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 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 a December 11, 2012, statement on the floor of the Senate. I think it is a foregone conclusion that after 20 years of investment of taxpayer money in what we call the tax incentive for wind…