise legislation.[134][135][136] In Obama's memoir, he describes an exchange between him and Grassley in the Oval Office as he sought to reach a compromise with Grassley. Obama asked, "If Max [Baucus] took every one of your latest suggestions, could you support the bill?... Are there any changes—any at all—that would get us your vote?", to which Grassley responded, "I guess not, Mr. President."[137]

In July 2017, Grassley said that Senate Republicans should be ashamed of not having repealed the ACA, and that this could result in a loss of their majority in the 2018 elections.[138]

In August 2018, Grassley was one of ten Republican senators to cosponsor legislation intended to protect ACA provisions for people with preexisting conditions.[139] Health experts said the bill did not prevent insurers from excluding coverage for people with preexisting conditions.[139]

Marijuana legalization

In 2015, Grassley voiced his opposition to a bipartisan senate bill, the Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States Act, that would move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule II. This bill would allow states with medical cannabis laws to legally prescribe it and allow for more research into its medical efficacy.[140] In 2019, along with Democratic U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Brian Schatz, Grassley introduced the Cannabidiol and Marijuana Research Expansion Act, which would expand research into medical marijuana.[141]

Military

Grassley has voiced objections to the Special Immigrant Visa program, which resettles translators and their family members who face risks to their lives due to their work with the U.S. Military.[142]

Israel Anti-Boycott Act

In April 2017, Grassley co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (s. 720), which would make it a federal crime for Americans to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the West Bank if protesting actions by the Israeli government.[143][144] In 2019, Grassley was one of 14 Republican senators to sign a letter from Marco Rubio that involved condemning the BDS movement.[145]

LGBT rights

In 2015, after the Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional in Obergefell v. Hodges, Grassley released a statement saying he believed marriage was between one man and a woman and criticized the court for not leaving the issue up to the states. But in 2022, he said in a statement that he supports same-sex marriage. Despite this, Grassley voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, citing religious liberty concerns and calling the legislation unnecessary.[146]

Retirement planning

In 2019, Grassley was one of the lead Senate co-sponsors of the SECURE Act of 2019. This bill, which became law as part of the fiscal year 2020 federal appropriations law signed in late December 2019, was intended to incentivize retirement planning, diversify the options available to savers, and increase access to tax-advantaged savings programs including 529 plans.[147]

Russian interference in 2016 elections

Main articles: Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and Foreign electoral intervention

In February 2017, Grassley said that while Russian interference in U.S. elections was "bothersome", the United States did not have clean hands and had, for instance, interfered with the 1948 Italian election.[148] In May 2017 after Trump fired FBI director James Comey, Grassley advised people suspicious of the Trump administration to "Suck it up and move on."[149] On October 31, 2017, while a group of Republicans were facing questions from reporters concerning recent indictments, Grassley ignored the questions and left the room.[150]

In January 2018, and in the first known congressional criminal referral in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, Grassley, along with Lindsey Graham, recommended charges against Christopher Steele, one of the people who sought to expose Russian interference.[151] Grassley and Graham said that they had reason to believe that Steele had lied to federal authorities.[151] According to The New York Times, "It was not clear why, if a crime is apparent in the F.B.I. reports that were reviewed by the Judiciary Committee, the Justice Department had not moved to charge Mr. Steele already. The circumstances under which Mr. Steele is alleged to have lied were unclear, as much of the referral was classified."[151]

In January 2018, when Grassley and Judiciary Committee Republicans were refusing to release the full transcript of an August 2017 ten-hour interview that the Judiciary Committee had conducted with Glenn Simpson, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the full transcript unilaterally.[152] Simpson is the co-founder of the political opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which produced the so-called Steele Dossier on alleged connections between Trump and Russia. Grassley condemned Feinstein, saying that her decision was "confounding" and that it deterred future witnesses in the Russia 2016 investigation.[152] Simpson himself had requested that the full transcript of his interview be released, saying that Republicans had selectively leaked portions of the testimony to conservative media outlets in order to portray Simpson in a negative light and discredit the Steele dossier.[152][153]

Trade

In January 2018, Grassley was one of 36 Republican senators to sign a letter to President Trump requesting he preserve the North American Free Trade Agreement by modernizing it for the economy of the 21st century.[154]

Whistleblowers

The author of the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, Grassley has campaigned to increase protection and provide support for "whistleblowers". He has supported a number of FBI whistleblowers, including Coleen Rowley, Sibel Edmonds, and Jane Turner, although not supporting Department of Defense whistleblower Noel Koch.[155]

Grassley received a lifetime achievement award on May 17, 2007, from the National Whistleblower Center. In April 2014, Grassley announced plans to create a caucus in the Senate dedicated to strengthening whistleblower protections.[156][157]

Grassley defended the whistleblower in the Trump–Ukraine scandal, breaking with his party line, when he declared on October 1, 2019, that the whistleblower "appears to have followed the whistleblower protection laws and ought to be heard out and protected".[158][159]

After whistleblowers Colonel Alexander Vindman and Ambassador Gordon Sondland testified against Donald Trump and were subsequently fired, Grassley defended Trump's firing of both whistleblowers on the grounds that their firing was not retaliatory.[160]

Donald Trump

On May 28, 2021, Grassley voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the January 6 United States Capitol attack.[161] Later that year, Grassley campaigned with Donald Trump.[162][163]

Investigations

Religious organizations

Main article: United States Senate inquiry into the tax-exempt status of religious organizations

On November 5, 2007, Grassley announced an investigation into the tax-exempt status of six ministries under the leadership of Benny Hinn, Paula White, Eddie L. Long, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, and Kenneth Copeland by the United States Senate Committee on Finance.[164] In letters to each ministry, Grassley asked for the ministries to divulge specific financial information to the committee to determine whether or not funds collected by each organization were inappropriately utilized by ministry heads.[165] By the December 6, 2007 deadline, only three of the ministries had shown compliance with the Finance Committee's request. On March 11, 2008, Grassley and Finance chairman Max Baucus sent follow-up letters to Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar and Eddie Long, explaining that the Senate reserved the right to investigate the finances of their organizations under federal tax laws.[166]

Medical research

Grassley also began an investigation about unreported payments to physicians by pharmaceutical companies. He led a 2008 Congressional investigation that found that well-known university psychiatrists, who had promoted psychoactive drugs, had violated federal and university regulations by secretly receiving large sums of money from the pharmaceutical companies that made the drugs.[167] The New York Times reported that Joseph Biederman of Harvard University had failed to report over $1 million of income he had received from pharmaceutical companies.[168] Weeks later, Grassley alleged that Alan Schatzberg, chair of psychiatry at Stanford University, had underreported his investments in Corcept Therapeutics, a company he founded.[169] Schatzberg had reported only $100,000 investments in Corcept, but Grassley said his investments actually totaled over $6 million. Schatzberg later stepped down from his grant, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).[170]

Similarly, Charles Nemeroff resigned as chair of the psychiatry department at Emory University after failing to report a third of the $2.8 million in consulting fees he received from GlaxoSmithKline. At the time he received these fees, Nemeroff had been principal investigator of a $3.9 million NIH grant evaluating five medications for depression manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline.[171]

In 2008, for the first time, Grassley asked the American Psychiatric Association to disclose how much of its annual budget came from drug industry funds. The APA said that industry contributed 28% of its budget ($14 million at that time), mainly through paid advertising in APA journals and funds for continuing medical education.[172]

Fundraising

According to the nonpartisan OpenSecrets, in 2010, the industries that have been the largest contributors to Grassley during his political career are health professionals ($1 million in contributions), insurance industry ($997,674), lawyers/law firms ($625,543) and pharmaceuticals/health products ($538,680). His largest corporate donors have been Blue Cross Blue Shield (insurance), Amgen (biotech company) and Wells Fargo (bank).[173]

