U.S. Senator Grassley (R-IA)

Committees:

     Senator Grassley (R-IA) is the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.  He is also Vice Chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control.  Other committee assignments include Agriculture, Finance, Budget and Taxation.

Vote Ratings:

     He partners with Democrats on the economy while supporting the GOP on issues like health care and climate/energy. When it comes to immigration, he is party loyalist.   

     The spectrum is one being most liberal to one hundred being most conservative.  He is ranked forty-six on the economy, but is likely a moderate as the forty-ninth senator on the vote memorandum.

     He is ranked sixty-two on health care, but on the vote memorandum he is likely sixty-ninth senator. 

     He is ranked eighty-four on immigration, but on the vote memorandum he is likely the ninety-seventh senator.

     On climate/energy, he is ranked forty-nine, but in the vote memorandum he is likely seventy.

     His ranking on other issues is forthcoming.

Member Elections:

     He entered the U.S. Senate in 1981.  His primary numbers are strong at 99% 2004, 98% 2010 and 98% 2016.  His general election numbers have gone from 70% 2004, 64% 2010 and 60% 2016.  In 2016, he spent $ 9,787,434 with $10.57 average per vote.  And he has an election coming up in 2022.

State Elections:

He is from a state that leans to the right. Iowa has mixed results in presidential elections. Margins are Republican by 8.37% 2020, Republican by 9.41% 2016, Democrat by 5.81% 2012, Democrat by 9.54% 2008, Republican by 0.67% 2004, Democrat by 0.32% 2000 and Democrat by 10.34% 1996. Senator Grassley has also served alongside former Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) until 2015.