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{{Short description|American politician (born 1933)}}
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| name                = Chuck Grassley
| image               = Chuck Grassley official photo 2017.jpg
| caption             = Official portrait, 2017
| office              = President pro tempore of the United States Senate
| term_start          = January 3, 2019
| term_end            = January 20, 2021
| predecessor         = Orrin Hatch
| successor           = Patrick Leahy
| office1             = Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee
| term_start1         = January 3, 2023
| term_end1           = 
| predecessor1        = Lindsey Graham
| successor1          = 
| office2             = Ranking Member of the Senate Narcotics Caucus
| term_start2         = January 3, 2023
| term_end2           = 
| predecessor2        = John Cornyn
| successor2          =
| office3             = President pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate
| term_start3         = January 20, 2021
| term_end3           = 
| predecessor3        = Patrick Leahy
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| office6             = Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee
| term_start6         = February 3, 2021
| term_end6           = January 3, 2023
| predecessor6        = Dianne Feinstein
| successor6          = Lindsey Graham
| term_start7         = January 3, 2011
| term_end7           = January 3, 2015
| predecessor7        = Jeff Sessions
| successor7          = Patrick Leahy
| office8             = Chair of the Senate Finance Committee
| term_start8         = January 3, 2019
| term_end8           = February 3, 2021
| predecessor8        = Orrin Hatch
| successor8          = Ron Wyden
| term_start9         = January 3, 2003
| term_end9           = January 3, 2007
| predecessor9        = Max Baucus
| successor9          = Max Baucus
| term_start10         = January 20, 2001
| term_end10           = June 6, 2001
| predecessor10        = Max Baucus
| successor10          = Max Baucus
| office11             = Chair of the Senate Narcotics Caucus
| term_start11         = January 3, 2015
| term_end11           = January 3, 2019
| predecessor11        = Dianne Feinstein
| successor11          = John Cornyn
| office12             = Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee
| term_start12         = January 3, 2015
| term_end12           = January 3, 2019
| predecessor12        = Patrick Leahy
| successor12          = Lindsey Graham
| office13            = Chair of the Senate Aging Committee
| term_start13        = January 3, 1997
| term_end13          = January 3, 2001
| predecessor13       = William Cohen
| successor13         = John Breaux
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| jr/sr5              = United States Senator
| state5              = Iowa
| alongside5          = Joni Ernst
| term_start5         = January 3, 1981
| term_end5           = 
| predecessor5        = John Culver
| successor5          = 
| state6              = Iowa
| district6           = {{ushr|IA|3|3rd}}
| term_start6         = January 3, 1975
| term_end6           = January 3, 1981
| predecessor6        = H. R. Gross
| successor6          = Cooper Evans
| office7             = Member of the<br>Iowa House of Representatives<br>from Butler County
| term_start7         = January 12, 1959
| term_end7           = January 3, 1975
| predecessor7        = Wayne Ballhagen
| successor7          = Raymond Lageschulte
| constituency7       = {{plainlist|
* 73rd district (1959–1971)
* 10th district (1971–1973)
* 37th district (1973–1975)
}}
| birth_name          = Charles Ernest Grassley
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1933|9|17}}
| birth_place         = New Hartford, Iowa, U.S.
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| party               = Republican
| spouse              = {{marriage|Barbara Speicher|August 22, 1954}}
| children            = 5
| relatives           = Pat Grassley (grandson)
| education           = [[Organization:University of Northern Iowa|University of Northern Iowa]] (BA, MA)
| signature           = ChuckGrassleySig-01-01.svg
| website             = {{URL|grassley.senate.gov|Senate website}}
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'''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.

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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Breuninger |first1=Kevin |title=Sen. Chuck Grassley opts for Finance Committee chairman, setting up Sen. Lindsey Graham to lead Judiciary Committee |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/grassley-opts-for-finance-chair-graham-poised-to-lead-judiciary-committee.html |website={{wipe|CNBC}} |date=November 16, 2018|access-date=November 17, 2018 |archive-date=November 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118081432/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/grassley-opts-for-finance-chair-graham-poised-to-lead-judiciary-committee.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bolton |first1=Alexander |title=Trump set to have close ally Graham in powerful chairmanship |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/417216-trump-set-to-have-close-ally-graham-in-powerful-chairmanship |website=The Hill |date=November 16, 2016|access-date=November 17, 2018 |archive-date=November 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117211844/https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/417216-trump-set-to-have-close-ally-graham-in-powerful-chairmanship |url-status=live }}</ref> Upon the retirement of Orrin Hatch on January 3, 2019, Grassley became the Senate's most senior Republican and its president pro tempore.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Grassley-set-to-become-Senate-Pro-Tempore-500500491.html|title=Grassley set to become Senate pro tempore|first=Ellyn|last=Felton|website=KCRG-TV9|date=November 14, 2018 |access-date=January 25, 2019|archive-date=February 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203091004/https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Grassley-set-to-become-Senate-Pro-Tempore-500500491.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kimt.com/content/news/Chuck-Grassley-to-be-third-in-line-for-the-Presidency-500507472.html|title=Chuck Grassley to be third in line for the Presidency|first=Mike|last=Bunge|website=KIMT News|access-date=January 25, 2019|archive-date=November 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181115030810/https://www.kimt.com/content/news/Chuck-Grassley-to-be-third-in-line-for-the-Presidency-500507472.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Upon Patrick Leahy's retirement in January 2023, Grassley became the most senior member of the Senate. At {{Age in years, months and days|year=1933|month=9|day=17}} 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.<ref name="bioguide" /> He is the son of Ruth (née Corwin) and Louis Arthur Grassley.<ref>[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/senators/grassley.htm Ancestors of Charles Ernest Grassley] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509235407/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/senators/grassley.htm |date=May 9, 2007 }}. rootsweb.com.</ref> Grassley was raised on a farm;<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2009/09/09/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-chuck-grassley|title=10 Things You Didn't Know About Chuck Grassley |website=usnews.com |date=September 9, 2009|last=Bell|first=Debra}}</ref> his childhood home did not have electricity or indoor plumbing.<ref name="unflattering" /> He graduated from New Hartford Community High School in 1951.<ref name="IAlegis00" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://scua.library.uni.edu/university-archives/biographies/charles-e-grassley |title=Charles E. Grassley |website=scua.library.uni.edu |access-date=December 25, 2023}}</ref> At [[Organization:University of Northern Iowa|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 [[Organization:University of Iowa|University of Iowa]], but did not complete the degree.<ref name="unflattering">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06/chuck-grassley-last-act|title=Chuck Grassley’s Last Act|last=Lenz|first=Lyz|date=June 16, 2022|website=Vanity Fair}}</ref><ref name="bioguide" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/09/29/iowa-senate-race-2022-chuck-grassley-mike-franken-election-abortion-inflation/10389258002/|title=See what Chuck Grassley, Mike Franken say about abortion and inflation in Iowa's U.S. Senate race|website=The Des Moines Register|date=September 29, 2022}}</ref> During his time as a student, Grassley joined the social-professional Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity.<ref>{{cite web|title=Greeks in the 113th Congress |url=http://www.nicindy.org/blog/greeks-in-the-113th-congress/ |publisher=North-American Interfraternity Conference |access-date=September 2, 2013 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327052229/http://www.nicindy.org/blog/greeks-in-the-113th-congress/ |archive-date=March 27, 2014}}</ref>

== Early career ==
In the 1950s, Grassley farmed and worked in factories in Iowa, first as a [[Engineering:Sheet metal|sheet metal]] shearer and then as an [[Engineering:Assembly line|assembly line]] worker. From 1967 to 1968, he taught at Charles City College.<ref name="IAlegis00" />

Grassley represented parts of Butler County in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1959 to 1975.<ref name=IAlegis00>{{cite web |url=https://www.legis.iowa.gov/Legislators/legislatorAllYears.aspx?PID=253 |title=Charles Grassley |access-date=May 25, 2012 |work=www.legis.iowa.gov |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121213143203/https://www.legis.iowa.gov/Legislators/legislatorAllYears.aspx?PID=253 |archive-date=December 13, 2012}}</ref> He then served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981.<ref name="bioguide">{{cite web|title=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress - Grassley, Charles Ernest - Biographical Information|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000386|publisher=Office of Art and Archives and Office of the Historian, The United States Congress|access-date=April 21, 2013|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310095205/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000386|archive-date=March 10, 2013}}</ref>

== U.S. Senate ==

=== Elections ===

==== 1980 ====
Grassley was first elected to the Senate in 1980, defeating Democratic incumbent John Culver.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rodriguez |first=Barbara |title=John Culver, former U.S. senator and father of Chet Culver, dies at 86 |url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/27/former-democratic-senator-john-culver-dies-86-chet-congressman-iowa-governor-public-policy-simpson/2423252002/ |website=Des Moines Register}}</ref>

==== 1986 ====
Grassley was reelected in 1986, defeating the Democratic nominee, attorney John P. Roehrick, in a landslide.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 1, 2017 |title=Iowa U.S. Senate Results: Charles E. Grassley Wins |work={{wipe|The New York Times}} |url=https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/iowa-senate-grassley-judge |via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>