Electoral history

2022 United States Senate election in Iowa
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chuck Grassley (inc.) 681,507 56.0% -4.09%
Democratic Michael Franken 533,717 43.9% +8.24%
Republican hold
United States Senate Republican Primary election in Iowa, 2022[174]
Party Candidate Votes % +%
Republican Chuck Grassley (Inc.) 139,451 73.4% +7.86%
Republican Jim Carlin 50,166 26.4% NA
Republican Write in 307 0.2% NA
2016 United States Senate election in Iowa[175]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chuck Grassley (inc.) 926,007 60.09% -4.26%
Democratic Patty Judge 549,460 35.66% +2.36%
Libertarian Charles Aldrich 41,794 2.71% +0.44%
Independent Jim Hennager 17,649 1.15% N/A
Independent Michael Luick-Thrams 4,441 0.29% N/A
Write-ins 1,686 0.11% +0.03%
Majority 376,547 24.43% -6.62%
Turnout 1,541,037
Republican hold Swing
2010 United States Senate election in Iowa[176]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chuck Grassley (inc.) 718,215 64.35% -5.83%
Democratic Roxanne Conlin 371,686 33.30% +5.43%
Libertarian John Heiderscheit 25,290 2.27% +1.24%
Write-ins 872 0.08% +0.05%
Majority 346,529 31.05% -11.26%
Turnout 1,116,063
Republican hold Swing
2004 United States Senate election in Iowa[177]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chuck Grassley (inc.) 1,038,175 70.18% +1.77%
Democratic Art Small 412,365 27.88% -2.62%
Libertarian Christy Ann Welty 15,218 1.03% N/A
Green Daryl A. Northrop 11,121 0.75% N/A
Socialist Workers Edwin Fruit 1,874 0.13% -0.14%
Write-ins 475 0.03% 0%
Majority 625,810 42.31% +4.39%
Turnout 1,479,228
Republican hold Swing
1998 United States Senate election in Iowa[178]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chuck Grassley (inc.) 648,480 68.41% -1.20%
Democratic David Osterberg 289,049 30.49% +3.29%
Natural Law Susan Marcus 7,561 0.80% -0.47%
Socialist Workers Margaret Trowe 2,542 0.27% +0.16%
Write-ins 275 0.03% +0.01%
Majority 359,431 37.92% -4.50%
Turnout 947,907
Republican hold Swing
1992 United States Senate election in Iowa[179]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chuck Grassley (inc.) 899,761 69.61% +3.58%
Democratic Jean Hall Lloyd-Jones 351,561 27.20% -6.37%
Natural Law Stuart Zimmerman 16,403 1.27% N/A
Independent Sue Atkinson 6,277 0.49% N/A
Independent Mel Boring 5,508 0.43% N/A
Independent Rosanne Freeburg 4,999 0.39% N/A
Grassroots Carl Eric Olsen 3,404 0.26% N/A
Independent Richard O'Dell Hughes 2,918 0.23% N/A
Socialist Workers Cleve Andrew Pulley 1,370 0.11% N/A
Write-ins 293 0.02% +0.01%
Majority 548,200 42.41% +9.95%
Turnout 1,292,494
Republican hold Swing
1986 United States Senate election in Iowa[180]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chuck Grassley (inc.) 588,880 66.04% +12.55%
Democratic John P. Roehrick 299,406 33.57% -11.97%
Independent John Masters 3,370 0.38% N/A
Write-ins 106 0.01% +0.01%
Majority 289,474 32.46% +24.51%
Turnout 891,762
Republican hold Swing
1980 United States Senate election in Iowa[181]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chuck Grassley 683,014 53.49% +4.21%
Democratic John Culver (inc.) 581,545 45.54% -4.48%
Independent Garry De Young 5,858 0.46% N/A
Libertarian Robert V. Hengerer 4,233 0.33% N/A
Independent John Ingram Henderson 2,336 0.18% N/A
Write-ins 48 0.00% +0%
Majority 101,469 7.95% +7.20%
Turnout 1,772,983
Republican gain from Democratic Swing
United States Senate Republican Primary election in Iowa, 1980
Party Candidate Votes % +%
Republican Chuck Grassley 170,120 65.54%
Republican Tom Stoner 89,409 34.45%

1978 Iowa 3rd District United States Congressional Election

Chuck Grassley (R) (inc.) 74.8%
John Knudson (D) 25.2%

1976 Iowa 3rd District United States Congressional Election

Chuck Grassley (R) (inc.) 56%
Stephen Rapp 44%

1974 Iowa 3rd District United States Congressional Election

Chuck Grassley (R) 50.8%
Stephen Rapp (D) 49.2%

1974 Iowa 3rd District United States Congressional Republican Primary Election

Chuck Grassley (R) 42%
Robert Case (R) 28.2%
Charlene Conklin (R) 18.8%
Bart Schwieger (R) 6.6%
John Williams (R) 4.4%

1972 Iowa House of Representatives 37th District Election

Chuck Grassley (R) (inc.) 86.3%
Tim Youngblood (D) 13.7%

1970 Iowa House of Representatives 10th District Election

Chuck Grassley (R) (inc.) 62.7%
Rollin Howell (D) 36.2%
Colene Eliason (AI) 1.1%

1966 Iowa House of Representatives Butler District Election

Chuck Grassley (R) (inc.) 69.2%
Floyd Ramker (D) 30.8%

1964 Iowa House of Representatives Butler District Election

Chuck Grassley (R) (inc.) 60.9%
Beverly Moffitt (D) 39.1%

1962 Iowa House of Representatives Butler District Election

Chuck Grassley (R) (inc.) 64.3%
Vernon Garner (D) 35.7%

1960 Iowa House of Representatives Butler District Election

Chuck Grassley (R) (inc.) 69.1%
Vernon Garner (D) 30.9%

1958 Iowa House of Representatives Butler District Election

Chuck Grassley (R) 64.1%
Travis Moffitt (D) 35.9%

Personal life

Grassley and Barbara Ann Speicher married on August 22, 1954. They have five children: Lee, Wendy, Robin, Michele, and Jay.[182] Grassley is a member of the Family, the organization that organizes the National Prayer Breakfast.[183] His grandson, Pat Grassley, is a member of the Iowa House of Representatives.[184] Grassley is also known for his widely reported, long-running "feud" with the History channel; he has consistently accused the network of featuring little actual history programming.[185]

According to OpenSecrets, Grassley's net worth was more than $7.5 million as of 2018.[186]

Awards

In 2003, Grassley's alma mater, the University of Northern Iowa, selected him for honoris causa membership in Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. In 2009, the National Center for Health Research[187] gave Grassley the Health Policy Hero award for his 2004 oversight of legislative reforms and accountability of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).[188] In 2010, The Hill named Grassley and Max Baucus the hardest-working members of Congress.[189]

Notes

  1. ^ Immediately following Bork's rejection Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee emphatically declared both Bowman and Wallace unacceptable.[39] Vermont's Patrick Leahy added that if any candidate unacceptable to the Democratic Senate majority were nominated, Senate Democrats would refuse to hold hearings on that nominee and keep the seat open until after the 1988 presidential election.[40]

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Further reading

  • Eve Fairbanks, "Earnest Goes to Washington", The New Republic, September 10, 2007

