Honorable Charles Grassley
United States Senator, Iowa, Republican
Senator Grassley was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1980. He served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1958 until 1974 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1974 to 1980. He is the Ranking Minority Member of the Finance Committee and also serves on the following committees: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Budget; Judiciary; and the Joint Committee on Taxation. The following is from the June 15, 2011, Senate floor debate on amendments to S. 782, the Economic Development Revitalization Act, relating to ethanol subsidies. We are voting today on these amendments to which Senator Klobuchar has…