Senator 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 sits on the following committees: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Budget; Finance; Judiciary (where he is the Ranking Minority Member); and the Joint Committee on Taxation. The following is from the April 26, 2012, Senate floor debate on S. 1925, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. I have supported reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act each time it has come up. The Violence Against Women…