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chuck, grassley, charles, ernest, grassley, born, september, 1933, american, politician, serving, senior, united, states, senator, from, iowa, having, held, seat, since, 1981, grassley, first, elected, senate, 1980, been, reelected, seven, times, longest, serv. Charles Ernest Grassley born September 17 1933 is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Iowa having held the seat since 1981 Grassley was first elected to the Senate in 1980 and has been reelected seven times He is the longest serving Republican in Congressional history and the sixth longest serving U S senator in history Chuck GrassleyOfficial portrait 2017President pro tempore of the United States SenateIn office January 3 2019 January 20 2021Preceded byOrrin HatchSucceeded byPatrick LeahyRanking Member of the Senate Budget CommitteeIncumbentAssumed office January 3 2023Preceded byLindsey GrahamRanking Member of the Senate Narcotics CaucusIncumbentAssumed office January 3 2023Preceded byJohn CornynPresident pro tempore emeritus of the United States SenateIncumbentAssumed office January 20 2021Preceded byPatrick LeahyUnited States Senatorfrom IowaIncumbentAssumed office January 3 1981Serving with Joni ErnstPreceded byJohn CulverCommittee positions1997 2023Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary CommitteeIn office February 3 2021 January 3 2023Preceded byDianne FeinsteinSucceeded byLindsey GrahamIn office January 3 2011 January 3 2015Preceded byJeff SessionsSucceeded byPatrick LeahyChair of the Senate Finance CommitteeIn office January 3 2019 February 3 2021Preceded byOrrin HatchSucceeded byRon WydenIn office January 3 2003 January 3 2007Preceded byMax BaucusSucceeded byMax BaucusIn office January 20 2001 June 6 2001Preceded byMax BaucusSucceeded byMax BaucusChair of the Senate Narcotics CaucusIn office January 3 2015 January 3 2019Preceded byDianne FeinsteinSucceeded byJohn CornynChair of the Senate Judiciary CommitteeIn office January 3 2015 January 3 2019Preceded byPatrick LeahySucceeded byLindsey GrahamChair of the Senate Aging CommitteeIn office January 3 1997 January 3 2001Preceded byWilliam CohenSucceeded byJohn BreauxMember of the U S House of Representatives from Iowa s 3rd districtIn office January 3 1975 January 3 1981Preceded byH R GrossSucceeded byCooper EvansMember of theIowa House of Representativesfrom Butler CountyIn office January 12 1959 January 3 1975Preceded byWayne BallhagenSucceeded byRaymond LageschulteConstituency73rd district 1959 1971 10th district 1971 1973 37th district 1973 1975 Personal detailsBornCharles Ernest Grassley 1933 09 17 September 17 1933 age 90 New Hartford Iowa U S Political partyRepublicanSpouseBarbara Speicher m 1954 wbr Children5RelativesPat Grassley grandson EducationUniversity of Northern Iowa BA MA SignatureWebsiteSenate websiteChuck Grassley s voice source source Chuck Grassley on his support for confirming John Roberts as chief justice of the United StatesRecorded September 28 2005 Before becoming a senator Grassley served eight terms in the Iowa House of Representatives 1959 1975 and three in the United States House of Representatives 1975 1981 He has served three stints as Senate Finance Committee chairman during periods of Republican Senate majority 1 2 Upon the retirement of Orrin Hatch on January 3 2019 Grassley became the Senate s most senior Republican and its president pro tempore 3 4 Upon Patrick Leahy s retirement in January 2023 Grassley became the most senior member of the Senate At 90 years 7 months and 20 days of age Grassley is the oldest sitting United States senator He is the president pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate During his four decades in the Senate Grassley has chaired the Senate Finance Committee the Senate Narcotics Caucus the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Aging Committee Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Early career 3 U S Senate 3 1 Elections 3 1 1 1980 3 1 2 1986 3 1 3 1992 3 1 4 1998 3 1 5 2004 3 1 6 2010 3 1 7 2016 3 1 8 2022 3 2 Tenure 3 2 1 1980 1989 3 2 2 1990 1999 3 2 3 2000 2009 3 2 4 2010 2020 3 2 5 2021 present 3 3 Senate record for consecutive votes 3 4 Committee assignments 3 5 Caucus membership 4 Political positions 4 1 Abortion 4 2 Agriculture 4 3 Antitrust 4 4 Energy and environment 4 5 Estate taxes 4 6 Gun law 4 7 Health care 4 8 Marijuana legalization 4 9 Military 4 10 Israel Anti Boycott Act 4 11 LGBT rights 4 12 Retirement planning 4 13 Russian interference in 2016 elections 4 14 Trade 4 15 Whistleblowers 4 16 Donald Trump 5 Investigations 5 1 Religious organizations 5 2 Medical research 5 3 Fundraising 6 Electoral history 7 Personal life 7 1 Awards 8 Notes 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksEarly life and educationOn September 17 1933 Charles Ernest Grassley was born in New Hartford Iowa 5 He is the son of Ruth nee Corwin and Louis Arthur Grassley 6 Grassley was raised on a farm 7 his childhood home did not have electricity or indoor plumbing 8 He graduated from New Hartford Community High School in 1951 9 10 At Iowa State Teachers College now the University of Northern Iowa he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1955 and a Master of Arts in political science in 1956 He pursued a Ph D in political science at the University of Iowa but did not complete the degree 8 5 11 During his time as a student Grassley joined the social professional Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity 12 Early careerIn the 1950s Grassley farmed and worked in factories in Iowa first as a sheet metal shearer and then as an assembly line worker From 1967 to 1968 he taught at Charles City College 9 Grassley represented parts of Butler County in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1959 to 1975 9 He then served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981 5 U S SenateElections 1980 Main article 1980 United States Senate election in Iowa Grassley was first elected to the Senate in 1980 defeating Democratic incumbent John Culver 13 1986 Main article 1986 United States Senate election in Iowa Grassley was reelected in 1986 defeating the Democratic nominee attorney John P Roehrick in a landslide 14 1992 Main article 1992 United States Senate election in Iowa Grassley was reelected in 1992 defeating Democratic State Senator Jean Hall Lloyd Jones 15 1998 Main article 1998 United States Senate election in Iowa Grassley was reelected in 1998 defeating former State Representative David Osterberg who won the Democratic nomination unopposed 16 2004 Main article 2004 United States Senate election in Iowa Grassley was reelected in 2004 defeating former State Senator Arthur A Small 2010 Main article 2010 United States Senate election in Iowa Grassley sought a sixth term in the 2010 election He was challenged by Democrat Roxanne Conlin a former United States attorney and Libertarian John Heiderscheit an attorney Grassley was unopposed in the Republican primary although conservative Iowans such as Bill Salier and Craig Robinson said he had drifted too far to the left 17 Grassley was reelected with 718 215 votes to Conlin s 371 686 Heiderscheit received 25 290 votes 18 Grassley is only the second Iowan to serve six terms in the Senate the other being Iowa s then longest serving senator William B Allison citation needed 2016 Main article 2016 United States Senate election in Iowa nbsp Grassley speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC in Washington D C Grassley sought a seventh term in the 2016 election He was expected to face a strong challenge from former Democratic lieutenant governor Patty Judge 19 but won his seventh term with over 60 of the vote as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump won Iowa with over 51 of the vote 20 2022 Main article 2022 United States Senate election in Iowa In May 2021 Grassley said that he would not decide whether to run for reelection in 2022 until between eight and 12 months before the election 21 Given Iowa s swing nature and Grassley s strong results in past elections many believed that an open seat in Iowa would benefit the Democrats as they could convince many Grassley supporters to vote for their nominee In July 2021 former U S Representative Abby Finkenauer announced that she would run for the seat regardless of Grassley s decision and criticized him and Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell for being obsessed with power and not taking a strong stance against those who breached the Capitol in the January 6 United States Capitol attack 22 23 In September 2021 Grassley announced his intention to run for an eighth term 24 His announcement was viewed as advantageous to Republicans seeking to hold Grassley s seat and to retake the Senate majority in 2022 25 He won the general election defeating Democratic nominee Michael Franken on November 8 2022 26 Tenure 1980 1989 nbsp Grassley with President Ronald Reagan in 1981 In November 1981 Grassley was one of 32 senators to sign a letter to President Reagan supporting Director of the Office of Management and Budget David Stockman 27 In August 1982 while the Reagan administration tried persuading senators to approve legislation authorizing the creation of a radio station for broadcasting to Cuba Grassley joined fellow Iowa senator Roger Jepsen and Edward Zorinsky in seeking an amendment to the bill barring the Reagan administration from operating Radio Marti on that frequency or other commercial AM frequencies 28 In October 1983 Grassley voted against establishing a legal holiday to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr s birthday 29 In 2015 an aide to Grassley said that he voted against the holiday due to an economic decision both in the cost to the broader economy in lost productivity and the cost to the taxpayers with the federal government closed 30 In 2004 Grassley co sponsored legislation giving King a posthumous award which became law on October 25 that year 31 32 On November 1 1984 Grassley signed a one page citation of contempt of Congress against Attorney General William French Smith due to Smith s not turning over files on an investigation into Navy shipbuilding Assistant Attorney General Stephen S Trott called the citation out of place since Grassley was not acting at a session of the Judiciary panel he led 33 In May 1987 the Senate Appropriations Committee defeated an attempt by Grassley to hasten payments of corn and other feed grain subsidies ahead of the scheduled payment taking place after October 1 Grassley s measure was also designed to unravel an accounting device lawmakers had used to make it appear that they were reducing spending for the incoming fiscal year 34 In October 1987 during a press briefing Grassley accused Reagan of being asleep at the switch and botching the handling of Robert Bork s Supreme Court nomination adding that Bork s nomination had convinced him that the Reagan administration has been terribly lucky for the last seven years in other matters including the economy and foreign policy 35 Later that month Grassley likened the groups lobbying against Bork s nomination to the McCarthyism of the 1950s The big lie is standard operating procedure for some of these groups All you have to do is repeat the same outrageous charges and repeat them so often that people believe they are true 36 In November as party leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee met on the Supreme Court nomination of Douglas H Ginsburg Grassley released the text of a letter he intended to send to the American Bar Association suggesting the association was dragging its feet in reviewing Ginsburg s record 37 After Ginsburg admitted having smoked marijuana Grassley said You like to think people who are appointed to the Supreme Court respect the law 38 Grassley joined Jesse Helms in resisting the nomination of Anthony Kennedy Reagan s next choice for the Supreme Court he indicated that he would have preferred that Reagan instead nominate Judge Pasco Bowman II or Judge John Clifford Wallace a Grassley expressed distaste for the people who are committed to changing the judiciary and taking the path of least resistance 41 In January 1989 as the Senate voted to schedule a vote within a month on a pay increase Grassley asked how senators would decline federal program increases come March and April if the first thing out of the box is a pay raise 42 In February he was one of six senators to testify against the 50 pay increase scheduled to take effect the next week 43 In October he was one of nine senators to vote against legislation intended to outlaw flag burning and other forms of flag defacement and joined Bob Dole and Orrin Hatch the other two Republicans to vote against the bill in voicing a preference for a constitutional amendment 44 1990 1999 nbsp Senators Grassley and Max Baucus D MT and Representative Clay Shaw R FL left to right address the media after a meeting at the White House with President Bill Clinton In January 1991 Grassley was one of only two Republican senators to vote against joining the international coalition to force Iraq out of Kuwait the other being Mark Hatfield of Oregon 45 In August 1991 he became one of six Republicans on the Select Senate Committee on POW MIA Affairs that would investigate the number of Americans still missing in the aftermath of the Vietnam War following renewed interest 46 In July 1998 President Bill Clinton listed Grassley among the members of Congress who had made it possible for me to sign into law today the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act 47 On February 12 1999 Grassley was one of 50 senators to vote to convict and remove Bill Clinton from office 48 2000 2009 nbsp Grassley meets with President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in 2001 In May 2001 Grassley met with Democratic senator Max Baucus over the allocation of finances in tax cuts and both reported they were making progress in reaching a bipartisan deal Grassley adding that the bill would contain all four of the main elements proposed by the Bush administration and the Senate Finance Committee would modify the components of the Bush proposal 49 In August 2002 Grassley sent a letter to president and chief executive of the United Way of America Brian Gallagher requesting a detailed explanation on the overseeing of both finances and management of the organization s affiliates Grassley also wrote to chief executive of the United Way of the National Capital Area Norman O Taylor in regards to allegations of affiliates misappropriating money as well as withholding information the board needed to allow its conducting of oversight 50 As a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee Grassley has spearheaded many probes into alleged misuse and lack of accountability of federal money In July 2007 a Grassley commissioned report was released claiming that more than US 1 billion in farm subsidies were sent to deceased individuals 51 Grassley was called a Taxpayer Super Hero in 2014 by the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste He received a 100 percent rating from the group that year and has a lifetime rating of 78 percent 52 Grassley was ranked the 5th most bipartisan Senator of the 114th United States Congress and the 7th most bipartisan Senator in the first session of the 115th Congress by the Bipartisan Index a metric created by the Lugar Center for the Lugar Center and Georgetown s McCourt School of Public Policy to rank members of the United States Congress by their degree of bipartisanship 53 54 In February 2004 Grassley released an internal report composed by the FBI in 2000 that examined 107 instances of either serious or criminal misconduct by its agents over a 16 year period In a letter to the FBI Grassley called the report a laundry list of horrors with examples of agents who committed rape sexual crimes against children other sexual deviance and misconduct attempted murder of a spouse and narcotics violations among many others and added that the report s findings raised questions about whether the FBI handled agents soon enough and rigorously enough 55 On June 28 2006 Grassley proposed legislation 56 57 intended to curb sex trafficking and sexual slavery in the United States by means of strict enforcement of tax laws for example by requiring a W 2 form be filed for each prostitute managed by a pimp or other employer Since 1976 Grassley has repeatedly introduced measures that increase the level of taxation on American citizens living abroad including retroactive tax hikes Grassley was eventually able to attach an amendment to a piece of legislation that went into effect in 2006 which increased taxes on Americans abroad by targeting housing and living incentives paid by foreign employers and held them accountable for federal taxes even though they did not currently reside in the United States Critics of the amendment felt that the move hurt Americans competing for jobs abroad by putting an unnecessary tax burden on foreign employers Others felt that the move was only to offset the revenue deficit caused by domestic tax cuts of the Bush Administration 58 59 60 In March 2009 amid a scandal that involved AIG executives receiving large salary bonuses from the taxpayer funded bailout of AIG Grassley suggested that those AIG employees receiving large bonuses should follow the so called Japanese example resign immediately or commit suicide After some criticism he dismissed the comments as rhetoric 61 62 63 In May 2009 Grassley cosponsored a resolution to amend the US Constitution to prohibit flag burning 64 nbsp Grassley in 2009 When President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party proposed a health reform bill featuring mandated health insurance Grassley opposed the health insurance mandate saying that it was a deal breaker 65 In response to an audience question at an August 12 2009 meeting in Iowa about the end of life counseling provisions in the House health care bill H R 3200 Grassley said people were right to fear that the government would pull the plug on grandma 66 67 68 69 Grassley had previously supported covering end of life counseling having voted for the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 which stated The covered services are evaluating the beneficiary s need for pain and symptom management including the individual s need for hospice care counseling the beneficiary with respect to end of life issues and care options and advising the beneficiary regarding advanced care planning 70 In December 2009 he voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act commonly called Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act It was later reported that Grassley had notified Obama that he would vote against the Affordable Care Act even had the bill been modified to include all of the proposed modifications Grassley had proposed 71 2010 2020 In January 2010 Grassley was one of seven Senate Republicans to sign a letter warning the White House about their serious reservations with Director of the Transportation Security Administration nominee Erroll Southers due to conflicting accounts Southers gave the Senate about his previous tapping of databases for information about his ex wife s boyfriend in the late 1980s 72 In December 2010 Grassley was one of 26 senators who voted against the ratification of New START 73 a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russian Federation obliging both countries to have no more than 1 550 strategic warheads as well as 700 launchers deployed during the next seven years along with providing a continuation of on site inspections that halted when START I expired the previous year It was the first arms treaty with Russia in eight years 74 In April 2013 Grassley opposed a gun control amendment authored by Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey and instead proposed alternative legislation to increase prosecutions of gun violence and increase reporting of mental health data in background checks 75 nbsp Senator Grassley in 2016 On March 9 2015 Grassley was one of 47 senators to sign a letter to Iran led by Tom Cotton to rebuke the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action 76 In June 2015 Grassley introduced legislation to help protect taxpayers from alleged abuses by the Internal Revenue Service The legislation was proposed in response to recent events involving alleged inappropriate conduct by employees at the IRS but was opposed by Democrats 77 Since first taking office in 1981 Grassley has held public meetings in all of Iowa s 99 counties each year even after losing honorarium payments for them in 1994 78 This has led to the coinage of the term full Grassley to describe a presidential candidate visiting all 99 counties of Iowa before the Iowa caucuses 79 In 2018 Grassley suggested that no women were serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee because of the heavy workload 80 The following week Grassley added that he would welcome more women to serve on the Committee because women as a whole are smarter than most male senators And they work real hard too 81 In July 2018 after