==== 1992 ====
Grassley was reelected in 1992, defeating Democratic State Senator Jean Hall Lloyd-Jones.<ref>{{Cite web |author=<!--Not stated--> |work=KTIV |date=September 24, 2021 |title=Iowa Senator Charles Grassley announces re-election campaign |url=https://ktiv.com/2021/09/24/iowa-senator-charles-grassley-announces-re-election-campaign/ |access-date=September 24, 2021 |archive-date=September 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924123650/https://ktiv.com/2021/09/24/iowa-senator-charles-grassley-announces-re-election-campaign/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==== 1998 ====
Grassley was reelected in 1998, defeating former State Representative David Osterberg, who won the Democratic nomination unopposed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Iowa Sen. Grassley to seek seventh term |url=https://www.thegazette.com/campaigns-elections/iowa-sen-grassley-to-seek-seventh-term/ |website=www.thegazette.com}}</ref>

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

==== 2010 ====
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".<ref>{{cite web |last=Hancock |first=Jason |date=April 10, 2009 |title=Salier: Grassley could be primaried |url=http://iowaindependent.com/13888/salier-grassley-could-be-primaried |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715164507/http://iowaindependent.com/13888/salier-grassley-could-be-primaried |archive-date=July 15, 2012 |access-date=August 23, 2010 |work=The Iowa Independent |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Grassley was reelected with 718,215 votes to Conlin's 371,686. Heiderscheit received 25,290 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/pdf/2010/senorr.pdf |title=Official Results Report |website=sos.iowa.gov |date=November 29, 2010}}</ref> 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.{{cn|date=December 2023}}

==== 2016 ====
[[File:Chuck Grassley by Gage Skidmore.jpg|right|thumb|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,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Steinhauer |first1=Jennifer |last2=Herszenhorn |first2=David M. |title=Charles Grassley Faces Formidable Challenger in Iowa Senate Race |work={{wipe|The New York Times}} |date=March 3, 2016 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/us/politics/charles-grassley-patty-judge-iowa-senate-race.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050502/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/us/politics/charles-grassley-patty-judge-iowa-senate-race.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |date=August 1, 2017 |title=Iowa Presidential Race Results: Donald J. Trump Wins |url=https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/iowa-president-clinton-trump |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104014014/https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/iowa-president-clinton-trump |archive-date=January 4, 2018 |access-date=January 3, 2018 |website={{wipe|The New York Times}}s}}</ref>

==== 2022 ====
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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chuck Grassley is the 80-something everyone's waiting on |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/10/chuck-grassley-2022-485648 |website=Politico|date=May 10, 2021 }}</ref> 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 [[Biography:Mitch McConnell|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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Thrush |first=Glenn |date=July 22, 2021 |title=A young Democrat challenges Grassley for Iowa Senate seat, citing his failure to confront the Jan. 6 rioters. |work={{wipe|The New York Times}} |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/us/politics/abby-finkenauer-charles-grassley-iowa.html |url-access=limited |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/us/politics/abby-finkenauer-charles-grassley-iowa.html |archive-date=2021-12-28 |via=NYTimes.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet|number=1418194238039339010|user=Abby4Iowa|title=I'm Abby Finkenauer, and I'm running...|date=July 22, 2021}}</ref>

In September 2021, Grassley announced his intention to run for an eighth term.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Karl de Vries |title=Longtime Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is running for reelection |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/24/politics/chuck-grassley-reelection/index.html |access-date=2021-09-24 |website=CNN|date=September 24, 2021 }}</ref> His announcement was viewed as advantageous to Republicans seeking to hold Grassley's seat and to retake the Senate majority in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Everett |first=Burgess |title=Grassley will seek reelection, boosting GOP's majority hopes |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/24/chuck-grassley-2022-elections-iowa-514090 |website=Politico|date=September 24, 2021 }}</ref> He won the general election, defeating Democratic nominee Michael Franken on November 8, 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=United States Senate election in Iowa, 2022 |url=https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_election_in_Iowa,_2022 |access-date=2022-10-19 |website=Ballotpedia |language=en}}</ref>

=== Tenure ===
==== 1980–1989 ====
[[File:Reagan Contact Sheet C4794 (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/14/us/32-gop-senators-praise-stockman-others-skeptical.html|title=32 G.O.P. SENATORS PRAISE STOCKMAN; OTHERS SKEPTICAL|author=Tolchin, Martin|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|date=November 14, 1981|access-date=July 26, 2018|archive-date=July 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726203309/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/14/us/32-gop-senators-praise-stockman-others-skeptical.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/20/world/quarrel-in-senate-over-radio-marti.html|title=QUARREL IN SENATE OVER RADIO MARTI|first=Judith|last=Miller|date=August 20, 1982|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|access-date=August 13, 2018|archive-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813124339/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/20/world/quarrel-in-senate-over-radio-marti.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In October 1983, Grassley voted against establishing a legal holiday to commemorate [[Biography:Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King Jr.]]'s birthday.<ref>{{cite news |title=SENATE'S ROLL-CALL VOTE ON KING HOLIDAY |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/20/us/senate-s-roll-call-vote-on-king-holiday.html |access-date=January 24, 2019 |work={{wipe|The New York Times}} |date=October 20, 1983 |archive-date=January 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114084211/https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/20/us/senate-s-roll-call-vote-on-king-holiday.html |url-status=live }}</ref> 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".<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Kamisar|first1=Ben|title=Lawmakers reflect on MLK Day 'no' votes|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/229844-lawmakers-reflect-on-no-votes-on-mlk-day|newspaper=The Hill|quote=Grassley aide: "Senator Grassley’s vote against an MLK Day holiday was purely 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"|date=January 18, 2015|access-date=December 22, 2019|archive-date=December 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222203623/https://thehill.com/homenews/229844-lawmakers-reflect-on-no-votes-on-mlk-day|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2004, Grassley co-sponsored legislation giving King a posthumous award, which became law on October 25 that year.<ref>{{Cite web|title=S.1368 - A bill to authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. (posthumously) and his widow Coretta Scott King in recognition of their contributions to the Nation on behalf of the civil rights movement.|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1368/cosponsors%20?searchResultViewType=expanded|website=congress.gov|year=2003–2004|access-date=December 22, 2019|archive-date=July 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728143202/https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1368/cosponsors%20?searchResultViewType=expanded|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Some evolved on MLK honor|url=https://www.newsday.com/opinion/editorial/mlk-jr-day-history-1.26111828|newspaper=Newsday|date=January 20, 2019|access-date=December 22, 2019|archive-date=December 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222203625/https://www.newsday.com/opinion/editorial/mlk-jr-day-history-1.26111828|url-status=live}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/01/business/contempt-citation-in-dynamics-case.html|title=Contempt Citation in Dynamics Case|author=Biddle, Wayne|date=November 1, 1984|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|access-date=July 26, 2018|archive-date=July 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726201935/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/01/business/contempt-citation-in-dynamics-case.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/05/01/Government-suspends-farm-price-support-payments/4468546840000/?tt=6|title=Government suspends farm price support payments|date=May 1, 1987|publisher=UPI|access-date=August 12, 2018|archive-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813004256/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/05/01/Government-suspends-farm-price-support-payments/4468546840000/?tt=6|url-status=live}}</ref> 

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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/10/08/Sen-Charles-Grassley-R-Iowa-a-leading-conservative-supporter-of/2021560664000/|title=Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, a leading conservative supporter of...|date=October 8, 1987|publisher=UPI|access-date=August 12, 2018|archive-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813005031/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/10/08/Sen-Charles-Grassley-R-Iowa-a-leading-conservative-supporter-of/2021560664000/|url-status=live}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/10/22/Supporters-of-Robert-Borks-Supreme-Court-nomination-renewed-their/3131561873600/|title=Supporters of Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination renewed their...|date=October 22, 1987|publisher=UPI|access-date=August 12, 2018|archive-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813005324/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/10/22/Supporters-of-Robert-Borks-Supreme-Court-nomination-renewed-their/3131561873600/|url-status=live}}</ref> 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 [[Organization:American Bar Association|American Bar Association]] suggesting the association was dragging its feet in reviewing Ginsburg's record.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://articles.latimes.com/1987-11-05/news/mn-18882_1_senate-panel|title=Senate Panel Refuses to Rush Hearings on Ginsburg|first=David|last=Lauter|date=November 5, 1987|work={{wipe|Los Angeles Times}}|access-date=December 12, 2019|archive-date=October 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017040440/http://articles.latimes.com/1987-11-05/news/mn-18882_1_senate-panel|url-status=live}}</ref> After Ginsburg admitted having smoked marijuana, Grassley said, "You like to think people who are appointed to the Supreme Court respect the law."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://articles.latimes.com/1987-11-06/news/mn-12868_1_judge-ginsburg|title=Ginsburg Admits Smoking Marijuana in '60s and '70s|first1=David|last1=Lauter|first2=Melissa|last2=Healy|date=November 6, 1987|work={{wipe|Los Angeles Times}}|access-date=December 12, 2019|archive-date=October 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151026180008/http://articles.latimes.com/1987-11-06/news/mn-12868_1_judge-ginsburg|url-status=live}}</ref> Grassley joined [[Biography:Jesse Helms|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.{{efn|Immediately following Bork’s rejection Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee emphatically declared both Bowman and Wallace unacceptable.<ref name="High">Epstein, Aaron; ‘3 High Court Hopefuls Deemed OK’; ''The Miami Herald'', October 28, 1987, p. 16</ref> 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.<ref>Yalof, David Alistair; ''Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees'', p. 164 {{ISBN|9780226945460}}</ref>}} Grassley expressed distaste for "the people who are committed to changing the judiciary" and taking "the path of least resistance".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/11/10/President-Reagan-nominates-Judge-Anthony-Kennedy-to-Supreme-Court/1605563518800/|title=President Reagan nominates Judge Anthony Kennedy to Supreme Court|first=Helen|last=Thomas|date=November 10, 1987|publisher=UPI|access-date=August 12, 2018|archive-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813043303/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/11/10/President-Reagan-nominates-Judge-Anthony-Kennedy-to-Supreme-Court/1605563518800/|url-status=live}}</ref>

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".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/05/us/senate-leaders-reacting-to-criticism-agree-to-vote-on-rejecting-a-raise.html|title=Senate Leaders, Reacting to Criticism, Agree to Vote on Rejecting a Raise|author=Rasky, Susan F.|date=January 5, 1989|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|access-date=August 12, 2018|archive-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813103349/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/05/us/senate-leaders-reacting-to-criticism-agree-to-vote-on-rejecting-a-raise.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In February, he was one of six senators to testify against the 50% pay increase scheduled to take effect the next week.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/02/us/tempers-and-patience-short-in-pay-conscious-congress.html|title=Tempers and Patience Short In Pay-Conscious Congress|author=Oreskes, Michael|date=February 2, 1989|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|access-date=August 12, 2018|archive-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813043315/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/02/us/tempers-and-patience-short-in-pay-conscious-congress.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/06/us/flag-burning-ban-is-voted-by-senate.html|title=Flag-burning Ban is Voted by Senate|date=October 6, 1989|author=Toner, Robin|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|access-date=August 12, 2018|archive-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813005034/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/06/us/flag-burning-ban-is-voted-by-senate.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==== 1990–1999 ====
[[File:MAXWH.jpg|thumb|left|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/102-1991/s2|title=S.J.Res. 2 (102nd): Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution|work=govtrack.us|access-date=September 18, 2020|archive-date=September 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200905124919/https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/102-1991/s2|url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/08/02/Senate-creates-POW-MIA-panel/7728681105600/|title=Senate creates POW-MIA panel|date=August 2, 1991|publisher=UPI|access-date=December 16, 2018|archive-date=December 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217014715/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/08/02/Senate-creates-POW-MIA-panel/7728681105600/|url-status=live}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PPP-1998-book2/html/PPP-1998-book2-doc-pg1297.htm |title=Remarks on Signing the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 |last=Clinton |first=Bill |date=July 22, 1998 |publisher=Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529055535/https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PPP-1998-book2/html/PPP-1998-book2-doc-pg1297.htm |archive-date=May 29, 2018 |url-status = dead|quote=And in particular, let me thank Senator Kerrey and Congressman Portman, Senator Roth, Senator Moynihan, Senator Grassley, Congressman Archer, Congressman Rangel, Congressman Cardin for their leading work that makes it possible for me to sign into law today the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act.}}</ref> On February 12, 1999, Grassley was one of 50 senators to vote to convict and remove Bill Clinton from office.<ref>{{cite news|title=Roll Call of Votes on Articles of Impeachment|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/politics/021399ap-rollcall-vote.html|newspaper={{wipe|The New York Times}}|agency=Associated Press|date=February 12, 1999|access-date=December 29, 2019|archive-date=January 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200106164903/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/politics/021399ap-rollcall-vote.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==== 2000–2009 ====
[[File:President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney Attend a Meeting with Senator Charles Grassley in the Oval Office (02).jpg|thumb|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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/09/us/panel-reaches-deal-on-budget-framework.html|title=Panel Reaches Deal on Budget Framework|date=May 9, 2001|first1=Richard W.|last1=Stevenson|first2=David E.|last2=Rosenbaum|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|access-date=July 26, 2018|archive-date=February 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213180502/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/09/us/panel-reaches-deal-on-budget-framework.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/22/us/senator-questions-finances-of-united-way.html|title=Senator Questions Finances of United Way|first=Stephanie|last=Storm|date=August 22, 2002|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|access-date=July 26, 2018|archive-date=July 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726201743/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/22/us/senator-questions-finances-of-united-way.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003803149_watch24.html | title = Dead farmers got subsidies | work = The Seattle Times | date = July 24, 2007 | access-date = July 24, 2007 |url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929143432/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003803149_watch24.html | archive-date = September 29, 2007 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ccagw-honors-sen-chuck-grassley-for-being-a-taxpayer-super-hero-2015-07-30 | title = CCAGW Honors Sen. Chuck Grassley for Being a "Taxpayer Super Hero" | work = MarketWatch | date = July 30, 2015 | access-date = September 27, 2015 |url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150928232619/http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ccagw-honors-sen-chuck-grassley-for-being-a-taxpayer-super-hero-2015-07-30 | archive-date = September 28, 2015 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.thelugarcenter.org/assets/htmldocuments/The%20Lugar%20Center%20-%20McCourt%20School%20Bipartisan%20Index%20114th%20Congress%20House%20Scores.pdf|title=The Lugar Center - McCourt School Bipartisan Index|publisher=The Lugar Center|date=March 7, 2016|access-date=April 30, 2017|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621172910/http://www.thelugarcenter.org/assets/htmldocuments/The%20Lugar%20Center%20-%20McCourt%20School%20Bipartisan%20Index%20114th%20Congress%20House%20Scores.pdf|archive-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thelugarcenter.org/assets/htmldocuments/Senate%20Scores%20115th%20Congress%20First%20Session.pdf|publisher=The Lugar Center|title=The Lugar Center - McCourt School Bipartisan Index|date=April 24, 2018|access-date=July 2, 2018|location=Washington, D.C.|archive-date=July 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702180136/http://www.thelugarcenter.org/assets/htmldocuments/Senate%20Scores%20115th%20Congress%20First%20Session.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

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".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/19/us/senator-says-report-chronicling-misconduct-by-fbi-agents-is-a-list-of-horrors.html|title=Senator Says Report Chronicling Misconduct by F.B.I. Agents Is a 'List of Horrors'|date=February 19, 2004|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|first=Eric|last=Lichtblau|access-date=July 26, 2018|archive-date=July 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726201806/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/19/us/senator-says-report-chronicling-misconduct-by-fbi-agents-is-a-list-of-horrors.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

On June 28, 2006, Grassley proposed legislation<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/27/pimp.tax/|title=Senator seeks tax on pimps, prostitutes|first=Jonathan|last=Schienberg|date=June 28, 2006|access-date=August 17, 2006|work=CNN|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821101655/http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/27/pimp.tax/|archive-date=August 21, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://grassley.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=5114|access-date=August 17, 2006|title=Grassley Press Release on the "Pimp Tax"|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060628222544/http://grassley.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=5114|archive-date=June 28, 2006}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/30/business/30tax.html | work = {{wipe|The New York Times}}| title = Americans Living Abroad Get a Nasty Tax Surprise | first1 = Keith | last1 = Bradsher | date = May 30, 2006 | access-date = April 30, 2010 |url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110512165003/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/30/business/30tax.html | archive-date = May 12, 2011 | df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/12/news/expats.php | title = Americans abroad face higher United States tax bills | work = International Herald Tribune | first = Dan | last = Bilefsky | date = May 12, 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060619204314/http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/12/news/expats.php | archive-date = June 19, 2006}}</ref><ref>[http://www.aca.ch/cadtaxlt.htm Senator Charles Grassley’s Letter of October 3rd 2007 in the Wall Street Journal Provokes Vivid Response.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201150031/http://www.aca.ch/cadtaxlt.htm |date=February 1, 2009 }}</ref>

In March 2009, amid a scandal that involved [[Company:American International Group|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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/29733519|title=Pressure grows on AIG to return bonuses|website=NBC News|agency=Associated Press|date=March 18, 2009|access-date=November 22, 2019|archive-date=September 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923224916/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/29733519|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/17/1839673.aspx|title=Grassley dismisses suicide talk as rhetoric|website=MSNBC|first=Domenico|last=Montanaro|date=March 17, 2009|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320043833/http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/17/1839673.aspx|archive-date=March 20, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/grassley-aig-should-take-its-medicine-not-hemlock|title=Grassley: A.I.G. Must Take Its Medicine (Not Hemlock)|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|first=Kate|last=Phillips|date=March 17, 2009|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319151817/http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/grassley-aig-should-take-its-medicine-not-hemlock/|archive-date=March 19, 2009}}</ref>

In May 2009, Grassley cosponsored a resolution to amend the US Constitution to prohibit flag burning.<ref>{{cite news| last = Hancock | first = Jason | url = http://iowaindependent.com/14889/grassley-cosponsors-flag-burning-amendment | title = Grassley cosponsors flag-burning amendment| newspaper=Iowa Independent|date = May 8, 2009 | access-date = August 23, 2010 |url-status = dead| archive-url = https://archive.today/20120714090823/http://iowaindependent.com/14889/grassley-cosponsors-flag-burning-amendment | archive-date = July 14, 2012 | df = mdy-all }}</ref>

