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Sen. Charles (Chuck) Grassley [R-IA]
U.S. Senator, Iowa

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Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Iowa [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Sep 17, 1933 / 76 years old

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“Can somebody tell me why Wall st Journal no longer list Des Moines in its weather cities list. Iowa still exists.” (Nov 21, 2009)

Official YouTube Feed

“Grassley Weekly Address: Cracking Down on Medicare Fraud” - Nov 19, 2009 10:36 PM. Watch Video.

On the Floor

Watch Senate proceeding 11-17-09 00 3:29:15 to 3:40:15 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Charles Grassley:

When	Role	Representing
1981-2010	U.S. Senator	Iowa	(Most Recent Term Began in 2005) (was preceeded by John Culver)
1975-1980	U.S. Representative	Iowa’s 3^rd	(was preceeded by Harold Gross)

Sponsorship Analysis

Grassley is a moderate Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

Grassley is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Grassley sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Grassley’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Grassley, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Grassley and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Grassley.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Grassley's bills without Grassley returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Approval Rating

SurveyUSA reports Grassley’s job approval rating at 72% as of 2007-11-20. The average approval rating among senators in states surveyed is 53%. See their survey details for more information.

Voting Record

Charles Grassley missed 5 (0%) of 7073 votes since Jan 25, 1989. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Grassley in 2007-2008 was $49,800 from employees of DCI Group. Charles Grassley’s net worth was between $2,388,062 and $6,095,999 in 2007, according to Grassley’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Grassley.

Committee Membership

Charles Grassley sits on the following committees:

Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Finance

Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure

Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Health Care

Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness

Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions and Family Policy

Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Taxation, IRS Oversight, and Long-term Growth

Member, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Member, Subcommittee on Energy, Science and Technology

Member, Subcommittee on Production, Income Protection and Price Support

Member, Subcommittee on Rural Revitalization, Conservation, Forestry, and Credit

Member, Senate Committee on the Budget

Member, Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Member, Joint Committee on Taxation

Member, United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Charles Grassley has sponsored 433 bills since Mar 13, 1991 of which 336 haven't made it out of committee and 25 were successfully enacted. Grassley has co-sponsored 1148 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Grassley and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of Grassley’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	S.Res. 263: A resolution designating October 2009 as "National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month".
	S. 942: Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2009
	S. 2815: A bill to extend certain housing-related deadlines in the Heartland Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2008.
	S. 2774: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prevent Medicare payments being lost to fraud, waste, or abuse.
	S. 972: A bill to amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to provide funding for successful claimants following a determination on the merits of Pigford claims related to racial discrimination by the Department of Agriculture.

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