Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, served on the Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, and served from time to time on all Senate committees, including Legal and Constitutional Affairs. He served in the Special Senate/Commons Committee in its review of Canada's foreign policy. He was a chairman of the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce. During his chairmanship, the committee completed twenty reports, including the following special reports: Falling Behind: Answering the Wake-up Call; What can be done to improve Canada’s Productivity Performance? The Public Good and Private Funds: The Federal Tax Treatment of Charitable Giving By Individuals and Corporations. Passports and PASS Cards, Identity and Citizenship: Implementing the WHTI Stemming the Flow of Illicit Money: A Priority for Canada: Parliamentary Review of the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act The Demographic Time Bomb: Mitigating the Effects of Demographic Change in Canada Consumer Protection in the Financial Services Sector: The Unfinished Agenda. He also initiated the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce special studies on hedge funds and Canada's interprovincial trade barriers. He was a member of the Special Joint Senate and Commons Committee on a Review of Canada's Foreign Policy. He has long advocated national standards for clean drinking water and introduced numerous private member's bills on mapping and safeguarding Canada's fresh water resources. Grafstein was the longest serving co-chair of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group (the largest inter-parliamentary group in Canada) for 15 years. In that capacity, he advocated Canadian issues to senators, congressmen, state legislators, governors, and Canada-United States border alliances in states and cities across America. Grafstein introduced numerous resolutions and a private member's bill to establish a national portrait gallery in Ottawa, co-sponsored a private member's bill in the Senate establishing Holocaust Memorial Day in Canada in 1998, and introduced a private member's bill that established the Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2001. He also introduced a private member's bill (Bill 215) to amend the Criminal Code for the explicit inclusion of "suicide bombing" as a definition of terrorism, which became part of the Canadian Criminal Code in 2011. In 1988, he co-chaired the Preparatory Committee for the G7 Economic Summit held in Toronto. On retirement from the Senate in 2010, he received from Parliament the Canadian flag that flew over Parliament (the "Two Week Flag") and from Congress, the American flag that flew over the