[[File:Chuck Grassley (4088992629).jpg|thumb|Grassley in 2009]]
When President [[Biography:Barack Obama|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.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jason|last=Hancock| work = Iowa Independent| title = Grassleys opposition to individual insurance mandate comes under fire | date = October 8, 2009 | url = http://iowaindependent.com/20702/grassleys-opposition-to-insurance-mandates-comes-under-fire |url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091011061636/http://iowaindependent.com/20702/grassleys-opposition-to-insurance-mandates-comes-under-fire | archive-date = October 11, 2009 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> 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, {{USBill|111|HR|3200}}, Grassley said people were right to fear that the government would "pull the plug on grandma".<ref>{{cite news | url = https://huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/12/grassley-endorses-death-p_n_257677.html | title = Grassley Endorses "Death Panel" Rumor: "You Have Every Right To Fear" | website= Huffington Post| first = Sam | last = Stein | date = September 12, 2009 | access-date = August 23, 2010 |url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091216122846/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/12/grassley-endorses-death-p_n_257677.html | archive-date = December 16, 2009 | df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = Hancock | first = Jason | url = http://iowaindependent.com/18456/grassley-government-shouldnt-decide-when-to-pull-the-plug-on-grandma | title = Grassley: Government shouldn't 'decide when to pull the plug on grandma' | newspaper= Iowa Independent| date = August 12, 2009 | access-date = August 23, 2010 |url-status = dead| archive-url = https://archive.today/20120712163722/http://iowaindependent.com/18456/grassley-government-shouldnt-decide-when-to-pull-the-plug-on-grandma | archive-date = July 12, 2012 | df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = Hancock | first = Jason | url = http://iowaindependent.com/18485/grassley-repeats-euthanasia-claim | title = Grassley repeats euthanasia claim | newspaper=Iowa Independent| date = August 12, 2009 | access-date = August 23, 2010 |url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090815053807/http://iowaindependent.com/18485/grassley-repeats-euthanasia-claim | archive-date = August 15, 2009 | df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.nbcnews.com/id/22425001 | title = Sen. Deather | work = The Rachel Maddow Show | publisher = NBC News | date = August 13, 2009 | access-date = August 23, 2010 | df = mdy-all | archive-date = December 1, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191201235806/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/22425001 | url-status = live }}</ref> Grassley had previously supported covering end-of-life counseling, having voted for the [[Medicine:Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act|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."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://iowaindependent.com/18673/grassley-was-for-death-panels-before-he-was-against-them|title=Grassley was for 'death panels' before he was against them|work=The Iowa Independent|first=Jason|last=Hancock|date=August 14, 2009|access-date=October 9, 2013|archive-date=December 7, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207195208/http://iowaindependent.com/18673/grassley-was-for-death-panels-before-he-was-against-them|url-status=dead}},</ref> In December 2009, he voted against the [[Finance:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act|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.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hulse|first=Carl|date=January 31, 2021|title=Ghosts of 2009 Drive Democrats' Push for Robust Crisis Response|language=en-US|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/democrats-agenda-coronavirus-economy.html|access-date=January 31, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

==== 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/07/nation/la-na-souther7-2010jan07|title=GOP senators voice reservations about TSA nominee Erroll Southers|first=Peter|last=Nicholas|date=January 7, 2010|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|access-date=December 12, 2019|archive-date=December 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210103530/http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/07/nation/la-na-souther7-2010jan07|url-status=live}}</ref>

In December 2010, Grassley was one of 26 senators who voted against the ratification of New START,<ref>{{cite web |first=Mark|last=Memmott |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/12/22/132262684/senate-ratifies-start |title=Senate Ratifies START |website=NPR|date=December 22, 2010 |access-date=December 22, 2010 |archive-date=March 31, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150331202810/http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/12/22/132262684/senate-ratifies-start |url-status=live }}</ref> a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and {{wipe|Russia}} 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/world/europe/23treaty.html|title=Senate Passes Arms Control Treaty With Russia, 71-26|first=Peter|last=Baker|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|date=December 22, 2010|access-date=February 21, 2019|archive-date=December 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229151646/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/world/europe/23treaty.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In April 2013, Grassley opposed a [[Engineering:Gun control|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.<ref name="Ed Tibbetts">{{cite news|url=http://qctimes.com/news/local/government-and-politics/grassley-proposes-alternative-gun-bill/article_c0a8ffce-75f8-546e-9907-960295eea4ba.html|title=Grassley proposes alternative gun bill|work=Quad-City Times|first=Ed|last=Tibbetts|date=April 17, 2013|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421025738/http://qctimes.com/news/local/government-and-politics/grassley-proposes-alternative-gun-bill/article_c0a8ffce-75f8-546e-9907-960295eea4ba.html|archive-date=April 21, 2013}}</ref>

[[File:Roast and Ride (29191413552).jpg|thumb|Senator Grassley in 2016]]
On March 9, 2015, Grassley was one of 47 senators to sign a letter to [[Religion:Iran|Iran]] led by Tom Cotton to rebuke the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=DelReal|first1=Jose|title=Here's a list of the GOP senators who signed the Iran letter|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/heres-a-list-of-the-gop-senators-who-signed-the-iran-letter/|newspaper={{wipe|The Washington Post}}|date=March 10, 2015|access-date=December 29, 2019|archive-date=December 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229000300/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/03/10/heres-a-list-of-the-gop-senators-who-signed-the-iran-letter/|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 2015, Grassley introduced legislation to help protect taxpayers from alleged abuses by the [[Finance:Internal Revenue Service|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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.radioiowa.com/2015/06/16/senator-grassley-introducing-bill-to-protect-taxpayers-from-irs|title=Senator Grassley introduces bill to protect taxpayers from IRS|work=RadioIowa|first=Matt|last=Kelley|date=June 16, 2015|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928190538/http://www.radioiowa.com/2015/06/16/senator-grassley-introducing-bill-to-protect-taxpayers-from-irs/|archive-date=September 28, 2015}}</ref>{{Anchor|full Grassley}}

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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sen. Chuck Grassley (R)|url=http://www.nationaljournal.com/almanac/member/194|website=National Journal Almanac|access-date=August 16, 2014|archive-date=August 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819082922/http://www.nationaljournal.com/almanac/member/194|url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref name="full grassley">{{cite web|last1=Glueck|first1=Katie|title=Cruz's bid for a 'full Grassley' succeeds at the wire|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/iowa-caucus-2016-live-updates/2016/02/ted-cruz-full-grassley-iowa-218543|website=Politico|date=February 1, 2016|access-date=February 3, 2016|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202091854/http://www.politico.com/blogs/iowa-caucus-2016-live-updates/2016/02/ted-cruz-full-grassley-iowa-218543|archive-date=February 2, 2016}}</ref>

In 2018, Grassley suggested that no women were serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee because of the heavy workload.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/grassley-suggests-absence-of-women-on-judiciary-due-to-committees-heavy-workload/2018/10/05/b289c0fe-c8e7-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html|title=Grassley suggests absence of women on Judiciary due to committee's heavy workload|last=Kane|first=Paul|newspaper={{wipe|The Washington Post}}|language=en|date=October 5, 2018|access-date=October 11, 2018|archive-date=October 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010181049/https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/grassley-suggests-absence-of-women-on-judiciary-due-to-committees-heavy-workload/2018/10/05/b289c0fe-c8e7-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/09/iowa-sen-chuck-grassley-women-smarter-judiciary-committee-women-kavanaugh-metoo-blasey-ford/1579400002/|title=Chuck Grassley: Judiciary should have more women, because they 'are smarter than most male senators'|work=The Des Moines Register|last=Leys|first=Tony|date=October 8, 2018|access-date=October 12, 2018}}</ref>

In July 2018, after President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court,<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court.html |title=Brett Kavanaugh Is Trump's Pick for Supreme Court |last1=Landler |first1=Mark |date=July 9, 2018 |work={{wipe|The New York Times}} |last2=Haberman |first2=Maggie |access-date=July 26, 2018 |archive-date=July 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180710011707/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Grassley lauded Kavanaugh as "one of the most qualified Supreme Court nominees to come before the Senate",<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/09/chuck-grassley-trump-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-superb-choice/768933002/|title=Chuck Grassley: Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh a 'superb' choice|date=July 9, 2018|first=Brianne|last=Pfannenstiel|newspaper=Des Moines Register|access-date=July 26, 2018}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/11/chuck-grassley-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-rule-abortion/774873002/|title=Grassley: 'How are you going to know' how Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will rule?|date=July 11, 2018|first=Stephen|last=Gruber-Miller|newspaper=The Des Moines Register|access-date=July 26, 2018}}</ref>

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".<ref>{{cite news |title=Where Senate Republicans Stand on Filling the Supreme Court Vacancy |url=https://www.wsj.com/graphics/2020-scotus-senate/ |access-date=September 27, 2020 |work={{wipe|The Wall Street Journal}} |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200927061343/https://www.wsj.com/graphics/2020-scotus-senate/ |archive-date=September 27, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== 2021–present ====
[[File:Joe Biden and Chuck Grassley Shaking Hands February 2, 2022.jpg|thumb|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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gruber-Miller |first1=Stephen |last2=Pfannenstiel |first2=Brianne |title='Sad day in our democracy,' lawmakers react, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley escorted out of Senate after Trump supporters breach Capitol |url=https://www.thehawkeye.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/06/iowa-sen-chuck-grassley-led-out-us-senate-mayhem-erupts-capitol-donald-trump-electoral-college-loss/6568081002/ |access-date=January 10, 2021 |work=The Hawk Eye Newspaper |date=January 6, 2021}}</ref> In the wake of the attack, Grassley said that Trump "displayed poor leadership in his words and actions, and he must take responsibility".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Oates |first1=Trevor |title=Rep. Axne will support impeaching President Trump again, Reps. Hinson, Feenstra will not |url=https://kwwl.com/2021/01/08/rep-axne-will-support-impeaching-president-trump-again-reps-hinson-feenstra-will-not/ |access-date=January 10, 2021 |work=KWWL |date=January 8, 2021}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite news |last1=McCullough |first1=Caleb |title=Iowa's congressional delegation split along party lines over impeachment |url=https://dailyiowan.com/2021/01/08/iowas-congressional-delegation-split-along-party-lines-over-impeachment/ |access-date=January 10, 2021 |work=The Daily Iowan |date=January 8, 2021}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite news |author=Staff Editorial|title=Gazette editorial: Iowa Republicans must face a reckoning |url=https://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/staff-editorial/gazette-editorial-iowa-republicans-must-face-a-reckoning-20210108 |access-date=January 10, 2021 |work=The Gazette |date=January 8, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

=== Senate record for consecutive votes ===
As of November 2015, Grassley had cast 12,000 votes,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Carney |first1=Jordain |title=Senators praise Grassley's voting record |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/258962-senators-praise-grassleys-voting-record |access-date=November 17, 2020 |work=The Hill |date=November 3, 2015}}</ref> and as of July 2012, he had missed only 35 votes in his Senate career.<ref>{{cite news|last=O'Keefe|first=Ed|title=Susan Collins casts her 5,000th consecutive vote|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/susan-collins-casts-her-5000th-consecutive-vote/2012/07/12/gJQAL23rfW_blog.html|newspaper={{wipe|The Washington Post}}|access-date=July 12, 2012|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120713022840/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/susan-collins-casts-her-5000th-consecutive-vote/2012/07/12/gJQAL23rfW_blog.html|archive-date=July 13, 2012}}</ref> 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.<ref name=Hawkingsrecord>{{cite news |last1=Hawkings |first1=David |title=Unnoticed, Grassley Sets Record for Most Time Without a Missed Senate Vote |url=https://www.rollcall.com/2016/01/20/unnoticed-grassley-sets-record-for-most-time-without-a-missed-senate-vote/ |access-date=November 17, 2020 |work=Roll Call |date=January 20, 2016}}</ref> In November 2020, this streak came to an end after over 27 years and 8,927 votes<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lesniewski |first1=Niels |title=Grassley Senate vote streak is over, misses his first roll call in 27 years |url=https://www.rollcall.com/2020/11/17/grassley-senate-vote-streak-is-over-misses-his-first-roll-call-in-27-years/ |access-date=November 17, 2020 |work=Roll Call |date=November 17, 2020}}</ref> when he quarantined after being exposed to [[Medicine:COVID-19|COVID-19]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gruber-Miller |first1=Stephen |title=Sen. Chuck Grassley in quarantine following coronavirus exposure |url=https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/17/iowa-sen-chuck-grassley-in-quarantine-following-coronavirus-covid-19-exposure/6323513002/ |access-date=November 17, 2011 |work=Des Moines Register |date=November 17, 2020}}</ref> 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.<ref name=Hawkingsrecord/>

=== Committee assignments ===
Grassley's committee assignments for the 118th Congress are as follows:<ref name="118thCongressAssignments">{{Cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/general/committee_assignments/assignments.htm|title=Committee Assignments of the 118th Congress|access-date=2023-03-17|website=United States Senate}}</ref>
* 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)'''
** As Ranking Member, Grassley is an ''ex officio'' member of all subcommittees.
* 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 Conference

== 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://globegazette.com/news/local/north-iowans-ask-grassley-questions-on-health-care-reform/article_08a1711c-3dbe-11df-84ab-001cc4c03286.html|title=North Iowans ask Grassley questions on health care reform|date=April 1, 2010|work=GlobeGazette.com|access-date=September 27, 2015|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115074021/http://globegazette.com/news/local/north-iowans-ask-grassley-questions-on-health-care-reform/article_08a1711c-3dbe-11df-84ab-001cc4c03286.html|archive-date=November 15, 2016}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/17/us/anti-abortion-bill-voted-4-0.html|title=Anti-Abortion Bill Voted, 4-0|date=December 17, 1981|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|access-date=July 26, 2018|archive-date=July 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726201946/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/17/us/anti-abortion-bill-voted-4-0.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, he co-sponsored reintroducing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/|title=The Voter's Self Defense System|website=Vote Smart|language=en|access-date=March 4, 2019|archive-date=May 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190523182305/https://votesmart.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> Grassley approved of the 2022 [[Organization:Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization|overturning of ''Roe v. Wade'']], saying it empowered people through their elected representatives to make "commonsense policy decisions".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Grassley |first1=Chuck |title="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" |url=https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1540343189781024768 |website=[[Company:Twitter|Twitter]] |access-date=24 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

=== 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".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.hoosieragtoday.com/senators-urge-department-wide-usda-initiative-prioritize-farm-bill-water-quality-improvements/|title=Senators Urge Department-Wide USDA Initiative to Prioritize Farm Bill Water Quality Improvements|date=April 17, 2019|publisher=hoosieragtoday.com|access-date=July 7, 2019|archive-date=November 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113030227/https://hoosieragtoday.com/senators-urge-department-wide-usda-initiative-prioritize-farm-bill-water-quality-improvements/|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Antitrust ===
In October 2021, Grassley and Senator Amy Klobuchar introduced the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S.2992) .<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |title=Klobuchar, Grassley, Colleagues to Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Rein in Big Tech |url=https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/10/klobuchar-grassley-colleagues-to-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-rein-in-big-tech |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar |language=en}}</ref> The legislation aims to prevent Big Tech companies from engaging in anti-competitive behavior by "self-preferencing" their products.<ref name="Ghaffary">{{Cite web |last=Ghaffary |first=Shirin |date=2021-06-11 |title=What you need to know about the House's opening bid to rein in Big Tech |url=https://www.vox.com/recode/22529779/antitrust-bills-house-big-tech |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=Vox |language=en}}</ref> Grassley voted to confirm Jonathan Kanter as Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Feiner |first=Lauren |date=2021-11-16 |title=Senate confirms Big Tech critic Jonathan Kanter to lead DOJ Antitrust Division |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/16/senate-confirms-jonathan-kanter-to-lead-doj-antitrust-division.html |access-date=2022-03-13 |website={{wipe|CNBC}} |language=en}}</ref>

=== Energy and environment ===
Grassley has expressed concern about the impact of regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency on farming.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2014/05/24/chuck-grassley-wants-meeting-epa-agriculture-rules-environment/9530119|title=Grassley wants to meet with EPA over agriculture rules|work=The Des Moines Register|date=May 23, 2014|access-date=September 27, 2015}}</ref> He said the EPA has a "public relations problem" with "the ethanol industry, corn farmers and [himself]",<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Eller|first1=Donnelle|title=After playing 'footsie with big oil companies,' EPA has a 'public relations problem' with farmers, Grassley says|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2019/10/22/grassley-says-epa-has-big-public-relations-problem-farmers/4063027002/|newspaper=Des Moines Register|date=October 22, 2019}}</ref> and that the EPA has "screwed" farmers with 31 biofuel exemptions.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Grassley says EPA 'screwed' farmers with biofuels exemptions|url=https://www.keyc.com/2019/08/16/grassley-says-epa-screwed-farmers-with-biofuels-exemptions/|website=keyc.com|date=August 16, 2019|access-date=December 25, 2019|archive-date=December 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225203041/https://www.keyc.com/2019/08/16/grassley-says-epa-screwed-farmers-with-biofuels-exemptions/|url-status=live}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Crampton|first1=Liz|title=EPA backing off from new RFS rule|url=https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-agriculture/2019/12/20/epa-backing-off-from-new-rfs-rule-783932|website=Politico|date=December 20, 2019|access-date=December 25, 2019|archive-date=December 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225203039/https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-agriculture/2019/12/20/epa-backing-off-from-new-rfs-rule-783932|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1992, Grassley authored EPACT 1992, which created the federal wind energy tax credit.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wind Energy Production Tax Credit|url=https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/wind-energy-production-tax-credit|website=senate.gov|access-date=April 29, 2020|archive-date=June 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615222218/https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/wind-energy-production-tax-credit|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2005, Grassley authored the tax title of EPACT 2005 when he was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.<ref name=GrassleySenateGov>{{Cite web|title=Grassley Advances Alternative Energy Production Tax Priorities|url=https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-advances-alternative-energy-production-tax-priorities-0|website=senate.gov|date=June 19, 2007|access-date=December 25, 2019|archive-date=December 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225204712/https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-advances-alternative-energy-production-tax-priorities-0|url-status=live}}</ref> On June 28, 2005, he voted for the bill.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Roll Call Vote 109th Congress - 1st Session|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00158|website=senate.gov|date=June 28, 2005|access-date=December 25, 2019|archive-date=December 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215193421/https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00158|url-status=live}}</ref> On June 19, 2007, Grassley helped expand tax incentives that produces energy from alternative sources including ethanol, wind, biomass, and biodiesel.<ref name=GrassleySenateGov/> On June 21, 2007, Grassley voted for the [[Engineering:Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007|Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007]], which expanded other energy tax incentives through 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Roll Call Vote 110th Congress - 1st Session|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00226|website=senate.gov|date=June 21, 2007|access-date=December 25, 2019|archive-date=November 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116233918/https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00226|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=GrassleySenateGov/>

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.<ref>{{cite news|title=Grassley named a Friend of Iowa Wind Energy|url=http://www.kmaland.com/ag/grassley-named-a-friend-of-iowa-wind-energy/article_0995c98a-523d-11e5-9c10-8fddffcce744.html|access-date=September 27, 2015|publisher=KMA Land|archive-date=July 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731184439/https://www.kmaland.com/ag/grassley-named-a-friend-of-iowa-wind-energy/article_0995c98a-523d-11e5-9c10-8fddffcce744.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2017, the Environmental Working Group stated that Grassley received $367,763 in grain commodity subsidies over 21 years.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Eller|first1=Donnelle|title=Grassley netted nearly $370,000 in farm subsidies, environmental group says|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2017/12/08/grassley-netted-nearly-370-000-farm-subsidies-environmental-group-says/932067001/|newspaper=Des Moines Register|date=December 8, 2017|access-date=April 29, 2020}}</ref>

