Chuck Grassley (Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. Senate from Iowa. He assumed office on January 3, 1981. His current term ends on January 3, 2029.
Grassley (Republican Party) ran for re-election to the U.S. Senate to represent Iowa. He won in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Grassley served as president pro tempore of the Senate from 2019 to 2021. Grassley won re-election in 2016. He faced Patty Judge (D) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Iowa’s U.S. Senate race was rated as safely Republican in 2016.
He previously was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981 and a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 1959 to 1974.
In the 115th Congress, Grassley sponsored the First Step Act of 2018. His committee assignments in the 116th Congress include the Committee on the Budget and serving as chairman of the Committee on Finance.
As of a 2014 analysis of multiple outside rankings, Grassley is an average Republican member of Congress, meaning he will vote with the Republican Party on the majority of bills.
Grassley was born in 1933 in New Hartford, IA, where he also attended high school. He earned a B.A. in 1955 from Iowa State Teachers College (now University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls), as well as an M.A. in 1956 from the same institution. Grassley also pursued graduate work in political science at the University of Iowa, Iowa City from 1957 to 1958. He served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1959 to 1974 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1974 to 1980 before being elected to the Senate.