President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court 82 Grassley lauded Kavanaugh as one of the most qualified Supreme Court nominees to come before the Senate 83 and said that critics of Kavanaugh should lessen their confidence in how he would vote given past surprises in voting by members of the Court 84 In 2016 Senate Republicans refused to consider Obama s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court At the time Grassley said that the American people shouldn t be denied a voice in the nomination which was too important to get bogged down in politics In 2020 after a Supreme Court vacancy arose due to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg s death Grassley supported a prompt vote on Trump s nominee backing the decision of the current chairman of the Judiciary Committee and the Senate Majority Leader 85 2021 present nbsp Grassley meeting with President Joe Biden February 2022 Grassley was participating in the certification of the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count when Trump supporters attacked the U S Capitol He was removed from the Senate chamber and taken to a secure location when rioters entered the building 86 In the wake of the attack Grassley said that Trump displayed poor leadership in his words and actions and he must take responsibility 87 He said efforts to impeach Trump would risk further disunity and that the country must take steps to tone down political rhetoric and mend divisions 88 In response The Gazette editorial board wrote that Grassley and other Iowa Republicans must reckon with why they did the wrong thing for so long 89 Senate record for consecutive votes As of November 2015 Grassley had cast 12 000 votes 90 and as of July 2012 he had missed only 35 votes in his Senate career 91 In January 2016 he set a record for the most time without a missed roll call vote having not missed one since July 1993 when he was touring Iowa with President Bill Clinton to survey flood damage 92 In November 2020 this streak came to an end after over 27 years and 8 927 votes 93 when he quarantined after being exposed to COVID 19 94 Grassley broke Senator William Proxmire s record for most time without a missed vote but Proxmire holds the record for most consecutive roll call votes with 10 252 92 Committee assignments Grassley s committee assignments for the 118th Congress are as follows 95 Committee on Agriculture Nutrition and Forestry Subcommittee on Commodities Markets and Trade Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy Committee on Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth Ranking Member Subcommittee on Health Care Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight Committee on the Budget Ranking Member Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy Antitrust and Consumer Rights Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism Subcommittee on Federal Courts Oversight Agency Action and Federal Rights Subcommittee on Immigration Citizenship and Border Safety Joint Committee on Taxation United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control Co Chair Caucus membership Senate Republican ConferencePolitical positionsAbortion Grassley has said that he considers himself pro life and has expressed concern about the potential for abortions to be paid for with federal funds 96 In December 1981 he voted for a proposed constitutional amendment by Orrin Hatch that would allow both Congress and the states to ban or regulate abortion 97 In 2019 he co sponsored reintroducing the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act 98 Grassley approved of the 2022 overturning of Roe v Wade saying it empowered people through their elected representatives to make commonsense policy decisions 99 Agriculture In April 2019 Grassley was one of seven senators to sign a letter led by Debbie Stabenow and Joni Ernst to United States secretary of agriculture Sonny Perdue urging the Agriculture Department to implement conservation measures in the 2018 Farm Bill through a department wide National Water Quality Initiative which would build off the existing initiative housed at the Natural Resource Conservation Service 100 Antitrust In October 2021 Grassley and Senator Amy Klobuchar introduced the American Innovation and Choice Online Act S 2992 101 The legislation aims to prevent Big Tech companies from engaging in anti competitive behavior by self preferencing their products 102 Grassley voted to confirm Jonathan Kanter as Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division 103 Energy and environment Grassley has expressed concern about the impact of regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency on farming 104 He said the EPA has a public relations problem with the ethanol industry corn farmers and himself 105 and that the EPA has screwed farmers with 31 biofuel exemptions 106 On December 19 2019 after the EPA withdrew a new Renewable Fuel Standard RFS rule Grassley criticized the EPA for playing games and not helping President Trump with farmers 107 In 1992 Grassley authored EPACT 1992 which created the federal wind energy tax credit 108 In 2005 Grassley authored the tax title of EPACT 2005 when he was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee 109 On June 28 2005 he voted for the bill 110 On June 19 2007 Grassley helped expand tax incentives that produces energy from alternative sources including ethanol wind biomass and biodiesel 109 On June 21 2007 Grassley voted for the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 which expanded other energy tax incentives through 2013 111 109 In September 2015 Grassley received the Dr Harold D Prior Friend of Iowa Wind Energy award from the Iowa Wind Energy Association for his commitment to supporting wind energy development in Iowa 112 In 2017 the Environmental Working Group stated that Grassley received 367 763 in grain commodity subsidies over 21 years 113 Grassley supports federal ethanol subsidies 114 In 2017 of the Paris Agreement Grassley said unequal terms put the U S economy at a significant disadvantage while letting large economies like China s and India s off the hook 115 He also said he didn t like that the Senate had not voted on the agreement 116 Estate taxes Grassley is in favor of repealing the estate tax which is a tax on inherited assets above 5 5 million for individuals and 11 million for couples 117 118 He has argued that the estate tax is potentially ruinous for farmers and small business owners 118 According to the Des Moines Register Grassley s argument does not match the reality found in federal tax data particularly for Iowa The estate tax applies to around 5 000 taxpayers across the entire country each year and very few of them come from Iowa Of the Iowans subject to the tax only a fraction are actually farmers and a vanishingly small number of them face a tax bill requiring them to sell off farmland or other assets The number of small businesses impacted by the estate tax is similarly small 118 Gun law nbsp Grassley during his time in the U S House of Representatives In 2010 Grassley had an A rating from the NRA Political Victory Fund NRA PVF 119 rising to A ratings and endorsements in 2016 and 2022 120 121 122 According to a source from Splinter News Grassley received 9 900 from the NRA during his 2016 election 123 Grassley is a staunch believer that gun laws will not prevent gun deaths or gun related violence without improved mental health care 124 Grassley opposed the Manchin Toomey gun control amendment and instead proposed alternative legislation to increase prosecutions of gun violence and increase reporting of mental health data in background checks 75 In 2016 one month after the Orlando nightclub shooting Grassley proposed legislation to expand state to state access to background check data and to make it illegal for government officials to sell criminals guns as part of sting operations Both proposals were rejected by the Senate 125 Additionally he voted against the Democrats Feinstein Amendment which would make it illegal to sell guns to individuals on the terror watchlist and a Republican sponsored bill that expanded funding for background checks 126 In early 2017 Grassley sponsored legislation that expanded access to firearms by mentally disabled individuals claiming that the previous ban against mentally ill individuals purchasing guns mistreats disabled Americans 127 In response to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting he said it was unlikely that gun laws would change in the wake of the shooting due to Congress being Republican dominated 128 A day after the Douglas High School shooting in Parkland Florida Grassley said the government had not done enough to prevent individuals with a mental illness from obtaining firearms 129 Health care Grassley opposes the Affordable Care Act and has voted to repeal it 130 Before its passage he had supported the individual mandate in health care reform 131 132 133 Grassley engaged in lengthy negotiations with the Obama administration as it sought health care reform with support from Republican members of Congress These negotiations produced nothing that Grassley would support leading Democrats to characterize Grassley s efforts as intended to delay or scupper health care reform rather than produce compromise legislation 134 135 136 In Obama s memoir he describes an exchange between him and Grassley in the Oval Office as he sought to reach a compromise with Grassley Obama asked If Max Baucus took every one of your latest suggestions could you support the bill Are there any changes any at all that would get us your vote to which Grassley responded I guess not Mr President 137 In July 2017 Grassley said that Senate Republicans should be ashamed of not having repealed the ACA and that this could result in a loss of their majority in the 2018 elections 138 In August 2018 Grassley was one of ten Republican senators to cosponsor legislation intended to protect ACA provisions for people with preexisting conditions 139 Health experts said the bill did not prevent insurers from excluding coverage for people with preexisting conditions 139 Marijuana legalization In 2015 Grassley voiced his opposition to a bipartisan senate bill the Compassionate Access Research Expansion and Respect States Act that would move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule II This bill would allow states with medical cannabis laws to legally prescribe it and allow for more research into its medical efficacy 140 In 2019 along with Democratic U S Senators Dianne Feinstein and Brian Schatz Grassley introduced