The powerful Senate Fiance Committee Chairman, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, announced Tuesday evening he has tested positive for coronavirus.
Grassley, a seven-term Senator and at 87 the second-oldest sitting Senator, is also the President pro tempore, and thus third in line to the presidency, after the Speaker of the House.
Grassley, as CNN’s Manu Raju reports, “was in the Senate on Monday and presided over the chamber as it opened and spoke on the floor as well, removing his mask as he spoke. He went into isolation today after being exposed to someone with covid-19.”