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 Judiciary Committee, the Budget Committee, and the Joint Committee on Taxation. He cochairs the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. The following is from a statement before the Senate Budget Committee during a January 23, 2002, hearing on the Budget and Economic Outlook.With today’s announcement that the Federal Government is once…