Grassley supports federal [[Chemistry:Ethanol|ethanol]] subsidies.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/23/AR2010112306921.html|title=Grassley's ethanol challenge|newspaper={{wipe|The Washington Post}}|date=November 24, 2010|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115074148/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/23/AR2010112306921.html|archive-date=November 15, 2016}}</ref>

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".<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Tysver|first1=Robynn|title=Iowa and Nebraska lawmakers stand by Trump on Paris climate accord|url=https://www.omaha.com/news/state_and_regional/iowa-and-nebraska-lawmakers-stand-by-trump-on-paris-climate/article_12ab754f-3390-5176-9e34-f2c82aaf11e1.html|newspaper=Omaha World-Herald|date=June 3, 2017|access-date=December 25, 2019|archive-date=December 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225204705/https://www.omaha.com/news/state_and_regional/iowa-and-nebraska-lawmakers-stand-by-trump-on-paris-climate/article_12ab754f-3390-5176-9e34-f2c82aaf11e1.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He also said he didn't like that the Senate had not voted on the agreement.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Boden|first1=Sarah|title=Grassley Fields Questions On Healthcare, Paris Agreement At Town Hall|url=https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/grassley-fields-questions-healthcare-paris-agreement-town-hall#stream/0|website=Iowa Public Radio|date=June 2, 2017}}</ref>

=== 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://thehill.com/policy/finance/363039-grassley-ending-estate-tax-recognizes-people-that-are-investing-not-spending|title=Grassley: Ending estate tax 'recognizes people that are investing,' not 'spending every darn penny'|last=Samuels|first=Brett|date=December 3, 2017|work=The Hill|access-date=December 3, 2017|archive-date=December 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204014826/http://thehill.com/policy/finance/363039-grassley-ending-estate-tax-recognizes-people-that-are-investing-not-spending|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2017/12/02/tax-reform-iowa-farmers-estate-tax/906946001/|title=Despite lawmakers' warnings, few Iowa farmers face estate tax|author=Noble, Jason|work=Des Moines Register|access-date=December 3, 2017|language=en}}</ref> He has argued that the estate tax is potentially ruinous for farmers and small business owners.<ref name=":0" /> 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."<ref name=":0" />

=== Gun law ===
[[File:Chuck Grassley 1979 congressional photo.jpg|thumb|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),<ref name="Vote Smart1004G">{{cite web|title=The Voter's Self Defense System|url=https://votesmart.org/interest-group/1324/rating/5589#.WdUz0RNSxE4|website=Vote Smart|access-date=October 4, 2017|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005000427/https://votesmart.org/interest-group/1324/rating/5589#.WdUz0RNSxE4|archive-date=October 5, 2017}}</ref> rising to "A+" ratings and endorsements in 2016 and 2022.<ref name="nrapvf-2016">{{cite web |title=VOTE FREEDOM FIRST ON OR BEFORE NOVEMBER 8TH – VOTE CHUCK GRASSLEY FOR U.S. SENATE! |url=https://www.nrapvf.org/emails/2016/iowa/nra-pvf-endorses-chuck-grassley-for-us-senate/ |website=nrapvf.org |publisher=NRA-PVF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115210045/https://www.nrapvf.org/emails/2016/iowa/nra-pvf-endorses-chuck-grassley-for-us-senate/ |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |language=en-US |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=NRA-PVF - Grades - Iowa |url=https://www.nrapvf.org/grades/iowa |website=nrapvf.org |publisher=NRA-PVF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108112323/https://www.nrapvf.org/grades/iowa |archive-date=November 8, 2022 |language=en-US |url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref name="nrapvf-2022">{{cite web |title=Vote Freedom First. Vote Chuck Grassley for U.S. Senate! |url=https://www.nrapvf.org/campaigns/2022/vote-chuck-grassley/ |website=nrapvf.org |publisher=NRA-PVF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009182925/https://www.nrapvf.org/campaigns/2022/vote-chuck-grassley/ |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |language=en-US |url-status=live}}</ref> According to a source from Splinter News, Grassley received $9,900 from the NRA during his 2016 election.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Schwartz|first1=Rafi|title=Every Member of Congress Who Took Money From the NRA and Tweeted 'Thoughts and Prayers' to Las Vegas|url=https://splinternews.com/every-member-of-congress-who-took-money-from-the-nra-an-1819059582|website=Splinter News|date=October 10, 2017|access-date=December 22, 2019|archive-date=December 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222204428/https://splinternews.com/every-member-of-congress-who-took-money-from-the-nra-an-1819059582|url-status=live}}</ref>

Grassley is a staunch believer that gun laws will not prevent gun deaths or gun-related violence without improved mental health care.<ref name="Shabad1004G">{{cite web|last1=Shabad|first1=Rebecca|title=Grassley: Gun control ineffective until mental issues are addressed|url=http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/323037-grassley-gun-control-ineffective-until-mental-issues-are-addressed|website=The Hill|access-date=October 4, 2017|date=September 18, 2013|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005100653/http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/323037-grassley-gun-control-ineffective-until-mental-issues-are-addressed|archive-date=October 5, 2017}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Ed Tibbetts"/>

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.<ref name="Lejeune1004G">{{cite web|last1=Lejeune|first1=Tristan|title=Senate rejects gun control background check measures|url=http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/284182-senate-rejects-first-background-check-bill|website=The Hill|access-date=October 4, 2017|date=June 20, 2016|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171004013116/http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/284182-senate-rejects-first-background-check-bill|archive-date=October 4, 2017}}</ref> 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.<ref name="APDMR1004G">{{cite web|title=Ernst, Grassley vote with GOP on gun control|url=http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2016/06/21/ernst-grassley-vote-gop-gun-control/86164366/|website=Des Moines Register|access-date=October 4, 2017|language=en}}</ref>

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".<ref name="Benen1004G">{{cite web|last1=Benen|first1=Steve|title=Senate Republicans vote to expand gun access for mentally impaired|url=https://msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/senate-republicans-vote-expand-gun-access-mentally-impaired|website=MSNBC|date=February 15, 2017 |access-date=October 4, 2017|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003193943/http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/senate-republicans-vote-expand-gun-access-mentally-impaired|archive-date=October 3, 2017}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Noble1004G">{{cite web|last1=Noble|first1=Jason|title=Grassley: Las Vegas shooting unlikely to move Congress on gun control|url=http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2017/10/04/las-vegas-shooting-congress-gun-control-chuck-grassley/731971001/|website=Des Moines Register|access-date=October 4, 2017|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/politics/grassley-guns/index.html|title=Grassley: Gov't needs to do better on mental health and guns|author=Sarah Mucha|website=CNN|date=February 15, 2018 |access-date=January 25, 2019|archive-date=January 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104072858/https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/politics/grassley-guns/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Health care ===
Grassley opposes the [[Finance:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act|Affordable Care Act]] and has voted to repeal it.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/16/15810524/senate-ahca-explain-please|title=We asked 8 Senate Republicans to explain what their health bill is trying to do|last1=Golshan|first1=Tara|date=June 16, 2017|work=Vox|access-date=June 17, 2017|last2=Scott|first2=Dylan|last3=Stein|first3=Jeff|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616215038/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/16/15810524/senate-ahca-explain-please|archive-date=June 16, 2017}}</ref> Before its passage, he had supported the individual mandate in health care reform.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Grassley: I Supported The Individual Mandate Before I Realized It Was Unconstitutional|date=March 25, 2010 |url=https://archive.thinkprogress.org/grassley-i-supported-the-individual-mandate-before-i-realized-it-was-unconstitutional-6374557f50af/|access-date=2021-03-05|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Pecquet|first=Julian|date=2012-01-09|title=Lugar haunted by past support for individual mandate|url=https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/203069-lugar-haunted-by-past-support-for-individual-mandate-|access-date=2021-03-05|website=The Hill|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Grassley backtracks on individual mandate - Live Pulse - POLITICO.com|url=https://www.politico.com/livepulse/0909/Grassley_backtracks_on_individual_mandate.html|access-date=2021-03-05|website=Politico}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Is Grassley Abandoning Bipartisan Health Bill?|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112044867|access-date=2021-04-08|website=NPR| date=August 20, 2009 |language=en| last1=Halloran | first1=Liz }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-29|title='Played' by GOP in the Obama era, wary Democrats and Biden go big on their own|url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-01-29/democrats-and-biden-go-big-learning-from-obama-era-frustrations-with-republicans|access-date=2021-04-08|website={{wipe|Los Angeles Times}}|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Haberkorn|first=Jennifer|title=This time, Grassley hears pro-Obamacare voices|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/chuck-grassley-obamacare-town-hall-235232|access-date=2021-04-08|website=Politico|date=February 21, 2017 |language=en}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Obama|first=Barack|title=Barack Obama Looks Back on His Toughest Fight|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/02/barack-obama-new-book-excerpt-promised-land-obamacare|access-date=2021-04-08|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-us}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/341152-grassley-republicans-will-lose-senate-majority-without|title=Grassley: GOP will lose Senate majority without healthcare reform|author=Byrnes, Jason|date=July 8, 2017|work=The Hill|access-date=August 24, 2018|archive-date=August 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825002457/http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/341152-grassley-republicans-will-lose-senate-majority-without|url-status=live}}</ref>

In August 2018, Grassley was one of ten Republican senators to cosponsor legislation intended to protect ACA provisions for people with preexisting conditions.<ref name=":3">{{cite news|url=http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/403459-ten-gop-senators-introduce-bill-aimed-at-preserving-obamacares-pre-existing|title=GOP senators introduce bill to preserve ObamaCare's pre-existing conditions protections|author=Hellmann, Jessie|date=August 24, 2018|work=The Hill|access-date=August 24, 2018|archive-date=August 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824200326/http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/403459-ten-gop-senators-introduce-bill-aimed-at-preserving-obamacares-pre-existing|url-status=live}}</ref> Health experts said the bill did not prevent insurers from excluding coverage for people with preexisting conditions.<ref name=":3" />

