Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is proven talking at a listening to on the Capitol in Washington, May 4, 2023.

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Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is proven talking at a listening to on the Capitol in Washington, May 4, 2023.

J. Scott Applewhite/AP

WASHINGTON — Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the oldest member of the U.S. Senate, has been hospitalized within the Washington space with an an infection and is receiving antibiotic infusions, his workplace mentioned Tuesday.

Grassley, 90, will return to work “as soon as possible following doctors’ orders,” his workplace mentioned in a press release, and he’s in good spirits. The assertion didn’t give any further particulars about his situation.

The Iowa Republican had hip surgical procedure final 12 months and briefly used a scooter to get round. But the eight-term senator, who was lengthy recognized for his day by day early morning runs, has appeared in any other case wholesome within the halls of Congress at the same time as he turned the Senate’s solely nonagenarian in September.

Grassley, at present the highest Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, was first elected to the Senate in 1980. As the seniormost Republican, he was the president professional tempore of the Senate till 2021 when Democrats assumed management. The president professional tempore presides over the chamber, opens proceedings each day and is third within the line of presidential succession.

Grassley’s political profession started in 1956, when he was elected to the state Legislature at age 23. He served 18 years on the Statehouse earlier than being elected to the U.S. House in 1974.

He turned the oldest senator final fall after the dying of Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California. She was three months his senior.