Honorable Charles E. Grassley
United States Senator, Iowa, Republican
Senator Grassley was first elected to the U.S. Senate in1980. He served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1958to 1974 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1974 to1980. He is a member of the following committees: Agriculture;Budget; Finance, within which he chairs the Subcommittee for InternationalTrade; Judiciary, within which he chairs the Subcommittee forAdministrative Oversight and the Courts; and the Joint Committeeon Taxation. He is also Chairman of the Senate Special Committeeon Aging. The following statement is from the Senate floor debateof July 15, 1999, on S. 1344, the Patients’ Bill of Rights Act.This is a Democratic…