the Cannabidiol and Marijuana Research Expansion Act which would expand research into medical marijuana 141 Military Grassley has voiced objections to the Special Immigrant Visa program which resettles translators and their family members who face risks to their lives due to their work with the U S Military 142 Israel Anti Boycott Act In April 2017 Grassley co sponsored the Israel Anti Boycott Act s 720 which would make it a federal crime for Americans to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the West Bank if protesting actions by the Israeli government 143 144 In 2019 Grassley was one of 14 Republican senators to sign a letter from Marco Rubio that involved condemning the BDS movement 145 LGBT rights In 2015 after the Supreme Court ruled same sex marriage bans unconstitutional in Obergefell v Hodges Grassley released a statement saying he believed marriage was between one man and a woman and criticized the court for not leaving the issue up to the states But in 2022 he said in a statement that he supports same sex marriage Despite this Grassley voted against the Respect for Marriage Act citing religious liberty concerns and calling the legislation unnecessary 146 Retirement planning In 2019 Grassley was one of the lead Senate co sponsors of the SECURE Act of 2019 This bill which became law as part of the fiscal year 2020 federal appropriations law signed in late December 2019 was intended to incentivize retirement planning diversify the options available to savers and increase access to tax advantaged savings programs including 529 plans 147 Russian interference in 2016 elections Main articles Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and Foreign electoral intervention In February 2017 Grassley said that while Russian interference in U S elections was bothersome the United States did not have clean hands and had for instance interfered with the 1948 Italian election 148 In May 2017 after Trump fired FBI director James Comey Grassley advised people suspicious of the Trump administration to Suck it up and move on 149 On October 31 2017 while a group of Republicans were facing questions from reporters concerning recent indictments Grassley ignored the questions and left the room 150 In January 2018 and in the first known congressional criminal referral in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election Grassley along with Lindsey Graham recommended charges against Christopher Steele one of the people who sought to expose Russian interference 151 Grassley and Graham said that they had reason to believe that Steele had lied to federal authorities 151 According to The New York Times It was not clear why if a crime is apparent in the F B I reports that were reviewed by the Judiciary Committee the Justice Department had not moved to charge Mr Steele already The circumstances under which Mr Steele is alleged to have lied were unclear as much of the referral was classified 151 In January 2018 when Grassley and Judiciary Committee Republicans were refusing to release the full transcript of an August 2017 ten hour interview that the Judiciary Committee had conducted with Glenn Simpson Senator Dianne Feinstein the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee released the full transcript unilaterally 152 Simpson is the co founder of the political opposition research firm Fusion GPS which produced the so called Steele Dossier on alleged connections between Trump and Russia Grassley condemned Feinstein saying that her decision was confounding and that it deterred future witnesses in the Russia 2016 investigation 152 Simpson himself had requested that the full transcript of his interview be released saying that Republicans had selectively leaked portions of the testimony to conservative media outlets in order to portray Simpson in a negative light and discredit the Steele dossier 152 153 Trade In January 2018 Grassley was one of 36 Republican senators to sign a letter to President Trump requesting he preserve the North American Free Trade Agreement by modernizing it for the economy of the 21st century 154 Whistleblowers The author of the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 Grassley has campaigned to increase protection and provide support for whistleblowers He has supported a number of FBI whistleblowers including Coleen Rowley Sibel Edmonds and Jane Turner although not supporting Department of Defense whistleblower Noel Koch 155 Grassley received a lifetime achievement award on May 17 2007 from the National Whistleblower Center In April 2014 Grassley announced plans to create a caucus in the Senate dedicated to strengthening whistleblower protections 156 157 Grassley defended the whistleblower in the Trump Ukraine scandal breaking with his party line when he declared on October 1 2019 that the whistleblower appears to have followed the whistleblower protection laws and ought to be heard out and protected 158 159 After whistleblowers Colonel Alexander Vindman and Ambassador Gordon Sondland testified against Donald Trump and were subsequently fired Grassley defended Trump s firing of both whistleblowers on the grounds that their firing was not retaliatory 160 Donald Trump On May 28 2021 Grassley voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the January 6 United States Capitol attack 161 Later that year Grassley campaigned with Donald Trump 162 163 InvestigationsReligious organizations Main article United States Senate inquiry into the tax exempt status of religious organizations On November 5 2007 Grassley announced an investigation into the tax exempt status of six ministries under the leadership of Benny Hinn Paula White Eddie L Long Joyce Meyer Creflo Dollar and Kenneth Copeland by the United States Senate Committee on Finance 164 In letters to each ministry Grassley asked for the ministries to divulge specific financial information to the committee to determine whether or not funds collected by each organization were inappropriately utilized by ministry heads 165 By the December 6 2007 deadline only three of the ministries had shown compliance with the Finance Committee s request On March 11 2008 Grassley and Finance chairman Max Baucus sent follow up letters to Kenneth Copeland Creflo Dollar and Eddie Long explaining that the Senate reserved the right to investigate the finances of their organizations under federal tax laws 166 Medical research Grassley also began an investigation about unreported payments to physicians by pharmaceutical companies He led a 2008 Congressional investigation that found that well known university psychiatrists who had promoted psychoactive drugs had violated federal and university regulations by secretly receiving large sums of money from the pharmaceutical companies that made the drugs 167 The New York Times reported that Joseph Biederman of Harvard University had failed to report over 1 million of income he had received from pharmaceutical companies 168 Weeks later Grassley alleged that Alan Schatzberg chair of psychiatry at Stanford University had underreported his investments in Corcept Therapeutics a company he founded 169 Schatzberg had reported only 100 000 investments in Corcept but Grassley said his investments actually totaled over 6 million Schatzberg later stepped down from his grant which was funded by the National Institutes of Health NIH 170 Similarly Charles Nemeroff resigned as chair of the psychiatry department at Emory University after failing to report a third of the 2 8 million in consulting fees he received from GlaxoSmithKline At the time he received these fees Nemeroff had been principal investigator of a 3 9 million NIH grant evaluating five medications for depression manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline 171 In 2008 for the first time Grassley asked the American Psychiatric Association to disclose how much of its annual budget came from drug industry funds The APA said that industry contributed 28 of its budget 14 million at that time mainly through paid advertising in APA journals and funds for continuing medical education 172 Fundraising According to the nonpartisan OpenSecrets in 2010 the industries that have been the largest contributors to Grassley during his political career are health professionals 1 million in contributions insurance industry 997 674 lawyers law firms 625 543 and pharmaceuticals health products 538 680 His largest corporate donors have been Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance Amgen biotech company and Wells Fargo bank 173 Electoral history2022 United States Senate election in Iowa Party Candidate Votes Republican Chuck Grassley inc 681 507 56 0 4 09 Democratic Michael Franken 533 717 43 9 8 24 Republican hold United States Senate Republican Primary election in Iowa 2022 174 Party Candidate Votes Republican Chuck Grassley Inc 139 451 73 4 7 86 Republican Jim Carlin 50 166 26 4 NA Republican Write in 307 0 2 NA 2016 United States Senate election in Iowa 175 Party Candidate Votes Republican Chuck Grassley inc 926 007 60 09 4 26 Democratic Patty Judge 549 460 35 66 2 36 Libertarian Charles Aldrich 41 794 2 71 0 44 Independent Jim Hennager 17 649 1 15 N A Independent Michael Luick Thrams 4 441 0 29 N A Write ins 1 686 0 11 0 03 Majority 376 547 24 43 6 62 Turnout 1 541 037 Republican hold Swing 2010 United States Senate election in Iowa 176 Party Candidate Votes Republican Chuck Grassley inc 718 215 64 35 5 83 Democratic Roxanne Conlin 371 686 33 30 5 43 Libertarian John Heiderscheit 25 290 2 27 1 24 Write ins 872 0 08 0 05 Majority 346 529 31 05 11 26 Turnout 1 116 063 Republican hold Swing 2004 United States Senate election in Iowa 177 Party Candidate Votes Republican Chuck Grassley inc 1 038 175 70 18 1 77 Democratic Art Small 412 365 27 88 2 62 Libertarian Christy Ann Welty 15 218 1 03 N A Green Daryl A Northrop 11 121 0 75 N A Socialist Workers Edwin Fruit 1 874 0 13 0 14 Write ins 475 0 03 0 Majority 625 810 42 31 4 39 Turnout 1 479 228 Republican hold Swing 1998 United States Senate election in Iowa 178 Party Candidate Votes Republican Chuck Grassley inc 648 480 68 41 1 20 Democratic David Osterberg 289 049 30 49 3 29 Natural Law Susan Marcus 7 561 0 80 0 47 Socialist Workers Margaret Trowe 2 542 0 27 0 16 Write ins 275 0 03 0 01 Majority 359 431 37 92 4 50 Turnout 947 907 Republican hold Swing 1992 United States Senate election in Iowa 179 Party Candidate Votes Republican Chuck Grassley inc 899 761 69 61 3 58 Democratic Jean Hall Lloyd Jones 351 561 27 20 6 37 Natural Law Stuart Zimmerman 16 403 1 27 N A Independent Sue Atkinson 6 277 0 49 N A Independent Mel