Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Grassley has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the Senate.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the Senate. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Grassley is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Grassley for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Charles “Chuck” Grassley sits on the following committees:
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Chairman,
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- Member, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights
- Member, Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest
- Member, Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts
- Chairman, United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control
- Joint Committee on Taxation
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Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Member, Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management and Trade
- Member, Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry and Natural Resources
- Member, Subcommittee on Livestock, Marketing and Agriculture Security
- Senate Committee on the Budget
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Senate Committee on Finance
- Member, Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure
- Member, Subcommittee on Health Care
- Member, Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Grassley sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (24%) Crime and Law Enforcement (18%) Education (15%) Government Operations and Politics (12%) Law (9%) Immigration (8%) Taxation (8%) Agriculture and Food (6%)
Recent Bills
Some of Grassley’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- S.Con.Res. 51: A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that those who served in ...
- S.Res. 566: A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, ...
- S.Res. 567: A resolution designating the week beginning October 16, 2016, as “National Character Counts ...
- S. 3323: State-Owned Entity Transparency and Accountability Reform Act of 2016
- S. 3305: VERIFI Act
- S. 3276: Taking Action Against Drunk Drivers Act
- S.Res. 542: A resolution recognizing the 70th anniversary and the importance of the Lanham Act ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1981 to Sep 2016, Grassley missed 36 of 12,215 roll call votes, which is 0.3%. This is better than the median of 1.7% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills