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U.S. Senator · Iowa
Chuck Grassley
RepublicanState R+6119th Congress
Typical swing score60#25 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Chuck Grassley’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office135 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s state, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Democrats · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 8 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 8 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 315, S. 567, S. 836, S. 865, S. 874 and 3 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 315 AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 567 First Rhode Island Regiment Congressional Gold Medal Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 836 Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 865 Lobbying Disclosure Improvement Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 874 Expanding Whistleblower Protections for Contractors Act of 2025
Term and election
From the congress-legislators dataset- Current term
- January 3, 2023 – January 3, 2029
- Senate class
- Class 3
- Seniority
- Senior senator
- Next election
- November 7, 2028
- Years in office
- 51.7 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on the JudiciaryChairmanMajority · 1st in seniority
- Joint Committee on TaxationMajority · 2nd in seniority
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryMajority · 9th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade
- Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
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Grassley← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.363 is 0.20 to the left of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average- 119th Congress94Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 51–100 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 35Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 64
| Middle |
| H.R. 909Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025 |