Boring 5 508 0 43 N A Independent Rosanne Freeburg 4 999 0 39 N A Grassroots Carl Eric Olsen 3 404 0 26 N A Independent Richard O Dell Hughes 2 918 0 23 N A Socialist Workers Cleve Andrew Pulley 1 370 0 11 N A Write ins 293 0 02 0 01 Majority 548 200 42 41 9 95 Turnout 1 292 494 Republican hold Swing 1986 United States Senate election in Iowa 180 Party Candidate Votes Republican Chuck Grassley inc 588 880 66 04 12 55 Democratic John P Roehrick 299 406 33 57 11 97 Independent John Masters 3 370 0 38 N A Write ins 106 0 01 0 01 Majority 289 474 32 46 24 51 Turnout 891 762 Republican hold Swing 1980 United States Senate election in Iowa 181 Party Candidate Votes Republican Chuck Grassley 683 014 53 49 4 21 Democratic John Culver inc 581 545 45 54 4 48 Independent Garry De Young 5 858 0 46 N A Libertarian Robert V Hengerer 4 233 0 33 N A Independent John Ingram Henderson 2 336 0 18 N A Write ins 48 0 00 0 Majority 101 469 7 95 7 20 Turnout 1 772 983 Republican gain from Democratic Swing United States Senate Republican Primary election in Iowa 1980 Party Candidate Votes Republican Chuck Grassley 170 120 65 54 Republican Tom Stoner 89 409 34 45 1978 Iowa 3rd District United States Congressional Election Chuck Grassley R inc 74 8 John Knudson D 25 2 1976 Iowa 3rd District United States Congressional Election Chuck Grassley R inc 56 Stephen Rapp 44 1974 Iowa 3rd District United States Congressional Election Chuck Grassley R 50 8 Stephen Rapp D 49 2 1974 Iowa 3rd District United States Congressional Republican Primary Election Chuck Grassley R 42 Robert Case R 28 2 Charlene Conklin R 18 8 Bart Schwieger R 6 6 John Williams R 4 4 1972 Iowa House of Representatives 37th District Election Chuck Grassley R inc 86 3 Tim Youngblood D 13 7 1970 Iowa House of Representatives 10th District Election Chuck Grassley R inc 62 7 Rollin Howell D 36 2 Colene Eliason AI 1 1 1966 Iowa House of Representatives Butler District Election Chuck Grassley R inc 69 2 Floyd Ramker D 30 8 1964 Iowa House of Representatives Butler District Election Chuck Grassley R inc 60 9 Beverly Moffitt D 39 1 1962 Iowa House of Representatives Butler District Election Chuck Grassley R inc 64 3 Vernon Garner D 35 7 1960 Iowa House of Representatives Butler District Election Chuck Grassley R inc 69 1 Vernon Garner D 30 9 1958 Iowa House of Representatives Butler District Election Chuck Grassley R 64 1 Travis Moffitt D 35 9 Personal lifeGrassley and Barbara Ann Speicher married on August 22 1954 They have five children Lee Wendy Robin Michele and Jay 182 Grassley is a member of the Family the organization that organizes the National Prayer Breakfast 183 His grandson Pat Grassley is a member of the Iowa House of Representatives 184 Grassley is also known for his widely reported long running feud with the History channel he has consistently accused the network of featuring little actual history programming 185 According to OpenSecrets Grassley s net worth was more than 7 5 million as of 2018 186 Awards In 2003 Grassley s alma mater the University of Northern Iowa selected him for honoris causa membership in Omicron Delta Kappa the National Leadership Honor Society In 2009 the National Center for Health Research 187 gave Grassley the Health Policy Hero award for his 2004 oversight of legislative reforms and accountability of the United States Food and Drug Administration FDA 188 In 2010 The Hill named Grassley and Max Baucus the hardest working members of Congress 189 Notes Immediately following Bork s rejection Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee emphatically declared both Bowman and Wallace unacceptable 39 Vermont s Patrick Leahy added that if any candidate unacceptable to the Democratic Senate majority were nominated Senate Democrats would refuse to hold hearings on that nominee and keep the seat open until after the 1988 presidential election 40 References Breuninger Kevin November 16 2018 Sen Chuck Grassley opts for Finance Committee chairman setting up Sen Lindsey Graham to lead Judiciary Committee CNBC Archived from 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Huffington Post Archived from the original on December 16 2009 Retrieved August 23 2010 Hancock Jason August 12 2009 Grassley Government shouldn t decide when to pull the plug on grandma Iowa Independent Archived from the original on July 12 2012 Retrieved August 23 2010 Hancock Jason August 12 2009 Grassley repeats euthanasia claim Iowa Independent Archived from the original on August 15 2009 Retrieved August 23 2010 Sen Deather The Rachel Maddow Show NBC News August 13 2009 Archived from the original on December 1 2019 Retrieved August 23 2010 Hancock Jason August 14 2009 Grassley was for death panels before he was against them The Iowa Independent Archived from the original on December 7 2013 Retrieved October 9 2013 Hulse Carl January 31 2021 Ghosts of 2009 Drive Democrats Push for Robust Crisis Response The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved January 31 2021 Nicholas Peter January 7 2010 GOP senators voice reservations about TSA nominee Erroll Southers The New York Times 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Grassley succeeds at the wire Politico Archived from the original on February 2 2016 Retrieved February 3 2016 Kane Paul October 5 2018 Grassley suggests absence of women on Judiciary due to committee s heavy workload The Washington Post Archived from the original on October 10 2018 Retrieved October 11 2018 Leys Tony October 8 2018 Chuck Grassley Judiciary should have more women because they are smarter than most male senators The Des Moines Register Retrieved October 12 2018 Landler Mark Haberman Maggie July 9 2018 Brett Kavanaugh Is Trump s Pick for Supreme Court The New York Times Archived from the original on July 10 2018 Retrieved July 26 2018 Pfannenstiel Brianne July 9 2018 Chuck Grassley Trump s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh a superb choice Des Moines Register Retrieved July 26 2018 Gruber Miller Stephen July 11 2018 Grassley How are you going to know how Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will rule The Des Moines Register Retrieved July 26 2018 Where Senate Republicans Stand on Filling the Supreme Court Vacancy The Wall Street Journal Archived from the original on September 27 2020 Retrieved September 27 2020 Gruber Miller Stephen Pfannenstiel Brianne January 6 2021 Sad day in our democracy lawmakers react U S Sen Chuck Grassley escorted out of Senate after Trump supporters breach Capitol The Hawk Eye Newspaper Retrieved January 10 2021 Oates Trevor January 8 2021 Rep Axne will support impeaching President Trump again Reps Hinson Feenstra will not KWWL Retrieved January 10 2021 McCullough Caleb January 8 2021 Iowa s congressional delegation split along party lines over impeachment The Daily Iowan Retrieved January 10 2021 Staff Editorial January 8 2021 Gazette editorial Iowa Republicans must face a reckoning The Gazette Retrieved January 10 2021 Carney Jordain November 3 2015 Senators praise Grassley s voting record The Hill Retrieved November 17 2020 O Keefe Ed Susan Collins casts her 5 000th consecutive vote The Washington Post Archived from the original on July 13 2012 Retrieved July 12 2012 a b Hawkings David January 20 2016 Unnoticed Grassley Sets Record for Most Time Without a Missed Senate Vote Roll Call Retrieved November 17 2020 Lesniewski Niels November 17 2020 Grassley Senate vote streak is over misses his first roll call in 27 years Roll Call Retrieved November 17 2020 Gruber Miller Stephen November 17 2020 Sen Chuck Grassley in quarantine following coronavirus exposure Des Moines Register Retrieved November 17 2011 Committee Assignments of the 118th Congress United States Senate Retrieved March 17 2023 North Iowans ask Grassley questions on health care reform GlobeGazette com April 1 2010 Archived from the original on November 15 2016 Retrieved September 27 2015 Anti Abortion Bill Voted 4 0 The New York Times December 17 1981 Archived from the original on July 26 2018 Retrieved July 26 2018 The Voter s Self Defense System Vote Smart Archived from the original on May 23 2019 Retrieved March 4 2019 Grassley Chuck For many today s decision is about far more than correcting Roe it means that the rights of the unborn are no longer in jeopardy This ruling empowers the ppl thru their elected reps to make commonsense policy decisions It takes policymaking out of the hands of unelected judges Twitter Retrieved June 24 2022 Senators Urge Department Wide USDA Initiative to Prioritize Farm Bill Water Quality Improvements hoosieragtoday com April 17 2019 Archived from the original on November 13 2020 Retrieved July 7 2019 Klobuchar Grassley Colleagues to Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Rein in Big Tech U S Senator Amy Klobuchar Retrieved February 28 2022 Ghaffary Shirin June 11 2021 What you need to know about the House s opening bid to rein in Big Tech Vox Retrieved February 28 2022 Feiner Lauren November 16 2021 Senate confirms Big Tech critic Jonathan Kanter to lead DOJ Antitrust Division CNBC Retrieved March 13 2022 Grassley wants to meet with EPA over agriculture rules The Des Moines Register May 23 2014 Retrieved September 27 2015 Eller Donnelle October 22 2019 After playing footsie with big oil companies EPA has a public relations problem with farmers Grassley says Des Moines Register Grassley says EPA screwed farmers with biofuels exemptions keyc com August 16 2019 Archived from the original on December 25 2019 Retrieved December 25 2019 Crampton Liz December 20 2019 EPA backing off from new RFS rule Politico Archived from the original on December 25 2019 Retrieved December 25 2019 Wind Energy Production Tax Credit senate gov Archived from the original on June 15 2020 Retrieved April 29 2020 a b c Grassley Advances Alternative Energy Production Tax Priorities senate gov June 19 2007 Archived from the original on December 25 2019 Retrieved December 25 2019 Roll Call Vote 109th Congress 1st Session senate gov June 28 2005 Archived from the original on December 15 2019 Retrieved December 25 2019 Roll Call Vote 110th Congress 1st Session senate gov June 21 2007 Archived from the original on November 16 2019 Retrieved December 25 2019 Grassley named a Friend of Iowa Wind Energy KMA Land Archived from the original on July 31 2020 Retrieved September 27 2015 Eller Donnelle December 8 2017 Grassley netted nearly 370 000 in farm subsidies environmental group says Des Moines Register Retrieved April 29 2020 Grassley s ethanol challenge The Washington Post November 24 2010 Archived from the original on