=== 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 [[Biology:Cannabis|cannabis]] from Schedule I to Schedule II. This bill would allow states with [[Medicine:Medical cannabis|medical cannabis]] laws to legally prescribe it and allow for more research into its medical efficacy.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Leys|first1=Tony|title=Grassley opposes medical marijuana rescheduling|url=http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2015/03/11/chuck-grassley-medical-marijuana/70170440/|publisher=Des Moines Register|access-date=March 11, 2015|archive-date=May 20, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150520204634/http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2015/03/11/chuck-grassley-medical-marijuana/70170440/|url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Not stated--> |title=Live updates: Largest Nevada county still tallying mail votes |url=https://www.ketv.com/article/national-updates-and-results-presidential-race-and-us-voting/34561805 |access-date=November 5, 2020 |work=KETV |date=November 5, 2020 |language=en |archive-date=November 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104050447/https://www.ketv.com/article/national-updates-and-results-presidential-race-and-us-voting/34561805 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== 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.<ref>{{cite news |last= Lawrence |first= J.P. |date= October 27, 2022|title= GOP critic of visa program for Afghans has veterans groups fretting over its future |url=https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-10-27/afghanistan-interpreters-grassley-7827439.html |work= Stars and Stripes|location= |access-date= November 4, 2022}}</ref>

=== 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 [[Place:Israel|Israel]] and Israeli settlements in the West Bank if protesting actions by the Israeli government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/720/cosponsors|title=Cosponsors - S.720 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): Israel Anti-Boycott Act|date=March 23, 2017|website=www.congress.gov|access-date=September 24, 2019|archive-date=June 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621142604/https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/720/cosponsors|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/senate-bill-would-make-it-a-federal-crime-to-boycott-israel.html|title=43 Senators Want to Make It a Federal Crime to Boycott Israeli Settlements|last=Levitz|first=Eric|date=July 19, 2017|website=New York Intelligencer|language=en|access-date=September 24, 2019|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727013113/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/senate-bill-would-make-it-a-federal-crime-to-boycott-israel.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, Grassley was one of 14 Republican senators to sign a letter from Marco Rubio that involved condemning the BDS movement.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Vlahos|first1=Kelley|title=Israel Boycott Exposes Serious Rifts in the Democratic Party|url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/israel-boycott-exposes-serious-rifts-in-the-democratic-party/|newspaper=The American Conservative|date=March 5, 2019|access-date=December 25, 2019|archive-date=December 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225195452/https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/israel-boycott-exposes-serious-rifts-in-the-democratic-party/|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== 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.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Akin|first1=Katie|title=Chuck Grassley votes to block same-sex marriage bill, cites concern over religious liberty|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2022/11/16/chuck-grassley-votes-against-federal-same-sex-marriage-bill/69651970007/|newspaper=Des Moines Register|date=November 16, 2022|access-date=March 18, 2013}}</ref>

=== 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/23/new-law-is-bringing-big-changes-retirement-savers-especially-parents|title=A new law is bringing big changes for retirement savers, especially parents|last=Singletary|first=Michelle|date=December 23, 2019|newspaper={{wipe|The Washington Post}}|access-date=December 30, 2019|archive-date=December 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230190906/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/23/new-law-is-bringing-big-changes-retirement-savers-especially-parents/|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Russian interference in 2016 elections ===
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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://qctimes.com/news/local/government-and-politics/grassley-u-s-hands-aren-t-clean/article_23acf094-e58a-580a-8351-46610d0d5c70.html|title=Grassley: U.S. hands aren't clean|last=Tibbetts|first=Ed|newspaper=The Quad-City Times|access-date=February 15, 2017|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215212302/http://qctimes.com/news/local/government-and-politics/grassley-u-s-hands-aren-t-clean/article_23acf094-e58a-580a-8351-46610d0d5c70.html|archive-date=February 15, 2017}}</ref> 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."<ref>Fox & friends (foxandfriends).  [https://twitter.com/foxandfriends/status/862279059404865537 .@ChuckGrassley's message to those calling Comey's firing 'Nixonian': 'Suck it up and move on.'"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109175006/https://twitter.com/foxandfriends/status/862279059404865537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Fpolicy-and-politics%2F2017%2F5%2F10%2F15609606%2Fgrassley-nixon-trump-comparisons-reaction |date=November 9, 2017 }} May 10, 2017, 5:12 a.m.  Tweet.</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Barrett|first1=Ted|title=Top Republicans (literally) dodge questions on Trump aide indictments|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/30/politics/chuck-grassley-exit/index.html|website=CNN|date=October 31, 2017 |publisher=CNN|access-date=October 31, 2017|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031012244/http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/30/politics/chuck-grassley-exit/index.html|archive-date=October 31, 2017}}</ref>

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.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/us/politics/christopher-steele-dossier-judiciary-committee.html|title=Republican Senators Recommend Charges Against Author of Trump Dossier|last1=Fandos|first1=Nicholas|date=2018|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|access-date=January 5, 2018|last2=Rosenberg|first2=Matthew|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=January 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105191310/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/us/politics/christopher-steele-dossier-judiciary-committee.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Grassley and Graham said that they had reason to believe that Steele had lied to federal authorities.<ref name=":1" /> 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."<ref name=":1" />

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.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/09/feinstein-releases-transcript-of-interview-with-fusion-gps-co-founder-329573|title='Human source' in Trump orbit contacted FBI, Fusion GPS co-founder told senators|author=Cheney, Kyle|work=Politico|date=January 9, 2018|access-date=January 10, 2018|archive-date=January 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109184549/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/09/feinstein-releases-transcript-of-interview-with-fusion-gps-co-founder-329573|url-status=live}}</ref> Simpson is the co-founder of the political opposition research firm [[Company:Fusion GPS|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.<ref name=":2" /> 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.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/09/sen-dianne-feinstein-unilaterally-releases-fusion-gps-testimony.html|title=Senate Democrats just released the full testimony on the Trump-Russia dossier. Here's what's in it|last=Breuninger|first=Kevin|date=January 9, 2018|work={{wipe|CNBC}}|access-date=January 10, 2018|archive-date=January 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110010358/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/09/sen-dianne-feinstein-unilaterally-releases-fusion-gps-testimony.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Trade ===
In January 2018, Grassley was one of 36 Republican senators to sign a letter to President Trump requesting he preserve the [[Finance:North American Free Trade Agreement|North American Free Trade Agreement]] by modernizing it for the economy of the 21st century.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/policy/finance/371492-senate-republicans-call-on-trump-to-preserve-nafta|title=Senate Republicans call on Trump to preserve NAFTA|date=January 30, 2018|first=Vicki|last=Needham|work=The Hill|access-date=January 6, 2019|archive-date=December 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223164034/https://thehill.com/policy/finance/371492-senate-republicans-call-on-trump-to-preserve-nafta|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== 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.<ref name="DoD whistleblower Noel Koch">{{cite news|url=http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=noel_koch_1|title=1983: Neoconservative Arrives at Pentagon, Allegedly Acts as Israeli Agent within Defense Department|date=February 24, 2004|newspaper=Counterpunch|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115073633/http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=noel_koch_1|archive-date=November 15, 2016}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Whistleblower Protection Caucus">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/04/10/sen-charles-grassley-plans-new-whistleblower-protection-caucus/|title=Sen. Charles Grassley plans new whistleblower-protection caucus|last=Hicks|first=Josh|newspaper={{wipe|The Washington Post}}|access-date=April 19, 2014|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416084711/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/04/10/sen-charles-grassley-plans-new-whistleblower-protection-caucus/|archive-date=April 16, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/grassley-grilled-on-snowden-views-at-whistleblower-talk/article_9e12d84e-af92-5518-989c-ac5115e874af.html|title=Grassley grilled on Snowden views at whistleblower talk|author=Christina Crippes |website=Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier|date=January 23, 2014 |access-date=January 25, 2019|archive-date=January 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126001330/https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/grassley-grilled-on-snowden-views-at-whistleblower-talk/article_9e12d84e-af92-5518-989c-ac5115e874af.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

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".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/chuck-grassley-defends-ukraine-whistleblower-breaking-gop-trump-n1060871|title=Chuck Grassley defends Ukraine whistleblower, breaking with GOP and Trump|last=Gregorian|first=Dareh|newspaper=NBC News|access-date=October 2, 2019|archive-date=October 13, 2019|archive-url=https://archive.today/20191013112638/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/chuck-grassley-defends-ukraine-whistleblower-breaking-gop-trump-n1060871|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/01/grassley-trump-whistleblower-014715|title=Grassley breaks with Trump over protecting whistleblower|last=Everett|first=Burgess|newspaper=Politico|date=October 1, 2019|access-date=October 2, 2019|archive-date=October 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002004503/https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/01/grassley-trump-whistleblower-014715|url-status=live}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Coltrain|first=Nick|title=Sen. Chuck Grassley rejects retaliation claim in Trump removing impeachment witnesses|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2020/02/12/chuck-grassley-donald-trump-impeachment-witnesses-no-retaliation-alexander-vindman-gordon-sondland/4736099002/|access-date=October 31, 2020|website=Des Moines Register|language=en-US}}</ref>

