Chuck Grassley

=== Senate record for consecutive votes ===
As of November 2015, Grassley had cast 12,000 votes,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Carney |first1=Jordain |title=Senators praise Grassley's voting record |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/258962-senators-praise-grassleys-voting-record/ |access-date=November 17, 2020 |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |date=November 3, 2015}}</ref> and as of July 2012, he had missed only 35 votes in his Senate career.<ref>{{cite news|last=O'Keefe|first=Ed|title=Susan Collins casts her 5,000th consecutive vote|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/susan-collins-casts-her-5000th-consecutive-vote/2012/07/12/gJQAL23rfW_blog.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=July 12, 2012|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120713022840/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/susan-collins-casts-her-5000th-consecutive-vote/2012/07/12/gJQAL23rfW_blog.html|archive-date=July 13, 2012}}</ref> In January 2016, he set a record for the most time without a missed roll-call vote, having not missed one since July 1993, when he was touring Iowa with President Bill Clinton to survey flood damage.<ref name=Hawkingsrecord>{{cite news |last1=Hawkings |first1=David |title=Unnoticed, Grassley Sets Record for Most Time Without a Missed Senate Vote |url=https://www.rollcall.com/2016/01/20/unnoticed-grassley-sets-record-for-most-time-without-a-missed-senate-vote/ |access-date=November 17, 2020 |work=[[Roll Call]] |date=January 20, 2016}}</ref> In November 2020, this streak came to an end after over 27 years and 8,927 votes<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lesniewski |first1=Niels |title=Grassley Senate vote streak is over, misses his first roll call in 27 years |url=https://www.rollcall.com/2020/11/17/grassley-senate-vote-streak-is-over-misses-his-first-roll-call-in-27-years/ |access-date=November 17, 2020 |work=[[Roll Call]] |date=November 17, 2020}}</ref> when he quarantined after being exposed to [[COVID-19]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gruber-Miller |first1=Stephen |title=Sen. Chuck Grassley in quarantine following coronavirus exposure |url=https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/17/iowa-sen-chuck-grassley-in-quarantine-following-coronavirus-covid-19-exposure/6323513002/ |access-date=November 17, 2011 |work=[[Des Moines Register]] |date=November 17, 2020}}</ref> Grassley broke Senator [[William Proxmire]]'s record for most time without a missed vote, but Proxmire holds the record for most consecutive roll-call votes, with 10,252.<ref name=Hawkingsrecord/>