November 15 2016 Tysver Robynn June 3 2017 Iowa and Nebraska lawmakers stand by Trump on Paris climate accord Omaha World Herald Archived from the original on December 25 2019 Retrieved December 25 2019 Boden Sarah June 2 2017 Grassley Fields Questions On Healthcare Paris Agreement At Town Hall Iowa Public Radio Samuels Brett December 3 2017 Grassley Ending estate tax recognizes people that are investing not spending every darn penny The Hill Archived from the original on December 4 2017 Retrieved December 3 2017 a b c Noble Jason Despite lawmakers warnings few Iowa farmers face estate tax Des Moines Register Retrieved December 3 2017 The Voter s Self Defense System Vote Smart Archived from the original on October 5 2017 Retrieved October 4 2017 VOTE FREEDOM FIRST ON OR BEFORE NOVEMBER 8TH VOTE CHUCK GRASSLEY FOR U S SENATE nrapvf org NRA PVF Archived from the original on January 15 2021 NRA PVF Grades Iowa nrapvf org NRA PVF Archived from the original on November 8 2022 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link Vote Freedom First Vote Chuck Grassley for U S Senate nrapvf org NRA PVF Archived from the original on October 9 2022 Schwartz Rafi October 10 2017 Every Member of Congress Who Took Money From the NRA and Tweeted Thoughts and Prayers to Las Vegas Splinter News Archived from the original on December 22 2019 Retrieved December 22 2019 Shabad Rebecca September 18 2013 Grassley Gun control ineffective until mental issues are addressed The Hill Archived from the original on October 5 2017 Retrieved October 4 2017 Lejeune Tristan June 20 2016 Senate rejects gun control background check measures The Hill Archived from the original on October 4 2017 Retrieved October 4 2017 Ernst Grassley vote with GOP on gun control Des Moines Register Retrieved October 4 2017 Benen Steve February 15 2017 Senate Republicans vote to expand gun access for mentally impaired MSNBC Archived from the original on October 3 2017 Retrieved October 4 2017 Noble Jason Grassley Las Vegas shooting unlikely to move Congress on gun control Des Moines Register Retrieved October 4 2017 Sarah Mucha February 15 2018 Grassley Gov t needs to do better on mental health and guns CNN Archived from the original on January 4 2019 Retrieved January 25 2019 Golshan Tara Scott Dylan Stein Jeff June 16 2017 We asked 8 Senate Republicans to explain what their health bill is trying to do Vox Archived from the original on June 16 2017 Retrieved June 17 2017 Grassley I Supported The Individual Mandate Before I Realized It Was Unconstitutional March 25 2010 Retrieved March 5 2021 Pecquet Julian January 9 2012 Lugar haunted by past support for individual mandate The Hill Retrieved March 5 2021 Grassley backtracks on individual mandate Live Pulse POLITICO com Politico Retrieved March 5 2021 Halloran Liz August 20 2009 Is Grassley Abandoning Bipartisan Health Bill NPR Retrieved April 8 2021 Played by GOP in the Obama era wary Democrats and Biden go big on their own Los Angeles Times January 29 2021 Retrieved April 8 2021 Haberkorn Jennifer February 21 2017 This time Grassley hears pro Obamacare voices Politico Retrieved April 8 2021 Obama Barack Barack Obama Looks Back on His Toughest Fight The New Yorker Retrieved April 8 2021 Byrnes Jason July 8 2017 Grassley GOP will lose Senate majority without healthcare reform The Hill Archived from the original on August 25 2018 Retrieved August 24 2018 a b Hellmann Jessie August 24 2018 GOP senators introduce bill to preserve ObamaCare s pre existing conditions protections The Hill Archived from the original on August 24 2018 Retrieved August 24 2018 Leys Tony Grassley opposes medical marijuana rescheduling Des Moines Register Archived from the original on May 20 2015 Retrieved March 11 2015 Live updates Largest Nevada county still tallying mail votes KETV November 5 2020 Archived from the original on November 4 2020 Retrieved November 5 2020 Lawrence J P October 27 2022 GOP critic of visa program for Afghans has veterans groups fretting over its future Stars and Stripes Retrieved November 4 2022 Cosponsors S 720 115th Congress 2017 2018 Israel Anti Boycott Act www congress gov March 23 2017 Archived from the original on June 21 2020 Retrieved September 24 2019 Levitz Eric July 19 2017 43 Senators Want to Make It a Federal Crime to Boycott Israeli Settlements New York Intelligencer Archived from the original on July 27 2020 Retrieved September 24 2019 Vlahos Kelley March 5 2019 Israel Boycott Exposes Serious Rifts in the Democratic Party The American Conservative Archived from the original on December 25 2019 Retrieved December 25 2019 Akin Katie November 16 2022 Chuck Grassley votes to block same sex marriage bill cites concern over religious liberty Des Moines Register Retrieved March 18 2013 Singletary Michelle December 23 2019 A new law is bringing big changes for retirement savers especially parents The Washington Post Archived from the original on December 30 2019 Retrieved December 30 2019 Tibbetts Ed Grassley U S hands aren t clean The Quad City Times Archived from the original on February 15 2017 Retrieved February 15 2017 Fox amp friends foxandfriends ChuckGrassley s message to those calling Comey s firing Nixonian Suck it up and move on Archived November 9 2017 at the Wayback Machine May 10 2017 5 12 a m Tweet Barrett Ted October 31 2017 Top Republicans literally dodge questions on Trump aide indictments CNN Archived from the original on October 31 2017 Retrieved October 31 2017 a b c Fandos Nicholas Rosenberg Matthew 2018 Republican Senators Recommend Charges Against Author of Trump Dossier The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on January 5 2018 Retrieved January 5 2018 a b c Cheney Kyle January 9 2018 Human source in Trump orbit contacted FBI Fusion GPS co founder told senators Politico Archived from the original on January 9 2018 Retrieved January 10 2018 Breuninger Kevin January 9 2018 Senate Democrats just released the full testimony on the Trump Russia dossier Here s what s in it CNBC Archived from the original on January 10 2018 Retrieved January 10 2018 Needham Vicki January 30 2018 Senate Republicans call on Trump to preserve NAFTA The Hill Archived from the original on December 23 2018 Retrieved January 6 2019 1983 Neoconservative Arrives at Pentagon Allegedly Acts as Israeli Agent within Defense Department Counterpunch February 24 2004 Archived from the original on November 15 2016 Hicks Josh Sen Charles Grassley plans new whistleblower protection caucus The Washington Post Archived from the original on April 16 2014 Retrieved April 19 2014 Christina Crippes January 23 2014 Grassley grilled on Snowden views at whistleblower talk Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier Archived from the original on January 26 2019 Retrieved January 25 2019 Gregorian Dareh Chuck Grassley defends Ukraine whistleblower breaking with GOP and Trump NBC News Archived from the original on October 13 2019 Retrieved October 2 2019 Everett Burgess October 1 2019 Grassley breaks with Trump over protecting whistleblower Politico Archived from the original on October 2 2019 Retrieved October 2 2019 Coltrain Nick Sen Chuck Grassley rejects retaliation claim in Trump removing impeachment witnesses Des Moines Register Retrieved October 31 2020 Which senators supported a Jan 6 Capitol riot commission The Washington Post May 28 2021 Trump holds fast to his election lies as the GOP establishment hugs him tighter Politico October 9 2021 Retrieved October 10 2021 Gruber Miller Brianne Pfannenstiel and Stephen Former President Donald Trump endorses Iowa Sen Chuck Grassley A great American patriot Des Moines Register Retrieved October 10 2021 Lohr Kathy December 4 2007 Senator Probes Megachurches Finances NPR Archived from the original on December 6 2007 Retrieved December 10 2007 Televangelists Living Like Kings CBS News November 6 2007 Archived from the original on November 9 2007 Retrieved September 17 2007 Grassley Baucus Urge Four Ministries to Cooperate Planned Giving Design Center March 12 2008 Archived from the original on January 26 2009 Retrieved February 4 2009 Kirk Stuart A 2013 Mad Science Psychiatric Coercion Diagnosis and Drugs Transaction Publishers p 21 Harris Gardiner Carey Benedict June 8 2008 Researchers Fail to Reveal Full Drug Pay The New York Times Archived from the original on December 10 2008 Weintraub Arlene June 26 2008 Drug Makers and College Labs Too Cozy Business Week Archived from the original on May 24 2011 Stanford Researcher Accused of Conflicts Steps Down as NIH Principal Investigator The Chronicle of Higher Education August 1 2008 Archived from the original on February 1 2009 Gellene Denise Maugh II Thomas H October 4 2008 Doctor Accused in Congress Probe Los Angeles Times Archived from the original on February 1 2009 Kirk Stuart A 2013 Mad Science Psychiatric Coercion Diagnosis and Drugs Piscataway New Jersey Transaction Publishers ISBN 978 1412855921 Chuck Grassley Campaign Finance Money Industries OpenSecrets Archived from the original on August 21 2009 Retrieved February 26 2010 Chuck Grassley Ballotpedia June 7 2022 Retrieved August 17 2022 2016 Senatorial General Election Results PDF Uselectionatlas org Archived from the original on December 20 2016 Retrieved March 6 2017 STATISTICS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION OF NOVEMBER 2 2010 PDF Clerk house gov Archived PDF from the original on February 27 2017 Retrieved March 6 2017 MICROCOMP output file PDF Clerk house gov Archived PDF 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Legislature Archived from the original on February 12 2017 Retrieved February 11 2017 Carter Brandon December 9 2017 Grassley renews feud with History Channel over lack of history programming The Hill Archived from the original on January 5 2018 Retrieved January 4 2018 Chuck Grassley Net Worth Personal Finances OpenSecrets org Retrieved November 15 2021 Previous Foremothers and Health Policy Heroes National Research Center for Women amp Families 2010 Archived from the original on July 17 2012 Retrieved August 23 2010 Grassley recognized for work to increase accountability in health care system grassley senate gov Press release May 8 2009 Archived from the original on October 7 2009 Victoria Lauren June 9 2010 The 25 hardest working lawmakers The Hill Archived from the original on June 16 2010 Retrieved August 23 2010 Further readingEve Fairbanks Earnest Goes to Washington The New Republic September 10 2007External links nbsp Wikisource has original works by or about Chuck Grassley 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