===Donald Trump===
On May 28, 2021, Grassley voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the January 6 United States Capitol attack.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper={{wipe|The Washington Post}} |date=May 28, 2021 |title=Which senators supported a Jan. 6 Capitol riot commission |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/january6-commission-senators-vote/}}</ref> Later that year, Grassley campaigned with Donald Trump.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Trump holds fast to his election lies as the GOP establishment hugs him tighter|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/09/trump-holds-fast-to-his-election-lies-as-the-gop-establishment-hugs-him-tighter-515752|access-date=2021-10-10|website=Politico|date=October 9, 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Gruber-Miller|first=Brianne Pfannenstiel and Stephen|title=Former President Donald Trump endorses Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley: 'A great American patriot'|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/09/former-president-donald-trump-iowa-rally-endorses-u-s-senator-chuck-grassley-reelection/5947269001/|access-date=2021-10-10|website=Des Moines Register|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Investigations ==
=== 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16860611|title=Senator Probes Megachurches' Finances|website=NPR|first=Kathy|last=Lohr|date=December 4, 2007|access-date=December 10, 2007|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071206080710/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16860611|archive-date=December 6, 2007}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/06/cbsnews_investigates/main3462147.shtml|title=Televangelists Living Like Kings?|website=CBS News|date=November 6, 2007|access-date=September 17, 2007|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109112841/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/06/cbsnews_investigates/main3462147.shtml|archive-date=November 9, 2007}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pgdc.com/pgdc/grassley-baucus-urge-four-ministries-cooperate|title=Grassley, Baucus Urge Four Ministries to Cooperate|publisher=Planned Giving Design Center|date=March 12, 2008|access-date=February 4, 2009|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126121815/http://www.pgdc.com/pgdc/grassley-baucus-urge-four-ministries-cooperate|archive-date=January 26, 2009}}</ref>

=== 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.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kirk|first=Stuart A.|title=Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs|year=2013|publisher=Transaction Publishers|page=21}}</ref> ''{{wipe|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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/us/08conflict.html|title=Researchers Fail to Reveal Full Drug Pay|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|first1=Gardiner|last1=Harris|first2=Benedict|last2=Carey|date=June 8, 2008|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210021458/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/us/08conflict.html|archive-date=December 10, 2008}}</ref> Weeks later, Grassley alleged that Alan Schatzberg, chair of psychiatry at [[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]], had underreported his investments in Corcept Therapeutics, a company he founded.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2008/tc20080626_630542.htm|title=Drug Makers and College Labs: Too Cozy?|work=Business Week|first=Arlene|last=Weintraub|date=June 26, 2008|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524003304/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2008/tc20080626_630542.htm|archive-date=May 24, 2011}}</ref> 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 [[Organization:National Institutes of Health|National Institutes of Health]] (NIH).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://chronicle.com/news/article/4922/stanford-researcher-accused-of-conflicts-steps-down-as-nih-principal-investigator|title=Stanford Researcher, Accused of Conflicts, Steps Down as NIH Principal Investigator|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=August 1, 2008|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201150934/http://chronicle.com/news/article/4922/stanford-researcher-accused-of-conflicts-steps-down-as-nih-principal-investigator|archive-date=February 1, 2009}}</ref>

Similarly, Charles Nemeroff resigned as chair of the psychiatry department at [[Organization:Emory University|Emory University]] after failing to report a third of the $2.8 million in consulting fees he received from [[Company:GlaxoSmithKline|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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/04/science/sci-doctors4|title=Doctor Accused in Congress' Probe|work={{wipe|Los Angeles Times}}|date=October 4, 2008|first1=Denise|last1=Gellene|first2=Thomas H.|last2=Maugh II|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201144702/http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/04/science/sci-doctors4|archive-date=February 1, 2009}}</ref>

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.<ref name=stuarta>{{cite book|last=Kirk|first=Stuart A.|title=Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs|year=2013|publisher=Transaction Publishers|location=Piscataway, New Jersey|isbn=978-1412855921}}</ref>

=== 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), [[Company:Amgen|Amgen]] (biotech company) and Wells Fargo (bank).<ref>{{cite web|publisher=OpenSecrets |access-date=February 26, 2010|url=http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00001758&type=I|title=Chuck Grassley: Campaign Finance/Money – Industries|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821012541/http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00001758&type=I|archive-date=August 21, 2009}}</ref>

== Electoral history ==
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 |change = +1.77%
}}
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}}
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 |change = N/A
}}
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}}
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{{Election box begin | title=1986 United States Senate election in Iowa<ref>{{cite web |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1986election.pdf |title=STATISTICS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION OF NOVEMBER 4, 1986 |website=Clerk.house.gov |access-date=March 6, 2017 |url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170123044610/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1986election.pdf |archive-date=January 23, 2017}}</ref>
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}}
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 |change = +7.20%
}}
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 |change =
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{| class="wikitable"
|-
! colspan="5" |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'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|'''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'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|'''Chuck Grassley (R) (inc.) 86.3%'''
|-
|Tim Youngblood (D) 13.7%
|}
'''1970 Iowa House of Representatives 10th District Election'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|'''Chuck Grassley (R) (inc.) 62.7%'''
|-
|Rollin Howell (D) 36.2%
|-
|Colene Eliason (AI) 1.1%
|}

'''1966 Iowa House of Representatives Butler District Election'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|'''Chuck Grassley (R) (inc.) 69.2%'''
|-
|Floyd Ramker (D) 30.8%
|}

'''1964 Iowa House of Representatives Butler District Election'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|'''Chuck Grassley (R) (inc.) 60.9%'''
|-
|Beverly Moffitt (D) 39.1%
|}

'''1962 Iowa House of Representatives Butler District Election'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|'''Chuck Grassley (R) (inc.) 64.3%'''
|-
|Vernon Garner (D) 35.7%
|}

'''1960 Iowa House of Representatives Butler District Election'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|'''Chuck Grassley (R) (inc.) 69.1%'''
|-
|Vernon Garner (D) 30.9%
|}

'''1958 Iowa House of Representatives Butler District Election'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|'''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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://plaza.las.iastate.edu/directory/barbara-grassley/|title=Barbara Grassley|date=February 26, 2015|website=Iowa State University Plaza of Heroines|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826062601/https://plaza.las.iastate.edu/directory/barbara-grassley/|archive-date=August 26, 2019|url-status = live|access-date=August 26, 2019}}</ref> Grassley is a member of the Family, the organization that organizes the National Prayer Breakfast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2009/07/21/c_street|title=Sex and power inside "the C Street House"|work=Salon|first=Jeff|last=Sharlet|date=July 21, 2009|access-date=August 23, 2010|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111090033/http://www.salon.com/2009/07/21/c_street/|archive-date=January 11, 2012}}</ref> His grandson, Pat Grassley, is a member of the Iowa House of Representatives.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?personID=6277&ga=86|title=Representative Pat Grassley|work=Iowa Legislature|access-date=February 11, 2017|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212091226/https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?personID=6277&ga=86|archive-date=February 12, 2017}}</ref> Grassley is also known for his widely reported, long-running "feud" with the [[Unsolved:History (American TV network)|History]] channel; he has consistently accused the network of featuring little actual history programming.<ref>{{cite web|last=Carter|first=Brandon|url=http://thehill.com/homenews/media/364097-grassley-renews-feud-with-history-channel-over-lack-of-history-programming|title=Grassley renews feud with History Channel over lack of history programming|newspaper=The Hill|date=December 9, 2017|access-date=January 4, 2018|archive-date=January 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105180402/http://thehill.com/homenews/media/364097-grassley-renews-feud-with-history-channel-over-lack-of-history-programming|url-status=live}}</ref>

According to OpenSecrets, Grassley's net worth was more than $7.5 million as of 2018.<ref name="net-worth">{{cite web |title=Chuck Grassley - Net Worth - Personal Finances |url=https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/chuck-grassley/net-worth?cid=N00001758&year=2018 |website=OpenSecrets.org |access-date=15 November 2021}}</ref>

=== Awards ===
In 2003, Grassley's alma mater, the [[Organization:University of Northern Iowa|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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.center4research.org/news-events/previous-foremother-awards|title=Previous Foremothers and Health Policy Heroes|publisher=National Research Center for Women & Families|year=2010|access-date=August 23, 2010|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717021314/http://www.center4research.org/news-events/previous-foremother-awards/|archive-date=July 17, 2012}}</ref> 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).<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://grassley.senate.gov/news/Article.cfm?customel_dataPageID_1502=20654|title=Grassley recognized for work to increase accountability in health care system|website=grassley.senate.gov|date=May 8, 2009|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091007141224/http://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/Article.cfm?customel_dataPageID_1502=20654|archive-date=October 7, 2009}}</ref> In 2010, ''The Hill'' named Grassley and Max Baucus the hardest-working members of Congress.<ref>{{cite web|last=Victoria|first=Lauren|url=http://thehill.com/capital-living/102101-the-25-hardest-working-members-of-congress|title=The 25 hardest working lawmakers|work=The Hill|date=June 9, 2010|access-date=August 23, 2010|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616091806/http://thehill.com/capital-living/102101-the-25-hardest-working-members-of-congress|archive-date=June 16, 2010}}</ref>

== Notes ==
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== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==
* Eve Fairbanks, [http://www.tnr.com/article/ernest-goes-washington "Earnest Goes to Washington"], ''The New Republic'', September 10, 2007

== External links ==
* {{C-SPAN|1167}}
* [https://grassley.senate.gov/ Senator Chuck Grassley] official United States Senate site
* [http://www.grassleyforsenate.com/ Grassley for Senate]
* {{Curlie|Regional/North_America/United_States/Iowa/Government/Federal/US_Senate/Chuck_Grassley_%5BR%5D}}

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