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Chuck Grassley

R Republican · Senator, Iowa
12
Low self-dealing
5/6 components have data
#148 of 193 scored

Chuck Grassley (R-IA), in the Senate since 1981, presents a notably clean self-dealing profile. His disclosed assets are dominated by Iowa farmland (largely pre-office/inherited family farm) and diversified mutual funds, with no public record of individual-stock STOCK Act trading, which removes the most common conflict-of-interest vector. He holds the longest perfect-attendance voting streak in Senate history (no missed vote since 1993), undercutting any job-versus-fundraising concern. The main flaggable items are correlation-only: large career donations from pharmaceutical, insurance, and health-professional industries alongside his health/drug-pricing committee work (though his drug-pricing record is largely bipartisan and consumer-oriented), and isolated staff revolving-door instances common to long-tenured senators; none rise to documented self-enrichment.

Public record

In Congress since
1975
Committees
Judiciary (Chairman)
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Finance
Budget
Joint Committee on Taxation
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control
Missed votes, 119th Congress
2.6% (24 of 915; median member 1.9%)
Campaign money, 2025–26 cycle
$328K raised · 16% from PACs & committees · $360K cash on hand FEC ↗

The stock-trading ban

Senate cloture on H.R. 7008, Sep 30, 2026
Yes
Cosponsored a ban bill
S. 4134

H.R. 7008 bans new stock purchases by members, spouses and dependents; it doesn't force sales of existing holdings. The Senate vote was on the version paired with the SAVE Act, which is why no Democrat voted yes. Full breakdown →

Disclosed stock trades

No periodic transaction reports on file since 2024. That's the norm: most members don't trade individual stocks, or hold them in blind trusts and diversified funds.

Amounts are the ranges members must report, not exact values. The STOCK Act requires a report within 45 days of a trade; "late" counts days past that deadline, measured to the filing date.

How the score breaks down

Stock self-trading
25% weight
0
No public record of individual-stock STOCK Act periodic transaction reports. Disclosed holdings are Iowa farmland and diversified mutual funds (e.g., MRFIX, IGFFX, GSFTX, PRCOX), not individual equities. Per rubric, 0 when no individual-stock trading.
Grassley's disclosed assets are farmland (~$1.5M, Butler County, IA) and up to $500K across mutual funds, not individual stocks.Data aggregatorquiverquant.com ↗
Net-worth enrichment in office
15% weight
10
Net worth estimated $5M-$8M (varying sources). Wealth is concentrated in family farmland valued $1M-$5M (largely pre-office/inherited) plus mutual funds and farm income (~$235K/yr); no evidence of growth beyond salary, farm income, and market returns. Pre-office farm wealth is not scored.
Largest asset is Iowa farmland valued $1M-$5M; reported ~$235K combined farm income in 2023 disclosure.News reportingcelebritynetworth.com ↗
Money → action alignmentcorrelation, not proof of any quid-pro-quo
20% weight
30
CORRELATION, NOT PROOF. Top career donor industries are health professionals (~$1.0M), insurance (~$1.0M), lawyers (~$626K), and pharma/health products (~$539K); top donors include Blue Cross Blue Shield and Amgen. Overlaps his health/judiciary work, but his prescription-drug-pricing record is largely bipartisan and consumer-oriented, weakening any quid-pro-quo inference.
Top career donor industries include pharmaceuticals/health products (~$539K) and insurance (~$998K); top donors include Amgen and Blue Cross Blue Shield.Reference databaseopensecrets.org ↗Grassley authored bipartisan drug-pricing bills aimed at lowering prescription costs, several signed into law.Official recordgrassley.senate.gov ↗
Campaign-fund personal useno data
15% weight
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No public records found documenting campaign or leadership-PAC funds spent for personal benefit. Per rubric, absence of evidence is not penalized.
FEC committee records for the Grassley Committee, Inc. are publicly available; no documented personal-use findings surfaced.Official recordfec.gov ↗
Revolving door & family
15% weight
20
Staff-to-lobbyist pipeline instances exist, common to long-tenured offices: legislative director Kurt Kovarik left for the National Biodiesel Board, with reporting that he worked on biodiesel matters around the transition (an ethics expert noted an appearance of conflict). No documented family-lobbying enrichment or contracts tied to Grassley's office.
Grassley's legislative director Kurt Kovarik took a biodiesel lobbying job amid questions about overlap with official duties.News reportingwashingtonexaminer.com ↗
Skips the job to fundraise
10% weight
0
Holds the longest perfect-attendance voting streak in Senate history, having not missed a recorded vote since 1993. No evidence of fundraising/paid speeches displacing legislative duties.
Grassley set the record for the longest stretch without a missed Senate vote (since 1993).News reportingrollcall.com ↗

Sources behind this score: 1 data aggregator · 3 news reporting · 1 reference database · 2 official record. Score = weighted average of the components that have data; the 1 without sourced evidence are excluded, never counted against the member. Methodology →

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