Charles Grassley

Charles Grassley
Born	Charles Ernest Grassley 1933-09-17 New Hartford, Iowa, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Northern Iowa, University of Iowa
Religion	Baptist
Children	• Lee Wendy • Robin Michele • Jay
Spouse	Barbara Grassley
Member of	House and Senate Taiwan Caucus, Transatlantic Institute/Friends of Israel
Interests	• science/fraud • big pharma
Party	Republican
United States Senator from Iowa In office January 3, 1981 Serving with Joni Ernst - Present Preceded by John Culver, Bourke Hickenlooper"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.John Culver  Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee In office January 3, 2015 - Present Preceded by Patrick Leahy  Chairman of the Senate Narcotics Caucus In office January 3, 2015 - Present Preceded by Dianne Feinstein  Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee In office January 3, 2003 - January 3, 2007  Chairman of the Senate Aging Committee In office January 20, 2001 - June 6, 2001  Chairman of the Senate Aging Committee In office January 3, 1997 - January 3, 2001  Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 3rd district In office January 3, 1975 - January 3, 1981 Preceded by John Culver  Member of the Iowa House of Representatives from the 37th district In office January 8, 1973 - January 3, 1975  Member of the Iowa House of Representatives from the 10th district In office January 11, 1971 - January 8, 1973  Member of the Iowa House of Representatives from the 73rd district In office January 12, 1959 - January 11, 1971

A "powerful" powerful US senator with "a history of investigating misconduct in the biomedical sciences".

Career

Grassley has proposed a federal law, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which would require drug and device companies to register on a public website virtually all payments made to physicians.

Grassley wrote in a February 2014 letter to the Office of Research Integrity about the fraud of Dong-Pyou Han, who was dismissed after admitted fabricating and falsifying data in HIV vaccine trials that "this seems like a very light penalty for a doctor who purposely tampered with a research trial and directly caused millions of taxpayer dollars to be wasted on fraudulent studies". Nature writes that his intervention was instrumental in the sentence being upped to 57 months in jail and a US$7.2 million file, with 3 years of supervised release after he leaves prison.

2001 anthrax attacks

Charles Grassley, together with Rush Holt called for hearings into the DOJ and FBI's handling of the 2001 anthrax attacks investigation.

2013 Boston Marathon bombings

Full article: Boston Marathon bombings

WhoWhatWhy report that Grassley wrote to FBI Chief James Comey that “Continued reluctance on the part of the FBI to share information with local law enforcement... would be extremely troubling.”

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